Refactoring Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Refactoring
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Refactoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.47% - 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% - 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £671 - -
25th Percentile £671 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 - -
75th Percentile £671 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £671 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

Refactoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 544 129 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.34% 95.56% 64.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 84 60
10th Percentile £350 £313 £200
25th Percentile £408 £401 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £365
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +26.71% -32.16%
75th Percentile £506 £537 £498
90th Percentile £564 £541 £519
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 8
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - - -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.50 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £37.52 £18.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year +104.78% -18.58% +7.30%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Refactoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Refactoring job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford - 3 £671 -
Refactoring
West Midlands

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (66.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 2 (66.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) SAS Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) SAS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks