Refactoring Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Refactoring
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Refactoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.27% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% - 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £575 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -3.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 113 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 82.80% 83.09% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 69 78
10th Percentile £170 £175 £209
25th Percentile £381 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +4.10% -9.30%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £634
90th Percentile £686 £693 £653
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £538 £580
% change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 8
10th Percentile £28.65 £70.95 £12.88
25th Percentile £37.24 £71.63 £63.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £73.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.63% -8.75% +196.30%
75th Percentile £62.23 £74.13 -
90th Percentile £63.74 £74.65 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +40.18% -40.92% +9.24%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Refactoring job vacancy trend in Southampton

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Refactoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft