Refactoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Refactoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Refactoring over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 403 443
Rank change year-on-year +55 +40 -52
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 40 44 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 47
10th Percentile - £374 £425
25th Percentile £400 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -26.09% +21.05%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £600
90th Percentile £623 £675 £668
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +21.05% -24.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £68.37 £47.96 -
25th Percentile £69.69 £48.30 -
Median hourly rate £71.87 £48.87 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% +135.49% -
75th Percentile £72.19 £49.43 -
90th Percentile £72.37 £49.77 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £50.38
% change year-on-year +46.66% -5.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Refactoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
South East +17 15 £406 -1.52% 12
North of England +31 10 £413 -2.94% 8
Scotland +40 9 £575 +6.78% 7
North West +30 9 £413 - 6
Wales +18 4 £615 +11.82% 1
Midlands +30 1 - - 7
West Midlands +19 1 - - 1
South West +18 1 £413 -36.54% 6
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Refactoring
UK

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) GitHub
4 6 (15.00%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.00%) GCP
8 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.50%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.50%) Heroku
8 1 (2.50%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.00%) DB2
2 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) GitLab
2 6 (15.00%) Git
3 5 (12.50%) LoadRunner
4 2 (5.00%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) C++ Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Security Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
5 2 (5.00%) LoadRunner Specialist
5 2 (5.00%) Performance Tester
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Tester
6 1 (2.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (2.50%) Java Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) React
2 3 (7.50%) .NET
2 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (7.50%) REST
3 2 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.50%) CSS
4 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.50%) HTML
4 1 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.50%) Next.js
4 1 (2.50%) Node.js
4 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.50%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) Swagger
4 1 (2.50%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) CCTV
2 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.00%) Legacy Code
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 15 (37.50%) Windows
2 13 (32.50%) Unix
3 10 (25.00%) Linux
4 5 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Agile
2 13 (32.50%) Software Engineering
3 12 (30.00%) DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) OCR
4 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (20.00%) Scrum
6 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (15.00%) Disk Encryption
7 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 5 (12.50%) Validation
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (10.00%) Kanban
9 4 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) C#
2 11 (27.50%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) C++
4 7 (17.50%) SQL
5 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (12.50%) Java
7 4 (10.00%) Bash
7 4 (10.00%) PHP
8 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.50%) Perl
9 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) ISO 9001
1 8 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) SCCM
2 4 (10.00%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
1 6 (15.00%) Splunk
2 2 (5.00%) Greenplum
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) HP
3 1 (2.50%) Micro Focus
3 1 (2.50%) OpenText
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce