Refactoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Refactoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Refactoring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 359 425
Rank change year-on-year +31 +66 +22
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 8 40 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.23% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 27 28
10th Percentile £378 - £396
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £413 £539
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -23.40% -6.35%
75th Percentile £489 £613 £600
90th Percentile £541 £623 £675
UK median daily rate £650 £575 £500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £68.37 £47.96
25th Percentile - £69.69 £48.30
Median hourly rate - £71.87 £48.87
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
% change year-on-year - +46.66% -5.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +35 4 £475 +16.92% 56
North of England +11 2 £443 +7.27% 42
Scotland +6 2 - - 12
Yorkshire +8 1 £425 - 18
North East - 1 £460 - 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (12.50%) BSS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Designer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Designer
2 1 (12.50%) OSS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) BT
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Openreach
1 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media