Refactoring Contracts

Refactoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 464 500 602
Rank change year-on-year +36 +102 -51
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 56 82 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 52 83
10th Percentile £406 £400 £405
25th Percentile £468 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £813 £675 £600
90th Percentile £863 £838 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £443 £413 £539
% change year-on-year +7.27% -23.40% -6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £37.55
25th Percentile - £67.50 £41.37
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year - +46.66% -5.25%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £48.87
90th Percentile - - £49.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £71.87 £48.87
% change year-on-year - +47.08% +135.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Refactoring.

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Refactoring.

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 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
England +44 50 £690 +15.00% 159
London +47 40 £700 +1.08% 58
Work from Home +27 17 £575 -6.50% 83
UK excluding London +31 8 £443 +7.27% 124
South East +35 4 £475 +16.92% 36
North of England +11 2 £443 +7.27% 26
Scotland +6 2 - - 9
Yorkshire +8 1 £425 - 11
North East - 1 £460 - 2

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.79%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) AWS
2 13 (23.21%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (14.29%) Serverless
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 7 (12.50%) IaaS
4 7 (12.50%) PaaS
4 7 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (8.93%) Azure Stack
6 4 (7.14%) GCP
7 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.57%) ClickHouse
4 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.57%) Power BI
4 2 (3.57%) TKPROF
5 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.79%) KDB
5 1 (1.79%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Redis
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (33.93%) Git
2 10 (17.86%) GitLab
2 10 (17.86%) TeamCity
3 8 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.57%) Eclipse
5 2 (3.57%) Gradle
5 2 (3.57%) IntelliJ
5 2 (3.57%) Maven
5 2 (3.57%) Subversion
6 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.79%) Mocha
6 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (30.36%) Banking
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (21.43%) Finance
3 12 (21.43%) Investment Banking
4 11 (19.64%) Front Office
5 8 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.57%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Developer
2 11 (19.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 7 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (10.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) DataOps Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) C# Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Qualitative Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Quantitative Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) .NET
1 10 (17.86%) CSS
1 10 (17.86%) gRPC
1 10 (17.86%) HTML
1 10 (17.86%) Kafka
1 10 (17.86%) Node.js
2 8 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 8 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
2 8 (14.29%) React
3 7 (12.50%) HTML5
3 7 (12.50%) LESS
3 7 (12.50%) Sass
3 7 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
4 6 (10.71%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.79%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (1.79%) Express.js
5 1 (1.79%) Jest
5 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.36%) Credit Risk
4 3 (5.36%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.57%) Equities
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.79%) Tandem
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.43%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) DevOps
2 21 (37.50%) Microservices
3 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
4 15 (26.79%) Containerisation
5 13 (23.21%) Analytics
6 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (21.43%) OO
7 10 (17.86%) Agile
7 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.07%) Clean Code
8 9 (16.07%) Cloud Security
8 9 (16.07%) Migration
8 9 (16.07%) OOP
8 9 (16.07%) Scrum
8 9 (16.07%) Software Engineering
8 9 (16.07%) Task Automation
8 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (14.29%) SOA
10 6 (10.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.07%) Python
2 12 (21.43%) Java
3 11 (19.64%) JavaScript
4 10 (17.86%) C#
4 10 (17.86%) C++
5 9 (16.07%) TypeScript
6 8 (14.29%) Bash
6 8 (14.29%) SQL
7 6 (10.71%) Go
8 5 (8.93%) Scala
9 1 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
2 6 (10.71%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 15 (26.79%) Terraform
3 11 (19.64%) Ansible
4 8 (14.29%) Grafana
4 8 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle
2 3 (5.36%) Google
2 3 (5.36%) Zscaler
3 2 (3.57%) Databricks
3 2 (3.57%) Sybase
4 1 (1.79%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.79%) BT
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Openreach
4 1 (1.79%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.79%) Virgin Media