Refactoring Contracts

Refactoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 572 552
Rank change year-on-year +60 -20 -44
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 73 121 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.23% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 84 251
10th Percentile £400 £374 £463
25th Percentile £403 £406 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -24.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £669 £599 £750
90th Percentile £848 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £420 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -26.96% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile - £37.55 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £41.37 £20.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £50.38
Median % change year-on-year +46.66% -5.25% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £48.87 £85.00
90th Percentile - £49.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 £48.87 £20.75
% change year-on-year +47.08% +135.49% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 7 May 2024.

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 13 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 7 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
England +58 56 £525 +10.53% 52
UK excluding London +65 37 £413 -1.79% 42
London +55 28 £755 +58.95% 14
Work from Home +95 26 £613 +28.95% 40
South East +14 13 £400 -3.03% 11
North of England +31 11 £413 - 8
North West +28 10 £413 - 6
Scotland +47 9 £575 +5.50% 6
Wales +19 2 £375 -31.82% 1
Midlands +32 1 - - 8
West Midlands +24 1 - - 1
South West +11 1 £413 -36.54% 6
Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 3 (4.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (1.37%) Headless CMS
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) FLEXCUBE
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.77%) AWS
2 14 (19.18%) Azure
3 8 (10.96%) Serverless
4 6 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (8.22%) Amazon S3
4 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.11%) GCP
6 3 (4.11%) GitHub
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.37%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.37%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Table
8 1 (1.37%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Firewall
1 1 (1.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (4.11%) MySQL
4 2 (2.74%) DB2
4 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.37%) Power BI
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (17.81%) JIRA
2 9 (12.33%) Cypress.io
2 9 (12.33%) GitLab
3 8 (10.96%) Git
4 4 (5.48%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.48%) Gradle
4 4 (5.48%) Selenium
4 4 (5.48%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.74%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.74%) HP UFT
5 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.74%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.37%) Balsamiq
6 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.37%) Toad
General
1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.70%) Front Office
5 9 (12.33%) Finance
6 7 (9.59%) Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.74%) Law
8 2 (2.74%) Marketing
9 1 (1.37%) Automotive
9 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Developer
2 10 (13.70%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 10 (13.70%) React Developer
2 10 (13.70%) Software Engineer
3 7 (9.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (9.59%) Full Stack Developer
4 6 (8.22%) C++ Developer
4 6 (8.22%) Java Engineer
4 6 (8.22%) Security Engineer
4 6 (8.22%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (6.85%) C# Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Senior
5 5 (6.85%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 4 (5.48%) Lead
6 4 (5.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.03%) React
2 10 (13.70%) Reactive Extensions
2 10 (13.70%) Redux
3 9 (12.33%) AngularJS
3 9 (12.33%) REST
4 6 (8.22%) .NET
4 6 (8.22%) CSS
5 5 (6.85%) Spring
6 4 (5.48%) WPF
7 3 (4.11%) RAML
8 2 (2.74%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.74%) HTML
8 2 (2.74%) Next.js
8 2 (2.74%) Node.js
8 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.37%) HTML5
9 1 (1.37%) RESTful
9 1 (1.37%) SOAP
9 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) CCTV
2 7 (9.59%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (8.22%) Legacy Code
4 4 (5.48%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.37%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.37%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.29%) Windows
2 11 (15.07%) Linux
3 9 (12.33%) Unix
4 5 (6.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (57.53%) Agile
2 21 (28.77%) Software Engineering
3 17 (23.29%) DevOps
4 15 (20.55%) Design Patterns
5 11 (15.07%) CI/CD
5 11 (15.07%) Containerisation
5 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (13.70%) Economics
6 10 (13.70%) Electronic Trading
6 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.70%) Scrum
6 10 (13.70%) Test Automation
7 9 (12.33%) OCR
7 9 (12.33%) Software Testing
7 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.96%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (10.96%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (10.96%) SDLC
8 8 (10.96%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.88%) SQL
2 23 (31.51%) C#
3 17 (23.29%) Java
4 16 (21.92%) Python
5 13 (17.81%) TypeScript
6 10 (13.70%) C++
7 7 (9.59%) Bash
7 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
8 6 (8.22%) PHP
9 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.48%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.37%) Go
11 1 (1.37%) Perl
11 1 (1.37%) SOQL
11 1 (1.37%) SOSL
11 1 (1.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
1 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (6.85%) Degree
3 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) CSPO
4 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) QA
2 8 (10.96%) ISO 9001
2 8 (10.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.37%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (15.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (15.07%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.33%) Terraform
3 6 (8.22%) Ansible
3 6 (8.22%) SCCM
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) Splunk
3 4 (5.48%) Oracle
4 3 (4.11%) HP
5 2 (2.74%) Databricks
5 2 (2.74%) Google
5 2 (2.74%) Greenplum
5 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.37%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.37%) OpenText
6 1 (1.37%) SAP