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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 512 547
Rank change year-on-year +45 +35 +10
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 81 81 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 48 85
10th Percentile £362 £382 £364
25th Percentile £425 £405 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +12.37% -20.83%
75th Percentile £756 £623 £550
90th Percentile £838 £676 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £456 £375
% change year-on-year +5.48% +21.83% -33.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £47.96
25th Percentile - £67.50 £48.30
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £48.87
Median % change year-on-year - +43.25% -
75th Percentile - £72.50 £49.43
90th Percentile - - £49.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £71.87 £48.87
% change year-on-year -2.60% +47.08% -

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 29,604 36,487 50,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.43% 85.35% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,633 23,275 34,708
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,516 2,444 1,698
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £13.17
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%
75th Percentile £53.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.62 £38.12 £37.93
% change year-on-year -35.41% +0.51% +77.30%

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 13 July 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 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 13 July 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 +41 68 £567 +10.63% 63
London +52 50 £638 +6.25% 28
Work from Home +42 32 £530 -12.76% 76
UK excluding London -1 18 £481 +5.48% 44
North of England +1 7 £460 -12.80% 14
Scotland -5 5 £504 -12.39%
South East +39 4 £475 +18.75% 7
Yorkshire +1 3 £500 -5.21% 4
North West 0 2 £350 - 6
North East - 2 £460 - 4
East of England +17 1 £575 -20.69% 6
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 4
Midlands - 1 £385 - 8

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 (3.70%) WebSphere
1 3 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) Appian
3 1 (1.23%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.98%) AWS
2 16 (19.75%) Azure
3 7 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (8.64%) Serverless
4 6 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 6 (7.41%) IaaS
4 6 (7.41%) PaaS
5 5 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (6.17%) GCP
5 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.94%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.70%) Azure Storage
7 3 (3.70%) GitHub
7 3 (3.70%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Network Security
1 3 (3.70%) SSL
2 1 (1.23%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.70%) Power BI
5 2 (2.47%) ClickHouse
5 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.47%) TKPROF
6 1 (1.23%) DB2
6 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.23%) KDB
6 1 (1.23%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.23%) MySQL
6 1 (1.23%) Redis
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Git
2 10 (12.35%) TeamCity
3 9 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 9 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.64%) GitLab
5 4 (4.94%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.70%) Gradle
6 3 (3.70%) Log4j
6 3 (3.70%) Maven
7 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.47%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.47%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.47%) JIRA
7 2 (2.47%) Subversion
7 2 (2.47%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.23%) Mocha
8 1 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (1.23%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.93%) Banking
3 18 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (17.28%) Finance
5 13 (16.05%) Investment Banking
6 12 (14.81%) Front Office
7 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
8 8 (9.88%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (4.94%) Law
10 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.23%) Digital Health
11 1 (1.23%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.23%) Legal
11 1 (1.23%) Retail
11 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (33.33%) Developer
2 13 (16.05%) Senior
3 10 (12.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Architect
6 5 (6.17%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) C# Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.94%) QA Tester
7 4 (4.94%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Tester
8 3 (3.70%) Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Quantitative Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.75%) Kafka
2 14 (17.28%) CSS
2 14 (17.28%) gRPC
2 14 (17.28%) HTML
2 14 (17.28%) React
3 12 (14.81%) .NET
4 11 (13.58%) Node.js
5 8 (9.88%) ASP.NET
5 8 (9.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (8.64%) HTML5
6 7 (8.64%) LESS
6 7 (8.64%) Sass
6 7 (8.64%) Tailwind CSS
7 6 (7.41%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (4.94%) Next.js
8 4 (4.94%) OAuth
8 4 (4.94%) YAML
9 3 (3.70%) ADO
9 3 (3.70%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.70%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (6.17%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.94%) Legacy Code
4 4 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.70%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.47%) Equities
6 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.23%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Windows
2 4 (4.94%) Linux
3 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.98%) DevOps
2 27 (33.33%) Microservices
3 26 (32.10%) CI/CD
4 24 (29.63%) Software Engineering
5 22 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (25.93%) Agile
7 18 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 16 (19.75%) Migration
9 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (17.28%) OO
10 14 (17.28%) Scrum
11 13 (16.05%) Containerisation
12 12 (14.81%) Analytics
12 12 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (13.58%) Task Automation
14 10 (12.35%) Clean Code
14 10 (12.35%) OOP
15 8 (9.88%) Open Source
15 8 (9.88%) SOA
16 7 (8.64%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 19 (23.46%) JavaScript
1 19 (23.46%) Python
2 16 (19.75%) Java
3 14 (17.28%) TypeScript
4 11 (13.58%) Go
5 10 (12.35%) C#
5 10 (12.35%) C++
5 10 (12.35%) SQL
6 9 (11.11%) Bash
7 3 (3.70%) Bicep
7 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.47%) PHP
8 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.23%) COBOL
9 1 (1.23%) JCL
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
9 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.17%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.47%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.94%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) GDPR
3 2 (2.47%) HL7
4 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) DICOM
4 1 (1.23%) FATCA
4 1 (1.23%) ISO 13485
4 1 (1.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (27.16%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.05%) Terraform
3 9 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 8 (9.88%) Grafana
5 7 (8.64%) Ansible
6 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (7.41%) Oracle
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.94%) IBM
3 4 (4.94%) Splunk
4 3 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.70%) Google
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.70%) TIBCO
4 3 (3.70%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.47%) Sybase
6 1 (1.23%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.23%) Ariba
6 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.23%) BT
6 1 (1.23%) Kony
6 1 (1.23%) Pega
6 1 (1.23%) RedGate
6 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) SAP
6 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow