Refactoring Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Refactoring
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Refactoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.093% - 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £671 - -
25th Percentile £671 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 - -
75th Percentile £671 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
England median daily rate £484 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -25.58% +30.00% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,685 1,221 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.64% 88.67% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,738 795 1,077
10th Percentile £313 £197 £275
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 57 117
10th Percentile £14.82 - £11.10
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.62 £14.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.89% -15.56% +3.73%
75th Percentile £67.19 £28.18 £40.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Refactoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Refactoring job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Refactoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 2026. 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
Shropshire - 3 £671 - 1
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (66.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 2 (66.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Mockito
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) SAS Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) SAS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks