Refactoring Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Refactoring
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Refactoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £283 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 - -
75th Percentile £299 - -
90th Percentile £509 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -18.18% +33.33% +10.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 354 150 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.34% 81.08% 84.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 106 89
10th Percentile £191 £170 £193
25th Percentile £275 £220 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £439 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -2.50% -8.72%
75th Percentile £494 £525 £528
90th Percentile £638 £711 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 5
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.63 £24.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £16.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +143.75% -42.86% -20.85%
75th Percentile £53.75 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile - - £35.75
South East median hourly rate £52.21 £20.73 £57.35
% change year-on-year +151.87% -63.85% +9.24%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Refactoring job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in West Sussex over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in West Sussex

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Burgess Hill - 4 £288 - 3
Refactoring
South East

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (40.00%) Couchbase
2 2 (40.00%) Db2
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) Redux
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) JWT
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Go
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Solace
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle