Refactoring Contracts with Work from Home Options

Refactoring
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 415 469
Rank change year-on-year +102 +54 -19
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 31 59 150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.26% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 41 122
10th Percentile £451 £374 £463
25th Percentile £531 £406 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -24.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £744 £600 £709
90th Percentile £850 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +21.05% -24.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +68.67% -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £50.38
% change year-on-year +46.66% -5.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Refactoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Refactoring trend for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Refactoring.

Refactoring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Refactoring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Refactoring.

Refactoring hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (9.68%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Headless CMS
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) GitHub
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.68%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.23%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Table
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) Pulumi
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.68%) MySQL
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.23%) Power BI
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 5 (16.13%) Cypress.io
2 5 (16.13%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.23%) Balsamiq
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Front Office
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) C# Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 5 (16.13%) React Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Architect
4 4 (12.90%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
4 4 (12.90%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Java Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (6.45%) LoadRunner Specialist
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Tester
7 1 (3.23%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) React
2 7 (22.58%) AngularJS
3 6 (19.35%) REST
4 5 (16.13%) Reactive Extensions
4 5 (16.13%) Redux
5 3 (9.68%) .NET
6 2 (6.45%) CSS
6 2 (6.45%) HTML
6 2 (6.45%) SOAP
6 2 (6.45%) Web Services
6 2 (6.45%) WebSockets
7 1 (3.23%) HTML5
7 1 (3.23%) J2EE
7 1 (3.23%) JSF
7 1 (3.23%) JSON
7 1 (3.23%) JSP
7 1 (3.23%) Next.js
7 1 (3.23%) RESTful
7 1 (3.23%) Servlets
7 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Legacy Code
1 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Android
2 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Agile
2 9 (29.03%) Design Patterns
3 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
3 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
4 5 (16.13%) Clean Code
4 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
4 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (16.13%) Economics
4 5 (16.13%) Electronic Trading
4 5 (16.13%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (16.13%) Front End Development
4 5 (16.13%) Performance Testing
4 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
4 5 (16.13%) Validation
5 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
5 4 (12.90%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (9.68%) Data Migration
6 3 (9.68%) DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) Migration
6 3 (9.68%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) SQL
2 9 (29.03%) C#
3 6 (19.35%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) PHP
4 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.68%) Python
6 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.45%) SOQL
6 2 (6.45%) SOSL
7 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.23%) Bash
7 1 (3.23%) C++
7 1 (3.23%) Perl
7 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) CSPO
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle
2 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.45%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) HP
4 1 (3.23%) Micro Focus
4 1 (3.23%) OpenText
4 1 (3.23%) SAP