Refactoring Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Refactoring
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 317 388
Rank change year-on-year +29 +71 +66
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 29 29 68
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.23% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 45
10th Percentile £355 £466 -
25th Percentile £425 £503 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £615 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.75% +29.47% -20.83%
75th Percentile £631 £623 £550
90th Percentile £788 £740 £650
UK median daily rate £563 £543 £475
% change year-on-year +3.69% +14.21% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £48.87
% change year-on-year - +43.25% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,332 12,732 21,621
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.28% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,321 8,571 15,258
10th Percentile £325 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 553 521
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.17 £18.49
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

Refactoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Refactoring trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) IaaS
3 6 (20.69%) PaaS
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.24%) Serverless
5 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub
6 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (6.90%) Azure API Management
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.90%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Redis
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) GitLab
3 3 (10.34%) Cypress.io
3 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.45%) Log4j
5 1 (3.45%) Mocha
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (3.45%) Terragrunt
5 1 (3.45%) tSQLt
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Health
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Developer
4 5 (17.24%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior
5 4 (13.79%) Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Lead
7 2 (6.90%) QA Tester
7 2 (6.90%) Qualitative Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Quantitative Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Quantitative Analyst Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) React
2 3 (10.34%) Node.js
2 3 (10.34%) YAML
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) ADO
3 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.90%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.90%) CSS
3 2 (6.90%) FHIR
3 2 (6.90%) HTML
3 2 (6.90%) OAuth
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) Express.js
4 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.45%) JDBC
4 1 (3.45%) Jest
4 1 (3.45%) JWT
4 1 (3.45%) LDAP
4 1 (3.45%) Next.js
4 1 (3.45%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Code
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.45%) NHS
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) DevOps
2 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (31.03%) Agile
4 9 (31.03%) Test Automation
5 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
5 8 (27.59%) Microservices
6 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) Task Automation
7 6 (20.69%) Analytics
7 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.24%) Migration
9 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
9 4 (13.79%) Scrum
9 4 (13.79%) TDD
10 3 (10.34%) API Management
10 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
10 3 (10.34%) GitOps
10 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (10.34%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Bash
1 8 (27.59%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.34%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) Bicep
4 2 (6.90%) C++
4 2 (6.90%) Go
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.90%) HL7
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) DICOM
3 1 (3.45%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
1 9 (31.03%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Grafana
2 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.34%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Splunk
2 1 (3.45%) Alteryx
2 1 (3.45%) Ariba
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.45%) IBM
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.45%) RedGate
2 1 (3.45%) SAP
2 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow