Refactoring Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Refactoring
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Refactoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 91 108
Rank change year-on-year -39 +17 +36
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.17% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £435 - £401
25th Percentile £469 £543 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £405
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +37.04% -42.14%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £411
90th Percentile - - £414
England median daily rate £550 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,631 1,095 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.81% 85.88% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 646 1,051
10th Percentile £250 £235 £300
25th Percentile £381 £381 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £678 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 35 24
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.55 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.49 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £21.00 £21.66
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -3.02% +3.12%
75th Percentile £25.49 £36.25 £24.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £50.35 £40.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Refactoring job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Refactoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in Yorkshire

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Yorkshire - 3 £550 - 12
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Delphi Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (33.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Delphi
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker