Refactoring Job Trends in the City of London

Refactoring
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Refactoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 137 171
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 +36
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 13 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.32% 0.10% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 5
10th Percentile - - £86,750
25th Percentile - - £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £70,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -24.32% +23.33%
75th Percentile - - £106,250
90th Percentile £132,500 - -
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +10.81% +23.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Refactoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,247 1,846 2,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.25% 95.90% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,380 1,424 2,301
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,125 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Refactoring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Refactoring job vacancy trend in the City of London

Refactoring
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Refactoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the City of London

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Software Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Lead
2 7 (53.85%) Python Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Python Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Lead Software Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Lead Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Lead Python Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Python Developer
5 2 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) GCP Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Python Team Leader
5 2 (15.38%) Team Leader
6 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Python Developer - Fintech
6 1 (7.69%) Senior
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Fintech
2 11 (84.62%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) GitOps
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
3 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
3 2 (15.38%) Observability
3 2 (15.38%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
4 1 (7.69%) Parallel Processing
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Portfolio Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Go
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Julia
3 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
3 1 (7.69%) R
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes