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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 134 173
Rank change year-on-year -21 +39 +53
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 2 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.055% 0.33% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.35% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile - £57,500 £86,500
25th Percentile £117,500 £78,125 £86,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £140,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +55.56% +1.41%
75th Percentile £132,500 - £93,125
90th Percentile - - £93,500
Central London median annual salary £125,000 £102,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year +21.95% +17.14% -1.41%

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 2,983 2,021 2,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 82.34% 95.92% 92.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,095 1,513 2,483
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%

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
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes