Refactoring Jobs in England

Refactoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Refactoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Refactoring over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 589 682 708
Rank change year-on-year +93 +26 -201
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 66 161 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 28 103 124
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,313 £55,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% -19.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £111,250 £77,500 £85,375
90th Percentile £140,000 £89,750 £96,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,396 73,150 88,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.61% 85.81% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,950 53,950 52,213
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,000 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,237
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in England.

Salary trend for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +105 33 £100,000 +31.15% 53
Midlands +75 9 £57,500 - 7
South West +84 8 - - 3
North of England +40 8 £70,000 +12.00% 12
West Midlands +56 6 £70,000 - 5
North West +3 5 £70,000 +16.67% 7
South East +74 4 - - 18
Yorkshire +65 3 - - 5
East of England +37 3 - - 4
East Midlands - 3 £57,500 - 2
Refactoring
UK

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) IIS
2 1 (1.52%) Tornado
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (28.79%) AWS
3 14 (21.21%) Power Platform
3 14 (21.21%) SaaS
4 12 (18.18%) GCP
5 7 (10.61%) GitHub
6 6 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.58%) Serverless
8 3 (4.55%) IaaS
8 3 (4.55%) PaaS
9 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.52%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.52%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) 3GPP
1 4 (6.06%) 5G
2 3 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 13 (19.70%) NoSQL
3 10 (15.15%) Power BI
4 9 (13.64%) Data Hub
4 9 (13.64%) Metadata
4 9 (13.64%) MySQL
4 9 (13.64%) SQL CLR
4 9 (13.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (9.09%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.52%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (27.27%) Git
2 6 (9.09%) Gradle
2 6 (9.09%) Maven
3 3 (4.55%) PHPUnit
3 3 (4.55%) Subversion
3 3 (4.55%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.52%) Bugzilla
4 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.52%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.52%) ESLint
4 1 (1.52%) Gatling
4 1 (1.52%) JIRA
4 1 (1.52%) JMeter
4 1 (1.52%) Xcode
General
1 33 (50.00%) Finance
2 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Back Office
5 8 (12.12%) Electronics
6 7 (10.61%) Banking
7 6 (9.09%) Games
8 4 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
9 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (4.55%) Law
9 3 (4.55%) Retail
10 2 (3.03%) Legal
11 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (65.15%) Developer
2 26 (39.39%) Senior
3 19 (28.79%) Senior Developer
4 16 (24.24%) Software Developer
5 12 (18.18%) Microsoft Developer
5 12 (18.18%) SaaS Developer
5 12 (18.18%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 10 (15.15%) Lead
7 9 (13.64%) Senior SQL Developer
7 9 (13.64%) SQL Developer
8 6 (9.09%) Architect
8 6 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Lead Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Quantitative Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Software Team Leader
9 4 (6.06%) Team Leader
9 4 (6.06%) Technical Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) RESTful
2 8 (12.12%) .NET
2 8 (12.12%) jQuery
2 8 (12.12%) Kafka
2 8 (12.12%) React
2 8 (12.12%) REST
2 8 (12.12%) Spring
3 7 (10.61%) CSS
3 7 (10.61%) HTML
3 7 (10.61%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (9.09%) Node.js
5 5 (7.58%) .NET Core
5 5 (7.58%) .NET Framework
5 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.06%) Entity Framework
6 4 (6.06%) Jest
6 4 (6.06%) Sass
7 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.55%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.18%) Private Cloud
3 10 (15.15%) Algorithms
3 10 (15.15%) Data Structures
3 10 (15.15%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (9.09%) Mobile Games
5 5 (7.58%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.55%) Smartphone
8 2 (3.03%) IoT
8 2 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (3.03%) Legacy Code
8 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 8 (12.12%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Android
4 2 (3.03%) Linux
5 1 (1.52%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 23 (34.85%) Agile
2 23 (34.85%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 21 (31.82%) Migration
5 18 (27.27%) Design Patterns
6 17 (25.76%) CI/CD
6 17 (25.76%) Fintech
7 16 (24.24%) Clean Code
8 15 (22.73%) Test Automation
9 14 (21.21%) DevOps
10 13 (19.70%) User Experience
11 12 (18.18%) Data Privacy
11 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (16.67%) Roadmaps
12 11 (16.67%) SOLID
12 11 (16.67%) TDD
13 10 (15.15%) API Development
13 10 (15.15%) Scrum
13 10 (15.15%) UML
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.94%) SQL
2 22 (33.33%) Java
3 19 (28.79%) C#
3 19 (28.79%) Python
4 15 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 14 (21.21%) T-SQL
6 9 (13.64%) C++
7 5 (7.58%) Rust
7 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.55%) Go
8 3 (4.55%) PHP
8 3 (4.55%) VB
9 2 (3.03%) Ruby
10 1 (1.52%) Bash
10 1 (1.52%) C
10 1 (1.52%) COBOL
10 1 (1.52%) JCL
10 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.52%) Perl
10 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (27.27%) Degree
2 7 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 6 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) Master's Degree
5 4 (6.06%) PhD
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) QA
2 4 (6.06%) NCSC
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (15.15%) Docker
2 9 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.64%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (9.09%) Argo
3 6 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.64%) Google
2 9 (13.64%) VMware
3 6 (9.09%) New Relic
4 4 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle