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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 605 675 720
Rank change year-on-year +70 +45 -214
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 65 162 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 28 103 125
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £51,100
25th Percentile £60,313 £55,000 £64,750
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £92,000 £96,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -13.79% +7.41%

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 45,071 73,314 88,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.80% 85.78% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24,007 54,025 52,111
10th Percentile £30,500 £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 £76,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
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 7 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 7 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 +95 34 £100,000 +29.03% 55
Midlands +64 9 £57,500 - 7
South West +90 8 - - 2
North of England +29 8 £70,000 +12.00% 12
West Midlands +48 6 £70,000 - 5
North West -12 5 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Yorkshire +61 3 - - 5
East of England +28 3 - - 4
East Midlands - 3 £57,500 - 2
South East +69 2 - - 19
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 (13.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) IIS
2 1 (1.54%) Tornado
Cloud Services
1 34 (52.31%) Azure
2 18 (27.69%) AWS
3 14 (21.54%) Power Platform
3 14 (21.54%) SaaS
4 13 (20.00%) GCP
5 7 (10.77%) GitHub
6 6 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.69%) Serverless
8 3 (4.62%) IaaS
8 3 (4.62%) PaaS
9 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.54%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.54%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) 3GPP
1 4 (6.15%) 5G
2 3 (4.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.92%) NoSQL
3 10 (15.38%) Power BI
4 9 (13.85%) Data Hub
4 9 (13.85%) Metadata
4 9 (13.85%) MySQL
4 9 (13.85%) SQL CLR
4 9 (13.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (13.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.08%) DB2
8 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (27.69%) Git
2 6 (9.23%) Gradle
2 6 (9.23%) Maven
3 3 (4.62%) PHPUnit
3 3 (4.62%) Subversion
3 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.54%) Bugzilla
4 1 (1.54%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.54%) Crashlytics
4 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.54%) ESLint
4 1 (1.54%) Gatling
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) JMeter
4 1 (1.54%) Xcode
General
1 32 (49.23%) Finance
2 24 (36.92%) Social Skills
3 16 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.85%) Back Office
5 8 (12.31%) Banking
5 8 (12.31%) Electronics
6 6 (9.23%) Games
7 4 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.62%) Law
8 3 (4.62%) Retail
9 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (66.15%) Developer
2 25 (38.46%) Senior
3 19 (29.23%) Senior Developer
4 16 (24.62%) Software Developer
5 12 (18.46%) Microsoft Developer
5 12 (18.46%) SaaS Developer
5 12 (18.46%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 10 (15.38%) Lead
7 9 (13.85%) Senior SQL Developer
7 9 (13.85%) SQL Developer
8 7 (10.77%) Architect
9 6 (9.23%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (9.23%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Lead Architect
10 4 (6.15%) Quantitative Developer
10 4 (6.15%) Salesforce Architect
10 4 (6.15%) Salesforce Technical Architect
10 4 (6.15%) Software Team Leader
10 4 (6.15%) Team Leader
10 4 (6.15%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.00%) RESTful
2 8 (12.31%) .NET
2 8 (12.31%) jQuery
2 8 (12.31%) Kafka
2 8 (12.31%) React
2 8 (12.31%) REST
2 8 (12.31%) Spring
3 7 (10.77%) CSS
3 7 (10.77%) HTML
3 7 (10.77%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (9.23%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (9.23%) Node.js
5 5 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 5 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 4 (6.15%) Entity Framework
6 4 (6.15%) Jest
6 4 (6.15%) Sass
7 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.62%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Cloud Native
2 12 (18.46%) Private Cloud
3 11 (16.92%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (12.31%) Algorithms
4 8 (12.31%) Data Structures
5 6 (9.23%) Mobile Games
6 5 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (4.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (4.62%) Smartphone
9 2 (3.08%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (3.08%) Legacy Code
9 2 (3.08%) Mainframe
10 1 (1.54%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 1 (1.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Apple iOS
2 8 (12.31%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) Linux
3 2 (3.08%) zOS
4 1 (1.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.38%) Agile
2 22 (33.85%) Migration
2 22 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (33.85%) Software Engineering
3 20 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 17 (26.15%) CI/CD
4 17 (26.15%) Fintech
5 16 (24.62%) Design Patterns
6 15 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 14 (21.54%) Clean Code
7 14 (21.54%) DevOps
8 13 (20.00%) User Experience
9 12 (18.46%) Data Privacy
9 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (16.92%) Roadmaps
10 11 (16.92%) SOLID
10 11 (16.92%) TDD
11 10 (15.38%) API Development
11 10 (15.38%) Scrum
11 10 (15.38%) UML
Programming Languages
1 29 (44.62%) SQL
2 22 (33.85%) Java
3 19 (29.23%) C#
3 19 (29.23%) Python
4 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 14 (21.54%) T-SQL
6 9 (13.85%) C++
7 5 (7.69%) Rust
7 5 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.62%) PHP
8 3 (4.62%) VB
9 2 (3.08%) COBOL
9 2 (3.08%) JCL
10 1 (1.54%) Bash
10 1 (1.54%) C
10 1 (1.54%) Go
10 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.54%) Perl
10 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) Degree
2 7 (10.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.23%) AWS Certification
3 6 (9.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (9.23%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 4 (6.15%) PhD
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) NCSC
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) Docker
2 9 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.85%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (9.23%) Argo
3 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Google
2 9 (13.85%) VMware
3 6 (9.23%) New Relic
4 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle