Refactoring Jobs in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 615 649
Rank change year-on-year +66 +34 -92
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 33 156 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12 102 47
10th Percentile £54,250 £42,500 £36,400
25th Percentile - £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% -13.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile - £82,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,156 59,884 56,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.47% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,178 41,267 29,022
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Refactoring in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK excluding London

Refactoring
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
South West +69 8 - - 2
Midlands +62 7 £70,000 - 3
North of England +18 7 £70,000 +14.29% 19
West Midlands +73 6 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +125 5 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North West -24 4 £70,000 +16.67% 12
South East +64 3 - - 8
Yorkshire +57 3 - - 5
East of England +28 3 - - 2
East Midlands +29 1 £55,000 -
Refactoring
UK

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) SaaS
3 8 (24.24%) AWS
4 6 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 4 (12.12%) Serverless
6 3 (9.09%) IaaS
6 3 (9.09%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) 3GPP
1 4 (12.12%) 5G
2 3 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.15%) Data Hub
2 5 (15.15%) Metadata
2 5 (15.15%) Power BI
2 5 (15.15%) SQL CLR
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) PHPUnit
2 3 (9.09%) Subversion
3 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (33.33%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Electronics
4 5 (15.15%) Back Office
5 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
6 3 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) Senior
3 8 (24.24%) SaaS Developer
3 8 (24.24%) Software Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Senior Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 5 (15.15%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) Principal Software Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) Senior SQL Developer
6 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) SQL Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Lead
7 4 (12.12%) Software Team Leader
7 4 (12.12%) Team Leader
8 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (9.09%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) CSS
1 7 (21.21%) HTML
1 7 (21.21%) REST
2 6 (18.18%) .NET
2 6 (18.18%) jQuery
3 5 (15.15%) .NET Core
3 5 (15.15%) .NET Framework
3 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET
4 4 (12.12%) Entity Framework
4 4 (12.12%) Sass
5 3 (9.09%) CSS3
5 3 (9.09%) D3.js
5 3 (9.09%) DOM
5 3 (9.09%) HTML5
5 3 (9.09%) KnockoutJS
5 3 (9.09%) Laravel
5 3 (9.09%) OAuth
5 3 (9.09%) React
5 3 (9.09%) RESTful
5 3 (9.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Algorithms
1 8 (24.24%) Data Structures
1 8 (24.24%) Private Cloud
2 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 5 (15.15%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (9.09%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 8 (24.24%) Windows
3 3 (9.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 11 (33.33%) User Experience
3 9 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (24.24%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Analytical Thinking
4 8 (24.24%) Complexity Analysis
4 8 (24.24%) Computer Science
4 8 (24.24%) Data Privacy
4 8 (24.24%) Fintech
4 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (24.24%) Migration
4 8 (24.24%) System Integration Testing
4 8 (24.24%) TDD
4 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
4 8 (24.24%) UX Design
5 7 (21.21%) Clean Code
5 7 (21.21%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) C++
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 10 (30.30%) C#
3 8 (24.24%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
4 6 (18.18%) T-SQL
5 5 (15.15%) C
5 5 (15.15%) Objective-C
5 5 (15.15%) Python
6 3 (9.09%) PHP
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) NCSC
1 4 (12.12%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) VMware
3 3 (9.09%) Google