Refactoring Job Trends

Refactoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Refactoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 606 668 593
Rank change year-on-year +62 -75 +45
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 26 74 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.13% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13 38 90
10th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.04% -4.44%
75th Percentile £82,000 £81,563 £79,375
90th Percentile £88,400 £107,375 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.91% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,531 55,918 47,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.16% 85.44% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,749 29,151 36,831
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £99,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Refactoring job vacancy trend in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Refactoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Refactoring

Refactoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 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
England +66 24 £67,500 +12.50% 28
UK excluding London +66 12 £63,750 +15.91% 22
London +40 12 £78,000 +11.43% 13
Work from Home +80 9 £65,000 -7.14% 15
North West +47 4 £61,250 -18.33% 3
North of England +46 4 £61,250 +36.11% 5
Midlands +49 2 £75,000 +33.33% 2
South East +40 2 £78,750 +57.50% 9
South West +32 2 £57,500 +11.11% 4
Scotland +8 2 - - 1
East Midlands +21 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 1

Refactoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.85%) IIS
3 1 (3.85%) JBoss
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
3 3 (11.54%) GitHub
3 3 (11.54%) SaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Serverless
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (7.69%) Dagster
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) Prefect
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Firebase
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Broadband
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) NAS
2 1 (3.85%) SAN
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) MySQL
2 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
3 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 3 (11.54%) Big Data
4 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.85%) Data Hub
6 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.85%) Flink
6 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
6 1 (3.85%) Metadata
6 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.85%) Power BI
6 1 (3.85%) Redis
6 1 (3.85%) SQL CLR
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.85%) Testinfra
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Banking
2 7 (26.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (23.08%) Law
3 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Games
5 2 (7.69%) Marketing
5 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Automotive
6 1 (3.85%) Back Office
6 1 (3.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Linux Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Games Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) REST
2 6 (23.08%) .NET
3 4 (15.38%) .NET Core
3 4 (15.38%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) HTML
3 4 (15.38%) Spring
4 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
4 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
4 3 (11.54%) Kafka
4 3 (11.54%) Node.js
5 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (7.69%) JSON
5 2 (7.69%) React
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless Framework
6 1 (3.85%) Express.js
6 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (3.85%) Quarkus
6 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (11.54%) Credit Risk
3 3 (11.54%) Legacy Code
4 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (7.69%) Online Games
5 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Replication
5 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (46.15%) Agile
3 11 (42.31%) Software Engineering
4 9 (34.62%) SDLC
5 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
6 6 (23.08%) AI
6 6 (23.08%) DevOps
6 6 (23.08%) Mathematics
6 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Migration
7 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 4 (15.38%) Creative Thinking
8 4 (15.38%) Electronic Trading
8 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 4 (15.38%) Observability
8 4 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (15.38%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Java
1 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) C#
4 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) PHP
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) Packer
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce