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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 570 671
Rank change year-on-year -94 +101 +91
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 29 62 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 22 31 125
10th Percentile £43,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £105,938 £111,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £127,875 £140,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.45% +2.08% -2.83%

All Process & 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 59,873 37,939 76,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.17% 93.46% 86.66%
Number of salaries quoted 36,505 22,139 57,454
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 7 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 27 March 2026. 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 -80 26 £95,000 +24.18% 47
Work from Home -4 19 £95,000 +46.15% 27
London -19 16 £95,000 -5.00% 22
UK excluding London -64 7 £47,500 -22.45% 33
West Midlands -7 5 £45,000 - 4
Midlands -31 5 £45,000 -21.74% 5
South East -37 2 £67,500 +50.00% 12

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 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) GCP
3 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (17.24%) PaaS
3 5 (17.24%) Serverless
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
4 4 (13.79%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (13.79%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (13.79%) Vertex AI
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (10.34%) Azure App Service
5 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.24%) MySQL
3 4 (13.79%) MariaDB
4 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
5 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.45%) Big Data
6 1 (3.45%) Flink
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.45%) Yeoman
General
1 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Automotive
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Games
3 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 12 (41.38%) Senior
3 8 (27.59%) Senior Developer
4 7 (24.14%) Backend Developer
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Backend Developer
5 6 (20.69%) Lead
6 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (10.34%) Lead .NET Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Developer
7 2 (6.90%) DBA
7 2 (6.90%) Development Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Head of Development
7 2 (6.90%) Head of Software Development
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Software Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) React
3 4 (13.79%) .NET Framework
3 4 (13.79%) CSS
3 4 (13.79%) HTML
3 4 (13.79%) LangChain
3 4 (13.79%) LangGraph
3 4 (13.79%) Razor View Engine
4 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 3 (10.34%) Entity Framework
4 3 (10.34%) REST
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Core
5 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.90%) JSON
5 2 (6.90%) Middleware
5 2 (6.90%) Node.js
5 2 (6.90%) RESTful
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless Framework
5 2 (6.90%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (24.14%) Algorithms
2 7 (24.14%) Data Structures
3 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
4 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
5 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (6.90%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
7 1 (3.45%) Fixed Income
7 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (3.45%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 14 (48.28%) Mentoring
2 14 (48.28%) Software Engineering
3 13 (44.83%) Clean Code
4 10 (34.48%) Agile
5 9 (31.03%) Roadmaps
5 9 (31.03%) SDLC
6 8 (27.59%) AI
6 8 (27.59%) Code Quality
6 8 (27.59%) Observability
6 8 (27.59%) OO
6 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
7 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
7 7 (24.14%) DevOps
7 7 (24.14%) OOD
8 6 (20.69%) Machine Learning
8 6 (20.69%) Microservices
9 5 (17.24%) Coaching
9 5 (17.24%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) Java
3 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
4 7 (24.14%) SQL
5 6 (20.69%) TypeScript
6 4 (13.79%) PHP
7 3 (10.34%) C#
7 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
8 2 (6.90%) Go
8 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
9 1 (3.45%) C++
9 1 (3.45%) Groovy
9 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
1 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
1 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) GDPR
3 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Foundry
2 4 (13.79%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) RedGate
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds