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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 628 694
Rank change year-on-year -29 +66 -71
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 146 52 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 108 24 58
10th Percentile £45,750 £56,625 £46,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £100,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,000 £105,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -18.57% +12.00% +8.70%

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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 15 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 16 September 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 -30 127 £69,305 -0.99% 397
UK excluding London -70 75 £57,000 -18.57% 260
London -17 60 £100,000 +42.86% 262
Work from Home -8 44 £95,000 +35.71% 93
North of England -49 23 £69,305 +2.67% 32
South West -52 21 £57,000 -0.87% 56
North West -12 12 £69,653 +3.19% 17
South East -49 9 £57,000 -17.09% 27
Wales - 9 £63,500 - 1
North East - 8 £51,500 - 5
East of England -29 6 £45,000 - 12
Midlands -30 4 £50,000 -28.57% 14
West Midlands -38 4 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Scotland +5 3 - - 118
Yorkshire - 3 £69,305 - 10

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 8 (5.48%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.05%) Confluence
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
3 2 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Documentum
4 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.56%) AWS
2 47 (32.19%) Azure
3 20 (13.70%) GitHub
4 19 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (9.59%) Serverless
6 10 (6.85%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (6.85%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (5.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (5.48%) GCP
8 7 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.79%) Anthropic Claude
8 7 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.11%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.11%) SaaS
10 5 (3.42%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.11%) Internet
2 2 (1.37%) DNS
2 2 (1.37%) HTTP
2 2 (1.37%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.37%) Network Security
2 2 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.64%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.42%) Big Data
5 5 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.42%) Redis
6 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.74%) Power BI
6 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.05%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.37%) DTS
8 2 (1.37%) MySQL
9 1 (0.68%) Airbyte
9 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.68%) Power Query
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (10.96%) Git
2 10 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.48%) Claude Code
4 5 (3.42%) JIRA
5 4 (2.74%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.37%) Gatling
6 2 (1.37%) Pa11y
6 2 (1.37%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.68%) Yeoman
General
1 36 (24.66%) Finance
2 22 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.64%) Banking
4 15 (10.27%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (8.90%) Local Government
6 12 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (8.22%) Law
7 9 (6.16%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.79%) Marketing
9 6 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.05%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.37%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Advertising
12 1 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 69 (47.26%) Senior
2 64 (43.84%) Developer
3 49 (33.56%) Software Engineer
4 37 (25.34%) Senior Developer
5 25 (17.12%) Consultant
5 25 (17.12%) Lead
5 25 (17.12%) Software Developer
6 19 (13.01%) Software Consultant
7 18 (12.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (10.27%) Lead Software Engineer
8 15 (10.27%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (9.59%) C++ Developer
9 14 (9.59%) Senior C++ Developer
10 12 (8.22%) Python Engineer
11 10 (6.85%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (6.85%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (6.16%) Backend Developer
12 9 (6.16%) Senior Backend Developer
13 8 (5.48%) Data Engineer
13 8 (5.48%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.81%) .NET
2 14 (9.59%) MFC
3 11 (7.53%) Terraform
4 9 (6.16%) Kafka
5 8 (5.48%) REST
6 7 (4.79%) React
7 6 (4.11%) .NET Core
7 6 (4.11%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.42%) Entity Framework
8 5 (3.42%) Model Context Protocol
8 5 (3.42%) Node.js
8 5 (3.42%) pytest
8 5 (3.42%) Spring
8 5 (3.42%) WPF
9 4 (2.74%) WinForms
10 3 (2.05%) Dropwizard
10 3 (2.05%) Micronaut
10 3 (2.05%) Playwright
10 3 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.05%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.66%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.64%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (9.59%) Legacy Applications
3 14 (9.59%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (8.90%) NHS
5 12 (8.22%) Algorithms
5 12 (8.22%) Onboarding
6 10 (6.85%) Data Structures
7 8 (5.48%) Data Centre
8 7 (4.79%) Blog
8 7 (4.79%) Legacy Code
9 6 (4.11%) AI Agents
9 6 (4.11%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.05%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.38%) Windows
2 5 (3.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (47.26%) Software Engineering
2 61 (41.78%) Agile
3 47 (32.19%) CI/CD
4 45 (30.82%) Migration
5 42 (28.77%) Mentoring
6 41 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (26.71%) AI
8 36 (24.66%) Coaching
9 35 (23.97%) OO
10 31 (21.23%) Test Automation
11 29 (19.86%) Microservices
12 26 (17.81%) Code Quality
12 26 (17.81%) DevOps
13 24 (16.44%) SDLC
13 24 (16.44%) TDD
14 22 (15.07%) Decision-Making
14 22 (15.07%) Full-Stack Development
15 21 (14.38%) User Stories
16 18 (12.33%) Secure Coding
17 17 (11.64%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.88%) Python
2 44 (30.14%) Java
3 37 (25.34%) C#
4 34 (23.29%) SQL
5 30 (20.55%) JavaScript
6 27 (18.49%) C++
7 21 (14.38%) Scala
8 17 (11.64%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.53%) T-SQL
10 6 (4.11%) Go
11 3 (2.05%) Rust
12 2 (1.37%) C
12 2 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.37%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.37%) PHP
13 1 (0.68%) Julia
13 1 (0.68%) Perl
13 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.68%) R
13 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.11%) Degree
4 4 (2.74%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.37%) CCSP
5 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.37%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) QA
2 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.05%) WCAG
3 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (16.44%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.37%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 25 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.11%) Progress Chef
2 6 (4.11%) Puppet
3 3 (2.05%) Grafana
3 3 (2.05%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.37%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.05%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.05%) RedGate
2 3 (2.05%) SAP
2 3 (2.05%) SolarWinds
2 3 (2.05%) Splunk
2 3 (2.05%) VMware
3 2 (1.37%) Arista
3 2 (1.37%) Broadcom
3 2 (1.37%) Cisco
3 2 (1.37%) Databricks
3 2 (1.37%) Google
3 2 (1.37%) Netskope
3 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.37%) Oracle
3 2 (1.37%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.37%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.68%) New Relic
4 1 (0.68%) OpenText
4 1 (0.68%) Teradata