Refactoring Jobs

Refactoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 619 712 741
Rank change year-on-year +93 +29 -258
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 72 190 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.22% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 34 132 135
10th Percentile £54,500 £42,500 £51,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £64,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £103,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £131,375 £89,875 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +26.13%

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 48,513 84,700 99,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.28% 85.98% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,566 59,840 58,402
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,035
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Refactoring.

Salary trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 14 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 2 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
England +78 64 £70,000 +15.70% 87
Work from Home +114 39 £70,000 +16.67% 98
UK excluding London +102 36 £70,000 +16.67% 50
London +108 32 £100,000 +31.15% 52
Midlands +72 9 £57,500 - 7
South West +86 8 - - 3
North of England +61 8 £70,000 +12.00% 11
West Midlands +55 6 £70,000 - 5
Scotland +135 5 £75,000 +25.00% 6
North West -2 5 £70,000 +16.67% 7
South East +86 3 - - 17
Yorkshire +65 3 - - 4
East of England +44 3 - - 4
East Midlands - 3 £57,500 - 2

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) IIS
2 1 (1.39%) Tornado
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.22%) Azure
2 18 (25.00%) AWS
3 13 (18.06%) Power Platform
4 12 (16.67%) GCP
4 12 (16.67%) SaaS
5 7 (9.72%) GitHub
6 6 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.94%) Serverless
8 3 (4.17%) IaaS
8 3 (4.17%) PaaS
9 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.39%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) 3GPP
1 4 (5.56%) 5G
2 3 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 13 (18.06%) NoSQL
3 9 (12.50%) Power BI
4 8 (11.11%) Data Hub
4 8 (11.11%) Metadata
4 8 (11.11%) MySQL
4 8 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (11.11%) SQL CLR
4 8 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 8 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.39%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (23.61%) Git
2 6 (8.33%) Gradle
2 6 (8.33%) Maven
3 3 (4.17%) Subversion
3 3 (4.17%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.78%) PHPUnit
5 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.39%) Bugzilla
5 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.39%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.39%) ESLint
5 1 (1.39%) Gatling
5 1 (1.39%) JIRA
5 1 (1.39%) JMeter
5 1 (1.39%) Xcode
General
1 33 (45.83%) Finance
2 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 19 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Back Office
4 8 (11.11%) Electronics
5 7 (9.72%) Banking
6 6 (8.33%) Games
7 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Law
8 3 (4.17%) Retail
9 2 (2.78%) Legal
10 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (61.11%) Developer
2 26 (36.11%) Senior
3 19 (26.39%) Senior Developer
4 16 (22.22%) Software Developer
5 13 (18.06%) Lead
6 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Developer
6 11 (15.28%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 10 (13.89%) SaaS Developer
7 10 (13.89%) Software Engineer
8 8 (11.11%) Senior SQL Developer
8 8 (11.11%) SQL Developer
9 6 (8.33%) Architect
9 6 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.94%) Technical Leader
11 4 (5.56%) Lead Architect
11 4 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Quantitative Developer
11 4 (5.56%) Salesforce Architect
11 4 (5.56%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.67%) .NET
1 12 (16.67%) RESTful
2 8 (11.11%) Kafka
2 8 (11.11%) React
2 8 (11.11%) Spring
3 7 (9.72%) jQuery
3 7 (9.72%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (9.72%) REST
4 6 (8.33%) .NET Framework
4 6 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 6 (8.33%) CSS
4 6 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (8.33%) HTML
4 6 (8.33%) Node.js
5 5 (6.94%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.56%) Entity Framework
6 4 (5.56%) Sass
6 4 (5.56%) Vue
7 3 (4.17%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.28%) Private Cloud
3 10 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 10 (13.89%) Data Structures
4 9 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (8.33%) Mobile Games
6 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.17%) Smartphone
7 2 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.78%) IoT
7 2 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.78%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.39%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Apple iOS
2 8 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (4.17%) Android
3 3 (4.17%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.78%) Linux
5 1 (1.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.89%) Software Engineering
2 27 (37.50%) Agile
3 24 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (30.56%) Computer Science
5 20 (27.78%) Migration
6 18 (25.00%) Design Patterns
7 17 (23.61%) CI/CD
7 17 (23.61%) Clean Code
8 15 (20.83%) DevOps
8 15 (20.83%) Fintech
8 15 (20.83%) Test Automation
9 14 (19.44%) Scrum
10 13 (18.06%) Mentoring
10 13 (18.06%) User Experience
11 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (15.28%) Roadmaps
11 11 (15.28%) SDLC
11 11 (15.28%) SOLID
12 10 (13.89%) API Development
12 10 (13.89%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.28%) SQL
2 22 (30.56%) Java
3 21 (29.17%) C#
4 19 (26.39%) Python
5 15 (20.83%) JavaScript
6 13 (18.06%) C++
6 13 (18.06%) T-SQL
7 5 (6.94%) C
7 5 (6.94%) Rust
7 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.56%) Objective-C
9 3 (4.17%) Go
9 3 (4.17%) VB
10 2 (2.78%) PHP
10 2 (2.78%) Ruby
11 1 (1.39%) Bash
11 1 (1.39%) COBOL
11 1 (1.39%) JCL
11 1 (1.39%) Perl
11 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Degree
2 7 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 6 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.94%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.56%) PhD
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Docker
2 8 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (8.33%) Argo
3 6 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.50%) Google
3 8 (11.11%) VMware
4 6 (8.33%) New Relic
5 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle