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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 631 594
Rank change year-on-year +11 -37 +89
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 15 78 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 86
10th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,875 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £64,250 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.73% +0.39% -5.19%
75th Percentile £82,000 £91,875 £71,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £140,000 £85,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +13.04% -2.13% +1.29%

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 48,456 49,466 47,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.78% 90.03% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,392 24,433 36,177
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 10 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 January 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 +5 15 £75,000 +11.77% 34
UK excluding London +21 7 £65,000 +13.04% 24
Work from Home +48 6 £70,000 -3.45% 16
London +12 6 £78,000 -2.50% 15
North West +33 3 £60,000 -20.00% 2
North of England +17 3 £60,000 +33.33% 9
South East +18 2 £78,750 +28.57% 9
Midlands +17 2 £75,000 +30.43%
West Midlands +24 1 £75,000 -
East Midlands -18 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 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (13.33%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Broadband
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) NAS
2 1 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Flink
3 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (6.67%) Testinfra
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Games
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Games Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Developer in Test
4 1 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.67%) IT Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) CSS
2 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (13.33%) JSON
4 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) React
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
5 1 (6.67%) Express.js
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) Middleware
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) Smarty
5 1 (6.67%) SOAP
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.67%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (20.00%) Legacy Code
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Online Games
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) AI
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (26.67%) Observability
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Debt
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (20.00%) SDLC
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
4 3 (20.00%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Python
6 1 (6.67%) PHP
6 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Packer
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) VMware