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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 621 677
Rank change year-on-year -39 +56 -70
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 152 53 106
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 112 25 56
10th Percentile £45,750 £56,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £53,000
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 £101,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,000 £105,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -18.57% +15.70% +5.22%

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 86,307 43,936 60,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.11% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 59,386 24,309 33,164
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,033
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.23% -3.28%
75th Percentile £79,641 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
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 30 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 16 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 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 -36 132 £69,305 -0.99% 294
UK excluding London -80 77 £57,000 -18.57% 214
London -31 62 £100,000 +42.86% 173
Work from Home -20 51 £95,000 +35.71% 78
North of England -50 23 £69,305 +6.62% 25
South West -57 21 £57,000 -0.87% 63
North West -25 12 £69,653 +7.16% 13
South East -47 11 £57,000 -17.09% 21
Wales - 9 £63,500 - 1
North East - 8 £51,500 - 6
East of England -31 6 £45,000 - 9
Midlands -57 4 £50,000 -28.57% 17
Scotland +16 3 - - 75
West Midlands -45 3 £50,000 -28.57% 6
Yorkshire - 3 £69,305 - 7
East Midlands -39 1 £37,500 - 11

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 (5.26%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (1.97%) Confluence
3 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.66%) Documentum
4 1 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 50 (32.89%) AWS
1 50 (32.89%) Azure
2 22 (14.47%) GitHub
3 19 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (9.21%) Serverless
5 11 (7.24%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 8 (5.26%) SaaS
9 7 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (4.61%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.61%) GCP
9 7 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (3.29%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.29%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.95%) Internet
2 2 (1.32%) DNS
2 2 (1.32%) HTTP
2 2 (1.32%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.32%) Network Security
2 2 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.18%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.26%) Redis
4 6 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.95%) Power BI
4 6 (3.95%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.29%) Big Data
5 5 (3.29%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.97%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.97%) MySQL
7 2 (1.32%) DTS
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.66%) Power Query
8 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (13.16%) Git
2 11 (7.24%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.26%) Claude Code
4 6 (3.95%) JIRA
5 4 (2.63%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.32%) Gatling
6 2 (1.32%) Pa11y
6 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.66%) Postman
General
1 36 (23.68%) Finance
2 23 (15.13%) Social Skills
3 19 (12.50%) Banking
4 15 (9.87%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (8.55%) Local Government
6 12 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (7.89%) Law
7 10 (6.58%) Public Sector
8 9 (5.92%) Marketing
9 7 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.97%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Advertising
12 1 (0.66%) Billing
12 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (47.37%) Senior
2 66 (43.42%) Developer
3 50 (32.89%) Software Engineer
4 36 (23.68%) Senior Developer
5 27 (17.76%) Lead
6 26 (17.11%) Software Developer
7 25 (16.45%) Consultant
8 19 (12.50%) Software Consultant
9 18 (11.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (9.87%) Lead Software Engineer
10 15 (9.87%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (9.21%) C++ Developer
11 14 (9.21%) Senior C++ Developer
12 13 (8.55%) Python Engineer
13 11 (7.24%) Python Software Engineer
14 10 (6.58%) Data Engineer
14 10 (6.58%) Lead Developer
14 10 (6.58%) Senior Software Developer
15 8 (5.26%) Backend Developer
15 8 (5.26%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.76%) .NET
2 14 (9.21%) MFC
3 12 (7.89%) Terraform
4 10 (6.58%) REST
5 9 (5.92%) Kafka
6 8 (5.26%) .NET Core
7 7 (4.61%) .NET Framework
7 7 (4.61%) React
8 6 (3.95%) Entity Framework
8 6 (3.95%) Node.js
8 6 (3.95%) RESTful
8 6 (3.95%) Spring
9 5 (3.29%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (3.29%) pytest
9 5 (3.29%) WPF
10 4 (2.63%) OAuth
10 4 (2.63%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.63%) OpenID
10 4 (2.63%) Swagger
10 4 (2.63%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 38 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.84%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (9.87%) Legacy Applications
4 14 (9.21%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (8.55%) NHS
6 12 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (7.89%) Onboarding
7 11 (7.24%) Algorithms
8 9 (5.92%) Data Structures
9 8 (5.26%) Blog
9 8 (5.26%) Data Centre
10 7 (4.61%) Legacy Code
11 6 (3.95%) AI Agents
11 6 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.97%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.97%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.82%) Windows
2 5 (3.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (47.37%) Software Engineering
2 63 (41.45%) Agile
3 49 (32.24%) CI/CD
4 45 (29.61%) Migration
5 41 (26.97%) Mentoring
6 40 (26.32%) AI
6 40 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (23.68%) Coaching
8 34 (22.37%) OO
8 34 (22.37%) Test Automation
9 30 (19.74%) Microservices
10 29 (19.08%) DevOps
11 27 (17.76%) Code Quality
12 25 (16.45%) SDLC
13 24 (15.79%) Decision-Making
13 24 (15.79%) TDD
14 21 (13.82%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (13.82%) User Stories
15 18 (11.84%) Containerisation
15 18 (11.84%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 52 (34.21%) Python
2 45 (29.61%) Java
3 40 (26.32%) C#
4 35 (23.03%) SQL
5 31 (20.39%) JavaScript
6 27 (17.76%) C++
7 21 (13.82%) Scala
8 16 (10.53%) TypeScript
9 9 (5.92%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.29%) Go
11 3 (1.97%) Rust
12 2 (1.32%) C
12 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.32%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.32%) PHP
13 1 (0.66%) Julia
13 1 (0.66%) Perl
13 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.66%) R
13 1 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.61%) Degree
4 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.32%) CCSP
6 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.32%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.29%) QA
2 4 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.97%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.97%) WCAG
4 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (18.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.32%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 28 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.95%) Progress Chef
2 6 (3.95%) Puppet
3 3 (1.97%) Grafana
3 3 (1.97%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.32%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.66%) Ansible
5 1 (0.66%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
2 3 (1.97%) SAP
2 3 (1.97%) Splunk
2 3 (1.97%) VMware
3 2 (1.32%) Arista
3 2 (1.32%) Broadcom
3 2 (1.32%) Cisco
3 2 (1.32%) Databricks
3 2 (1.32%) Google
3 2 (1.32%) Netskope
3 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle
3 2 (1.32%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.32%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.66%) Netezza
4 1 (0.66%) OpenText
4 1 (0.66%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.66%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.66%) Teradata