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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 622 683
Rank change year-on-year -9 +61 +29
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 142 57 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 113 28 94
10th Percentile £45,750 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +12.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,400 £104,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.57% +16.67% +2.13%

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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -5 125 £69,305 -0.99% 77
UK excluding London -32 69 £57,000 -18.57% 31
London -3 61 £95,000 +35.71% 64
Work from Home +7 51 £95,000 +35.71% 19
North of England -17 20 £69,305 +6.62% 2
South West -48 17 £57,000 -0.87% 7
South East -30 10 £57,000 +20.00% 6
North West +4 9 £69,305 +6.62%
Wales - 9 £63,500 -
North East - 8 £51,500 - 1
East of England -16 6 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -17 6 £50,000 -28.57%
Midlands -37 6 £50,000 -28.57%
Yorkshire -31 3 £69,305 - 1
Scotland +3 1 - - 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 8 (5.63%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.11%) Confluence
3 2 (1.41%) Apache
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) Documentum
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.51%) Azure
2 42 (29.58%) AWS
3 20 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.27%) GitHub
5 15 (10.56%) Serverless
6 10 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (6.34%) GCP
8 8 (5.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (4.93%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.52%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.52%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (3.52%) SaaS
12 4 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.82%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.52%) Internet
2 4 (2.82%) Broadband
3 1 (0.70%) DNS
3 1 (0.70%) HTTP
3 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.93%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.52%) Big Data
4 5 (3.52%) MySQL
4 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.82%) Power BI
5 4 (2.82%) Redis
6 3 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.11%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.41%) DTS
8 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (12.68%) Git
2 8 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.23%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.82%) JIRA
4 4 (2.82%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.41%) Gatling
5 2 (1.41%) Pa11y
5 2 (1.41%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.70%) Yeoman
General
1 24 (16.90%) Finance
2 16 (11.27%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.56%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (9.86%) Banking
5 13 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.15%) Local Government
6 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.23%) Law
8 4 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.41%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Advertising
11 1 (0.70%) Billing
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (52.11%) Senior
2 69 (48.59%) Developer
3 41 (28.87%) Senior Developer
4 38 (26.76%) Software Engineer
5 25 (17.61%) Consultant
6 24 (16.90%) Software Developer
7 19 (13.38%) Lead
7 19 (13.38%) Software Consultant
8 15 (10.56%) Backend Developer
8 15 (10.56%) Senior Backend Developer
8 15 (10.56%) Senior Consultant
8 15 (10.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (9.86%) C++ Developer
9 14 (9.86%) Senior C++ Developer
10 11 (7.75%) Python Engineer
11 10 (7.04%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (7.04%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (6.34%) Python Software Engineer
13 8 (5.63%) .NET Developer
13 8 (5.63%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.42%) .NET
2 14 (9.86%) MFC
3 8 (5.63%) .NET Framework
4 7 (4.93%) .NET Core
4 7 (4.93%) React
5 6 (4.23%) Entity Framework
5 6 (4.23%) Kafka
5 6 (4.23%) REST
6 5 (3.52%) CSS
6 5 (3.52%) HTML
6 5 (3.52%) Node.js
6 5 (3.52%) WPF
7 4 (2.82%) LangChain
7 4 (2.82%) LangGraph
7 4 (2.82%) SignalR
7 4 (2.82%) WinForms
8 3 (2.11%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (2.11%) Playwright
8 3 (2.11%) pytest
8 3 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.35%) Cloud Native
2 21 (14.79%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (13.38%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (11.97%) Algorithms
5 16 (11.27%) Data Structures
5 16 (11.27%) Legacy Applications
6 14 (9.86%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (9.15%) NHS
8 11 (7.75%) Onboarding
9 7 (4.93%) Data Centre
10 6 (4.23%) Blog
10 6 (4.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (4.23%) Legacy Code
11 5 (3.52%) Public Cloud
12 4 (2.82%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (2.11%) Mobile App
14 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.79%) Windows
2 2 (1.41%) Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (43.66%) Software Engineering
2 59 (41.55%) Agile
3 49 (34.51%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (32.39%) Mentoring
5 43 (30.28%) CI/CD
6 40 (28.17%) Migration
6 40 (28.17%) OO
7 35 (24.65%) Coaching
8 33 (23.24%) AI
9 27 (19.01%) DevOps
10 25 (17.61%) Clean Code
11 23 (16.20%) Decision-Making
11 23 (16.20%) Microservices
11 23 (16.20%) SDLC
11 23 (16.20%) Test Automation
12 22 (15.49%) TDD
13 20 (14.08%) Code Quality
13 20 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (13.38%) User Stories
15 17 (11.97%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.92%) Python
2 46 (32.39%) Java
3 38 (26.76%) C#
4 34 (23.94%) SQL
5 30 (21.13%) JavaScript
6 26 (18.31%) C++
7 21 (14.79%) Scala
8 14 (9.86%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.75%) T-SQL
10 6 (4.23%) Go
11 4 (2.82%) PHP
12 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.41%) C
13 2 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.41%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.70%) Groovy
14 1 (0.70%) Perl
14 1 (0.70%) R
14 1 (0.70%) Ruby
14 1 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.93%) Degree
4 5 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.70%) CCSP
6 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.70%) CISSP
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.93%) QA
2 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.11%) WCAG
3 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (12.68%) Docker
2 3 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.70%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 17 (11.97%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.93%) Terraform
3 6 (4.23%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.23%) Puppet
4 2 (1.41%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.70%) Ansible
5 1 (0.70%) Grafana
5 1 (0.70%) Istio
5 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.82%) Foundry
2 4 (2.82%) Google
3 3 (2.11%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.11%) RedGate
3 3 (2.11%) SAP
3 3 (2.11%) SolarWinds
3 3 (2.11%) VMware
4 2 (1.41%) Databricks
4 2 (1.41%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.41%) Oracle
5 1 (0.70%) Broadcom
5 1 (0.70%) Cisco
5 1 (0.70%) New Relic
5 1 (0.70%) OpenText
5 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.70%) Splunk
5 1 (0.70%) Teradata
5 1 (0.70%) Zoho