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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 681 585 697
Rank change year-on-year -96 +112 +43
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 43 72 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.18% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 38 34 132
10th Percentile £42,125 £54,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £131,375 £89,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -14.29%

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 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 1 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 11 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 1 May 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 -88 39 £95,000 +35.71% 41
Work from Home -12 27 £95,000 +35.71% 18
London -32 25 £95,000 -5.00% 22
UK excluding London -91 11 £50,000 -28.57% 25
West Midlands -29 6 £47,500 -32.14%
Midlands -41 6 £47,500 -17.39% 1
South West -60 2 £50,625 - 4
North of England -67 2 £85,000 +21.43% 5
South East -28 1 - - 13
North West -30 1 £80,000 +14.29% 5
Yorkshire -61 1 £90,000 -

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 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) GCP
2 7 (16.28%) GitHub
3 6 (13.95%) AWS
4 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (11.63%) PaaS
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (9.30%) Copilot Studio
5 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.30%) Serverless
5 4 (9.30%) Vertex AI
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.98%) Azure App Service
6 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) MySQL
3 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.30%) MariaDB
4 3 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.65%) Power BI
5 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) Claude Code
3 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.33%) Yeoman
General
1 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Banking
2 6 (13.95%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Automotive
4 1 (2.33%) Games
4 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Developer
2 18 (41.86%) Senior
3 12 (27.91%) Backend Developer
3 12 (27.91%) Senior Backend Developer
3 12 (27.91%) Senior Developer
4 8 (18.60%) Lead
5 7 (16.28%) Software Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Lead Developer
7 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) DBA
8 3 (6.98%) Lead .NET Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) SQL DBA
8 3 (6.98%) SQL Server DBA
9 2 (4.65%) Development Manager
9 2 (4.65%) Python Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) .NET
2 5 (11.63%) CSS
2 5 (11.63%) HTML
3 4 (9.30%) .NET Framework
3 4 (9.30%) LangChain
3 4 (9.30%) LangGraph
3 4 (9.30%) Razor View Engine
4 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 3 (6.98%) Entity Framework
4 3 (6.98%) React
4 3 (6.98%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.65%) JSON
5 2 (4.65%) Middleware
5 2 (4.65%) Node.js
5 2 (4.65%) RESTful
5 2 (4.65%) Smarty
5 2 (4.65%) Symfony
6 1 (2.33%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (37.21%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (27.91%) Algorithms
2 12 (27.91%) Data Structures
3 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
4 4 (9.30%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.65%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.33%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.33%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Software Engineering
2 22 (51.16%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (44.19%) Clean Code
4 13 (30.23%) CI/CD
5 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
5 12 (27.91%) OO
5 12 (27.91%) OOD
6 10 (23.26%) Agile
7 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
7 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
8 8 (18.60%) DevOps
9 7 (16.28%) AI
9 7 (16.28%) Code Quality
9 7 (16.28%) Decision-Making
9 7 (16.28%) Fintech
9 7 (16.28%) Microservices
9 7 (16.28%) SDLC
10 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (13.95%) Machine Learning
10 6 (13.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (62.79%) Python
2 10 (23.26%) Java
2 10 (23.26%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.30%) C#
4 4 (9.30%) PHP
4 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.30%) T-SQL
4 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.65%) Go
6 1 (2.33%) C++
6 1 (2.33%) Groovy
6 1 (2.33%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Istio
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Foundry
2 4 (9.30%) Google
3 3 (6.98%) RedGate
3 3 (6.98%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) Zoho