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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 633 698
Rank change year-on-year 0 +65 -25
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 152 55 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 115 28 80
10th Percentile £45,750 £56,250 £47,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +8.95% -8.21%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,400 £105,000
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 77,915 44,448 67,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.27% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53,724 25,250 43,771
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +8 134 £69,305 -0.99% 292
UK excluding London -50 74 £57,000 -18.57% 134
London -6 66 £97,500 +39.29% 223
Work from Home +5 51 £95,000 +35.71% 74
North of England -37 21 £69,305 +6.62% 12
South West -43 20 £57,000 -0.87% 28
North West -17 10 £69,653 +7.16% 10
South East -25 10 £57,000 +20.00% 15
Wales - 9 £63,500 -
North East - 8 £51,500 - 1
Midlands -16 6 £50,000 -28.57% 4
West Midlands -17 6 £50,000 -28.57% 3
East of England -28 6 £45,000 - 9
Yorkshire - 3 £69,305 - 1
Scotland +8 2 - - 58

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%) SharePoint
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%) Azure
2 47 (30.92%) AWS
3 20 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (13.16%) GitHub
4 15 (9.87%) Serverless
5 11 (7.24%) GCP
6 10 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (5.92%) GitHub Copilot
8 8 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (4.61%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.61%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.95%) SaaS
11 5 (3.29%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.63%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.95%) Internet
2 4 (2.63%) Broadband
3 2 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (1.32%) HTTP
3 2 (1.32%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.32%) Network Security
3 2 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.61%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.95%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.29%) Big Data
6 5 (3.29%) MySQL
6 5 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.63%) Power BI
7 4 (2.63%) Redis
8 3 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.97%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.97%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.32%) DTS
10 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.66%) Power Query
10 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (11.84%) Git
2 9 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.26%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.63%) JIRA
4 4 (2.63%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.32%) Gatling
5 2 (1.32%) Pa11y
5 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.66%) Yeoman
General
1 34 (22.37%) Finance
2 19 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.18%) Banking
4 15 (9.87%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.55%) Local Government
6 9 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.92%) Law
7 8 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.63%) Marketing
8 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.97%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.66%) Advertising
11 1 (0.66%) Billing
11 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (50.66%) Senior
2 69 (45.39%) Developer
3 47 (30.92%) Software Engineer
4 41 (26.97%) Senior Developer
5 25 (16.45%) Consultant
6 24 (15.79%) Software Developer
7 22 (14.47%) Lead
8 19 (12.50%) Software Consultant
9 18 (11.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (9.87%) Senior Consultant
11 14 (9.21%) Backend Developer
11 14 (9.21%) C++ Developer
11 14 (9.21%) Senior Backend Developer
11 14 (9.21%) Senior C++ Developer
12 13 (8.55%) Lead Software Engineer
13 11 (7.24%) Python Engineer
14 10 (6.58%) Senior Software Developer
15 9 (5.92%) Python Software Engineer
16 8 (5.26%) .NET Developer
16 8 (5.26%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.74%) .NET
2 14 (9.21%) MFC
3 8 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 8 (5.26%) React
4 7 (4.61%) .NET Core
4 7 (4.61%) Kafka
4 7 (4.61%) REST
5 6 (3.95%) Entity Framework
6 5 (3.29%) CSS
6 5 (3.29%) HTML
6 5 (3.29%) Model Context Protocol
6 5 (3.29%) Node.js
6 5 (3.29%) WPF
7 4 (2.63%) LangChain
7 4 (2.63%) LangGraph
7 4 (2.63%) pytest
7 4 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.63%) SignalR
7 4 (2.63%) WinForms
8 3 (1.97%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 38 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (11.18%) Algorithms
5 16 (10.53%) Legacy Applications
6 15 (9.87%) Data Structures
7 14 (9.21%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (8.55%) NHS
9 12 (7.89%) Onboarding
10 8 (5.26%) Data Centre
11 7 (4.61%) Legacy Code
12 6 (3.95%) AI Agents
12 6 (3.95%) Blog
12 6 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
14 3 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (1.97%) Mobile App
15 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
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 62 (40.79%) Agile
3 50 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (32.24%) CI/CD
5 47 (30.92%) Mentoring
6 44 (28.95%) Migration
7 41 (26.97%) AI
8 40 (26.32%) OO
9 38 (25.00%) Coaching
10 29 (19.08%) Test Automation
11 28 (18.42%) DevOps
12 27 (17.76%) Microservices
12 27 (17.76%) SDLC
13 26 (17.11%) Code Quality
14 25 (16.45%) Decision-Making
15 24 (15.79%) Clean Code
15 24 (15.79%) TDD
16 22 (14.47%) Full-Stack Development
17 19 (12.50%) User Stories
18 17 (11.18%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 54 (35.53%) Python
2 49 (32.24%) Java
3 39 (25.66%) C#
4 35 (23.03%) SQL
5 33 (21.71%) JavaScript
6 28 (18.42%) C++
7 21 (13.82%) Scala
8 17 (11.18%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.24%) T-SQL
10 7 (4.61%) Go
11 4 (2.63%) PHP
12 3 (1.97%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.97%) Rust
13 2 (1.32%) C
13 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.32%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.66%) Groovy
14 1 (0.66%) Perl
14 1 (0.66%) R
14 1 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.82%) 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
7 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (1.97%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.97%) WCAG
3 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (13.16%) Docker
2 3 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.32%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 21 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.92%) Terraform
3 6 (3.95%) Progress Chef
3 6 (3.95%) Puppet
4 2 (1.32%) Grafana
4 2 (1.32%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.66%) Ansible
5 1 (0.66%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.29%) Google
3 4 (2.63%) Foundry
4 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.97%) RedGate
4 3 (1.97%) SAP
4 3 (1.97%) SolarWinds
4 3 (1.97%) VMware
5 2 (1.32%) Arista
5 2 (1.32%) Broadcom
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco
5 2 (1.32%) Databricks
5 2 (1.32%) Netskope
5 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle
5 2 (1.32%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.32%) Splunk
5 2 (1.32%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.66%) Netezza
6 1 (0.66%) New Relic