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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 582 717
Rank change year-on-year -65 +135 +5
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 105 79 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 95 30 134
10th Percentile £45,950 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £80,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.57% +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 68,936 41,540 89,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 92.39% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 47,487 22,330 63,275
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,824 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 21 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 14 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 21 June 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 -45 95 £69,305 -0.99% 38
UK excluding London -54 53 £57,000 -18.57% 36
Work from Home +13 47 £95,000 +35.71% 20
London -10 42 £95,000 +11.76% 15
North of England -20 18 £69,305 -0.99% 7
South West -55 13 £57,000 - 4
North West +7 9 £69,305 -0.99% 3
South East -21 8 £57,000 +20.00% 10
Midlands -18 6 £47,500 -32.14% 3
West Midlands -21 6 £47,500 -32.14% 3
North East - 6 £51,500 - 4
Wales - 5 £63,500 - 3
East of England -14 3 £45,000 - 3
Yorkshire -36 3 £69,305 -

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 (7.62%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (1.90%) Apache
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.90%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.95%) CMS
3 1 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 43 (40.95%) Azure
2 26 (24.76%) AWS
3 18 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (11.43%) GitHub
5 10 (9.52%) Serverless
6 8 (7.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (6.67%) GCP
8 6 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (4.76%) PaaS
10 4 (3.81%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (3.81%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (3.81%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (3.81%) SaaS
10 4 (3.81%) Vertex AI
11 3 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) Broadband
2 1 (0.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.24%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.71%) MySQL
3 6 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.81%) MariaDB
6 3 (2.86%) Big Data
6 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.86%) Power BI
6 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.90%) Redis
8 1 (0.95%) DTS
8 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Git
2 4 (3.81%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.90%) JIRA
4 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.95%) Gatling
5 1 (0.95%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.95%) Yeoman
General
1 14 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (12.38%) Finance
2 13 (12.38%) Influencing Skills
3 11 (10.48%) Local Government
4 8 (7.62%) Banking
4 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.62%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Billing
6 1 (0.95%) Games
6 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.95%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 56 (53.33%) Developer
1 56 (53.33%) Senior
2 34 (32.38%) Senior Developer
3 25 (23.81%) Software Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) Software Developer
5 14 (13.33%) Backend Developer
5 14 (13.33%) Consultant
5 14 (13.33%) Senior Backend Developer
6 13 (12.38%) Software Consultant
7 12 (11.43%) C++ Developer
7 12 (11.43%) Lead
7 12 (11.43%) Senior C++ Developer
8 11 (10.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (7.62%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) .NET Developer
10 7 (6.67%) Lead Developer
10 7 (6.67%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) Senior Consultant
11 6 (5.71%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (22.86%) .NET
2 12 (11.43%) MFC
3 7 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 6 (5.71%) Entity Framework
4 6 (5.71%) React
5 5 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.76%) CSS
5 5 (4.76%) HTML
5 5 (4.76%) Kafka
6 4 (3.81%) LangChain
6 4 (3.81%) LangGraph
6 4 (3.81%) Node.js
6 4 (3.81%) Razor View Engine
6 4 (3.81%) RESTful
7 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (2.86%) REST
7 3 (2.86%) SignalR
7 3 (2.86%) WPF
8 2 (1.90%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.86%) Cloud Native
2 21 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (14.29%) Algorithms
4 14 (13.33%) Data Structures
4 14 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (10.48%) Legacy Applications
6 11 (10.48%) NHS
7 4 (3.81%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.86%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.90%) Blog
9 2 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.95%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (44.76%) Software Engineering
2 44 (41.90%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (40.95%) Agile
4 37 (35.24%) Mentoring
5 30 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 30 (28.57%) OO
6 26 (24.76%) Coaching
7 25 (23.81%) Migration
8 23 (21.90%) Clean Code
9 22 (20.95%) DevOps
10 21 (20.00%) Decision-Making
11 20 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (17.14%) AI
13 15 (14.29%) OOD
13 15 (14.29%) TDD
14 14 (13.33%) Microservices
14 14 (13.33%) SDLC
15 13 (12.38%) Fintech
15 13 (12.38%) Test Automation
15 13 (12.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.10%) Python
2 34 (32.38%) Java
3 32 (30.48%) C#
4 31 (29.52%) SQL
5 22 (20.95%) JavaScript
6 21 (20.00%) C++
7 15 (14.29%) Scala
8 10 (9.52%) TypeScript
9 8 (7.62%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.76%) PHP
11 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.86%) Go
13 2 (1.90%) R
14 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.95%) Groovy
14 1 (0.95%) Julia
14 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.76%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) GDPR
2 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.95%) Istio
3 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.81%) Foundry
2 4 (3.81%) Google
3 3 (2.86%) RedGate
3 3 (2.86%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.90%) Databricks
4 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.95%) New Relic
5 1 (0.95%) SAP
5 1 (0.95%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.95%) VMware
5 1 (0.95%) Zoho