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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 628 670
Rank change year-on-year -36 +42 -42
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 149 53 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 110 25 57
10th Percentile £45,721 £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 £105,500
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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
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 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 25 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 25 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 -48 129 £69,305 -0.99% 315
UK excluding London -80 77 £57,000 -18.57% 212
London -15 59 £100,000 +42.86% 218
Work from Home -20 48 £95,000 +35.71% 84
North of England -51 23 £69,305 +6.62% 24
South West -57 21 £57,000 -0.87% 44
North West -23 12 £69,653 +7.16% 10
South East -46 11 £57,000 -17.09% 21
Wales - 9 £63,500 - 1
North East - 8 £51,500 - 6
East of England -18 6 £45,000 - 8
Midlands -42 4 £50,000 -28.57% 16
Scotland +7 3 - - 94
West Midlands -44 3 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Yorkshire - 3 £69,305 - 9
East Midlands -32 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 (5.37%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.01%) Confluence
3 2 (1.34%) Apache
3 2 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.67%) CMS
4 1 (0.67%) Documentum
4 1 (0.67%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 50 (33.56%) AWS
1 50 (33.56%) Azure
2 22 (14.77%) GitHub
3 20 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (9.40%) Serverless
5 11 (7.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (6.71%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.37%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (4.70%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.70%) GCP
9 7 (4.70%) SaaS
10 5 (3.36%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.36%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.68%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.03%) Internet
2 2 (1.34%) DNS
2 2 (1.34%) HTTP
2 2 (1.34%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.34%) Network Security
2 2 (1.34%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.41%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.70%) Redis
5 6 (4.03%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.03%) Power BI
6 5 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.36%) Big Data
6 5 (3.36%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.36%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.01%) MySQL
8 2 (1.34%) DTS
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.67%) Power Query
9 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (12.75%) Git
2 11 (7.38%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.37%) Claude Code
4 6 (4.03%) JIRA
5 4 (2.68%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.34%) Gatling
6 2 (1.34%) Pa11y
6 2 (1.34%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.67%) Postman
General
1 36 (24.16%) Finance
2 22 (14.77%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.08%) Banking
4 15 (10.07%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (8.72%) Local Government
6 12 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (8.05%) Law
7 10 (6.71%) Public Sector
8 9 (6.04%) Marketing
9 7 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.01%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Advertising
12 1 (0.67%) Billing
12 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (47.65%) Senior
2 66 (44.30%) Developer
3 49 (32.89%) Software Engineer
4 36 (24.16%) Senior Developer
5 26 (17.45%) Lead
5 26 (17.45%) Software Developer
6 25 (16.78%) Consultant
7 19 (12.75%) Software Consultant
8 18 (12.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (10.07%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (9.40%) C++ Developer
10 14 (9.40%) Lead Software Engineer
10 14 (9.40%) Senior C++ Developer
11 12 (8.05%) Python Engineer
12 10 (6.71%) Data Engineer
12 10 (6.71%) Lead Developer
12 10 (6.71%) Python Software Engineer
12 10 (6.71%) Senior Software Developer
13 8 (5.37%) Backend Developer
13 8 (5.37%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.12%) .NET
2 14 (9.40%) MFC
3 12 (8.05%) Terraform
4 10 (6.71%) REST
5 9 (6.04%) Kafka
6 8 (5.37%) React
7 7 (4.70%) .NET Core
7 7 (4.70%) .NET Framework
8 6 (4.03%) Entity Framework
8 6 (4.03%) Node.js
8 6 (4.03%) Spring
9 5 (3.36%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (3.36%) pytest
9 5 (3.36%) RESTful
9 5 (3.36%) WPF
10 4 (2.68%) Swagger
10 4 (2.68%) WinForms
11 3 (2.01%) CSS
11 3 (2.01%) OAuth
11 3 (2.01%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.83%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.41%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (10.07%) Legacy Applications
4 14 (9.40%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (8.72%) NHS
6 12 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (8.05%) Onboarding
7 11 (7.38%) Algorithms
8 9 (6.04%) Data Structures
9 8 (5.37%) Blog
9 8 (5.37%) Data Centre
10 7 (4.70%) Legacy Code
11 6 (4.03%) AI Agents
11 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
13 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
13 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.09%) Windows
2 5 (3.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.31%) Software Engineering
2 63 (42.28%) Agile
3 49 (32.89%) CI/CD
4 44 (29.53%) Migration
5 41 (27.52%) Mentoring
6 40 (26.85%) AI
6 40 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (24.16%) Coaching
8 34 (22.82%) OO
9 33 (22.15%) Test Automation
10 31 (20.81%) Microservices
11 29 (19.46%) DevOps
12 27 (18.12%) Code Quality
13 25 (16.78%) SDLC
14 24 (16.11%) Decision-Making
14 24 (16.11%) TDD
15 22 (14.77%) Full-Stack Development
16 21 (14.09%) User Stories
17 18 (12.08%) Secure Coding
17 18 (12.08%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 50 (33.56%) Python
2 44 (29.53%) Java
3 39 (26.17%) C#
4 35 (23.49%) SQL
5 31 (20.81%) JavaScript
6 27 (18.12%) C++
7 21 (14.09%) Scala
8 17 (11.41%) TypeScript
9 9 (6.04%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.36%) Go
11 3 (2.01%) Rust
12 2 (1.34%) C
12 2 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.34%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.34%) PHP
13 1 (0.67%) Julia
13 1 (0.67%) Perl
13 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.67%) R
13 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.03%) Degree
4 4 (2.68%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.34%) CCSP
5 2 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.34%) CISSP
6 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.03%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) WCAG
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (18.12%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.34%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 27 (18.12%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.03%) Progress Chef
2 6 (4.03%) Puppet
3 3 (2.01%) Grafana
3 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.34%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.67%) Ansible
5 1 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.01%) SAP
2 3 (2.01%) Splunk
2 3 (2.01%) VMware
3 2 (1.34%) Arista
3 2 (1.34%) Broadcom
3 2 (1.34%) Cisco
3 2 (1.34%) Databricks
3 2 (1.34%) Google
3 2 (1.34%) Netskope
3 2 (1.34%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle
3 2 (1.34%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.34%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.67%) Netezza
4 1 (0.67%) OpenText
4 1 (0.67%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.67%) Teradata