Refactoring Jobs

Refactoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Refactoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Refactoring over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 657 709 729
Rank change year-on-year +52 +20 -260
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 71 196 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 29 130 114
10th Percentile £56,250 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £64,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £84,688
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,125 £89,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +16.67%

All Process and 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 53,805 88,576 84,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.87% 82.43% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 27,901 60,925 53,023
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,424 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Refactoring.

Salary trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 13 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 4 July 2025. 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 60 £70,000 +12.00% 349
Work from Home +52 34 £70,000 +16.67% 183
London +96 33 £70,000 -20.00% 160
UK excluding London +84 33 £70,000 +16.67% 219
Scotland +94 8 £75,000 +25.00% 18
South West +71 8 £57,500 -4.17% 23
North of England +19 8 £70,000 +12.00% 52
North West -7 5 £70,000 +16.67% 32
South East +56 4 £47,500 -21.49% 44
Yorkshire +39 3 - - 15
East of England +23 3 - - 31
Midlands +85 2 £70,000 +40.00% 37
West Midlands +61 2 £70,000 - 23

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) IIS
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 28 (39.44%) Azure
2 19 (26.76%) SaaS
3 16 (22.54%) AWS
4 15 (21.13%) Power Platform
5 10 (14.08%) GCP
6 6 (8.45%) GitHub
7 5 (7.04%) Serverless
8 4 (5.63%) PaaS
9 3 (4.23%) Dagster
9 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (4.23%) IaaS
9 3 (4.23%) Prefect
10 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.82%) Firebase
11 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) HTTP
2 1 (1.41%) RS-232
2 1 (1.41%) RS-422
2 1 (1.41%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.76%) SQL Server
2 14 (19.72%) Power BI
3 13 (18.31%) Data Hub
3 13 (18.31%) Metadata
3 13 (18.31%) SQL CLR
3 13 (18.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 13 (18.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (11.27%) MySQL
4 8 (11.27%) Relational Database
5 6 (8.45%) NoSQL
6 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.23%) Big Data
7 3 (4.23%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.82%) DB2
8 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.41%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Git
2 4 (5.63%) PHPUnit
3 3 (4.23%) Subversion
4 2 (2.82%) Gradle
4 2 (2.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.41%) Bugzilla
5 1 (1.41%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.41%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.41%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.41%) ESLint
5 1 (1.41%) Gatling
5 1 (1.41%) JIRA
5 1 (1.41%) JMeter
5 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.41%) Xcode
General
1 46 (64.79%) Finance
2 24 (33.80%) Social Skills
3 21 (29.58%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (21.13%) Banking
5 13 (18.31%) Back Office
6 11 (15.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (15.49%) Law
7 7 (9.86%) Electronics
7 7 (9.86%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.23%) Marketing
8 3 (4.23%) Retail
9 2 (2.82%) Games
9 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.41%) Front Office
10 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (49.30%) Developer
2 27 (38.03%) Senior
3 20 (28.17%) Software Engineer
4 18 (25.35%) Senior Developer
5 17 (23.94%) SaaS Developer
6 14 (19.72%) Lead
7 13 (18.31%) Microsoft Developer
7 13 (18.31%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 13 (18.31%) Senior SQL Developer
7 13 (18.31%) SQL Developer
8 8 (11.27%) Python Engineer
8 8 (11.27%) Python Software Engineer
8 8 (11.27%) Software Developer
9 6 (8.45%) Architect
10 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (7.04%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (7.04%) Principal Software Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (4.23%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.90%) .NET
2 11 (15.49%) REST
3 9 (12.68%) CSS
3 9 (12.68%) HTML
4 8 (11.27%) .NET Core
4 8 (11.27%) RESTful
5 7 (9.86%) ASP.NET
5 7 (9.86%) jQuery
5 7 (9.86%) Node.js
6 6 (8.45%) .NET Framework
6 6 (8.45%) React
7 5 (7.04%) Jest
7 5 (7.04%) Kafka
8 4 (5.63%) Entity Framework
8 4 (5.63%) LAMP
8 4 (5.63%) Laravel
8 4 (5.63%) Sass
8 4 (5.63%) Vue
9 3 (4.23%) DOM
9 3 (4.23%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Cloud Native
1 16 (22.54%) Private Cloud
2 11 (15.49%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (14.08%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (11.27%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (9.86%) Algorithms
5 7 (9.86%) Data Structures
6 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (5.63%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (4.23%) Smartphone
9 2 (2.82%) Legacy Code
9 2 (2.82%) Mainframe
9 2 (2.82%) Mobile Games
10 1 (1.41%) Acoustics
10 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.41%) Derivative
10 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 1 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Apple iOS
2 7 (9.86%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.82%) Linux
4 2 (2.82%) zOS
5 1 (1.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) Software Engineering
2 28 (39.44%) Agile
3 23 (32.39%) Computer Science
4 22 (30.99%) Migration
5 21 (29.58%) Fintech
5 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (23.94%) Data Privacy
7 16 (22.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (21.13%) SDLC
9 14 (19.72%) High Availability
10 13 (18.31%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (18.31%) Design Patterns
10 13 (18.31%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (18.31%) Statistics
10 13 (18.31%) Wealth Management
10 13 (18.31%) Workflow
11 12 (16.90%) Mathematics
12 11 (15.49%) Test Automation
12 11 (15.49%) User Experience
13 10 (14.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) SQL
2 21 (29.58%) Java
3 17 (23.94%) C#
3 17 (23.94%) Python
4 15 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 13 (18.31%) T-SQL
6 11 (15.49%) C++
7 6 (8.45%) C
7 6 (8.45%) PHP
8 5 (7.04%) Objective-C
9 4 (5.63%) Rust
9 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.82%) COBOL
10 2 (2.82%) JCL
11 1 (1.41%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.41%) Go
11 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (22.54%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (18.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (18.31%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.82%) Argo
2 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.31%) VMware
3 5 (7.04%) Google
4 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.82%) New Relic
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle