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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 644 695
Rank change year-on-year +9 +51 -12
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 155 54 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 115 27 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 £82,000 £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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £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 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 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 13 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 0 136 £69,305 -0.99% 189
UK excluding London -46 76 £57,000 -18.57% 73
London -12 67 £97,500 +39.29% 144
Work from Home +8 51 £95,000 +35.71% 44
North of England -31 21 £69,305 +6.62% 9
South West -37 21 £57,000 -0.87% 18
North West +2 10 £69,653 +7.16% 8
South East -11 10 £57,000 +20.00% 10
Wales - 9 £63,500 -
North East - 8 £51,500 -
East of England -20 6 £45,000 - 5
West Midlands -23 6 £50,000 -28.57%
Midlands -34 6 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Scotland +11 3 - - 26
Yorkshire - 3 £69,305 - 1

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 (5.16%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (1.94%) Confluence
3 2 (1.29%) Apache
3 2 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Documentum
4 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.65%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 52 (33.55%) Azure
2 49 (31.61%) AWS
3 21 (13.55%) GitHub
4 20 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (9.68%) Serverless
6 13 (8.39%) GCP
7 10 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (5.81%) GitHub Copilot
9 8 (5.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (4.52%) Anthropic Claude
10 7 (4.52%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (3.87%) SaaS
12 5 (3.23%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (2.58%) Copilot Studio
13 4 (2.58%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.87%) Internet
2 4 (2.58%) Broadband
3 2 (1.29%) DNS
3 2 (1.29%) HTTP
3 2 (1.29%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.29%) Network Security
3 2 (1.29%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.26%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.52%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.87%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.23%) Big Data
6 5 (3.23%) MySQL
6 5 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.58%) Power BI
7 4 (2.58%) Redis
8 3 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.94%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.29%) DTS
10 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (11.61%) Git
2 10 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.16%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.58%) JIRA
4 4 (2.58%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.29%) Gatling
5 2 (1.29%) Pa11y
5 2 (1.29%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.65%) Yeoman
General
1 37 (23.87%) Finance
2 20 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.97%) Banking
4 15 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (8.39%) Local Government
7 12 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (7.74%) Law
8 8 (5.16%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.52%) Marketing
10 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.94%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.94%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.29%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.65%) Advertising
13 1 (0.65%) Billing
13 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (49.68%) Senior
2 69 (44.52%) Developer
3 49 (31.61%) Software Engineer
4 41 (26.45%) Senior Developer
5 25 (16.13%) Consultant
6 24 (15.48%) Lead
6 24 (15.48%) Software Developer
7 19 (12.26%) Software Consultant
8 18 (11.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (9.68%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (9.03%) Backend Developer
10 14 (9.03%) C++ Developer
10 14 (9.03%) Lead Software Engineer
10 14 (9.03%) Senior Backend Developer
10 14 (9.03%) Senior C++ Developer
11 11 (7.10%) Python Engineer
12 10 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
13 9 (5.81%) Python Software Engineer
14 8 (5.16%) .NET Developer
14 8 (5.16%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.35%) .NET
2 14 (9.03%) MFC
3 8 (5.16%) .NET Framework
3 8 (5.16%) React
3 8 (5.16%) REST
4 7 (4.52%) .NET Core
4 7 (4.52%) Kafka
5 6 (3.87%) Entity Framework
6 5 (3.23%) CSS
6 5 (3.23%) HTML
6 5 (3.23%) Model Context Protocol
6 5 (3.23%) Node.js
6 5 (3.23%) pytest
6 5 (3.23%) WPF
7 4 (2.58%) LangChain
7 4 (2.58%) LangGraph
7 4 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.58%) SignalR
7 4 (2.58%) WinForms
8 3 (1.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 38 (24.52%) Cloud Native
2 21 (13.55%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (12.26%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (10.97%) Algorithms
5 16 (10.32%) Legacy Applications
6 15 (9.68%) Data Structures
7 14 (9.03%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (8.39%) NHS
9 12 (7.74%) Onboarding
10 8 (5.16%) Data Centre
11 7 (4.52%) Legacy Code
12 6 (3.87%) AI Agents
12 6 (3.87%) Blog
12 6 (3.87%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (3.23%) Public Cloud
14 3 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
14 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (1.94%) Mobile App
14 3 (1.94%) Virtual Team
15 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.55%) Windows
2 5 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (47.74%) Software Engineering
2 63 (40.65%) Agile
3 52 (33.55%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (32.90%) CI/CD
5 47 (30.32%) Mentoring
6 45 (29.03%) Migration
7 44 (28.39%) AI
8 40 (25.81%) OO
9 39 (25.16%) Coaching
10 32 (20.65%) Test Automation
11 30 (19.35%) SDLC
12 29 (18.71%) Code Quality
13 28 (18.06%) DevOps
13 28 (18.06%) Microservices
14 27 (17.42%) Decision-Making
15 24 (15.48%) Clean Code
15 24 (15.48%) TDD
16 22 (14.19%) Full-Stack Development
17 19 (12.26%) Secure Coding
17 19 (12.26%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 56 (36.13%) Python
2 49 (31.61%) Java
3 39 (25.16%) C#
4 35 (22.58%) SQL
5 33 (21.29%) JavaScript
6 28 (18.06%) C++
7 21 (13.55%) Scala
8 17 (10.97%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.10%) T-SQL
10 7 (4.52%) Go
11 4 (2.58%) PHP
12 3 (1.94%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.94%) Rust
13 2 (1.29%) C
13 2 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.29%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.65%) Groovy
14 1 (0.65%) Julia
14 1 (0.65%) Perl
14 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.55%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.52%) Degree
4 5 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.58%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.29%) CCSP
6 2 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.29%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.81%) QA
2 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.94%) WCAG
3 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (13.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.29%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 23 (14.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.10%) Terraform
3 6 (3.87%) Progress Chef
3 6 (3.87%) Puppet
4 3 (1.94%) Grafana
4 3 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.29%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.65%) Ansible
6 1 (0.65%) Istio
Vendors
1 22 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.87%) Google
3 4 (2.58%) Foundry
4 3 (1.94%) Dynatrace
4 3 (1.94%) RedGate
4 3 (1.94%) SAP
4 3 (1.94%) SolarWinds
4 3 (1.94%) Splunk
4 3 (1.94%) VMware
5 2 (1.29%) Arista
5 2 (1.29%) Broadcom
5 2 (1.29%) Cisco
5 2 (1.29%) Databricks
5 2 (1.29%) Netskope
5 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.29%) Oracle
5 2 (1.29%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.29%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.65%) Netezza
6 1 (0.65%) New Relic