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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 624 694
Rank change year-on-year -27 +70 -52
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 147 55 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 111 27 71
10th Percentile £45,750 £57,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +12.00% -7.75%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £94,375
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 80,269 44,315 65,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.64% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 55,761 25,263 40,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%

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 1 September 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 1 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 -33 129 £69,305 -0.99% 308
UK excluding London -48 75 £57,000 -18.57% 172
London -13 62 £100,000 +42.86% 226
Work from Home -5 44 £95,000 +35.71% 72
North of England -31 21 £69,305 +2.67% 19
South West -55 21 £57,000 -0.87% 44
North West -14 10 £69,653 +3.19% 14
South East -36 9 £57,000 -17.09% 14
Wales - 9 £63,500 - 1
North East - 8 £51,500 - 1
East of England -17 6 £45,000 - 9
West Midlands -19 6 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Midlands -39 6 £50,000 -28.57% 6
Scotland -5 3 - - 77
Yorkshire - 3 £69,305 - 4

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 (5.44%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.04%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Apache
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Documentum
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 48 (32.65%) AWS
2 47 (31.97%) Azure
3 20 (13.61%) GitHub
4 19 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (10.20%) Serverless
6 10 (6.80%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (6.12%) GitHub Copilot
8 8 (5.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (5.44%) GCP
9 7 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
9 7 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.76%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.08%) SaaS
11 5 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) Internet
2 2 (1.36%) DNS
2 2 (1.36%) HTTP
2 2 (1.36%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.36%) Network Security
2 2 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.40%) Big Data
5 5 (3.40%) MySQL
5 5 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.72%) Power BI
6 4 (2.72%) Redis
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.04%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.36%) DTS
9 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (12.24%) Git
2 10 (6.80%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.44%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.72%) JIRA
4 4 (2.72%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.36%) Gatling
5 2 (1.36%) Pa11y
5 2 (1.36%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.68%) Yeoman
General
1 37 (25.17%) Finance
2 20 (13.61%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.56%) Banking
4 15 (10.20%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (8.84%) Local Government
6 12 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (8.16%) Law
7 10 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.76%) Marketing
10 3 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.04%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.68%) Advertising
12 1 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (47.62%) Senior
2 65 (44.22%) Developer
3 49 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 38 (25.85%) Senior Developer
5 25 (17.01%) Consultant
6 24 (16.33%) Lead
6 24 (16.33%) Software Developer
7 19 (12.93%) Software Consultant
8 18 (12.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (10.20%) Lead Software Engineer
9 15 (10.20%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (9.52%) C++ Developer
10 14 (9.52%) Senior C++ Developer
11 12 (8.16%) Python Engineer
12 11 (7.48%) Backend Developer
12 11 (7.48%) Senior Backend Developer
13 10 (6.80%) Python Software Engineer
13 10 (6.80%) Senior Software Developer
14 8 (5.44%) Data Engineer
15 7 (4.76%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.05%) .NET
2 14 (9.52%) MFC
3 11 (7.48%) Terraform
4 8 (5.44%) REST
5 7 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 7 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 7 (4.76%) Kafka
5 7 (4.76%) React
6 5 (3.40%) CSS
6 5 (3.40%) Entity Framework
6 5 (3.40%) HTML
6 5 (3.40%) Model Context Protocol
6 5 (3.40%) Node.js
6 5 (3.40%) pytest
6 5 (3.40%) WPF
7 4 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.72%) SignalR
7 4 (2.72%) WinForms
8 3 (2.04%) Dropwizard
8 3 (2.04%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.93%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (11.56%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (10.88%) Legacy Applications
5 14 (9.52%) Algorithms
5 14 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (8.84%) NHS
7 12 (8.16%) Data Structures
7 12 (8.16%) Onboarding
8 8 (5.44%) Data Centre
9 7 (4.76%) Legacy Code
10 6 (4.08%) AI Agents
10 6 (4.08%) Blog
10 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
11 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (3.40%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (48.30%) Software Engineering
2 58 (39.46%) Agile
3 50 (34.01%) CI/CD
4 45 (30.61%) Migration
5 44 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (27.89%) Mentoring
7 40 (27.21%) AI
8 37 (25.17%) OO
9 35 (23.81%) Coaching
10 31 (21.09%) Test Automation
11 28 (19.05%) Code Quality
12 27 (18.37%) DevOps
12 27 (18.37%) Microservices
13 26 (17.69%) SDLC
14 24 (16.33%) TDD
15 23 (15.65%) Decision-Making
16 21 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
17 19 (12.93%) Secure Coding
17 19 (12.93%) User Stories
18 17 (11.56%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 50 (34.01%) Python
2 44 (29.93%) Java
3 39 (26.53%) C#
4 34 (23.13%) SQL
5 33 (22.45%) JavaScript
6 28 (19.05%) C++
7 21 (14.29%) Scala
8 16 (10.88%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.48%) T-SQL
10 6 (4.08%) Go
11 4 (2.72%) PHP
12 3 (2.04%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.04%) Rust
13 2 (1.36%) C
13 2 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.36%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.68%) Groovy
14 1 (0.68%) Perl
14 1 (0.68%) R
14 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.76%) Degree
4 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.72%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.36%) CCSP
6 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.36%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) QA
2 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.04%) WCAG
3 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.36%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 22 (14.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.08%) Progress Chef
2 6 (4.08%) Puppet
3 3 (2.04%) Grafana
3 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.36%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.04%) RedGate
2 3 (2.04%) SAP
2 3 (2.04%) SolarWinds
2 3 (2.04%) Splunk
2 3 (2.04%) VMware
3 2 (1.36%) Arista
3 2 (1.36%) Broadcom
3 2 (1.36%) Cisco
3 2 (1.36%) Databricks
3 2 (1.36%) Google
3 2 (1.36%) Netskope
3 2 (1.36%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle
3 2 (1.36%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.36%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.68%) OpenText
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.68%) Teradata