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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 637 697
Rank change year-on-year +23 +60 +7
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 138 58 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.13% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 115 29 104
10th Percentile £45,573 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +12.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,250 £102,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.57% +16.67% -

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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -8 122 £69,305 -0.99% 72
UK excluding London -35 68 £57,000 -18.57% 34
London 0 57 £95,000 +35.71% 54
Work from Home +7 52 £95,000 +35.71% 20
North of England -26 20 £69,305 +6.62% 3
South West -45 16 £57,000 -0.87% 6
South East -12 10 £57,000 +20.00% 7
North West -4 9 £69,305 +6.62%
Wales - 9 £63,500 -
North East - 8 £51,500 - 2
West Midlands -28 7 £50,000 -28.57% 2
Midlands -29 7 £50,000 -28.57% 3
East of England -10 6 £45,000 - 3
Yorkshire -30 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 (5.80%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.17%) Confluence
3 2 (1.45%) Apache
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.72%) CMS
4 1 (0.72%) Documentum
4 1 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.23%) Azure
2 39 (28.26%) AWS
3 22 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (12.32%) Serverless
5 15 (10.87%) GitHub
6 10 (7.25%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (5.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (5.80%) GCP
7 8 (5.80%) Power Platform
8 7 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (3.62%) PaaS
11 4 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) Broadband
1 4 (2.90%) Internet
2 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.22%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.80%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.35%) MySQL
5 6 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.62%) Big Data
6 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.90%) MariaDB
7 4 (2.90%) Power BI
7 4 (2.90%) Redis
8 3 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.45%) DTS
10 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (13.04%) Git
2 6 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.62%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.90%) JIRA
4 4 (2.90%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.45%) Gatling
5 2 (1.45%) Pa11y
5 2 (1.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.72%) Yeoman
General
1 18 (13.04%) Finance
2 15 (10.87%) Influencing Skills
2 15 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.42%) Local Government
5 11 (7.97%) Banking
6 8 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.17%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.45%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) Billing
10 1 (0.72%) Games
10 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (52.17%) Senior
2 70 (50.72%) Developer
3 41 (29.71%) Senior Developer
4 32 (23.19%) Software Engineer
5 25 (18.12%) Consultant
6 24 (17.39%) Software Developer
7 19 (13.77%) Software Consultant
8 16 (11.59%) Lead
9 15 (10.87%) Backend Developer
9 15 (10.87%) Senior Backend Developer
9 15 (10.87%) Senior Consultant
10 14 (10.14%) C++ Developer
10 14 (10.14%) Senior C++ Developer
11 13 (9.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (7.25%) Python Engineer
12 10 (7.25%) Senior Software Developer
13 9 (6.52%) .NET Developer
13 9 (6.52%) Data Engineer
13 9 (6.52%) Python Software Engineer
14 8 (5.80%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.74%) .NET
2 14 (10.14%) MFC
3 9 (6.52%) .NET Framework
4 8 (5.80%) .NET Core
5 7 (5.07%) Entity Framework
5 7 (5.07%) React
6 6 (4.35%) CSS
6 6 (4.35%) HTML
6 6 (4.35%) Kafka
6 6 (4.35%) Node.js
6 6 (4.35%) REST
7 5 (3.62%) WPF
8 4 (2.90%) LangChain
8 4 (2.90%) LangGraph
8 4 (2.90%) Razor View Engine
8 4 (2.90%) RESTful
8 4 (2.90%) SignalR
8 4 (2.90%) WinForms
9 3 (2.17%) Playwright
9 3 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 22 (15.94%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (13.77%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (11.59%) Algorithms
4 16 (11.59%) Data Structures
4 16 (11.59%) Legacy Applications
5 14 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (9.42%) NHS
7 11 (7.97%) Onboarding
8 7 (5.07%) Data Centre
9 6 (4.35%) Blog
9 6 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (4.35%) Legacy Code
10 4 (2.90%) Public Cloud
11 3 (2.17%) AI Agents
11 3 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (2.17%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.22%) Windows
2 2 (1.45%) Linux
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.30%) Agile
1 57 (41.30%) Software Engineering
2 50 (36.23%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (34.78%) Mentoring
4 41 (29.71%) CI/CD
5 39 (28.26%) Migration
5 39 (28.26%) OO
6 31 (22.46%) Coaching
7 29 (21.01%) DevOps
8 26 (18.84%) AI
9 25 (18.12%) Clean Code
10 24 (17.39%) Decision-Making
11 23 (16.67%) Microservices
12 21 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (15.22%) TDD
13 20 (14.49%) Test Automation
14 19 (13.77%) User Stories
15 18 (13.04%) SDLC
16 17 (12.32%) OOD
17 15 (10.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.23%) Python
2 45 (32.61%) Java
3 38 (27.54%) C#
4 36 (26.09%) SQL
5 29 (21.01%) JavaScript
6 26 (18.84%) C++
7 21 (15.22%) Scala
8 14 (10.14%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.97%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.62%) Go
10 5 (3.62%) PHP
11 4 (2.90%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.45%) C
12 2 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.45%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.45%) R
13 1 (0.72%) Julia
13 1 (0.72%) Perl
13 1 (0.72%) Ruby
13 1 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (21.01%) Security Cleared
2 21 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.80%) Degree
4 6 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.90%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.17%) GDPR
2 3 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.17%) WCAG
3 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (11.59%) Docker
2 3 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.35%) Progress Chef
2 6 (4.35%) Puppet
2 6 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (1.45%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.72%) Ansible
4 1 (0.72%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.90%) Foundry
2 4 (2.90%) Google
3 3 (2.17%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.17%) RedGate
3 3 (2.17%) SAP
3 3 (2.17%) SolarWinds
3 3 (2.17%) VMware
4 2 (1.45%) Databricks
4 2 (1.45%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.45%) Oracle
4 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.72%) Netezza
5 1 (0.72%) New Relic
5 1 (0.72%) OpenText
5 1 (0.72%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.72%) Teradata
5 1 (0.72%) Zoho