Refactoring Job Trends

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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 592 645
Rank change year-on-year -52 +53 +70
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 17 82 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.025% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10 35 115
10th Percentile £59,375 £47,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +23.97% -13.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £110,875 £140,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% -4.17% -

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 54,457 44,608 66,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.02% 92.69% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,644 22,001 51,499
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,797 £29,429
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.97%

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 23 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 10 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 23 February 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 -42 16 £75,000 +3.45% 33
Work from Home +23 12 £90,000 +28.57% 35
London -4 7 £95,000 +5.56% 16
UK excluding London -24 7 £67,500 +17.39% 23
Midlands -4 3 £60,000 +4.35% 1
South East -4 3 £78,750 +28.57% 11
West Midlands +8 2 £60,000 -
North West +3 1 £62,500 -
East Midlands -23 1 - - 1
North of England -26 1 £62,500 - 6

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 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) JBoss
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (17.65%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (17.65%) PaaS
4 3 (17.65%) Vertex AI
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Broadband
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) NAS
2 1 (5.88%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Flink
3 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Testinfra
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Automotive
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Games
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Backend Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Backend Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.88%) IT Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Development Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Software Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) GraphQL
1 3 (17.65%) LangChain
1 3 (17.65%) LangGraph
1 3 (17.65%) React
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Smarty
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Mentoring
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) AI
4 6 (35.29%) Clean Code
4 6 (35.29%) SDLC
5 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
5 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
5 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Coaching
6 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) LLM
6 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
6 4 (23.53%) Observability
6 4 (23.53%) Technical Debt
7 3 (17.65%) Microservices
7 3 (17.65%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) PHP
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.88%) Packer
1 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Google
3 3 (17.65%) Foundry
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) VMware