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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 622 678 601
Rank change year-on-year +56 -77 -2
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 36 71 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.13% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 18 37 98
10th Percentile £57,125 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,563 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £107,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £53,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.28% -6.52% -

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 45,477 56,157 48,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.69% 83.58% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 27,500 29,119 37,204
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 20 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 12 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 20 November 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 +87 33 £68,750 +9.13% 52
London +27 19 £78,000 -2.50% 27
UK excluding London +49 14 £62,500 +16.28% 28
Work from Home +62 13 £65,000 -7.14% 37
North of England +40 4 £61,250 +36.11% 4
North West +36 4 £61,250 -18.33% 3
South East +37 3 £67,500 +8.00% 11
Scotland +4 3 - - 4
Midlands +63 2 £75,000 +50.00% 2
South West +28 2 £57,500 +11.11% 3
East Midlands +21 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 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 4 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.78%) IIS
4 1 (2.78%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) GitHub
3 5 (13.89%) Power Platform
3 5 (13.89%) SaaS
4 4 (11.11%) Serverless
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.33%) Dagster
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (8.33%) PaaS
5 3 (8.33%) Prefect
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Broadband
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
2 1 (2.78%) NAS
2 1 (2.78%) RS-232
2 1 (2.78%) RS-422
2 1 (2.78%) RS-485
2 1 (2.78%) SAN
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 7 (19.44%) MySQL
4 4 (11.11%) Big Data
5 3 (8.33%) Data Hub
5 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
5 3 (8.33%) Metadata
5 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (8.33%) Power BI
5 3 (8.33%) SQL CLR
5 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.56%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.78%) Flink
7 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.78%) Testinfra
3 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (55.56%) Finance
2 12 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (30.56%) Banking
3 11 (30.56%) Law
4 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
5 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Back Office
6 3 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 3 (8.33%) Marketing
7 2 (5.56%) Games
8 1 (2.78%) Automotive
8 1 (2.78%) Electronics
8 1 (2.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Software Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Senior
4 8 (22.22%) Python Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) Python Software Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Lead
6 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
7 4 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 3 (8.33%) C# Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Senior Microsoft Developer
8 3 (8.33%) Senior SQL Developer
8 3 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) REST
2 8 (22.22%) .NET
3 5 (13.89%) .NET Core
3 5 (13.89%) CSS
3 5 (13.89%) HTML
4 4 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 4 (11.11%) Kafka
4 4 (11.11%) Node.js
4 4 (11.11%) Spring
5 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 3 (8.33%) GraphQL
5 3 (8.33%) JSON
6 2 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (5.56%) Middleware
6 2 (5.56%) React
6 2 (5.56%) RESTful
6 2 (5.56%) Serverless Framework
6 2 (5.56%) Smarty
6 2 (5.56%) Symfony
7 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 8 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.33%) Credit Risk
2 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Code
2 3 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) Online Games
4 1 (2.78%) Acoustics
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Derivative
4 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (2.78%) SCADA
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 17 (47.22%) Agile
3 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (41.67%) SDLC
4 12 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 10 (27.78%) Mathematics
5 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 8 (22.22%) Creative Thinking
7 8 (22.22%) Electronic Trading
7 8 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (19.44%) DevOps
8 7 (19.44%) Migration
9 6 (16.67%) AI
9 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (16.67%) High Availability
9 6 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
10 5 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (13.89%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Python
2 13 (36.11%) Java
3 11 (30.56%) SQL
4 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
5 8 (22.22%) C#
6 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.33%) PHP
7 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
8 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.78%) C
9 1 (2.78%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.78%) Packer
2 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Google