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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 644 580
Rank change year-on-year +14 -64 +101
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 16 72 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 12 37 86
10th Percentile £57,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,313 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £62,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -3.10% -4.44%
75th Percentile £82,000 £85,000 £73,438
90th Percentile £89,200 £110,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -0.86%

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 48,535 51,647 46,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.52% 88.55% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28,396 26,504 35,505
10th Percentile £28,432 £35,000 £32,000
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% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,899
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.49% +4.37% -2.51%

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 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 11 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 14 December 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 +38 16 £71,250 +13.10% 148
UK excluding London +38 8 £62,500 +8.70% 141
Work from Home +66 6 £70,000 - 96
London +38 6 £78,000 +11.43% 17
North West +32 3 £60,000 -20.00% 14
North of England +22 3 £60,000 +33.33% 32
South East +32 2 £78,750 +28.57% 35
Midlands +27 2 £75,000 +30.43% 32
West Midlands +30 1 £75,000 - 13
South West +11 1 £57,500 +11.11% 12
East Midlands -2 1 - - 16

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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) JBoss
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (12.50%) PaaS
4 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) Firebase
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Broadband
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) NAS
2 1 (6.25%) SAN
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Flink
3 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
3 1 (6.25%) Testinfra
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Games
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Automotive
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (12.50%) Games Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Development Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Development
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Software Development
4 1 (6.25%) Head of Software Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) CSS
2 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 4 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
3 3 (18.75%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 2 (12.50%) JSON
4 2 (12.50%) React
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (6.25%) Express.js
5 1 (6.25%) Kafka
5 1 (6.25%) Middleware
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) Smarty
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.25%) Symfony
5 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Credit Risk
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Code
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (12.50%) Online Games
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) AI
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (25.00%) Observability
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Debt
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) C#
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (6.25%) PHP
6 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Packer
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) VMware