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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 608 698
Rank change year-on-year -12 +90 +19
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 121 70 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.16% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 110 28 132
10th Percentile £45,750 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £68,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £99,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.57% +16.67% -14.29%

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 71,035 42,845 86,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 91.34% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49,086 23,535 61,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -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 2 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 2 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 -26 106 £69,305 -0.99% 59
UK excluding London -29 64 £57,000 -18.57% 40
Work from Home 0 49 £95,000 +35.71% 26
London -17 45 £95,000 +35.71% 28
North of England -34 20 £69,305 -0.99% 4
South West -53 15 £57,000 - 4
South East -19 10 £57,000 +20.00% 19
North West +4 9 £69,305 -0.99% 1
Wales - 9 £63,500 -
North East - 8 £51,500 - 2
West Midlands -22 7 £50,000 -28.57% 3
Midlands -24 7 £50,000 -28.57% 6
East of England -17 3 £45,000 - 4
Yorkshire -38 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 (6.61%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.48%) Confluence
3 2 (1.65%) Apache
3 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.83%) CMS
4 1 (0.83%) Documentum
4 1 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 48 (39.67%) Azure
2 32 (26.45%) AWS
3 20 (16.53%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (11.57%) GitHub
5 11 (9.09%) Serverless
6 8 (6.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (5.79%) GCP
7 7 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.96%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (4.13%) PaaS
10 4 (3.31%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (3.31%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (3.31%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (3.31%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.31%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) Broadband
2 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.88%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (4.96%) MySQL
3 6 (4.96%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.31%) MariaDB
5 4 (3.31%) Redis
5 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.48%) Big Data
6 3 (2.48%) Power BI
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.65%) DTS
8 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.40%) Git
2 5 (4.13%) Claude Code
2 5 (4.13%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.31%) JIRA
4 2 (1.65%) Gatling
4 2 (1.65%) Pa11y
4 2 (1.65%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.83%) Yeoman
General
1 15 (12.40%) Influencing Skills
2 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (11.57%) Finance
3 13 (10.74%) Local Government
4 9 (7.44%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.61%) Banking
5 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Advertising
7 1 (0.83%) Billing
7 1 (0.83%) Games
7 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.83%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 68 (56.20%) Developer
2 66 (54.55%) Senior
3 41 (33.88%) Senior Developer
4 27 (22.31%) Software Engineer
5 24 (19.83%) Software Developer
6 21 (17.36%) Consultant
7 19 (15.70%) Software Consultant
8 15 (12.40%) Backend Developer
8 15 (12.40%) Senior Backend Developer
9 14 (11.57%) C++ Developer
9 14 (11.57%) Senior C++ Developer
10 13 (10.74%) Lead
11 12 (9.92%) Senior Software Engineer
12 11 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
13 10 (8.26%) Senior Software Developer
14 8 (6.61%) Data Engineer
14 8 (6.61%) Lead Developer
15 7 (5.79%) .NET Developer
15 7 (5.79%) Python Engineer
15 7 (5.79%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.49%) .NET
2 14 (11.57%) MFC
3 9 (7.44%) .NET Framework
4 7 (5.79%) Entity Framework
5 6 (4.96%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.96%) Node.js
5 6 (4.96%) React
5 6 (4.96%) REST
6 5 (4.13%) CSS
6 5 (4.13%) HTML
6 5 (4.13%) Kafka
7 4 (3.31%) LangChain
7 4 (3.31%) LangGraph
7 4 (3.31%) Razor View Engine
7 4 (3.31%) RESTful
7 4 (3.31%) SignalR
8 3 (2.48%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (2.48%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 3 (2.48%) WPF
9 2 (1.65%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (23.97%) Cloud Native
2 22 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (13.22%) Algorithms
3 16 (13.22%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (12.40%) Data Structures
5 14 (11.57%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (10.74%) NHS
7 12 (9.92%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (3.31%) Blog
8 4 (3.31%) Legacy Code
8 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.48%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.48%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.65%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.80%) Agile
2 51 (42.15%) Software Engineering
3 47 (38.84%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (33.88%) Mentoring
5 37 (30.58%) OO
6 35 (28.93%) CI/CD
7 31 (25.62%) Migration
8 30 (24.79%) Coaching
9 25 (20.66%) Clean Code
9 25 (20.66%) DevOps
10 23 (19.01%) Decision-Making
11 21 (17.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (17.36%) TDD
12 20 (16.53%) AI
13 19 (15.70%) User Stories
14 18 (14.88%) Microservices
15 16 (13.22%) OOD
15 16 (13.22%) SDLC
15 16 (13.22%) Test Automation
16 14 (11.57%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.71%) Java
1 42 (34.71%) Python
2 36 (29.75%) C#
3 31 (25.62%) SQL
4 24 (19.83%) C++
4 24 (19.83%) JavaScript
5 21 (17.36%) Scala
6 12 (9.92%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.61%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.13%) PHP
9 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.48%) Go
11 2 (1.65%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.65%) R
12 1 (0.83%) C
12 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.83%) Groovy
12 1 (0.83%) Julia
12 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.31%) Degree
4 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.13%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) GDPR
2 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.13%) Terraform
3 2 (1.65%) HP Fortify
3 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.65%) Puppet
4 1 (0.83%) Ansible
4 1 (0.83%) Istio
Vendors
1 23 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.31%) Foundry
2 4 (3.31%) Google
3 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.48%) RedGate
3 3 (2.48%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.65%) Databricks
4 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.83%) New Relic
5 1 (0.83%) OpenText
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle
5 1 (0.83%) SAP
5 1 (0.83%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.83%) VMware
5 1 (0.83%) Zoho