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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 576 712
Rank change year-on-year -64 +136 -5
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 91 80 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 83 31 136
10th Percentile £46,375 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,000 £111,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year -18.57% +16.18% -13.93%

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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -55 83 £69,305 -0.99% 79
Work from Home +13 45 £95,000 +35.71% 43
UK excluding London -62 44 £57,000 -18.57% 54
London -36 37 £96,250 -3.75% 39
North of England -26 15 £69,305 -0.99% 20
South West -51 11 £57,000 - 4
North West +1 8 £72,153 +3.08% 10
South East -12 7 £57,000 +20.00% 13
West Midlands -16 6 £47,500 -32.14% 2
Midlands -19 6 £47,500 -32.14% 2
North East - 4 £51,500 - 7
Yorkshire -42 3 £69,305 - 3
Wales - 3 £63,500 - 3
East of England -14 2 £52,500 - 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 8 (8.79%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (2.20%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.10%) CMS
3 1 (1.10%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 39 (42.86%) Azure
2 19 (20.88%) AWS
3 16 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (13.19%) GitHub
5 8 (8.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (7.69%) GCP
6 7 (7.69%) Serverless
7 6 (6.59%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.59%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.49%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (5.49%) PaaS
9 4 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (4.40%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (4.40%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (4.40%) SaaS
9 4 (4.40%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.59%) MySQL
4 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.40%) MariaDB
6 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.30%) Power BI
6 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.20%) Big Data
7 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.10%) DTS
8 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.10%) Redis
8 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (4.40%) Claude Code
3 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.20%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) Gatling
5 1 (1.10%) Pa11y
5 1 (1.10%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.10%) Yeoman
General
1 14 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (12.09%) Influencing Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Finance
3 9 (9.89%) Local Government
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Billing
6 1 (1.10%) Games
6 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (54.95%) Senior
2 48 (52.75%) Developer
3 30 (32.97%) Senior Developer
4 23 (25.27%) Software Engineer
5 14 (15.38%) Backend Developer
5 14 (15.38%) Senior Backend Developer
6 12 (13.19%) Lead
7 11 (12.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (12.09%) Software Developer
8 10 (10.99%) C++ Developer
8 10 (10.99%) Senior C++ Developer
9 8 (8.79%) Consultant
9 8 (8.79%) Data Engineer
9 8 (8.79%) Software Consultant
10 7 (7.69%) Lead Developer
10 7 (7.69%) Python Engineer
10 7 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (6.59%) .NET Developer
12 4 (4.40%) Lead .NET Developer
12 4 (4.40%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.08%) .NET
2 10 (10.99%) MFC
3 6 (6.59%) .NET Framework
4 5 (5.49%) CSS
4 5 (5.49%) Entity Framework
4 5 (5.49%) HTML
5 4 (4.40%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.40%) Kafka
5 4 (4.40%) LangChain
5 4 (4.40%) LangGraph
5 4 (4.40%) Razor View Engine
5 4 (4.40%) React
6 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (3.30%) Node.js
6 3 (3.30%) REST
7 2 (2.20%) RESTful
7 2 (2.20%) Smarty
7 2 (2.20%) Symfony
7 2 (2.20%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.78%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (17.58%) Cloud Native
3 15 (16.48%) Algorithms
4 14 (15.38%) Data Structures
5 12 (13.19%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (10.99%) Legacy Applications
6 10 (10.99%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (9.89%) NHS
8 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) AI Agents
9 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.20%) Legacy Code
9 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.10%) Blog
10 1 (1.10%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
10 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
10 1 (1.10%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.25%) Software Engineering
2 40 (43.96%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (35.16%) Agile
3 32 (35.16%) Mentoring
4 26 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 24 (26.37%) Coaching
6 23 (25.27%) Clean Code
6 23 (25.27%) OO
7 20 (21.98%) Migration
8 19 (20.88%) Decision-Making
8 19 (20.88%) DevOps
9 17 (18.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (17.58%) AI
11 15 (16.48%) OOD
12 12 (13.19%) Collaborative Culture
12 12 (13.19%) Fintech
13 11 (12.09%) Test Automation
14 10 (10.99%) Microservices
14 10 (10.99%) SDLC
14 10 (10.99%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (42.86%) Python
2 28 (30.77%) Java
3 27 (29.67%) SQL
4 26 (28.57%) C#
5 19 (20.88%) C++
6 18 (19.78%) JavaScript
7 10 (10.99%) Scala
8 7 (7.69%) T-SQL
9 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
10 5 (5.49%) PHP
11 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.20%) Go
12 2 (2.20%) R
13 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (1.10%) Groovy
13 1 (1.10%) Julia
13 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
13 1 (1.10%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
1 8 (8.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.30%) Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) GDPR
2 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.10%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.10%) Istio
2 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.40%) Foundry
2 4 (4.40%) Google
3 3 (3.30%) RedGate
3 3 (3.30%) SolarWinds
4 2 (2.20%) Databricks
4 2 (2.20%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.10%) New Relic
5 1 (1.10%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.10%) Zoho