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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 583 690
Rank change year-on-year -74 +107 +41
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 54 72 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 48 32 137
10th Percentile £45,563 £54,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £62,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,125 £137,125 £93,750
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 66,871 40,971 82,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.97% 93.32% 85.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,937 22,765 59,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 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 -58 50 £95,000 +35.71% 56
London -20 31 £95,000 -5.00% 20
Work from Home +14 30 £95,000 +35.71% 29
UK excluding London -79 16 £57,000 -18.57% 44
West Midlands -24 6 £47,500 -32.14% 2
Midlands -38 6 £47,500 -17.39% 4
South West -53 4 £54,750 - 5
South East -19 3 £57,000 - 19
North of England -53 3 £80,000 +14.29% 13
North West -10 2 £77,500 +10.71% 8
Yorkshire -51 1 £90,000 - 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 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) JBoss
2 1 (1.85%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) GitHub
4 7 (12.96%) GCP
5 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (9.26%) PaaS
5 5 (9.26%) Serverless
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (7.41%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.41%) Vertex AI
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.56%) Azure App Service
7 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.26%) MySQL
3 4 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.41%) MariaDB
4 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.70%) Power BI
5 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.85%) Big Data
6 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) Claude Code
3 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.85%) Yeoman
General
1 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Banking
3 7 (12.96%) Finance
4 5 (9.26%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Local Government
5 4 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Games
7 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (48.15%) Developer
1 26 (48.15%) Senior
2 17 (31.48%) Senior Developer
3 13 (24.07%) Backend Developer
3 13 (24.07%) Senior Backend Developer
4 11 (20.37%) Software Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) Lead
6 6 (11.11%) Lead Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) C++ Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Python Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Senior C++ Developer
9 3 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Lead .NET Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Python Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) SQL DBA
9 3 (5.56%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) .NET
2 5 (9.26%) CSS
2 5 (9.26%) HTML
3 4 (7.41%) .NET Framework
3 4 (7.41%) LangChain
3 4 (7.41%) LangGraph
3 4 (7.41%) MFC
3 4 (7.41%) Razor View Engine
4 3 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 3 (5.56%) Entity Framework
4 3 (5.56%) React
4 3 (5.56%) REST
5 2 (3.70%) FastAPI
5 2 (3.70%) Kafka
5 2 (3.70%) Node.js
5 2 (3.70%) RESTful
5 2 (3.70%) Smarty
5 2 (3.70%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 17 (31.48%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (25.93%) Algorithms
3 13 (24.07%) Data Structures
4 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
5 4 (7.41%) NHS
5 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
5 4 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.70%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.85%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (53.70%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (51.85%) Software Engineering
3 20 (37.04%) Clean Code
4 17 (31.48%) Mentoring
5 14 (25.93%) Agile
5 14 (25.93%) CI/CD
6 13 (24.07%) OO
6 13 (24.07%) OOD
7 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 12 (22.22%) Migration
8 9 (16.67%) AI
8 9 (16.67%) Coaching
8 9 (16.67%) Fintech
8 9 (16.67%) Microservices
8 9 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 9 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.81%) Code Quality
9 8 (14.81%) DevOps
9 8 (14.81%) SDLC
10 7 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 32 (59.26%) Python
2 12 (22.22%) Java
2 12 (22.22%) SQL
3 8 (14.81%) C#
4 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.26%) C++
6 4 (7.41%) PHP
6 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.41%) T-SQL
6 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.70%) Go
7 2 (3.70%) R
8 1 (1.85%) Groovy
8 1 (1.85%) Julia
8 1 (1.85%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Istio
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.41%) Foundry
2 4 (7.41%) Google
3 3 (5.56%) RedGate
3 3 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) Databricks
5 1 (1.85%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.85%) Zoho