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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 581 690
Rank change year-on-year -90 +109 +60
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 46 73 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 41 33 135
10th Percentile £42,500 £54,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +12.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £134,250 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -11.11%

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 67,342 39,928 81,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.57% 92.95% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 41,961 22,681 59,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 4 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 4 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 -75 42 £95,000 +35.71% 46
Work from Home -14 29 £95,000 +35.71% 21
London -4 27 £95,000 -5.00% 24
UK excluding London -77 12 £50,000 -28.57% 29
West Midlands -13 6 £47,500 -32.14% 1
Midlands -38 6 £47,500 -17.39% 2
North of England -63 3 £80,000 +14.29% 5
North West -29 2 £77,500 +10.71% 5
South West -55 2 £50,625 - 4
South East -34 1 - - 15
Yorkshire -59 1 £90,000 -

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 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) AWS
2 7 (15.22%) GCP
2 7 (15.22%) GitHub
3 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Copilot
3 5 (10.87%) PaaS
3 5 (10.87%) Serverless
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (8.70%) Copilot Studio
4 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.70%) Vertex AI
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.52%) Azure App Service
5 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) MySQL
3 4 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (8.70%) MariaDB
4 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.35%) Power BI
5 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) Claude Code
3 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.17%) Yeoman
General
1 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Banking
3 6 (13.04%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Automotive
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Developer
2 19 (41.30%) Senior
3 12 (26.09%) Backend Developer
3 12 (26.09%) Senior Backend Developer
3 12 (26.09%) Senior Developer
4 9 (19.57%) Lead
5 8 (17.39%) Software Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Lead Developer
7 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Python Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) .NET Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) DBA
9 3 (6.52%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Lead .NET Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Lead Python Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Python Developer
9 3 (6.52%) SQL DBA
9 3 (6.52%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) .NET
2 5 (10.87%) CSS
2 5 (10.87%) HTML
3 4 (8.70%) .NET Framework
3 4 (8.70%) LangChain
3 4 (8.70%) LangGraph
3 4 (8.70%) Razor View Engine
4 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 3 (6.52%) Entity Framework
4 3 (6.52%) React
4 3 (6.52%) REST
5 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.35%) Kafka
5 2 (4.35%) Middleware
5 2 (4.35%) Node.js
5 2 (4.35%) RESTful
5 2 (4.35%) Smarty
5 2 (4.35%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (26.09%) Algorithms
2 12 (26.09%) Data Structures
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.17%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.17%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) Software Engineering
2 23 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (41.30%) Clean Code
4 13 (28.26%) CI/CD
4 13 (28.26%) Mentoring
5 12 (26.09%) OO
5 12 (26.09%) OOD
6 10 (21.74%) Agile
7 9 (19.57%) Fintech
7 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
7 9 (19.57%) Test Automation
8 8 (17.39%) DevOps
9 7 (15.22%) AI
9 7 (15.22%) Code Quality
9 7 (15.22%) Decision-Making
9 7 (15.22%) Machine Learning
9 7 (15.22%) Microservices
9 7 (15.22%) Migration
9 7 (15.22%) SDLC
10 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 10 (21.74%) Java
4 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.70%) C#
5 4 (8.70%) PHP
5 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.70%) T-SQL
5 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.35%) Go
7 1 (2.17%) C++
7 1 (2.17%) Groovy
7 1 (2.17%) R
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
3 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Istio
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Foundry
2 4 (8.70%) Google
3 3 (6.52%) RedGate
3 3 (6.52%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Zoho