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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 613 689
Rank change year-on-year -20 +76 +1
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 145 58 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.13% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 116 29 100
10th Percentile £45,603 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +12.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,250 £102,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -18.57% +15.70% +0.83%

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 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 28 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 15 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 28 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 +13 127 £69,305 -0.99% 63
UK excluding London -34 70 £57,000 -18.57% 31
London -8 61 £95,000 +35.71% 48
Work from Home 0 53 £95,000 +35.71% 20
North of England -24 20 £69,305 +6.62% 4
South West -43 17 £57,000 -0.87% 6
South East -5 10 £57,000 +20.00% 6
North West +5 9 £69,305 +6.62%
Wales - 9 £63,500 -
North East - 8 £51,500 - 1
West Midlands -10 7 £50,000 -28.57% 1
Midlands -30 7 £50,000 -28.57% 1
East of England -12 6 £45,000 - 2
Yorkshire -36 3 £69,305 - 3
Scotland +9 1 - - 10

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 (5.52%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.07%) Confluence
3 2 (1.38%) Apache
3 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Documentum
4 1 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 51 (35.17%) Azure
2 43 (29.66%) AWS
3 22 (15.17%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (12.41%) GitHub
5 17 (11.72%) Serverless
6 10 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (6.21%) GCP
8 8 (5.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.52%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.83%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.14%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (3.45%) PaaS
11 5 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) Internet
2 4 (2.76%) Broadband
3 1 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) HTTP
3 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.69%) Network Security
3 1 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.48%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.52%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.14%) MySQL
5 6 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.45%) Big Data
6 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.76%) MariaDB
7 4 (2.76%) Power BI
7 4 (2.76%) Redis
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.38%) DTS
10 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.69%) Power Query
10 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (13.10%) Git
2 8 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.14%) Claude Code
4 4 (2.76%) JIRA
4 4 (2.76%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.38%) Gatling
5 2 (1.38%) Pa11y
5 2 (1.38%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.69%) Yeoman
General
1 24 (16.55%) Finance
2 16 (11.03%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.66%) Banking
5 13 (8.97%) Local Government
6 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.14%) Law
8 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.07%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.38%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Advertising
11 1 (0.69%) Billing
11 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (51.03%) Senior
2 70 (48.28%) Developer
3 41 (28.28%) Senior Developer
4 38 (26.21%) Software Engineer
5 25 (17.24%) Consultant
6 24 (16.55%) Software Developer
7 20 (13.79%) Lead
8 19 (13.10%) Software Consultant
9 15 (10.34%) Backend Developer
9 15 (10.34%) Senior Backend Developer
9 15 (10.34%) Senior Consultant
9 15 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (9.66%) C++ Developer
10 14 (9.66%) Senior C++ Developer
11 11 (7.59%) Python Engineer
12 10 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
13 9 (6.21%) .NET Developer
13 9 (6.21%) Data Engineer
13 9 (6.21%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.38%) .NET
2 14 (9.66%) MFC
3 9 (6.21%) .NET Framework
4 8 (5.52%) .NET Core
4 8 (5.52%) React
5 7 (4.83%) Entity Framework
5 7 (4.83%) REST
6 6 (4.14%) CSS
6 6 (4.14%) HTML
6 6 (4.14%) Kafka
6 6 (4.14%) Node.js
7 5 (3.45%) WPF
8 4 (2.76%) LangChain
8 4 (2.76%) LangGraph
8 4 (2.76%) Razor View Engine
8 4 (2.76%) RESTful
8 4 (2.76%) SignalR
8 4 (2.76%) WinForms
9 3 (2.07%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.52%) Cloud Native
2 22 (15.17%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (13.10%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (11.72%) Algorithms
5 16 (11.03%) Data Structures
5 16 (11.03%) Legacy Applications
6 14 (9.66%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (8.97%) NHS
8 11 (7.59%) Onboarding
9 7 (4.83%) Data Centre
10 6 (4.14%) Blog
10 6 (4.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (4.14%) Legacy Code
11 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
12 4 (2.76%) AI Agents
13 3 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
14 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
14 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (43.45%) Software Engineering
2 60 (41.38%) Agile
3 50 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (33.10%) Mentoring
5 46 (31.72%) CI/CD
6 40 (27.59%) Migration
6 40 (27.59%) OO
7 35 (24.14%) Coaching
8 33 (22.76%) AI
9 29 (20.00%) DevOps
10 25 (17.24%) Clean Code
10 25 (17.24%) Decision-Making
10 25 (17.24%) Microservices
10 25 (17.24%) Test Automation
11 24 (16.55%) SDLC
12 22 (15.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (15.17%) TDD
13 21 (14.48%) Code Quality
14 19 (13.10%) User Stories
15 17 (11.72%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 52 (35.86%) Python
2 46 (31.72%) Java
3 39 (26.90%) C#
4 36 (24.83%) SQL
5 31 (21.38%) JavaScript
6 26 (17.93%) C++
7 21 (14.48%) Scala
8 15 (10.34%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.59%) T-SQL
10 6 (4.14%) Go
11 5 (3.45%) PHP
12 4 (2.76%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.38%) C
13 2 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.38%) MATLAB
13 2 (1.38%) R
14 1 (0.69%) Groovy
14 1 (0.69%) Perl
14 1 (0.69%) Ruby
14 1 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.52%) Degree
4 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.69%) CCSP
7 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.69%) CISSP
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.52%) QA
2 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.07%) GDPR
2 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.07%) WCAG
3 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (12.41%) Docker
2 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 17 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.83%) Terraform
3 6 (4.14%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.14%) Puppet
4 2 (1.38%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.69%) Ansible
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Istio
5 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.76%) Foundry
2 4 (2.76%) Google
3 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.07%) RedGate
3 3 (2.07%) SAP
3 3 (2.07%) SolarWinds
3 3 (2.07%) VMware
4 2 (1.38%) Databricks
4 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle
4 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.69%) Broadcom
5 1 (0.69%) Cisco
5 1 (0.69%) New Relic
5 1 (0.69%) OpenText
5 1 (0.69%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.69%) Splunk
5 1 (0.69%) Teradata
5 1 (0.69%) Zoho