Refactoring Job Trends

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 666 583 657
Rank change year-on-year -83 +74 +85
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 25 70 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 125
10th Percentile £42,125 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +23.97% -13.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £115,125 £140,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -1.64%

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 58,222 40,192 73,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.86% 93.47% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,232 22,295 56,140
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 9 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 March 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 -62 23 £85,000 +19.63% 51
Work from Home +5 18 £95,000 +46.15% 35
London -9 13 £95,000 +2.70% 28
UK excluding London -49 7 £53,750 -6.52% 31
West Midlands +10 4 £43,750 - 3
Midlands -20 4 £43,750 -23.91% 4
South East -15 2 £67,500 +50.00% 10
North West -14 1 £62,500 - 3
North of England -38 1 £62,500 - 7

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 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) GCP
2 5 (20.00%) PaaS
2 5 (20.00%) Serverless
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 4 (16.00%) Copilot Studio
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (16.00%) Vertex AI
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.00%) MariaDB
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Games
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) Senior
3 7 (28.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Backend Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Senior Backend Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Lead
6 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Development Manager
7 2 (8.00%) Head of Development
7 2 (8.00%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Head of Software Development
7 2 (8.00%) Lead .NET Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Software Development Manager
7 2 (8.00%) Software Manager
7 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) CSS
2 4 (16.00%) HTML
2 4 (16.00%) LangChain
2 4 (16.00%) LangGraph
2 4 (16.00%) React
3 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (12.00%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (12.00%) REST
4 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (8.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.00%) JSON
4 2 (8.00%) Middleware
4 2 (8.00%) Node.js
4 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) Serverless Framework
4 2 (8.00%) Smarty
4 2 (8.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (24.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (24.00%) Data Structures
3 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (8.00%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
6 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
6 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (4.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (48.00%) Clean Code
3 12 (48.00%) Mentoring
3 12 (48.00%) Software Engineering
4 9 (36.00%) Agile
4 9 (36.00%) SDLC
5 8 (32.00%) AI
5 8 (32.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (28.00%) Code Quality
6 7 (28.00%) Decision-Making
6 7 (28.00%) Observability
6 7 (28.00%) OO
6 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (24.00%) DevOps
7 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
7 6 (24.00%) OOD
8 5 (20.00%) Coaching
8 5 (20.00%) LLM
8 5 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) Java
3 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (16.00%) PHP
5 4 (16.00%) SQL
6 3 (12.00%) C#
6 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.00%) C++
7 1 (4.00%) Go
7 1 (4.00%) Groovy
7 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Google
3 4 (16.00%) Foundry
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce