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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 607 613
Rank change year-on-year -33 +6 +84
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 13 86 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9 35 105
10th Percentile £60,500 £47,500 £40,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +7.44% -13.57%
75th Percentile £82,000 £93,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £140,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

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 50,076 48,429 57,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.42% 91.10% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 29,566 23,408 43,853
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 10 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 23 January 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 -3 13 £75,000 +14.85% 107
Work from Home +41 6 £70,000 - 71
UK excluding London +2 6 £67,500 +12.50% 105
London +2 5 £104,000 +30.00% 20
Midlands +18 2 £75,000 +30.43% 9
South East +17 2 £78,750 +28.57% 37
North West +13 2 £61,250 -18.33% 4
North of England +6 2 £61,250 +2.08% 14
West Midlands +20 1 £75,000 - 4
East Midlands -6 1 - - 5

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 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) JBoss
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (15.38%) PaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) IaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Broadband
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Flink
3 1 (7.69%) MariaDB
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.69%) Testinfra
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Games
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Development
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Software Development
3 1 (7.69%) Head of Software Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Software Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) GraphQL
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
3 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 2 (15.38%) JSON
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.69%) Express.js
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.69%) Quarkus
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Smarty
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Code
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Online Games
2 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) AI
3 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) Observability
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Debt
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Packer
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) VMware