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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 596 631
Rank change year-on-year -52 +35 +86
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 15 87 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11 34 121
10th Percentile £61,250 £49,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £64,375 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,550 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% +13.31% -13.57%
75th Percentile £86,000 £106,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £108,750 £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 51,996 46,880 64,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.99% 91.87% 88.55%
Number of salaries quoted 30,799 22,693 50,451
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -16 14 £71,250 +1.79% 40
Work from Home +49 8 £71,250 -1.72% 38
UK excluding London -16 6 £67,500 +12.50% 27
London -3 5 £104,000 +22.35% 23
Midlands +10 3 £60,000 +4.35% 1
West Midlands +24 2 £60,000 - 1
South East +8 2 £78,750 +28.57% 14
North West +8 1 £62,500 -16.67% 1
East Midlands -16 1 - -
North of England -16 1 £62,500 -16.67% 6

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 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (26.67%) PaaS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Broadband
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) NAS
2 1 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (13.33%) MariaDB
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Flink
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Testinfra
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Games
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Development Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Development
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Head of Software Development
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Development Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Software Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer in Test
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) JSON
2 3 (20.00%) Node.js
2 3 (20.00%) React
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) Middleware
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless Framework
3 2 (13.33%) Smarty
3 2 (13.33%) Symfony
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.67%) Quarkus
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Credit Risk
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Code
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Observability
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Technical Debt
5 3 (20.00%) API Design
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (20.00%) SOLID
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (26.67%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) PHP
5 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.67%) Packer
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) VMware