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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 663 579 704
Rank change year-on-year -84 +125 +27
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 74 72 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 66 31 137
10th Percentile £46,563 £62,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £140,000 £94,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -18.57% +15.70% -13.57%

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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 13 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 29 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 -63 70 £72,500 +3.57% 37
Work from Home +19 39 £95,000 +35.71% 16
London -22 33 £95,000 -5.00% 8
UK excluding London -67 33 £57,000 -18.57% 36
North of England -43 12 £69,305 -0.99% 11
North West -1 7 £75,000 +7.14% 7
South West -57 7 £57,000 - 5
South East -27 6 £57,000 - 13
Midlands -30 6 £47,500 -32.14% 1
West Midlands -34 6 £47,500 -32.14% 1
Yorkshire -55 3 £69,305 -
East of England -21 2 £52,500 - 2
North East - 2 £58,403 - 4

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 (10.81%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
2 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.35%) CMS
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.30%) Azure
2 17 (22.97%) AWS
3 15 (20.27%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.86%) GitHub
5 8 (10.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (9.46%) GCP
6 7 (9.46%) Serverless
7 6 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.76%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.76%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (6.76%) PaaS
8 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
9 4 (5.41%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (5.41%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (5.41%) Vertex AI
10 3 (4.05%) Azure App Service
10 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 13 (17.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.76%) MySQL
3 4 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (5.41%) MariaDB
4 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.05%) Power BI
4 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.70%) Big Data
5 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) Claude Code
3 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.35%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.35%) Yeoman
General
1 14 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Banking
3 8 (10.81%) Finance
3 8 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.46%) Local Government
5 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Billing
6 1 (1.35%) Games
6 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (58.11%) Senior
2 35 (47.30%) Developer
3 23 (31.08%) Senior Developer
4 19 (25.68%) Software Engineer
5 13 (17.57%) Backend Developer
5 13 (17.57%) Senior Backend Developer
6 11 (14.86%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (12.16%) Lead
8 8 (10.81%) C++ Developer
8 8 (10.81%) Data Engineer
8 8 (10.81%) Senior C++ Developer
9 7 (9.46%) Lead Developer
10 6 (8.11%) .NET Developer
11 4 (5.41%) Lead .NET Developer
11 4 (5.41%) Python Engineer
11 4 (5.41%) Python Software Engineer
12 3 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 3 (4.05%) GCP Engineer
12 3 (4.05%) Lead Python Developer
12 3 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.03%) .NET
2 8 (10.81%) MFC
3 5 (6.76%) .NET Framework
3 5 (6.76%) CSS
3 5 (6.76%) HTML
4 4 (5.41%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.41%) Entity Framework
4 4 (5.41%) Kafka
4 4 (5.41%) LangChain
4 4 (5.41%) LangGraph
4 4 (5.41%) Razor View Engine
4 4 (5.41%) React
5 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.70%) JSON
6 2 (2.70%) Node.js
6 2 (2.70%) REST
6 2 (2.70%) Symfony
6 2 (2.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.97%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (18.92%) Algorithms
3 13 (17.57%) Cloud Native
3 13 (17.57%) Data Structures
4 11 (14.86%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (13.51%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (10.81%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (9.46%) NHS
8 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
9 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.70%) Legacy Code
9 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.35%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.35%) Fixed Income
10 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (1.35%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.65%) Problem-Solving
1 36 (48.65%) Software Engineering
2 29 (39.19%) Mentoring
3 24 (32.43%) CI/CD
4 21 (28.38%) Clean Code
4 21 (28.38%) Coaching
5 20 (27.03%) Agile
6 18 (24.32%) DevOps
7 17 (22.97%) Decision-Making
7 17 (22.97%) Migration
8 16 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (18.92%) AI
9 14 (18.92%) OO
9 14 (18.92%) OOD
10 11 (14.86%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (13.51%) Roadmaps
11 10 (13.51%) Test Automation
12 9 (12.16%) Fintech
12 9 (12.16%) Machine Learning
12 9 (12.16%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.30%) Python
2 27 (36.49%) SQL
3 23 (31.08%) C#
4 19 (25.68%) Java
5 17 (22.97%) C++
6 15 (20.27%) JavaScript
7 7 (9.46%) T-SQL
8 4 (5.41%) PHP
8 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.70%) Go
9 2 (2.70%) R
9 2 (2.70%) Scala
10 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.35%) Groovy
10 1 (1.35%) Julia
10 1 (1.35%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (4.05%) Degree
2 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) GDPR
2 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.35%) Istio
2 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (22.97%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.41%) Foundry
2 4 (5.41%) Google
3 3 (4.05%) RedGate
3 3 (4.05%) SolarWinds
4 2 (2.70%) Databricks
4 2 (2.70%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.35%) New Relic
5 1 (1.35%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.35%) Zoho