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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 678 593 691
Rank change year-on-year -85 +98 +48
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 63 72 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 56 32 136
10th Percentile £47,188 £56,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £65,950 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% +16.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £137,125 £93,750
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 67,959 41,142 82,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.29% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,928 22,326 59,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 12 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 20 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 -65 59 £85,000 +21.43% 59
Work from Home +23 36 £95,000 +35.71% 30
London -15 32 £95,000 -5.00% 21
UK excluding London -67 23 £57,000 -18.57% 43
North of England -35 8 £69,305 -0.99% 13
West Midlands -32 6 £47,500 -32.14% 4
Midlands -33 6 £47,500 -25.49% 5
South West -65 5 £57,000 - 4
North West +3 4 £72,153 +3.08% 10
South East -16 4 £57,000 - 17
Yorkshire -46 3 £69,305 -
North East - 1 £69,305 - 3

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 7 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 29 (46.03%) Azure
2 12 (19.05%) AWS
2 12 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (14.29%) GitHub
4 7 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (11.11%) GCP
5 5 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (7.94%) PaaS
5 5 (7.94%) Serverless
6 4 (6.35%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (6.35%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.35%) Vertex AI
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.76%) Azure App Service
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.35%) MariaDB
3 4 (6.35%) MySQL
4 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Power BI
5 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.59%) Big Data
6 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) Git
2 3 (4.76%) Claude Code
3 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.59%) Yeoman
General
1 13 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Banking
3 7 (11.11%) Finance
3 7 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.52%) Local Government
5 4 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Games
7 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (57.14%) Senior
2 28 (44.44%) Developer
3 19 (30.16%) Senior Developer
4 18 (28.57%) Software Engineer
5 13 (20.63%) Backend Developer
5 13 (20.63%) Senior Backend Developer
6 10 (15.87%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (12.70%) Lead
8 6 (9.52%) C++ Developer
8 6 (9.52%) Data Engineer
8 6 (9.52%) Lead Developer
8 6 (9.52%) Senior C++ Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Python Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Python Software Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) Lead .NET Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Lead Python Developer
10 3 (4.76%) Python Developer
10 3 (4.76%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.40%) .NET
2 6 (9.52%) MFC
3 5 (7.94%) CSS
3 5 (7.94%) HTML
4 4 (6.35%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.35%) LangChain
4 4 (6.35%) LangGraph
4 4 (6.35%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 3 (4.76%) Entity Framework
5 3 (4.76%) React
6 2 (3.17%) JSON
6 2 (3.17%) Middleware
6 2 (3.17%) Node.js
6 2 (3.17%) REST
6 2 (3.17%) RESTful
6 2 (3.17%) Smarty
6 2 (3.17%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.98%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 13 (20.63%) Data Structures
4 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
5 9 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (9.52%) NHS
6 6 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
8 2 (3.17%) AI Agents
8 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.59%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.59%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 31 (49.21%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (39.68%) Mentoring
4 21 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 20 (31.75%) Clean Code
6 18 (28.57%) Coaching
7 16 (25.40%) Agile
8 15 (23.81%) DevOps
9 14 (22.22%) Decision-Making
9 14 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (20.63%) Migration
10 13 (20.63%) OO
10 13 (20.63%) OOD
11 10 (15.87%) AI
11 10 (15.87%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (15.87%) Test Automation
12 9 (14.29%) Fintech
12 9 (14.29%) Microservices
12 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
13 8 (12.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 33 (52.38%) Python
2 19 (30.16%) SQL
3 18 (28.57%) Java
4 17 (26.98%) C#
5 14 (22.22%) C++
6 13 (20.63%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.35%) PHP
7 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.35%) T-SQL
7 4 (6.35%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.17%) Go
8 2 (3.17%) R
9 1 (1.59%) Groovy
9 1 (1.59%) Julia
9 1 (1.59%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) GDPR
3 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Istio
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) Foundry
2 4 (6.35%) Google
3 3 (4.76%) RedGate
3 3 (4.76%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.59%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.59%) Zoho