Refactoring Job Trends

Refactoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Refactoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 687 640
Rank change year-on-year +63 -47 -158
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 52 109 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 24 59 107
10th Percentile £56,625 £46,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £100,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £105,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -

All Process and 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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +64 46 £70,000 - 38
UK excluding London +86 24 £70,000 +12.00% 25
Work from Home +64 24 £70,000 -6.67% 21
London +39 24 £70,000 -18.84% 17
North of England +14 6 £67,500 +50.00% 4
North West +5 6 £67,500 +50.00% 1
Scotland +45 5 £75,000 +25.00%
South East +40 5 £68,750 +11.79% 13
Midlands +51 3 £70,000 +40.00% 1
East of England - 3 - - 4
South West +71 2 £57,500 -23.33% 1
West Midlands - 2 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands +31 1 - -

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.92%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) Azure
2 18 (34.62%) SaaS
3 15 (28.85%) Power Platform
4 13 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (9.62%) GitHub
6 4 (7.69%) GCP
7 3 (5.77%) Dagster
7 3 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (5.77%) Prefect
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.85%) PaaS
8 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.85%) Serverless
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.92%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) HTTP
2 1 (1.92%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) NAS
2 1 (1.92%) RS-232
2 1 (1.92%) RS-422
2 1 (1.92%) RS-485
2 1 (1.92%) SAN
2 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 13 (25.00%) Data Hub
2 13 (25.00%) Metadata
2 13 (25.00%) Power BI
2 13 (25.00%) SQL CLR
2 13 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 13 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (19.23%) MySQL
4 9 (17.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.77%) Big Data
5 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.85%) DB2
6 2 (3.85%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.69%) PHPUnit
3 3 (5.77%) Subversion
4 2 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.92%) Testinfra
5 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (75.00%) Finance
2 13 (25.00%) Back Office
2 13 (25.00%) Banking
3 12 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (21.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (21.15%) Law
5 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.77%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.77%) Marketing
7 3 (5.77%) Retail
8 2 (3.85%) Games
8 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.92%) Electronics
9 1 (1.92%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 29 (55.77%) Developer
2 19 (36.54%) Senior
3 17 (32.69%) SaaS Developer
4 14 (26.92%) Senior Developer
5 13 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
5 13 (25.00%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 13 (25.00%) Senior SQL Developer
5 13 (25.00%) Software Engineer
5 13 (25.00%) SQL Developer
6 8 (15.38%) Python Engineer
6 8 (15.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Lead
8 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Architect
9 3 (5.77%) C# Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) CSS
1 12 (23.08%) HTML
1 12 (23.08%) REST
2 9 (17.31%) .NET
3 7 (13.46%) jQuery
4 6 (11.54%) RESTful
5 5 (9.62%) .NET Core
6 4 (7.69%) .NET Framework
6 4 (7.69%) Jest
6 4 (7.69%) LAMP
6 4 (7.69%) Laravel
6 4 (7.69%) Node.js
6 4 (7.69%) React
6 4 (7.69%) Vue
7 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.77%) CSS3
7 3 (5.77%) DOM
7 3 (5.77%) HTML5
7 3 (5.77%) JSON
7 3 (5.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 12 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 11 (21.15%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (5.77%) Credit Risk
6 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (5.77%) Legacy Code
6 3 (5.77%) Smartphone
7 2 (3.85%) Mainframe
7 2 (3.85%) Online Games
8 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.92%) Derivative
8 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.92%) Replication
8 1 (1.92%) SCADA
8 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) zOS
3 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) Software Engineering
2 18 (34.62%) Agile
3 17 (32.69%) Data Privacy
3 17 (32.69%) Fintech
3 17 (32.69%) Migration
4 16 (30.77%) High Availability
5 14 (26.92%) SDLC
6 13 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (25.00%) Statistics
6 13 (25.00%) Wealth Management
6 13 (25.00%) Workflow
7 12 (23.08%) Computer Science
8 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (19.23%) CI/CD
9 10 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (19.23%) Mathematics
10 8 (15.38%) Electronic Trading
10 8 (15.38%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (44.23%) SQL
2 14 (26.92%) JavaScript
3 13 (25.00%) Python
3 13 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 11 (21.15%) Java
5 8 (15.38%) C#
6 7 (13.46%) PHP
7 3 (5.77%) C
8 2 (3.85%) C++
8 2 (3.85%) COBOL
8 2 (3.85%) JCL
8 2 (3.85%) Objective-C
8 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.92%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (11.54%) Docker
3 1 (1.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Packer
3 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) Microsoft
2 14 (26.92%) VMware
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco