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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 611 684
Rank change year-on-year -43 +73 -50
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 147 52 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 111 24 59
10th Percentile £45,750 £56,625 £46,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £100,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,000 £105,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -18.57% +12.00% +8.70%

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 82,630 43,847 63,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.77% 88.67% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57,445 24,695 36,468
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 15 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 14 September 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 -5 128 £69,305 -0.99% 390
UK excluding London -59 75 £57,000 -18.57% 249
London -16 61 £100,000 +42.86% 263
Work from Home -20 43 £95,000 +35.71% 94
North of England -42 21 £69,305 +2.67% 28
South West -58 21 £57,000 -0.87% 56
North West -12 10 £69,653 +3.19% 17
South East -34 9 £57,000 -17.09% 23
Wales - 9 £63,500 - 1
North East - 8 £51,500 - 2
East of England -23 6 £45,000 - 11
West Midlands -32 6 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Midlands -44 6 £50,000 -28.57% 14
Scotland +5 3 - - 115
Yorkshire - 3 £69,305 - 9

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 (5.44%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (2.04%) Confluence
3 2 (1.36%) Apache
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) Documentum
4 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.33%) AWS
2 47 (31.97%) Azure
3 20 (13.61%) GitHub
4 19 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (9.52%) Serverless
6 10 (6.80%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (6.80%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (5.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (5.44%) GCP
8 7 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
8 7 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.08%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.08%) SaaS
10 5 (3.40%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) Internet
2 2 (1.36%) DNS
2 2 (1.36%) HTTP
2 2 (1.36%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.36%) Network Security
2 2 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.56%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.40%) Big Data
5 5 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.40%) Redis
6 4 (2.72%) MySQL
6 4 (2.72%) Power BI
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.36%) DTS
8 2 (1.36%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.36%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (12.24%) Git
2 10 (6.80%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.44%) Claude Code
4 5 (3.40%) JIRA
5 4 (2.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.36%) Gatling
6 2 (1.36%) Pa11y
6 2 (1.36%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.68%) Yeoman
General
1 36 (24.49%) Finance
2 20 (13.61%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.56%) Banking
4 15 (10.20%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (8.84%) Local Government
6 12 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (8.16%) Law
7 9 (6.12%) Public Sector
8 8 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (4.76%) Marketing
10 3 (2.04%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.36%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Advertising
12 1 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (47.62%) Senior
2 67 (45.58%) Developer
3 49 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 38 (25.85%) Senior Developer
5 25 (17.01%) Consultant
5 25 (17.01%) Lead
5 25 (17.01%) Software Developer
6 19 (12.93%) Software Consultant
7 18 (12.24%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (10.20%) Lead Software Engineer
8 15 (10.20%) Senior Consultant
9 14 (9.52%) C++ Developer
9 14 (9.52%) Senior C++ Developer
10 12 (8.16%) Python Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) Backend Developer
11 10 (6.80%) Python Software Engineer
11 10 (6.80%) Senior Backend Developer
11 10 (6.80%) Senior Software Developer
12 8 (5.44%) Data Engineer
12 8 (5.44%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.69%) .NET
2 14 (9.52%) MFC
3 11 (7.48%) Terraform
4 8 (5.44%) REST
5 7 (4.76%) Kafka
5 7 (4.76%) React
6 6 (4.08%) .NET Core
6 6 (4.08%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.40%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.40%) Model Context Protocol
7 5 (3.40%) Node.js
7 5 (3.40%) pytest
7 5 (3.40%) WPF
8 4 (2.72%) CSS
8 4 (2.72%) HTML
8 4 (2.72%) WinForms
9 3 (2.04%) Micronaut
9 3 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.04%) SignalR
9 3 (2.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.49%) Cloud Native
2 19 (12.93%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (10.88%) Legacy Applications
4 15 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (8.84%) Algorithms
6 13 (8.84%) NHS
7 12 (8.16%) Onboarding
8 11 (7.48%) Data Structures
9 8 (5.44%) Data Centre
10 7 (4.76%) Blog
10 7 (4.76%) Legacy Code
11 6 (4.08%) AI Agents
11 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
12 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
12 3 (2.04%) Virtual Team
13 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (3.40%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (47.62%) Software Engineering
2 59 (40.14%) Agile
3 49 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 45 (30.61%) Migration
5 44 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (27.21%) Mentoring
7 39 (26.53%) AI
8 36 (24.49%) Coaching
8 36 (24.49%) OO
9 31 (21.09%) Test Automation
10 28 (19.05%) Code Quality
11 27 (18.37%) Microservices
12 26 (17.69%) DevOps
13 24 (16.33%) SDLC
13 24 (16.33%) TDD
14 22 (14.97%) Decision-Making
15 20 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
16 19 (12.93%) User Stories
17 18 (12.24%) Secure Coding
18 17 (11.56%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 49 (33.33%) Python
2 43 (29.25%) Java
3 37 (25.17%) C#
4 34 (23.13%) SQL
5 32 (21.77%) JavaScript
6 27 (18.37%) C++
7 21 (14.29%) Scala
8 17 (11.56%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.48%) T-SQL
10 6 (4.08%) Go
11 4 (2.72%) PHP
12 3 (2.04%) Rust
13 2 (1.36%) C
13 2 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.36%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.68%) Julia
14 1 (0.68%) Perl
14 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.68%) R
14 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.08%) Degree
4 4 (2.72%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.36%) CCSP
5 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.36%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.76%) QA
2 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.04%) WCAG
3 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (14.97%) Docker
2 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.36%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 23 (15.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.08%) Progress Chef
2 6 (4.08%) Puppet
3 3 (2.04%) Grafana
3 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.36%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.04%) RedGate
2 3 (2.04%) SAP
2 3 (2.04%) SolarWinds
2 3 (2.04%) Splunk
2 3 (2.04%) VMware
3 2 (1.36%) Arista
3 2 (1.36%) Broadcom
3 2 (1.36%) Cisco
3 2 (1.36%) Databricks
3 2 (1.36%) Google
3 2 (1.36%) Netskope
3 2 (1.36%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle
3 2 (1.36%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.36%) Zscaler
4 1 (0.68%) New Relic
4 1 (0.68%) OpenText
4 1 (0.68%) Teradata