Refactoring Jobs

Refactoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Refactoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Refactoring over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 674 737
Rank change year-on-year +34 +63 -259
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 72 209 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 32 136 129
10th Percentile £54,000 £42,500 £52,250
25th Percentile £62,188 £55,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £110,313 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £137,125 £93,750 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.18% -13.93% +21.74%

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 51,711 84,738 96,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.57% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 26,444 59,708 57,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.09% +4.76%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Refactoring.

Salary trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 14 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 May 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 +37 65 £70,000 +15.70% 90
Work from Home +42 38 £70,000 +16.67% 85
London +107 34 £100,000 +26.98% 56
UK excluding London +64 34 £70,000 +16.18% 52
Midlands +68 9 £57,500 - 4
South West +75 8 - - 2
North of England +17 7 £70,000 +12.00% 15
West Midlands +59 6 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +117 4 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North West -19 4 £70,000 +16.67% 10
South East +75 3 - - 18
Yorkshire +65 3 - - 4
East Midlands +35 3 £57,500 - 1
East of England +34 3 - - 3

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 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) IIS
2 1 (1.39%) Tornado
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.22%) Azure
2 18 (25.00%) AWS
3 16 (22.22%) SaaS
4 14 (19.44%) Power Platform
5 12 (16.67%) GCP
6 6 (8.33%) GitHub
7 5 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.94%) Serverless
8 3 (4.17%) IaaS
8 3 (4.17%) PaaS
9 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.39%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) 3GPP
1 4 (5.56%) 5G
2 3 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.61%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.28%) Power BI
3 10 (13.89%) Data Hub
3 10 (13.89%) Metadata
3 10 (13.89%) NoSQL
3 10 (13.89%) SQL CLR
3 10 (13.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 10 (13.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (12.50%) MySQL
5 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.78%) DB2
8 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (6.94%) Gradle
2 5 (6.94%) Maven
3 4 (5.56%) PHPUnit
4 3 (4.17%) Subversion
4 3 (4.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.39%) Bugzilla
5 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.39%) Crashlytics
5 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.39%) ESLint
5 1 (1.39%) Gatling
5 1 (1.39%) JIRA
5 1 (1.39%) JMeter
5 1 (1.39%) Xcode
General
1 36 (50.00%) Finance
2 23 (31.94%) Social Skills
3 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.89%) Back Office
5 8 (11.11%) Banking
5 8 (11.11%) Electronics
6 5 (6.94%) Games
7 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Law
8 3 (4.17%) Retail
9 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (63.89%) Developer
2 26 (36.11%) Senior
3 20 (27.78%) Senior Developer
4 15 (20.83%) Software Developer
5 14 (19.44%) SaaS Developer
6 13 (18.06%) Microsoft Developer
6 13 (18.06%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 12 (16.67%) Lead
8 10 (13.89%) Senior SQL Developer
8 10 (13.89%) SQL Developer
9 8 (11.11%) Software Engineer
10 7 (9.72%) Architect
10 7 (9.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (6.94%) Senior Software Developer
12 4 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (5.56%) Principal Software Engineer
12 4 (5.56%) Quantitative Developer
12 4 (5.56%) Software Team Leader
12 4 (5.56%) Team Leader
12 4 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.06%) RESTful
2 11 (15.28%) .NET
3 9 (12.50%) jQuery
3 9 (12.50%) React
3 9 (12.50%) REST
4 8 (11.11%) CSS
4 8 (11.11%) HTML
5 7 (9.72%) Kafka
5 7 (9.72%) Spring
6 6 (8.33%) Node.js
6 6 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (6.94%) .NET Core
7 5 (6.94%) .NET Framework
7 5 (6.94%) ASP.NET
7 5 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (6.94%) Jest
8 4 (5.56%) Entity Framework
8 4 (5.56%) LAMP
8 4 (5.56%) Laravel
8 4 (5.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Cloud Native
1 13 (18.06%) Private Cloud
2 11 (15.28%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 8 (11.11%) Data Structures
5 5 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.94%) Mobile Games
6 4 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.17%) Smartphone
8 2 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (2.78%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.78%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.39%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 8 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (4.17%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.78%) Linux
4 2 (2.78%) zOS
5 1 (1.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.72%) Agile
1 25 (34.72%) Software Engineering
2 22 (30.56%) Migration
3 21 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (26.39%) Computer Science
4 19 (26.39%) Fintech
5 16 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 16 (22.22%) Design Patterns
6 14 (19.44%) Clean Code
6 14 (19.44%) Data Privacy
6 14 (19.44%) DevOps
6 14 (19.44%) Test Automation
7 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (18.06%) Scrum
7 13 (18.06%) User Experience
8 12 (16.67%) TDD
9 11 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (15.28%) Roadmaps
9 11 (15.28%) SDLC
10 10 (13.89%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.67%) SQL
2 21 (29.17%) Java
3 20 (27.78%) C#
4 19 (26.39%) Python
5 16 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 15 (20.83%) T-SQL
7 13 (18.06%) C++
8 5 (6.94%) C
8 5 (6.94%) Rust
8 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
9 4 (5.56%) Objective-C
9 4 (5.56%) PHP
10 3 (4.17%) VB
11 2 (2.78%) COBOL
11 2 (2.78%) JCL
12 1 (1.39%) Go
12 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.39%) Perl
12 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (20.83%) Degree
2 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.94%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (6.94%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.56%) PhD
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.28%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (13.89%) Docker
1 10 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.89%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (6.94%) Argo
3 5 (6.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) VMware
3 8 (11.11%) Google
4 5 (6.94%) New Relic
5 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle