Refactoring Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Refactoring
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 491 544
Rank change year-on-year +133 +53 -155
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 39 101 129
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.33% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 14 72 92
10th Percentile £56,625 £42,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +7.91%
75th Percentile - £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £97,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Refactoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Refactoring trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Refactoring
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Refactoring.

Refactoring salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Refactoring salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) Azure
2 15 (38.46%) AWS
3 12 (30.77%) SaaS
4 9 (23.08%) Power Platform
5 7 (17.95%) GCP
6 6 (15.38%) GitHub
6 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.56%) Firebase
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) 3GPP
1 4 (10.26%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 8 (20.51%) Data Hub
3 8 (20.51%) Metadata
3 8 (20.51%) MySQL
3 8 (20.51%) Power BI
3 8 (20.51%) SQL CLR
3 8 (20.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 8 (20.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) Gradle
2 6 (15.38%) Maven
3 2 (5.13%) PHPUnit
4 1 (2.56%) Crashlytics
4 1 (2.56%) Xcode
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 15 (38.46%) Finance
3 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (20.51%) Back Office
4 8 (20.51%) Electronics
5 6 (15.38%) Games
6 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.13%) Legal
8 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (76.92%) Developer
2 20 (51.28%) Senior
3 16 (41.03%) Senior Developer
4 14 (35.90%) Software Developer
5 10 (25.64%) SaaS Developer
6 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Developer
6 8 (20.51%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 8 (20.51%) Senior SQL Developer
6 8 (20.51%) SQL Developer
7 7 (17.95%) Lead
8 6 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (10.26%) Software Team Leader
9 4 (10.26%) Team Leader
10 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (5.13%) .NET Developer
11 2 (5.13%) Lead Developer
11 2 (5.13%) Senior .NET Developer
11 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
12 1 (2.56%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) RESTful
2 9 (23.08%) .NET
3 8 (20.51%) React
4 7 (17.95%) Kafka
4 7 (17.95%) Spring
5 6 (15.38%) .NET Framework
5 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 6 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (15.38%) REST
6 5 (12.82%) .NET Core
7 4 (10.26%) Entity Framework
8 3 (7.69%) CSS
8 3 (7.69%) HTML
8 3 (7.69%) jQuery
9 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
9 2 (5.13%) Jest
9 2 (5.13%) LAMP
9 2 (5.13%) Laravel
10 1 (2.56%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Algorithms
1 10 (25.64%) Data Structures
2 8 (20.51%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (20.51%) Private Cloud
3 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 6 (15.38%) Mobile Games
4 2 (5.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.13%) IoT
4 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.56%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Apple iOS
2 8 (20.51%) Windows
3 3 (7.69%) Android
4 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (41.03%) Computer Science
3 15 (38.46%) Agile
3 15 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 14 (35.90%) Migration
5 13 (33.33%) Clean Code
6 12 (30.77%) Software Engineering
7 11 (28.21%) Design Patterns
8 10 (25.64%) API Development
8 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
8 10 (25.64%) Data Privacy
8 10 (25.64%) Fintech
9 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
9 9 (23.08%) User Experience
10 8 (20.51%) DevOps
10 8 (20.51%) High Availability
10 8 (20.51%) Microservices
10 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (20.51%) System Integration Testing
10 8 (20.51%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) SQL
2 15 (38.46%) Java
3 12 (30.77%) C#
4 9 (23.08%) T-SQL
5 8 (20.51%) C++
6 5 (12.82%) Python
7 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (7.69%) Go
9 2 (5.13%) PHP
9 2 (5.13%) Ruby
10 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 6 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.90%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
1 8 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (15.38%) Argo
3 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.51%) VMware
3 6 (15.38%) Google
3 6 (15.38%) New Relic