Refactoring Contracts in England

Refactoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Refactoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Refactoring over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 505 551
Rank change year-on-year +38 +46 -16
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 47 84 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.24% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 62 177
10th Percentile £382 - £429
25th Percentile £504 £374 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £628 £638 £700
90th Percentile £648 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £595 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +8.18% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Refactoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in England.

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in England

Refactoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in England.

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +41 36 £615 +2.42% 15
North of England +34 6 £528 +30.25% 7
Yorkshire +19 4 £528 +30.25% 1
North West - 2 - - 6
East of England - 2 £725 - 1
Refactoring
UK

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (23.40%) CMS
1 11 (23.40%) Confluence
1 11 (23.40%) Headless CMS
2 4 (8.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.13%) Camunda
4 1 (2.13%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle iProcurement
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (6.38%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) AWS
2 7 (14.89%) Serverless
3 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (10.64%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (8.51%) GCP
5 3 (6.38%) Kong
6 2 (4.26%) GitHub
6 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Broadband
2 3 (6.38%) HTTP
2 3 (6.38%) Internet
3 1 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (6.38%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.26%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.26%) Data Vault
4 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.13%) DB2
5 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (31.91%) JIRA
2 6 (12.77%) Git
3 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (4.26%) Android Studio
5 2 (4.26%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.26%) GitLab
5 2 (4.26%) Gradle
5 2 (4.26%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.13%) AutoIt
6 1 (2.13%) fastlane
6 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.13%) Xcode
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.51%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.38%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) General Ledger
5 2 (4.26%) Front Office
5 2 (4.26%) Law
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 23 (48.94%) Developer
2 10 (21.28%) Architect
3 7 (14.89%) Senior
4 6 (12.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (10.64%) AWS Architect
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Angular Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Analyst Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Oracle Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Data Integration Developer
8 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.79%) AngularJS
1 14 (29.79%) CSS
1 14 (29.79%) Web Services
2 13 (27.66%) React
3 12 (25.53%) HTML
4 11 (23.40%) HTML5
4 11 (23.40%) Next.js
5 9 (19.15%) REST
6 6 (12.77%) .NET
6 6 (12.77%) Spring Boot
7 5 (10.64%) Spring
8 4 (8.51%) GraphQL
9 3 (6.38%) J2EE
9 3 (6.38%) Jest
9 3 (6.38%) Nuxt
9 3 (6.38%) XML
10 2 (4.26%) JSON
10 2 (4.26%) Node.js
10 2 (4.26%) RESTful
10 2 (4.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.26%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.13%) Animation
4 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) iPad
4 1 (2.13%) iPhone
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Android
3 1 (2.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) Agile
2 15 (31.91%) Software Engineering
3 13 (27.66%) Migration
4 12 (25.53%) Code Quality
5 11 (23.40%) SEO
6 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
7 8 (17.02%) Analytics
7 8 (17.02%) DevOps
7 8 (17.02%) Visual Effects
8 7 (14.89%) Front End Development
8 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (14.89%) Mentoring
8 7 (14.89%) Multithreading
8 7 (14.89%) Non-Blocking Code
8 7 (14.89%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (12.77%) Microservices
9 6 (12.77%) Re-Platforming
10 5 (10.64%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (10.64%) SDLC
10 5 (10.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) TypeScript
2 12 (25.53%) Java
3 9 (19.15%) SQL
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.64%) Python
6 4 (8.51%) Kotlin
7 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 3 (6.38%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.26%) C#
8 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.26%) Swift
8 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.13%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.13%) PHP
9 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.38%) Degree
3 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) Google
2 4 (8.51%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.26%) Informatica
4 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) Apple
5 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.13%) MEDITECH