Refactoring Contracts in London

Refactoring
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Refactoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Refactoring over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 416 408
Rank change year-on-year +59 -8 -65
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 33 61 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.24% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.26% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 164
10th Percentile £387 £403 £463
25th Percentile £506 £413 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £475 £695
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -31.65% +15.83%
75th Percentile £838 £544 £750
90th Percentile £850 £680 £800
England median daily rate £500 £445 £625
% change year-on-year +12.36% -28.80% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Refactoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,450 23,106 35,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 90.87% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,083 16,714 26,163
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 262 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in London

Refactoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in London

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in London

Refactoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in London

Refactoring
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
South London - 2 - -
Central London +31 1 - - 1
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (9.09%) CMS
1 3 (9.09%) Confluence
1 3 (9.09%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.06%) Serverless
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) GitHub
4 1 (3.03%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) JIRA
2 9 (27.27%) Cypress.io
3 5 (15.15%) Gradle
4 3 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.09%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) Selenium
4 3 (9.09%) TeamCity
5 2 (6.06%) Android Studio
5 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) HP UFT
5 2 (6.06%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Front Office
3 6 (18.18%) Banking
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Developer
2 9 (27.27%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 9 (27.27%) React Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Full Stack Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (12.12%) C# Developer
5 4 (12.12%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
5 4 (12.12%) Front Office Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Java Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 3 (9.09%) UI Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 2 (6.06%) Real Time Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Angular Developer
8 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) React
2 9 (27.27%) Reactive Extensions
2 9 (27.27%) Redux
3 7 (21.21%) REST
4 6 (18.18%) CSS
5 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
6 3 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 3 (9.09%) HTML
6 3 (9.09%) HTML5
6 3 (9.09%) Next.js
6 3 (9.09%) RAML
6 3 (9.09%) Web Services
6 3 (9.09%) WPF
7 2 (6.06%) .NET
7 2 (6.06%) Jest
7 2 (6.06%) Nuxt
7 2 (6.06%) Spring
8 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Legacy Code
2 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (9.09%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.03%) Animation
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Android
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) Design Patterns
3 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (27.27%) Economics
3 9 (27.27%) Electronic Trading
3 9 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
3 9 (27.27%) SDLC
3 9 (27.27%) User Experience
4 8 (24.24%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (21.21%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
6 6 (18.18%) Clean Code
7 5 (15.15%) Performance Analysis
8 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
8 4 (12.12%) DevOps
8 4 (12.12%) Multithreading
8 4 (12.12%) Software Testing
8 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.09%) SEO
9 3 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) SQL
2 12 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 10 (30.30%) Java
4 8 (24.24%) C#
5 7 (21.21%) Kotlin
6 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
7 3 (9.09%) Python
8 2 (6.06%) Bash
9 1 (3.03%) C++
9 1 (3.03%) Objective-C
9 1 (3.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Databricks
1 2 (6.06%) HP
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle