Refactoring Contracts in Scotland

Refactoring
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 162 160
Rank change year-on-year +49 -2 -22
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 9 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.20% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 12
10th Percentile £400 £489 £425
25th Percentile £480 £529 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £603 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +9.55% +5.82%
75th Percentile £613 £669 £603
90th Percentile - £706 £610
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +10.53% -24.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.73 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £47.73 £20.75
% change year-on-year +46.66% +130.02% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,887 2,493 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.10% 92.54% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,767 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 46
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £18.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -57.25% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in Scotland

Refactoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 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
Glasgow +19 8 £575 -
Refactoring
UK

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) DB2
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (22.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Perl Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Windows Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Unix
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Disk Encryption
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) OOP
4 2 (22.22%) SOLID
4 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Greenplum