Refactoring Contracts in the South East

Refactoring
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 193 185 236
Rank change year-on-year -8 +51 -25
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 11 30 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.60% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 20
10th Percentile - £354 £502
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £374 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -34.96% -6.50%
75th Percentile £414 £419 £603
90th Percentile £419 £498 £676
England median daily rate £500 £445 £625
% change year-on-year +12.36% -28.80% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,681 5,025 6,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.11% 89.06% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,707 3,458 4,680
10th Percentile £260 £250 £230
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 217 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.14 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.16 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Refactoring in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the South East 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
Hampshire +3 10 £400 -3.03% 1
Thames Valley +12 1 £400 -33.33% 2
Berkshire -11 1 £400 -33.33% 2
Refactoring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 9 (81.82%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) C++ Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.09%) C++ Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) CCTV
2 1 (9.09%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) OCR
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
1 9 (81.82%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) C#
2 9 (81.82%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) ISO 9001
1 8 (72.73%) ISO/IEC 27001