Refactoring Contracts with Work from Home Options

Refactoring
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 320 401 468
Rank change year-on-year +81 +67 -14
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 26 64 149
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.30% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 46 129
10th Percentile £450 £374 £463
25th Percentile £505 £383 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -28.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £813 £538 £713
90th Percentile £850 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +15.28% -28.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £48.87 -
% change year-on-year +43.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,655 40,201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.61% 89.64% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,641 15,361 29,229
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 502 523
10th Percentile £14.88 £18.49 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.13 £25.80 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Refactoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Refactoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Refactoring trend for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Refactoring.

Refactoring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Refactoring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Refactoring
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Refactoring.

Refactoring hourly rate 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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
2 3 (11.54%) CMS
2 3 (11.54%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) Heroku
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) JIRA
2 5 (19.23%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.69%) Git
4 1 (3.85%) Android Studio
4 1 (3.85%) Balsamiq
4 1 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Front Office
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) C# Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 5 (19.23%) React Developer
4 4 (15.38%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
4 4 (15.38%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Java Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior
7 1 (3.85%) Agile Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Android Developer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Salesforce Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Site Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) React
2 8 (30.77%) AngularJS
3 5 (19.23%) Reactive Extensions
3 5 (19.23%) Redux
4 3 (11.54%) CSS
4 3 (11.54%) HTML
4 3 (11.54%) HTML5
4 3 (11.54%) Next.js
4 3 (11.54%) REST
4 3 (11.54%) Web Services
5 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 2 (7.69%) Jest
5 2 (7.69%) Nuxt
6 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (3.85%) RESTful
6 1 (3.85%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Design Patterns
3 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 6 (23.08%) Code Quality
4 6 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Clean Code
5 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) Economics
5 5 (19.23%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (19.23%) Front End Development
5 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 4 (15.38%) Data Security
6 4 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
7 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.54%) Database Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) C#
2 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) PHP
3 5 (19.23%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) Bash
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.85%) Perl
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) CSPO
2 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.85%) SAP