Refactoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Refactoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 677 730 477
Rank change year-on-year +53 -253 +120
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 210 230 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.24% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 136 122 426
10th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% +20.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £96,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.57% +21.74% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Refactoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Refactoring.

Salary trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +62 172 £60,500 -19.33% 45
UK excluding London +52 156 £60,500 -13.57% 24
Work from Home +61 114 £60,000 -20.00% 22
North of England +73 42 £62,500 +28.21% 3
London +29 42 £78,750 +5.00% 23
South West +15 41 £60,000 -25.00% 3
South East -14 30 £60,500 -13.57% 9
North West +15 29 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Wales +32 19 £62,500 - 1
East of England +24 15 £40,000 -50.00%
Yorkshire +81 13 £75,000 +57.89% 2
Scotland -53 6 £60,000 -
Midlands -11 2 - - 8
Northern Ireland +17 1 - -
West Midlands +10 1 - - 2
East Midlands -10 1 - - 6

Refactoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.24%) Confluence
2 7 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.43%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (1.43%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.43%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.48%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.95%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.62%) Azure
2 73 (34.76%) AWS
3 28 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 24 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (10.95%) GitHub
6 17 (8.10%) Heroku
6 17 (8.10%) SaaS
7 13 (6.19%) Amazon S3
8 12 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
8 12 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (5.71%) IBM Cloud
8 12 (5.71%) OCI
8 12 (5.71%) Route 53
9 8 (3.81%) Serverless
10 5 (2.38%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.38%) IaaS
10 5 (2.38%) PaaS
11 4 (1.90%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) Internet
2 2 (0.95%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (24.29%) SQL Server
2 24 (11.43%) MySQL
3 21 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 15 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (6.19%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.71%) DB2
7 12 (5.71%) RDBMS
8 11 (5.24%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.86%) GIS
10 5 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.43%) Big Data
11 3 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.95%) Power BI
13 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (20.48%) Git
2 25 (11.90%) GitLab
3 16 (7.62%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.19%) JIRA
5 8 (3.81%) LabVIEW
5 8 (3.81%) Selenium
6 4 (1.90%) Moq
6 4 (1.90%) NUnit
6 4 (1.90%) webpack
7 3 (1.43%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.43%) Gradle
8 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
General
1 38 (18.10%) Finance
2 33 (15.71%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.05%) Electronics
4 18 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.67%) Retail
7 13 (6.19%) Legal
8 11 (5.24%) Marketing
9 9 (4.29%) Tech for Good
10 6 (2.86%) Games
11 4 (1.90%) Aviation
11 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.43%) Law
12 3 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.95%) Public Speaking
14 1 (0.48%) Banking
14 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (60.00%) Developer
2 77 (36.67%) Senior
3 42 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 24 (11.43%) Lead
4 24 (11.43%) Software Developer
5 20 (9.52%) Cloud Developer
6 17 (8.10%) .NET Developer
6 17 (8.10%) Salesforce Developer
6 17 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 16 (7.62%) Technical Leader
8 14 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 13 (6.19%) PHP Developer
10 12 (5.71%) Analyst
10 12 (5.71%) Azure Developer
10 12 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.71%) Full Stack Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Architect
11 10 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (43.81%) .NET
2 54 (25.71%) React
3 32 (15.24%) AngularJS
4 29 (13.81%) CSS
5 28 (13.33%) Spring
6 24 (11.43%) HTML
7 20 (9.52%) Node.js
8 18 (8.57%) REST
8 18 (8.57%) Vue
9 17 (8.10%) Lightning Web Components
9 17 (8.10%) Visualforce
10 15 (7.14%) JSON
11 14 (6.67%) .NET Core
11 14 (6.67%) ASP.NET
11 14 (6.67%) XML
12 13 (6.19%) Laravel
13 12 (5.71%) Spring XD
13 12 (5.71%) Swagger
14 10 (4.76%) .NET Framework
15 8 (3.81%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (5.71%) Blockchain
2 12 (5.71%) e-Learning
3 11 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.81%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.33%) IoT
6 7 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.38%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.38%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.90%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.43%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.90%) Windows
2 16 (7.62%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.33%) Unix
4 6 (2.86%) Linux
5 5 (2.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (50.95%) Agile
2 74 (35.24%) DevOps
3 56 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 52 (24.76%) Test Automation
5 47 (22.38%) Full Stack Development
6 46 (21.90%) Software Engineering
7 43 (20.48%) CI/CD
7 43 (20.48%) TDD
8 40 (19.05%) Microservices
8 40 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (15.71%) Artificial Intelligence
10 28 (13.33%) Coaching
11 27 (12.86%) Scrum
11 27 (12.86%) Unit Testing
12 24 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (10.95%) OOP
14 22 (10.48%) Computer Science
14 22 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (10.48%) Migration
15 20 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (34.29%) C#
2 68 (32.38%) Java
3 50 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 47 (22.38%) SQL
5 43 (20.48%) Python
6 36 (17.14%) TypeScript
7 29 (13.81%) PHP
8 17 (8.10%) Apex Code
9 11 (5.24%) VB.NET
10 9 (4.29%) Bash
11 8 (3.81%) Go
11 8 (3.81%) T-SQL
12 7 (3.33%) Ada
13 5 (2.38%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.90%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.43%) Ruby
15 3 (1.43%) VBA
16 2 (0.95%) Haskell
16 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (16.67%) Degree
2 16 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.24%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.81%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.14%) QA
2 4 (1.90%) DICOM
2 4 (1.90%) HL7
2 4 (1.90%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (15.71%) Docker
2 3 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 34 (16.19%) Terraform
3 16 (7.62%) Ansible
4 12 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.90%) Oracle
3 17 (8.10%) Salesforce
4 12 (5.71%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.71%) IBM
4 12 (5.71%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.71%) Sybase
5 11 (5.24%) Xamarin
6 9 (4.29%) Google
7 6 (2.86%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.90%) SAP
9 3 (1.43%) Sparx
9 3 (1.43%) VMware
10 2 (0.95%) New Relic
11 1 (0.48%) Databricks
11 1 (0.48%) Dell
11 1 (0.48%) UiPath
11 1 (0.48%) YouTube