Refactoring Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 702 735 458
Rank change year-on-year +33 -277 +109
Permanent jobs citing Refactoring 207 215 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.23% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.24% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 137 123 417
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £64,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% +22.73%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £94,400 £96,250
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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +15 171 £62,500 -16.67% 48
UK excluding London +40 154 £60,500 -13.57% 22
Work from Home +43 113 £60,000 -20.00% 25
London +37 42 £88,750 +18.33% 24
South West +8 41 £60,000 -25.00% 4
North of England +57 38 £61,250 +25.64% 6
South East -16 31 £60,500 -13.57% 5
North West +12 27 £60,000 +20.00% 3
Wales +27 19 £62,500 -
East of England +10 15 £40,000 -50.00% 1
Yorkshire +71 11 £75,000 +57.89% 3
Scotland -63 6 £60,000 -
Midlands -17 3 £50,000 +28.21% 6
East Midlands -17 2 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +18 1 - -
West Midlands -19 1 - - 2

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 (5.31%) Confluence
2 5 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.45%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.97%) IIS
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (1.45%) MS Visio
1 3 (1.45%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.48%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 78 (37.68%) Azure
2 75 (36.23%) AWS
3 28 (13.53%) OpenShift
4 23 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (11.11%) GitHub
5 17 (8.21%) Heroku
5 17 (8.21%) SaaS
6 13 (6.28%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
7 12 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (5.80%) IBM Cloud
7 12 (5.80%) OCI
7 12 (5.80%) Route 53
8 8 (3.86%) Serverless
9 5 (2.42%) Azure Functions
9 5 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.42%) IaaS
9 5 (2.42%) PaaS
10 4 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.93%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.45%) Internet
2 1 (0.48%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (23.19%) SQL Server
2 23 (11.11%) MySQL
3 22 (10.63%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.73%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (6.28%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.80%) DB2
7 12 (5.80%) RDBMS
8 11 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (5.31%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.90%) GIS
10 5 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.45%) Big Data
12 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.48%) Power BI
12 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (21.26%) Git
2 25 (12.08%) GitLab
3 16 (7.73%) Jenkins
4 13 (6.28%) JIRA
5 9 (4.35%) Selenium
6 8 (3.86%) LabVIEW
7 5 (2.42%) Moq
8 4 (1.93%) NUnit
9 3 (1.45%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.45%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.45%) Gradle
9 3 (1.45%) webpack
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.48%) MSTest
10 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 38 (18.36%) Finance
2 33 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.18%) Electronics
4 18 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.21%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.76%) Retail
7 13 (6.28%) Legal
7 13 (6.28%) Marketing
8 9 (4.35%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.90%) Games
10 4 (1.93%) Aviation
10 4 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.45%) Law
11 3 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.97%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.48%) Automotive
13 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (60.87%) Developer
2 78 (37.68%) Senior
3 43 (20.77%) Senior Developer
4 26 (12.56%) Lead
5 24 (11.59%) Software Developer
6 20 (9.66%) Cloud Developer
7 19 (9.18%) .NET Developer
8 17 (8.21%) Salesforce Developer
8 17 (8.21%) Software Engineer
9 16 (7.73%) Technical Leader
10 14 (6.76%) Java Developer
11 13 (6.28%) PHP Developer
12 12 (5.80%) Azure Developer
12 12 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.80%) Full Stack Developer
12 12 (5.80%) Full Stack Engineer
13 10 (4.83%) Analyst
13 10 (4.83%) Senior .NET Developer
13 10 (4.83%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
13 10 (4.83%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (43.96%) .NET
2 55 (26.57%) React
3 33 (15.94%) AngularJS
4 30 (14.49%) CSS
5 28 (13.53%) Spring
6 24 (11.59%) HTML
7 21 (10.14%) Node.js
8 19 (9.18%) Vue
9 18 (8.70%) REST
10 17 (8.21%) Lightning Web Components
10 17 (8.21%) Visualforce
11 15 (7.25%) JSON
12 14 (6.76%) .NET Core
12 14 (6.76%) ASP.NET
12 14 (6.76%) Laravel
13 12 (5.80%) Spring XD
13 12 (5.80%) Swagger
13 12 (5.80%) XML
14 11 (5.31%) .NET Framework
15 8 (3.86%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
1 13 (6.28%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.80%) Blockchain
2 12 (5.80%) e-Learning
3 10 (4.83%) Virtual Team
4 9 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (3.38%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.38%) IoT
5 7 (3.38%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.90%) Market Risk
7 5 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.42%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.42%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.93%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.45%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.59%) Windows
2 15 (7.25%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.42%) Unix
4 4 (1.93%) Android
4 4 (1.93%) Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (52.17%) Agile
2 74 (35.75%) DevOps
3 55 (26.57%) Mentoring
4 52 (25.12%) Test Automation
5 48 (23.19%) Full Stack Development
6 47 (22.71%) Software Engineering
7 44 (21.26%) TDD
8 43 (20.77%) CI/CD
9 40 (19.32%) Microservices
9 40 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (15.94%) Artificial Intelligence
11 29 (14.01%) Unit Testing
12 28 (13.53%) Coaching
13 27 (13.04%) Scrum
14 24 (11.59%) Computer Science
14 24 (11.59%) OOP
14 24 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (10.14%) Migration
17 19 (9.18%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.82%) C#
2 68 (32.85%) Java
3 51 (24.64%) JavaScript
4 44 (21.26%) Python
4 44 (21.26%) SQL
5 37 (17.87%) TypeScript
6 30 (14.49%) PHP
7 17 (8.21%) Apex Code
8 11 (5.31%) VB.NET
9 9 (4.35%) Bash
10 8 (3.86%) Ada
10 8 (3.86%) Go
11 6 (2.90%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.93%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.93%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.45%) Ruby
13 3 (1.45%) VBA
14 2 (0.97%) C
14 2 (0.97%) C++
14 2 (0.97%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 35 (16.91%) Degree
2 17 (8.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (5.31%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.86%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.42%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.25%) QA
2 4 (1.93%) DICOM
2 4 (1.93%) HL7
2 4 (1.93%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (15.94%) Docker
2 3 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 34 (16.43%) Terraform
3 16 (7.73%) Ansible
4 12 (5.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.56%) Oracle
3 17 (8.21%) Salesforce
4 12 (5.80%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.80%) IBM
4 12 (5.80%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.80%) Sybase
5 11 (5.31%) Xamarin
6 9 (4.35%) Google
7 6 (2.90%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.93%) SAP
9 3 (1.45%) Sparx
9 3 (1.45%) VMware
10 2 (0.97%) New Relic
11 1 (0.48%) Dell
11 1 (0.48%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.48%) UiPath
11 1 (0.48%) YouTube