Refactoring Contracts

Refactoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Refactoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Refactoring over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 569 558
Rank change year-on-year +66 -11 -50
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 81 128 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.26% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 90 257
10th Percentile £395 £369 £463
25th Percentile £405 £381 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +17.63% -22.45% +2.08%
75th Percentile £641 £547 £744
90th Percentile £841 £653 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £375 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -34.78% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £47.96 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £48.30 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.25% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £49.43 -
90th Percentile - £49.77 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 £48.87 -
% change year-on-year +47.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Refactoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Refactoring over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Refactoring in the UK

Refactoring
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +43 66 £525 +16.67% 48
London +53 36 £615 +29.47% 25
UK excluding London +19 35 £413 +10.00% 22
Work from Home +83 30 £615 +29.47% 23
North of England +28 13 £500 +17.65% 6
South East -4 11 £400 +6.95% 6
North West +23 10 - - 1
Scotland +50 7 £575 +9.52%
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 5
Wales - 2 £375 -
West Midlands +17 1 - - 1
Midlands +16 1 - - 5
East of England +5 1 £725 +262.50%

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 6 (7.41%) Confluence
2 5 (6.17%) CMS
2 5 (6.17%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Jetty
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) FLEXCUBE
1 2 (2.47%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (29.63%) AWS
2 15 (18.52%) Azure
3 10 (12.35%) Serverless
4 6 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 6 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (7.41%) GCP
4 6 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.70%) Azure Functions
6 3 (3.70%) GitHub
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.47%) Azure App Service
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.47%) Kong
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.23%) Heroku
8 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) HTTP
2 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) FTP
3 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.23%) Internet
3 1 (1.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.70%) MySQL
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.23%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (20.99%) JIRA
2 10 (12.35%) Git
3 9 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 7 (8.64%) GitLab
5 4 (4.94%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.94%) Gradle
5 4 (4.94%) Selenium
6 3 (3.70%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.47%) Android Studio
7 2 (2.47%) HP UFT
7 2 (2.47%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.23%) Balsamiq
8 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (1.23%) Toad
8 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.35%) Finance
5 9 (11.11%) Front Office
6 8 (9.88%) Banking
7 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.47%) Marketing
9 1 (1.23%) Automotive
9 1 (1.23%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.23%) Law
9 1 (1.23%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
9 1 (1.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (44.44%) Developer
2 10 (12.35%) Software Engineer
3 9 (11.11%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 9 (11.11%) React Developer
3 9 (11.11%) Senior
4 7 (8.64%) Architect
4 7 (8.64%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (8.64%) Java Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) C++ Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 6 (7.41%) Security Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.17%) C# Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Software Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.69%) React
2 12 (14.81%) AngularJS
3 11 (13.58%) REST
4 10 (12.35%) CSS
5 9 (11.11%) Reactive Extensions
5 9 (11.11%) Redux
6 7 (8.64%) HTML
6 7 (8.64%) Web Services
7 5 (6.17%) HTML5
7 5 (6.17%) Next.js
7 5 (6.17%) Spring
8 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.70%) .NET
9 3 (3.70%) Jest
9 3 (3.70%) Node.js
9 3 (3.70%) Nuxt
9 3 (3.70%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.70%) WPF
10 2 (2.47%) J2EE
10 2 (2.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) CCTV
2 8 (9.88%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.41%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Animation
6 1 (1.23%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.99%) Windows
2 13 (16.05%) Linux
3 6 (7.41%) Unix
4 5 (6.17%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.47%) Android
6 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (55.56%) Agile
2 26 (32.10%) Software Engineering
3 17 (20.99%) DevOps
4 14 (17.28%) Design Patterns
5 12 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 11 (13.58%) Containerisation
7 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (12.35%) SDLC
7 10 (12.35%) Software Testing
8 9 (11.11%) Code Quality
8 9 (11.11%) Economics
8 9 (11.11%) Electronic Trading
8 9 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
8 9 (11.11%) Migration
8 9 (11.11%) OCR
8 9 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (9.88%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.16%) SQL
2 19 (23.46%) C#
2 19 (23.46%) Java
3 18 (22.22%) Python
4 14 (17.28%) TypeScript
5 10 (12.35%) C++
6 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.88%) Bash
7 8 (9.88%) PowerShell
8 6 (7.41%) Kotlin
8 6 (7.41%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.23%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) Swift
9 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.23%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.23%) CSPO
4 1 (1.23%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) ISO 9001
1 8 (9.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (9.88%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) GRC
2 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (14.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.58%) Terraform
3 6 (7.41%) Ansible
3 6 (7.41%) SCCM
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.41%) Splunk
3 5 (6.17%) Google
3 5 (6.17%) Oracle
4 2 (2.47%) Databricks
4 2 (2.47%) HP
5 1 (1.23%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) SAP