Refactoring Contracts

Refactoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 569 557
Rank change year-on-year +59 -12 -59
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 77 126 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.22% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.25% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 90 242
10th Percentile - £369 £463
25th Percentile £400 £375 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £623 £548 £750
90th Percentile £844 £678 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +3.13% -30.43% +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 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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 29 May 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 29 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
England +53 61 £500 +12.36% 41
UK excluding London +42 35 £413 +3.13% 23
London +57 33 £615 +29.47% 17
Work from Home +82 26 £615 +36.67% 19
North of England +37 11 £500 +21.21% 2
South East -13 11 £400 +6.95% 7
Scotland +37 9 £575 -4.56%
North West +28 9 - - 1
Wales - 2 £375 -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
Midlands +19 1 - - 7
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
South West +4 1 £413 -36.54% 7

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 5 (6.49%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) CMS
2 4 (5.19%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) FLEXCUBE
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.27%) AWS
2 14 (18.18%) Azure
3 8 (10.39%) Serverless
4 6 (7.79%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (7.79%) Amazon S3
4 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (7.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (6.49%) GCP
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.90%) GitHub
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.30%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.30%) Heroku
9 1 (1.30%) Kong
9 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) HTTP
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.79%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.90%) MySQL
4 2 (2.60%) DB2
5 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.30%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) JIRA
2 10 (12.99%) Git
3 9 (11.69%) Cypress.io
3 9 (11.69%) GitLab
4 5 (6.49%) Gradle
5 4 (5.19%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.19%) Selenium
6 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.90%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.60%) Android Studio
7 2 (2.60%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.60%) HP UFT
7 2 (2.60%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.30%) Balsamiq
8 1 (1.30%) Toad
8 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
4 10 (12.99%) Finance
5 9 (11.69%) Front Office
6 7 (9.09%) Banking
7 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.90%) Law
7 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Marketing
9 1 (1.30%) Automotive
9 1 (1.30%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (44.16%) Developer
2 10 (12.99%) Software Engineer
3 9 (11.69%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 9 (11.69%) React Developer
4 7 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 7 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
4 7 (9.09%) Java Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) C++ Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Security Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Senior
5 6 (7.79%) Windows Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.49%) C# Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Software Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Front Office Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (27.27%) React
2 11 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 9 (11.69%) Reactive Extensions
3 9 (11.69%) Redux
3 9 (11.69%) REST
4 8 (10.39%) CSS
5 5 (6.49%) HTML
5 5 (6.49%) Next.js
5 5 (6.49%) Spring
6 4 (5.19%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.19%) HTML5
6 4 (5.19%) Web Services
7 3 (3.90%) .NET
7 3 (3.90%) RAML
7 3 (3.90%) WPF
8 2 (2.60%) Jest
8 2 (2.60%) Node.js
8 2 (2.60%) Nuxt
8 2 (2.60%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.30%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) CCTV
2 7 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (9.09%) Legacy Code
3 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.90%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.30%) Animation
6 1 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.30%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.08%) Windows
2 11 (14.29%) Linux
3 8 (10.39%) Unix
4 5 (6.49%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.60%) Android
6 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (57.14%) Agile
2 24 (31.17%) Software Engineering
3 17 (22.08%) DevOps
4 14 (18.18%) Design Patterns
5 13 (16.88%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 10 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (12.99%) SDLC
8 9 (11.69%) Economics
8 9 (11.69%) Electronic Trading
8 9 (11.69%) End-to-End Testing
8 9 (11.69%) Front End Development
8 9 (11.69%) OCR
8 9 (11.69%) Scrum
8 9 (11.69%) Software Testing
8 9 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (11.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.57%) SQL
2 19 (24.68%) C#
2 19 (24.68%) Java
3 17 (22.08%) Python
4 15 (19.48%) TypeScript
5 10 (12.99%) C++
6 8 (10.39%) Bash
6 8 (10.39%) PowerShell
7 7 (9.09%) Kotlin
8 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
8 6 (7.79%) PHP
9 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.30%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.30%) Go
10 1 (1.30%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.30%) Perl
10 1 (1.30%) Swift
10 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (9.09%) Degree
2 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) CSPO
4 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) QA
2 8 (10.39%) ISO 9001
2 8 (10.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.30%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (15.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.99%) Terraform
3 6 (7.79%) Ansible
3 6 (7.79%) SCCM
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Splunk
3 4 (5.19%) Google
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle
5 2 (2.60%) Databricks
5 2 (2.60%) Greenplum
5 2 (2.60%) HP
6 1 (1.30%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.30%) SAP