Retrofit Contracts in England

Square Retrofit
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Retrofit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retrofit over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 646 769
Rank change year-on-year +112 +123 -162
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 2 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.005% 0.016% 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.069% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - £479 £487
25th Percentile - £503 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile - £675 £588
90th Percentile - - £660
UK median daily rate £569 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.55% +22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Retrofit is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,503 11,586 19,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.23% 23.08% 27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,336 8,569 14,399
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 138 211
10th Percentile £22.42 £28.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £42.81 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

Retrofit
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Retrofit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Retrofit in England

Retrofit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Retrofit in England

Retrofit
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retrofit within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Retrofit
UK

Retrofit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Android Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (100.00%) Dagger
1 2 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (100.00%) RxJava
2 1 (50.00%) Ktor
2 1 (50.00%) OkHttp
2 1 (50.00%) RAML
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) WireMock
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MVVM
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Push Notifications
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA