Retrofit Contract Job Trends in England

Square Retrofit
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Retrofit skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 524 602
Rank change year-on-year +11 +78 +159
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.065% 0.041% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £440 - £535
25th Percentile £446 £513 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £675
90th Percentile - £608 -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Retrofit falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,184 7,277 9,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.25% 22.23% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,208 4,864 6,912
10th Percentile £350 £360 £381
25th Percentile £410 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 175 157
10th Percentile £31.29 £27.30 £36.15
25th Percentile £42.63 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.35 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.17% -2.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £74.48 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.80 £59.52
% change year-on-year -15.05% +3.84% -0.81%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Retrofit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Retrofit

Retrofit
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrofit in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 10 September 2025. 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
London +23 3 £450 -14.29% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 2
North of England - 1 £550 - 2
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 2 (50.00%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Gradle
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Android Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Android Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (50.00%) Dagger
2 2 (50.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (50.00%) Material Design
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Android Development
2 2 (50.00%) Chat Support
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Push Notifications
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree