Retrofit Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Square Retrofit
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Retrofit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.20% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 109 53 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.20% 23.35% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 42 14
10th Percentile £379 £356 £354
25th Percentile £413 £380 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -21.74%
75th Percentile £550 £502 £519
90th Percentile £594 £589 £620
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £460 £431
% change year-on-year +3.26% +6.73% -25.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile £56.50 - -
25th Percentile £61.88 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £70.00 - -

Retrofit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Crashlytics
1 1 (100.00%) fastlane
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Android SDK
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Google