Retrofit Contracts in the North of England

Square Retrofit
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Retrofit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retrofit over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 185 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% 0.022% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 676 904 1,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.33% 19.47% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 608 848
10th Percentile £358 £362 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £694 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 9
10th Percentile £65.25 £14.56 £37.79
25th Percentile £67.63 £21.25 £48.50
Median hourly rate £82.50 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.65% -26.11% +10.62%
75th Percentile £100.28 £69.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

Retrofit
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retrofit in the North of England

Retrofit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Retrofit in the North of England

Retrofit
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 2
Retrofit
England

Retrofit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Dagger
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree