Retrofit Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Square Retrofit
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of 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 183 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.025% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% - -
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 £500 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -4.76% -19.23% +13.04%

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 843 731 1,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.16% 17.84% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 493 778
10th Percentile £333 £363 £363
25th Percentile £381 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £538 £610 £625
90th Percentile £625 £740 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 26
10th Percentile £27.60 £14.14 £41.82
25th Percentile £30.00 £26.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -34.03%
75th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £69.95 £64.38
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.17% -2.44%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Retrofit

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 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
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