Retrofit Contract Job Trends in the North West

Square Retrofit
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Retrofit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.081% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £425 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -19.05% -19.23% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 510 354 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.76% 16.33% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 228 450
10th Percentile £325 £354 £367
25th Percentile £380 £402 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £664 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 31
10th Percentile £50.25 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £55.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +20.92% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £74.98 £76.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Retrofit
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retrofit relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Retrofit job vacancy trend in the North West

Retrofit
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Retrofit
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Manchester - 2 - - 3
Retrofit
England

Retrofit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (50.00%) fastlane
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
1 1 (50.00%) XCTest
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Android Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Android Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) iOS Android Developer
1 1 (50.00%) iOS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 2 (100.00%) OkHttp
2 1 (50.00%) Dagger
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) JSON Schema
2 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) SwiftUI
2 1 (50.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Android Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) MVVM
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Server-Driven UI
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (50.00%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes