Retrofit Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Square Retrofit
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Retrofit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 - 117
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.22% - 0.097%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.12% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £507
25th Percentile £363 - £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 - £569
75th Percentile £393 - £605
90th Percentile £397 - £606
UK median daily rate £406 £500 £569
% change year-on-year -18.75% -12.09% -3.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 446 405 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.80% 23.80% 20.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 257 298
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -3.65%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £559
90th Percentile £644 £600 £679
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile - - £36.10
25th Percentile - £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - +15.23%
75th Percentile £64.00 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £64.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

Retrofit
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Retrofit job vacancy trend in Scotland

Retrofit
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retrofit within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
Glasgow - 5 £383 - 6
Retrofit
UK

Retrofit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (100.00%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Gradle
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Android Development
1 5 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 5 (100.00%) MVVM
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google