Retrofit Contract Job Trends in the South East

Square Retrofit
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Retrofit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 - 212
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.019% - 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -19.05% -19.23% +31.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 858 499 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.02% 16.98% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 318 442
10th Percentile £330 £350 £316
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +4.80% -7.83%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £613
90th Percentile £686 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -2.42% -0.83% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 37
10th Percentile £40.00 £28.36 £44.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £44.43 £56.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.46% -5.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.81 £78.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%

Retrofit
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Retrofit job vacancy trend in the South East

Retrofit
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Retrofit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Retrofit

Retrofit
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retrofit within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Surrey - 1 £413 -
Retrofit
England

Retrofit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior 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