Retrofit Contract Job Trends in the South West

Square Retrofit
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Retrofit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.027% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -10.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 638 316 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.05% 16.22% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 199 283
10th Percentile £398 £332 £355
25th Percentile £450 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £635
90th Percentile £725 £675 £690
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.85% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 35 51
10th Percentile £53.25 £61.55 £65.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -
75th Percentile £91.90 £68.00 £74.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £70.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +22.25% -12.60% +0.68%

Retrofit
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Retrofit job vacancy trend in the South West

Retrofit
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Retrofit
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (100.00%) Bitrise
1 1 (100.00%) Firebase
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Dagger
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Insurtech
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA