Retrofit Contracts in the UK excluding London

Square Retrofit
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Retrofit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retrofit over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 - 503
Rank change year-on-year - - -83
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% - 0.007%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% - 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £517 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 - -
90th Percentile £606 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +21.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Retrofit is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,215 4,294 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.78% 18.27% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,098 3,209 4,365
10th Percentile £323 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 91 138
10th Percentile £21.49 £22.50 £20.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

Retrofit
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Retrofit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Retrofit in the UK excluding London

Retrofit
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retrofit in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Retrofit in the UK excluding London

Retrofit
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retrofit within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Scotland - 2 £569 -
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
Retrofit
UK

Retrofit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Android Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (100.00%) Dagger
1 4 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (50.00%) RxJava
3 1 (25.00%) Ktor
3 1 (25.00%) OkHttp
3 1 (25.00%) RAML
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) WireMock
3 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Dependency Injection
1 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) Android Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA