Retrofit Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Square Retrofit
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Retrofit skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 363 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.011% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.035% 0.066% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £507 -
25th Percentile £525 £517 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% - -
75th Percentile £575 £605 -
90th Percentile - £606 -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,862 3,037 3,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.54% 17.01% 17.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 1,913 2,745
10th Percentile £313 £325 £350
25th Percentile £393 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £612 £600
90th Percentile £636 £698 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 160 117
10th Percentile £31.89 £27.00 £45.37
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.94% -4.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.04 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.80 £59.52
% change year-on-year -15.05% +3.84% -0.81%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Retrofit.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Retrofit

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 10 September 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
Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 2
North of England - 1 £550 - 2
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Dagger
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree