Retrofit Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Square Retrofit
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking 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 546 651 598
Rank change year-on-year +105 -53 +245
Permanent jobs citing Retrofit 4 1 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.002% 0.025%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.091% 0.010% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 - £75,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £83,577
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.08%
75th Percentile £50,000 - £91,934
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £45,000 £85,000 £83,577
% change year-on-year -47.06% +1.70% +25.14%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,409 9,889 8,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.76% 17.72% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,645 6,105 6,940
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £67,500 £63,277 £66,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.85% +2.31%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Retrofit.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Retrofit

Retrofit
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 4 £45,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 4 (100.00%) OkHttp
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Android Development
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 4 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 4 (100.00%) MVVM
1 4 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 4 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Samsung