Square Retrofit
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Retrofit skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retrofit over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 881 895 1089
Rank change year-on-year +14 +194 -233
Permanent jobs citing Retrofit 13 98 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.094% 0.080%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.062% 0.31% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 30
10th Percentile £51,250 £62,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £69,227 £65,000 £58,861
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,288 £78,142 £66,786
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% +17.00% +33.57%
75th Percentile £90,484 £89,852 £71,248
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,311 £87,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £83,577 - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +23.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,028 31,808 62,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.42% 30.35% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,726 19,512 30,385
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Retrofit
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retrofit as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retrofit in the UK

Retrofit
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retrofit.

Salary trend for Retrofit in the UK

Retrofit
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retrofit over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Retrofit in the UK

Retrofit
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retrofit within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +39 9 £68,038 -12.93%
England +29 8 £84,288 +7.87%
London +57 6 £85,000 +8.78%
UK excluding London -8 2 £83,577 -
South West - 2 £83,577 -

Retrofit
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (30.77%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) JUnit
2 4 (30.77%) CircleCI
2 4 (30.77%) fastlane
3 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
1 7 (53.85%) Retail
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 5 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (30.77%) Legal
5 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Android Developer
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Android Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Mobile Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Android Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Mobile Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Android Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Dagger
2 8 (61.54%) Android Jetpack
3 7 (53.85%) RxJava
4 5 (38.46%) XML
5 4 (30.77%) Android SDK
5 4 (30.77%) JSON
5 4 (30.77%) Ktor
5 4 (30.77%) REST
6 2 (15.38%) CSS
6 2 (15.38%) CSS3
6 2 (15.38%) HTML
6 2 (15.38%) HTML5
6 2 (15.38%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (15.38%) RESTful
6 2 (15.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Blog
2 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
3 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Android
2 5 (38.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Android Development
2 6 (46.15%) Mobile Development
2 6 (46.15%) MVVM
3 5 (38.46%) Clean Code
3 5 (38.46%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (38.46%) Disruptive Innovation
3 5 (38.46%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Fintech
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Mobile Application Development
4 4 (30.77%) SOLID
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Open Source
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Push Notifications
5 2 (15.38%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Kotlin
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) QA
2 5 (38.46%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google