Retrofit Jobs

Square Retrofit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Retrofit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retrofit over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 896 868
Rank change year-on-year +195 -28 +195
Permanent jobs citing Retrofit 8 12 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.011% 0.061%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.082% 0.054% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 23
10th Percentile - £51,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £58,438 £68,002
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £85,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +5.86% +20.23%
75th Percentile £50,000 £90,000 £96,363
90th Percentile - - £97,458
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,720 22,405 26,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 20.04% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,862 16,590 17,321
10th Percentile £37,775 £36,250 £40,920
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,350 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £86,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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
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 22 June 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
England +180 8 £45,000 -47.06% 11
Work from Home +112 4 £45,000 -14.29% 4
London +111 4 - - 7
South West - 4 £45,000 - 2
UK excluding London - 4 £45,000 - 4

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Bitrise
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) Android Studio
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) JUnit
3 2 (25.00%) git-flow
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) UI Automator
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Law
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
1 2 (25.00%) Publishing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Android Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Android Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Android Jetpack
1 6 (75.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 6 (75.00%) OkHttp
2 4 (50.00%) Dagger
3 2 (25.00%) Android SDK
3 2 (25.00%) React Native
3 2 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) RxJava
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Android
2 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Android Development
1 8 (100.00%) MVVM
2 4 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 4 (50.00%) Mobile Development
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (25.00%) Application Security
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) SOLID
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Samsung