Retrofit Contracts

Square Retrofit
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Retrofit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retrofit over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 690 817
Rank change year-on-year +112 +127 -110
Contract jobs citing Retrofit 6 7 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.013% 0.036%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.065% 0.055% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 21
10th Percentile £346 £479 £456
25th Percentile £445 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £611 £675 £588
90th Percentile £619 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 - -

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 contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retrofit.

Daily rate trend for Retrofit in the UK

Retrofit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrofit over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retrofit in the UK

Retrofit
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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
UK excluding London - 4 £569 -
England +82 3 £600 +14.29% 1
Scotland - 2 £569 -
Work from Home - 2 £440 - 1
London +76 1 £600 +14.29% 1
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

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 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Android Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 6 (100.00%) Dagger
2 5 (83.33%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (33.33%) RxJava
4 1 (16.67%) Android SDK
4 1 (16.67%) Ktor
4 1 (16.67%) OkHttp
4 1 (16.67%) RAML
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) WireMock
4 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Code
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Android Development
1 4 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) MVVM
2 3 (50.00%) SOLID
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA