Retail Contracts in Bedfordshire

Retailing
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail 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 24 24 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -12 +3
Contract jobs citing Retail 8 9 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.51% 5.36% 11.64%
As % of the General category 4.97% 8.57% 15.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 21
10th Percentile £358 - £450
25th Percentile - £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £520
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% +22.28%
75th Percentile £550 - £550
90th Percentile £573 - £675
East of England median daily rate £413 £600 £510
% change year-on-year -31.25% +17.65% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.29 - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.37 £19.81 £19.50
% change year-on-year +7.87% +1.59% +44.44%

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

Retail falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 161 105 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 70.61% 62.50% 74.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 68 123
10th Percentile £300 £208 £267
25th Percentile £393 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +4.40%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £535
90th Percentile £730 £633 £638
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 13
10th Percentile £15.34 - £16.75
25th Percentile £15.39 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £21.50 £90.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.11% +71.43% +238.71%
75th Percentile £45.31 - £65.25
90th Percentile £65.00 - £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year +92.43% +27.81% +3.33%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Bedfordshire

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Bedfordshire

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Bedfordshire

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Bedfordshire

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Bedfordshire region 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
Dunstable -4 2 £500 +2.56%
Luton -5 2 £275 -43.59% 1
Bedford - 2 - - 6
Leighton Buzzard - 1 £575 - 1
Retail
East of England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) WhatsApp
3 1 (12.50%) Boomi
General
1 2 (25.00%) Automotive
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) HR Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) HR Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) HR Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) FMCG
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (25.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
2 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Microservices
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Management
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks