Retail Contracts in Birmingham

Retailing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 49 62 55
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing Retail 14 14 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.83% 1.57% 2.99%
As % of the General category 3.62% 2.87% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 28
10th Percentile £281 £306 £409
25th Percentile £434 £431 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £750 £547 £688
90th Percentile £813 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £650 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +36.84% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £11.06 - -
Median hourly rate £11.65 - -
75th Percentile £13.14 - -
90th Percentile £15.16 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £13.83 - -

All General Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 387 487 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 50.52% 54.78% 57.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 323 525
10th Percentile £200 £300 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +10.53% +15.50%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £593
90th Percentile £699 £731 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 30 15
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.90 £12.70
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £24.65 £20.60 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.65% +21.19% +5.43%
75th Percentile £48.75 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £68.25 £18.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.30 £20.97 £17.00
% change year-on-year -7.99% +23.35% +13.33%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Birmingham

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Birmingham

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Birmingham

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Birmingham

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (7.14%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Cantonese Language
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Mandarin Language
2 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Analyst
1 2 (14.29%) Coordinator
1 2 (14.29%) Developer
1 2 (14.29%) Head of Analytics
1 2 (14.29%) Lead
1 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) CCTV Operator
2 1 (7.14%) Copywriter
2 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
2 1 (7.14%) Digital Copywriter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Laravel
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) FMCG
2 1 (7.14%) CCTV
2 1 (7.14%) Handset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Data Science
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Data Management
4 2 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (14.29%) Facilities Management
4 2 (14.29%) Inventory Control
4 2 (14.29%) Inventory Management
4 2 (14.29%) Line Management
4 2 (14.29%) Logistics
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (14.29%) Supplier Management
4 2 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 2 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft