Retail Contracts in England

Retailing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 87 61
Rank change year-on-year +9 -26 +18
Contract jobs citing Retail 990 1,346 2,796
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.72% 2.78% 3.94%
As % of the General category 4.67% 4.69% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 804 1,703
10th Percentile £278 £351 £371
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £636 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £535 £536
% change year-on-year -5.52% -0.33% +7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 52 110
10th Percentile £11.44 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £20.63 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.42% +25.00% +17.86%
75th Percentile £21.37 £22.00 £22.00
90th Percentile £21.46 £22.16 £22.25
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £20.25 £16.50
% change year-on-year -20.99% +22.73% +10.00%

All General Skills
England

Retail is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,189 28,708 40,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.21% 59.25% 56.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,665 20,155 28,265
10th Percentile £281 £315 £317
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 931 1,312
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%
75th Percentile £52.35 £60.56 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.59 £70.00 £59.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in England

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in England

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in England

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in England

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Retail in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Retail in England

Retail
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +31 507 £505 -8.18% 719
North of England -5 148 £506 -3.57% 510
South East +12 121 £475 -13.64% 434
East of England +1 100 £450 -21.74% 164
Yorkshire -8 73 £515 -6.36% 183
North West 0 65 £450 -10.00% 288
Midlands -20 50 £610 +34.81% 372
West Midlands +17 38 £650 +36.84% 201
South West -23 23 £475 -2.56% 201
East Midlands -17 12 £494 +16.18% 171
North East +7 5 £600 +6.19% 49
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (1.92%) CMS
2 16 (1.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 15 (1.52%) Confluence
4 11 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.61%) SAS
6 5 (0.51%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.10%) Appian
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 45 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.11%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.81%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.61%) InDesign
7 6 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.40%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.30%) Trello
10 2 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
10 2 (0.20%) Sketch
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.10%) Blender
11 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.10%) InVision
Business Applications
1 39 (3.94%) Shopify
2 33 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 32 (3.23%) Dynamics AX
4 17 (1.72%) SAP Retail
5 10 (1.01%) SAP Hybris
6 7 (0.71%) SAP ERP
7 6 (0.61%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.51%) Magento
8 5 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.40%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.40%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.40%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.40%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.30%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.20%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
11 2 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 122 (12.32%) Azure
2 84 (8.48%) AWS
3 77 (7.78%) Power Platform
4 59 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (4.75%) Dynamics 365
6 43 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (4.04%) GCP
8 31 (3.13%) BigCommerce
9 27 (2.73%) Power Automate
9 27 (2.73%) PowerApps
10 21 (2.12%) Serverless
11 17 (1.72%) Google Analytics
12 14 (1.41%) Adobe Analytics
12 14 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (1.41%) Cloudflare
13 13 (1.31%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.31%) SaaS
14 12 (1.21%) Akamai
14 12 (1.21%) Figma
15 11 (1.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.94%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (1.72%) Firewall
3 14 (1.41%) DNS
4 12 (1.21%) Network Security
5 11 (1.11%) ATM
6 10 (1.01%) VPN
7 7 (0.71%) LAN
7 7 (0.71%) VoIP
8 4 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.40%) CTI
8 4 (0.40%) Internet
8 4 (0.40%) WAN
8 4 (0.40%) Wireless
9 3 (0.30%) DHCP
9 3 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.30%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.20%) FTP
10 2 (0.20%) SMS
10 2 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.58%) Power BI
2 39 (3.94%) Data Lake
3 25 (2.53%) Tableau
4 19 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.92%) MySQL
5 18 (1.82%) SQL Server
6 13 (1.31%) Metadata
7 11 (1.11%) NoSQL
8 10 (1.01%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.91%) Data Mining
10 8 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.71%) Looker
11 7 (0.71%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.61%) Big Data
12 6 (0.61%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.61%) MS Access
12 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 38 (3.84%) JIRA
2 18 (1.82%) Git
3 14 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.21%) Postman
5 10 (1.01%) ERwin
6 6 (0.61%) Maven
6 6 (0.61%) Selenium
7 4 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 4 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.30%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.20%) Appium
9 2 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.20%) Darcs
9 2 (0.20%) GitLab
9 2 (0.20%) kappa
9 2 (0.20%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.10%) Jaeger
General
1 300 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 239 (24.14%) Finance
3 123 (12.42%) Marketing
4 111 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (7.88%) Banking
6 44 (4.44%) Manufacturing
7 39 (3.94%) Corporate Banking
8 36 (3.64%) Investment Banking
9 33 (3.33%) Public Sector
10 32 (3.23%) Telecoms
11 31 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (3.13%) Retail Banking
12 29 (2.93%) Legal
13 26 (2.63%) General Ledger
14 21 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.62%) Automotive
17 13 (1.31%) Electronics
18 12 (1.21%) Advertising
18 12 (1.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 159 (16.06%) Analyst
2 104 (10.51%) Project Manager
3 90 (9.09%) Architect
4 77 (7.78%) Consultant
5 71 (7.17%) Developer
6 61 (6.16%) Senior
7 60 (6.06%) Lead
8 54 (5.45%) Business Analyst
9 50 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (3.94%) Service Analyst
11 33 (3.33%) Service Desk Analyst
12 28 (2.83%) Data Analyst
13 23 (2.32%) SAP Consultant
14 21 (2.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 20 (2.02%) Microsoft Consultant
16 18 (1.82%) Enterprise Architect
17 17 (1.72%) Product Owner
17 17 (1.72%) Programme Manager
18 16 (1.62%) Data Architect
18 16 (1.62%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.53%) HTML
2 22 (2.22%) VML
3 20 (2.02%) CSS
4 19 (1.92%) React
5 18 (1.82%) Spring
6 16 (1.62%) .NET
7 15 (1.52%) REST
8 14 (1.41%) Node.js
8 14 (1.41%) Spring Boot
9 13 (1.31%) GraphQL
9 13 (1.31%) Web Services
10 12 (1.21%) JSON
11 10 (1.01%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.01%) jQuery
11 10 (1.01%) Swagger
12 8 (0.81%) Kafka
12 8 (0.81%) Middleware
12 8 (0.81%) OAuth
12 8 (0.81%) Sass
13 7 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.34%) FMCG
2 34 (3.43%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 30 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.83%) EPoS
6 23 (2.32%) Driving Licence
7 19 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 16 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.41%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.21%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.11%) Smartphone
12 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.01%) Wiki
13 9 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
13 9 (0.91%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.81%) Social Media
15 7 (0.71%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.84%) Windows
2 22 (2.22%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.31%) Android
3 13 (1.31%) Unix
4 12 (1.21%) Linux
4 12 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.71%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.30%) Debian
7 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.10%) VMS
8 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (17.58%) Agile
2 136 (13.74%) E-Commerce
3 101 (10.20%) DevOps
4 100 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 94 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (8.79%) Business Intelligence
7 85 (8.59%) Project Management
8 84 (8.48%) Analytics
8 84 (8.48%) Customer Service
8 84 (8.48%) Migration
9 64 (6.46%) Customer Experience
10 60 (6.06%) CRM
11 58 (5.86%) Decision-Making
12 56 (5.66%) Roadmaps
13 55 (5.56%) CI/CD
14 53 (5.35%) Coaching
15 50 (5.05%) Time Management
16 49 (4.95%) ITIL
17 47 (4.75%) Requirements Gathering
18 44 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 111 (11.21%) SQL
2 73 (7.37%) Python
3 32 (3.23%) Java
3 32 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 18 (1.82%) C#
5 10 (1.01%) Go
5 10 (1.01%) PHP
5 10 (1.01%) TypeScript
6 8 (0.81%) ABAP
6 8 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (0.51%) VBA
8 4 (0.40%) Bash
8 4 (0.40%) Scala
9 3 (0.30%) C++
9 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.30%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.30%) R
9 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.20%) C
10 2 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 94 (9.49%) Degree
2 39 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (2.83%) A+ Certification
3 28 (2.83%) MCSA
4 26 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.63%) Security Cleared
5 18 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.62%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.52%) PMI Certification
8 14 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.31%) PMP
10 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.61%) MCP
10 6 (0.61%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.51%) CISSP
12 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.40%) CEH
13 3 (0.30%) CIMA
13 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.54%) PMO
2 31 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.63%) QA
4 25 (2.53%) GDPR
5 22 (2.22%) SLA
6 10 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.51%) IFRS
8 5 (0.51%) ISO 22301
9 4 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.40%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.40%) NIST
9 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.30%) COBIT
10 3 (0.30%) GAAP
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.32%) Docker
3 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.10%) Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.52%) Terraform
3 13 (1.31%) Ansible
4 7 (0.71%) Puppet
5 4 (0.40%) Grafana
6 3 (0.30%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
7 2 (0.20%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.20%) Nessus
7 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.20%) SCCM
8 1 (0.10%) AppManager
8 1 (0.10%) Consul
8 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.10%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.10%) logstash
8 1 (0.10%) Packer
8 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 137 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 134 (13.54%) SAP
3 63 (6.36%) Adobe
4 61 (6.16%) Google
5 49 (4.95%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.43%) Oracle
8 29 (2.93%) Citrix
9 27 (2.73%) Sitecore
10 19 (1.92%) F5
11 15 (1.52%) Apple
11 15 (1.52%) Databricks
12 14 (1.41%) Cisco
13 13 (1.31%) Dell
13 13 (1.31%) Workday
14 12 (1.21%) Intel
15 10 (1.01%) Optimizely
15 10 (1.01%) Sparx
16 8 (0.81%) Monetate
16 8 (0.81%) RedPrairie