Retail Contracts in London

Retailing
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in London. 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 74 105 67
Rank change year-on-year +31 -38 +27
Contract jobs citing Retail 507 631 1,516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.90% 2.43% 3.89%
As % of the General category 4.60% 3.83% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 392 949
10th Percentile £300 £360 £413
25th Percentile £406 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £836 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile - - £26.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £31.17 £38.13
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.92 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.91% -36.16% -30.56%
75th Percentile £25.44 £37.71 £66.25
90th Percentile £35.07 £40.73 £72.85
England median hourly rate £16.00 £20.63 £16.50
% change year-on-year -22.42% +25.00% +17.86%

All General Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,025 16,456 23,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.08% 63.25% 60.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,876 11,929 16,992
10th Percentile £336 £380 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 211 300
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.61 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -20.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £44.75 £53.36 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
% change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in London

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in London

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail in London

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in London

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Retail in London

Retail
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the London 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
Central London +37 80 £531 +0.24% 64
West London +24 6 £250 -2.91% 45
East London -2 1 £575 +31.43% 98
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (1.38%) CMS
2 6 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (0.99%) Confluence
3 5 (0.99%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.39%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) Appian
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.97%) Photoshop
4 9 (1.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.58%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (1.18%) InDesign
7 5 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.79%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.59%) Trello
10 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.39%) Final Cut Pro
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.39%) Sketch
11 1 (0.20%) Blender
11 1 (0.20%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.20%) InVision
Business Applications
1 27 (5.33%) Shopify
2 22 (4.34%) Dynamics AX
2 22 (4.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.18%) SAP Retail
4 4 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.79%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.59%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.59%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.59%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.39%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 2 (0.39%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 74 (14.60%) Azure
2 41 (8.09%) AWS
2 41 (8.09%) Power Platform
3 34 (6.71%) GCP
4 31 (6.11%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (4.34%) BigCommerce
7 21 (4.14%) Power Automate
7 21 (4.14%) PowerApps
8 16 (3.16%) Google Analytics
9 12 (2.37%) Adobe Analytics
9 12 (2.37%) Serverless
10 10 (1.97%) GitHub
11 9 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.58%) Apigee
12 8 (1.58%) Figma
13 7 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (0.99%) SaaS
15 4 (0.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.78%) Firewall
2 4 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (0.79%) Internet
3 3 (0.59%) VPN
4 2 (0.39%) ATM
4 2 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.39%) CTI
4 2 (0.39%) DHCP
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
4 2 (0.39%) FTP
4 2 (0.39%) Network Security
4 2 (0.39%) RFID
4 2 (0.39%) SCCP
4 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.39%) VoIP
5 1 (0.20%) VLAN
5 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.09%) Power BI
2 29 (5.72%) Data Lake
3 12 (2.37%) MySQL
3 12 (2.37%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.97%) BigQuery
4 10 (1.97%) Tableau
5 9 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.78%) Metadata
6 7 (1.38%) Looker
7 6 (1.18%) Data Mining
7 6 (1.18%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.18%) SAP HANA
8 4 (0.79%) Big Data
8 4 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (2.76%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.37%) Git
2 12 (2.37%) JIRA
3 10 (1.97%) Postman
4 7 (1.38%) ERwin
5 6 (1.18%) Maven
5 6 (1.18%) Selenium
6 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.79%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 3 (0.59%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.39%) Appium
8 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.20%) Darcs
9 1 (0.20%) GitLab
9 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.20%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 142 (28.01%) Finance
1 142 (28.01%) Social Skills
2 68 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (12.43%) Marketing
4 60 (11.83%) Banking
5 33 (6.51%) Investment Banking
6 30 (5.92%) Corporate Banking
7 27 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.33%) Retail Banking
8 25 (4.93%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.14%) General Ledger
10 17 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.17%) Advertising
11 11 (2.17%) Legal
11 11 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.58%) Electronics
15 5 (0.99%) Wholesale Banking
16 4 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 60 (11.83%) Analyst
2 59 (11.64%) Project Manager
3 52 (10.26%) Architect
4 49 (9.66%) Senior
5 44 (8.68%) Consultant
6 42 (8.28%) Lead
7 39 (7.69%) Developer
8 28 (5.52%) Business Analyst
9 27 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (3.75%) Microsoft Consultant
11 15 (2.96%) Data Analyst
12 14 (2.76%) Product Manager
13 13 (2.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 13 (2.56%) Product Owner
14 12 (2.37%) Functional Consultant
15 11 (2.17%) Data Architect
15 11 (2.17%) Enterprise Architect
15 11 (2.17%) Java Engineer
16 10 (1.97%) SAP Consultant
17 9 (1.78%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.35%) HTML
1 17 (3.35%) VML
2 16 (3.16%) CSS
2 16 (3.16%) React
3 15 (2.96%) Spring
4 12 (2.37%) GraphQL
4 12 (2.37%) Node.js
4 12 (2.37%) Spring Boot
5 11 (2.17%) .NET
5 11 (2.17%) REST
5 11 (2.17%) Web Services
6 10 (1.97%) jQuery
6 10 (1.97%) Swagger
7 8 (1.58%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.38%) JSON
9 6 (1.18%) PySpark
9 6 (1.18%) Sass
10 5 (0.99%) DOM
10 5 (0.99%) Java EE
10 5 (0.99%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.13%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.34%) FMCG
3 20 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 10 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.78%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.78%) Credit Risk
6 9 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
6 9 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.58%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.38%) Wiki
9 6 (1.18%) EPoS
9 6 (1.18%) Life Science
10 5 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
10 5 (0.99%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.79%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.79%) Replication
12 3 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.96%) Windows
2 13 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 11 (2.17%) Android
4 8 (1.58%) Linux
4 8 (1.58%) Unix
5 4 (0.79%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.59%) Mac OS X
6 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.20%) VMS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (24.26%) Agile
2 70 (13.81%) E-Commerce
3 67 (13.21%) DevOps
4 60 (11.83%) Analytics
5 53 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 47 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (9.27%) Customer Experience
8 43 (8.48%) Project Management
9 36 (7.10%) CI/CD
10 34 (6.71%) Roadmaps
10 34 (6.71%) Scrum
11 33 (6.51%) Software Engineering
12 31 (6.11%) Wealth Management
13 29 (5.72%) Migration
14 28 (5.52%) Microservices
15 27 (5.33%) Accounts Payable
15 27 (5.33%) Data Modelling
15 27 (5.33%) Requirements Gathering
16 26 (5.13%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 50 (9.86%) Python
1 50 (9.86%) SQL
2 24 (4.73%) Java
3 22 (4.34%) JavaScript
4 15 (2.96%) C#
5 9 (1.78%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.38%) PHP
7 6 (1.18%) Go
8 5 (0.99%) ABAP
9 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.59%) R
10 2 (0.39%) Perl
10 2 (0.39%) Scala
11 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.20%) Bash
11 1 (0.20%) C
11 1 (0.20%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 64 (12.62%) Degree
2 12 (2.37%) PMI Certification
3 11 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 10 (1.97%) PMP
5 9 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.99%) CISSP
7 5 (0.99%) SAP Certification
8 4 (0.79%) CEH
8 4 (0.79%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.79%) Security Cleared
9 3 (0.59%) CIMA
10 2 (0.39%) CISA
10 2 (0.39%) CISM
10 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.39%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.39%) MCITP
10 2 (0.39%) PgMP
10 2 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.94%) PMO
2 17 (3.35%) QA
3 16 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.96%) GDPR
5 8 (1.58%) SLA
6 6 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.59%) COBIT
8 3 (0.59%) GAAP
8 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.59%) NIST
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) IFRS
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.39%) P3O
9 2 (0.39%) PSD2
9 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (2.37%) Docker
2 11 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (1.97%) Ansible
1 10 (1.97%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.78%) Terraform
3 7 (1.38%) Puppet
4 4 (0.79%) Grafana
5 3 (0.59%) Kibana
6 2 (0.39%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.39%) Nessus
6 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.39%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) Consul
7 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.20%) logstash
7 1 (0.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 86 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 74 (14.60%) SAP
3 49 (9.66%) Google
4 46 (9.07%) Adobe
5 31 (6.11%) Salesforce
6 22 (4.34%) Sitecore
7 20 (3.94%) Oracle
8 12 (2.37%) Apple
8 12 (2.37%) Databricks
9 10 (1.97%) Dell
9 10 (1.97%) Optimizely
10 9 (1.78%) Cisco
10 9 (1.78%) Intel
11 8 (1.58%) Monetate
12 7 (1.38%) Planview
12 7 (1.38%) Sparx
13 6 (1.18%) Ensighten
13 6 (1.18%) Omniture
13 6 (1.18%) Tealium
14 4 (0.79%) Palo Alto