Retail Contracts in the North of England

Retailing
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 55 50 55
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Retail 148 218 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.21% 3.87% 4.25%
As % of the General category 5.82% 6.94% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 137 196
10th Percentile £190 £405 £375
25th Percentile £334 £458 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile - £725 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 1
10th Percentile £12.05 - -
25th Percentile £12.15 - £10.25
Median hourly rate £12.30 - £10.50
75th Percentile £13.00 - £10.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £20.63 £16.50
% change year-on-year -22.42% +25.00% +17.86%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,544 3,139 3,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 55.16% 55.77% 50.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,149 2,586
10th Percentile £267 £300 £208
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% +6.50%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £564
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 95 185
10th Percentile £12.11 £14.10 £11.19
25th Percentile £13.30 £16.85 £14.64
Median hourly rate £16.06 £23.15 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.63% +20.29% +4.93%
75th Percentile £33.91 £35.02 £34.09
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.20 £55.43
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
Yorkshire -8 73 £515 -6.36% 183
North West 0 65 £450 -10.00% 288
North East +7 5 £600 +6.19% 49
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 8 (5.41%) CMS
2 3 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) SAP Retail
2 5 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.35%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.68%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 1 (0.68%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.68%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.19%) Azure
2 14 (9.46%) Cloudflare
3 13 (8.78%) AWS
4 12 (8.11%) Akamai
5 10 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.73%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.38%) Serverless
8 5 (3.38%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.03%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.03%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.03%) GCP
11 2 (1.35%) BrowserStack
11 2 (1.35%) Figma
11 2 (1.35%) SaaS
12 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.08%) ATM
2 7 (4.73%) DNS
3 5 (3.38%) Firewall
3 5 (3.38%) Network Security
4 4 (2.70%) LAN
4 4 (2.70%) WAN
5 3 (2.03%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.68%) VLAN
6 1 (0.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.73%) Power BI
2 5 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.70%) MySQL
3 4 (2.70%) Tableau
4 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.03%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.03%) Metadata
4 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.35%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.68%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (7.43%) JIRA
2 4 (2.70%) Git
2 4 (2.70%) SonarQube
2 4 (2.70%) Zephyr
3 3 (2.03%) ERwin
4 2 (1.35%) Postman
5 1 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.68%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
General
1 43 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.51%) Finance
3 17 (11.49%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.08%) Marketing
5 8 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Banking
8 3 (2.03%) Electronics
8 3 (2.03%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (12.84%) Analyst
2 16 (10.81%) Developer
3 14 (9.46%) Project Manager
4 13 (8.78%) Architect
5 9 (6.08%) IT Technician
6 8 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.73%) Consultant
7 7 (4.73%) IT Support
7 7 (4.73%) Site Engineer
7 7 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (4.05%) SAP Consultant
8 6 (4.05%) Senior
9 5 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.70%) Database Analyst
10 4 (2.70%) Database Marketing Analyst
10 4 (2.70%) Lead
10 4 (2.70%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (2.70%) SAP Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.35%) ADO
1 2 (1.35%) Ajax
1 2 (1.35%) CSS
1 2 (1.35%) CSS3
1 2 (1.35%) HTML
1 2 (1.35%) HTML5
1 2 (1.35%) JSON
1 2 (1.35%) LESS
1 2 (1.35%) React
1 2 (1.35%) Sass
2 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.68%) AWS SAM
2 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.68%) Jest
2 1 (0.68%) Kafka
2 1 (0.68%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (0.68%) Node.js
2 1 (0.68%) RESTful
2 1 (0.68%) SAP TM
2 1 (0.68%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.54%) Driving Licence
2 19 (12.84%) EPoS
3 9 (6.08%) Smartphone
4 7 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.73%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.38%) FMCG
6 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.03%) Wiki
8 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.68%) iSeries
9 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.03%) Debian
1 3 (2.03%) Linux
1 3 (2.03%) Ubuntu
1 3 (2.03%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.59%) E-Commerce
2 24 (16.22%) Migration
3 16 (10.81%) Customer Service
3 16 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (10.14%) CRM
4 15 (10.14%) DevOps
5 13 (8.78%) Logistics
6 11 (7.43%) Agile
6 11 (7.43%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (7.43%) Data Migration
7 9 (6.08%) Break/Fix
7 9 (6.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (6.08%) Preventative Maintenance
7 9 (6.08%) RAD
8 8 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (5.41%) Project Delivery
9 7 (4.73%) ERP
9 7 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (4.73%) User Experience
10 6 (4.05%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.46%) SQL
2 11 (7.43%) Python
3 4 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.03%) Bash
4 3 (2.03%) Go
4 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.35%) Java
5 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.68%) PHP
6 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (4.05%) Degree
2 3 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.35%) CCNP
3 2 (1.35%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.35%) PMP
4 1 (0.68%) CCNA
4 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.38%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.38%) QA
2 4 (2.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.03%) ISO 22301
3 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.03%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.05%) Terraform
2 3 (2.03%) Ansible
2 3 (2.03%) HP Fortify
2 3 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (12.84%) SAP
2 12 (8.11%) F5
3 8 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.73%) RedPrairie
4 7 (4.73%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.03%) Cadence
5 3 (2.03%) Google
5 3 (2.03%) Sparx
5 3 (2.03%) Splunk
6 2 (1.35%) Ariba
6 2 (1.35%) Ceridian
6 2 (1.35%) JDA
7 1 (0.68%) HP
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud