Retail Contracts in Somerset

Retailing
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Somerset. 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 20 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Retail 10 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 4.41% 5.59% 3.96%
As % of the General category 8.26% 10.75% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 8
10th Percentile £393 £350 £409
25th Percentile £419 £381 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £489 £597
90th Percentile - £531 £629
South West median daily rate £475 £481 £550
% change year-on-year -1.30% -12.50% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £14.25 - -
90th Percentile £15.60 - -
South West median hourly rate £13.00 - -

All General Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 121 93 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 53.30% 51.96% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 80 85
10th Percentile £205 £188 £174
25th Percentile £390 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +12.36% -6.32%
75th Percentile £588 £661 £538
90th Percentile £606 £723 £633
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 5 6
10th Percentile £12.50 £33.75 £50.88
25th Percentile - £37.50 £52.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -26.61% +23.86%
75th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £57.89
90th Percentile £41.60 £56.08 £61.09
South West median hourly rate £45.00 £57.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -21.74% +36.90% -1.75%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Somerset

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Somerset

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Somerset

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Somerset 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
Taunton - 4 - - 2
Bath - 3 £475 - 8
Retail
South West

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Shopify
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) BigCommerce
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) LAN
1 3 (30.00%) VoIP
1 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (30.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Marketing
3 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Support Assistant
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Assistant
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Support
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Support Assistant
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) VML
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Blog
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) B2B
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Acquisition
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (30.00%) Global Marketing
2 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) CRM
4 1 (10.00%) OO
4 1 (10.00%) OOD
4 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) HND
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (30.00%) Adobe
3 3 (30.00%) Aruba
3 3 (30.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) Dell
3 3 (30.00%) F5
3 3 (30.00%) Intel
3 3 (30.00%) Meraki
3 3 (30.00%) SAP
3 3 (30.00%) Sitecore