Retail Contracts in the South East

Retailing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 105 47
Rank change year-on-year +17 -58 +80
Contract jobs citing Retail 117 111 368
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.08% 1.96% 4.75%
As % of the General category 4.19% 3.36% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 64 235
10th Percentile £274 £425 £259
25th Percentile £363 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +10.00% +0.20%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £718 £693 £663
England median daily rate £513 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -3.30% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 42
10th Percentile £11.00 £18.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.23 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.16 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.80% +34.30% -17.50%
75th Percentile - - £19.19
90th Percentile £19.30 - £22.25
England median hourly rate £16.00 £20.41 £16.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% +23.67% +22.22%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,794 3,302 4,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 49.58% 58.26% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,521 2,228 2,886
10th Percentile £213 £233 £215
25th Percentile £355 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% - +5.82%
75th Percentile £608 £628 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £663
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 160 211
10th Percentile £12.88 £15.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £24.13 £15.71
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +150.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.19 £33.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £74.10 £52.50
England median hourly rate £31.00 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -2.88% +48.47% +2.14%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the South East

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Retail in the South East

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the South East over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the South East

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the South East

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley +29 60 £500 -4.76% 145
Buckinghamshire +33 29 £500 -4.76% 63
Berkshire -4 29 £525 -1.87% 58
Hampshire -18 24 £600 +4.35% 61
Surrey +31 18 £394 - 51
West Sussex +7 10 - - 13
East Sussex - 4 £375 - 29
Oxfordshire +5 2 £475 -17.39% 24
Kent +5 1 £500 - 35
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 7 (5.98%) Confluence
3 3 (2.56%) SAS
3 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (8.55%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (6.84%) SAP Hybris
2 3 (2.56%) Shopify
3 2 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.85%) Magento
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.85%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.97%) Power Platform
2 9 (7.69%) AWS
2 9 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (6.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 5 (4.27%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (3.42%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.56%) Azure
6 3 (2.56%) BigCommerce
6 3 (2.56%) SaaS
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.71%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.71%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.71%) Serverless
7 2 (1.71%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.98%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.85%) 5G
2 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.97%) Power BI
2 10 (8.55%) Tableau
3 4 (3.42%) Big Data
3 4 (3.42%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (3.42%) MS Access
4 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.71%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (1.71%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.85%) Impala
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.71%) Git
2 2 (1.71%) kappa
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.85%) Maven
General
1 40 (34.19%) Finance
2 35 (29.91%) Social Skills
3 23 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.68%) Marketing
5 12 (10.26%) Legal
6 8 (6.84%) Banking
7 6 (5.13%) Billing
7 6 (5.13%) Publishing
8 5 (4.27%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.27%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.42%) Automotive
10 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.71%) German Language
11 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Advertising
12 1 (0.85%) Back Office
12 1 (0.85%) Electronics
12 1 (0.85%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 31 (26.50%) Analyst
2 15 (12.82%) Project Manager
3 7 (5.98%) Architect
3 7 (5.98%) Business Analyst
3 7 (5.98%) Consultant
3 7 (5.98%) Data Analyst
3 7 (5.98%) IT Support
4 6 (5.13%) 1st Line Support
4 6 (5.13%) Coordinator
4 6 (5.13%) Digital Project Manager
4 6 (5.13%) IT Manager
4 6 (5.13%) Service Analyst
5 5 (4.27%) Developer
5 5 (4.27%) E-Commerce Manager
5 5 (4.27%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 5 (4.27%) IT Operations Manager
5 5 (4.27%) Operations Manager
5 5 (4.27%) Performance Manager
5 5 (4.27%) Service Management Analyst
5 5 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.56%) HTML
2 2 (1.71%) JSON
2 2 (1.71%) Kafka
2 2 (1.71%) REST
2 2 (1.71%) Spring
2 2 (1.71%) XML
3 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.85%) BAPI
3 1 (0.85%) CSS
3 1 (0.85%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.98%) Digital Signage
3 5 (4.27%) CMDB
4 4 (3.42%) e-Health
4 4 (3.42%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.56%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.56%) Social Media
6 2 (1.71%) EPoS
6 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.85%) FMCG
7 1 (0.85%) Smart Energy
7 1 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.55%) Windows
2 8 (6.84%) Apple iOS
3 7 (5.98%) Windows 10
3 7 (5.98%) Windows 7
4 5 (4.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.09%) E-Commerce
2 19 (16.24%) Agile
3 18 (15.38%) Project Management
4 17 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (12.82%) ITIL
6 15 (12.82%) Roadmaps
7 14 (11.97%) CRM
8 13 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (11.11%) Migration
9 11 (9.40%) Analytics
9 11 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (9.40%) Customer Service
10 10 (8.55%) Computer Science
10 10 (8.55%) DevOps
10 10 (8.55%) Scorecard
11 9 (7.69%) Change Management
11 9 (7.69%) Coaching
11 9 (7.69%) Customer Experience
12 8 (6.84%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.93%) SQL
2 4 (3.42%) JavaScript
2 4 (3.42%) VBA
3 3 (2.56%) Java
4 2 (1.71%) Python
5 1 (0.85%) ABAP
5 1 (0.85%) C++
5 1 (0.85%) PHP
5 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (11.97%) Degree
2 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.11%) SLA
2 9 (7.69%) PMO
3 5 (4.27%) QA
4 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.42%) ISO 9001
5 3 (2.56%) IFRS
5 3 (2.56%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.71%) GDPR
6 2 (1.71%) GRC
6 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.85%) NIST
7 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) AppManager
1 1 (0.85%) Control-M
1 1 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (15.38%) SAP
2 15 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.84%) Adobe
4 6 (5.13%) Alteryx
4 6 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.27%) Oracle
5 5 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.42%) Workday
7 3 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.56%) Splunk
8 1 (0.85%) Citrix
8 1 (0.85%) Facebook
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) Twitter