Retail Contracts with Work from Home Options

Retailing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 70 91 58
Rank change year-on-year +21 -33 +37
Contract jobs citing Retail 408 618 1,841
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.77% 2.49% 4.14%
As % of the General category 4.70% 4.27% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 401 1,142
10th Percentile £300 £363 £400
25th Percentile £375 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £535 £536
% change year-on-year -5.52% -0.33% +7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 28
10th Percentile £24.22 - £13.11
25th Percentile £26.44 - £17.81
Median hourly rate £30.12 £22.16 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.92% +3.07% +72.00%
75th Percentile £36.31 £27.42 £36.25
90th Percentile £40.02 £32.67 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £20.25 £16.50
% change year-on-year -20.99% +22.73% +10.00%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,689 14,486 24,292
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 59.01% 58.46% 54.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,723 10,209 17,646
10th Percentile £328 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 327 349
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.90 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +47.49% +47.39%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Retail
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Retail trend for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Retail.

Retail daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Retail over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Retail daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Retail.

Retail hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Retail over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Retail hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 8 (1.96%) CMS
2 8 (1.96%) Confluence
3 3 (0.74%) Headless CMS
3 3 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.49%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.49%) Mule
4 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.23%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.98%) InDesign
5 4 (0.98%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.74%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 35 (8.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (7.35%) Dynamics AX
3 11 (2.70%) SAP Retail
4 9 (2.21%) SAP Hybris
4 9 (2.21%) Shopify
5 5 (1.23%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.98%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.74%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.49%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle Retail
8 2 (0.49%) SAP CAR
8 2 (0.49%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.25%) Magento
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 63 (15.44%) Azure
2 45 (11.03%) Power Platform
3 39 (9.56%) Dynamics 365
4 33 (8.09%) AWS
5 28 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (5.39%) GCP
6 22 (5.39%) Power Automate
6 22 (5.39%) PowerApps
7 9 (2.21%) Adobe Analytics
7 9 (2.21%) Google Analytics
7 9 (2.21%) Google Sheets
7 9 (2.21%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 7 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.47%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.47%) BigCommerce
9 6 (1.47%) Serverless
9 6 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.23%) CloudFront
10 5 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.45%) DNS
1 10 (2.45%) VPN
2 8 (1.96%) Network Security
3 6 (1.47%) Firewall
4 5 (1.23%) CTI
4 5 (1.23%) VoIP
5 3 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (0.74%) DHCP
5 3 (0.74%) VLAN
6 2 (0.49%) ATM
6 2 (0.49%) SCCP
6 2 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.25%) Broadband
7 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.25%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) MPLS
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.54%) Power BI
2 24 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 18 (4.41%) Tableau
4 12 (2.94%) Metadata
5 10 (2.45%) BigQuery
5 10 (2.45%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.96%) MySQL
7 7 (1.72%) Looker
8 5 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.23%) GIS
8 5 (1.23%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.74%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.74%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.49%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.49%) Redis
10 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.64%) JIRA
2 10 (2.45%) ERwin
3 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.98%) Postman
3 4 (0.98%) Selenium
4 3 (0.74%) Git
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (0.74%) PHPUnit
5 2 (0.49%) Appium
5 2 (0.49%) Maven
6 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.25%) Darcs
6 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.25%) GitLab
6 1 (0.25%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.25%) LSMW
6 1 (0.25%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.25%) Travis CI
General
1 124 (30.39%) Finance
2 91 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 55 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (11.52%) Marketing
5 30 (7.35%) Banking
6 28 (6.86%) Manufacturing
7 25 (6.13%) Public Sector
8 22 (5.39%) General Ledger
9 16 (3.92%) Legal
10 15 (3.68%) Corporate Banking
10 15 (3.68%) Investment Banking
11 14 (3.43%) Telecoms
12 13 (3.19%) Electronics
12 13 (3.19%) Retail Banking
13 10 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.96%) Advertising
14 8 (1.96%) Publishing
15 6 (1.47%) Back Office
16 5 (1.23%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 70 (17.16%) Consultant
2 52 (12.75%) Architect
3 45 (11.03%) Developer
4 42 (10.29%) Analyst
4 42 (10.29%) Project Manager
5 30 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
6 26 (6.37%) Senior
7 25 (6.13%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 21 (5.15%) Business Analyst
9 19 (4.66%) Lead
10 16 (3.92%) SAP Consultant
11 15 (3.68%) Microsoft Consultant
12 14 (3.43%) Enterprise Architect
13 13 (3.19%) Functional Consultant
14 12 (2.94%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.94%) Data Architect
15 10 (2.45%) Junior
15 10 (2.45%) SAP Manager
16 9 (2.21%) Data Consultant
16 9 (2.21%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.19%) CSS
2 11 (2.70%) HTML
2 11 (2.70%) Web Services
3 10 (2.45%) React
3 10 (2.45%) REST
4 8 (1.96%) GraphQL
4 8 (1.96%) JSON
4 8 (1.96%) Middleware
4 8 (1.96%) Node.js
5 7 (1.72%) jQuery
5 7 (1.72%) Sass
6 6 (1.47%) OAuth
6 6 (1.47%) OAuth2
6 6 (1.47%) Spring
6 6 (1.47%) VML
7 5 (1.23%) SAML
7 5 (1.23%) XML
8 4 (0.98%) DOM
8 4 (0.98%) Laravel
8 4 (0.98%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.37%) Data Structures
2 19 (4.66%) FMCG
2 19 (4.66%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.43%) Mobile App
4 11 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.45%) Wiki
6 7 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.23%) IVR
7 5 (1.23%) Mobile Banking
8 4 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.98%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.74%) EPoS
9 3 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.19%) Windows
2 5 (1.23%) Unix
3 4 (0.98%) Linux
3 4 (0.98%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.74%) Android
4 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.49%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (17.40%) Agile
2 60 (14.71%) DevOps
3 55 (13.48%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (11.03%) E-Commerce
5 37 (9.07%) Migration
5 37 (9.07%) Project Management
6 35 (8.58%) Analytics
6 35 (8.58%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (6.37%) CRM
7 26 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (5.88%) Accounts Payable
8 24 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
9 23 (5.64%) Requirements Workshops
9 23 (5.64%) Roadmaps
10 22 (5.39%) Accounts Receivable
10 22 (5.39%) CI/CD
10 22 (5.39%) Customer Experience
10 22 (5.39%) Data Migration
10 22 (5.39%) ERP
10 22 (5.39%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.01%) SQL
2 31 (7.60%) Python
3 16 (3.92%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.70%) Java
5 6 (1.47%) ABAP
5 6 (1.47%) PHP
5 6 (1.47%) PL/SQL
5 6 (1.47%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.98%) Go
7 2 (0.49%) C#
7 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.49%) R
8 1 (0.25%) Bash
8 1 (0.25%) Bicep
8 1 (0.25%) C
8 1 (0.25%) C++
8 1 (0.25%) Rust
8 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (11.03%) Degree
2 14 (3.43%) AWS Certification
3 10 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.21%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (1.72%) PMI Certification
5 7 (1.72%) PMP
5 7 (1.72%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.72%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.47%) SAP Certification
7 5 (1.23%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.49%) CEH
8 2 (0.49%) CISM
8 2 (0.49%) CISSP
8 2 (0.49%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.49%) CSPO
8 2 (0.49%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.25%) CBAP
9 1 (0.25%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.41%) GDPR
2 17 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.19%) QA
4 12 (2.94%) PMO
5 7 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.23%) SLA
7 4 (0.98%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.98%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.98%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.74%) NIST
9 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.49%) COBIT
9 2 (0.49%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.25%) GAAP
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (2.45%) Docker
2 7 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (1.47%) Terraform
2 5 (1.23%) Ansible
3 3 (0.74%) Puppet
4 2 (0.49%) CloudHub
4 2 (0.49%) Grafana
4 2 (0.49%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.49%) Nessus
4 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.25%) AppManager
5 1 (0.25%) Consul
5 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.25%) Kibana
5 1 (0.25%) logstash
5 1 (0.25%) MOM
5 1 (0.25%) Packer
5 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 73 (17.89%) SAP
2 70 (17.16%) Microsoft
3 34 (8.33%) Google
4 28 (6.86%) Adobe
5 18 (4.41%) Oracle
6 14 (3.43%) Workday
7 12 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.45%) Sparx
9 9 (2.21%) Cisco
10 8 (1.96%) RedPrairie
11 7 (1.72%) Databricks
12 6 (1.47%) Apple
12 6 (1.47%) Optimizely
12 6 (1.47%) Sitecore
13 5 (1.23%) Avaya
13 5 (1.23%) F5
13 5 (1.23%) Genesys
13 5 (1.23%) Monetate
13 5 (1.23%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.98%) Tealium