Retail Contracts in England

Retailing
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 88 60
Rank change year-on-year +9 -28 +21
Contract jobs citing Retail 996 1,310 2,779
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.70% 2.74% 3.93%
As % of the General category 4.69% 4.64% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 796 1,710
10th Percentile £277 £335 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% - +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 44 113
10th Percentile £11.50 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £18.86 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £20.41 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +23.67% +22.22%
75th Percentile £21.37 £22.00 £22.00
90th Percentile £21.46 £22.16 £22.25
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £19.81 £16.50
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.06% +13.79%

All General Skills
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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,251 28,243 40,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.55% 59.16% 57.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,633 19,891 28,416
10th Percentile £280 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,819 896 1,282
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.68 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.92 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +48.47% +2.14%
75th Percentile £52.20 £60.03 £46.23
90th Percentile £67.38 £70.00 £59.94
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +4.65%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in England

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in England

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in England

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in England

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Retail in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Retail in England

Retail
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +34 517 £520 -5.45% 700
North of England -12 146 £500 -4.76% 500
South East +18 119 £475 -13.64% 395
East of England -1 100 £425 -29.17% 157
Yorkshire -8 72 £500 -9.09% 176
North West +3 65 £450 -10.00% 279
Midlands -18 51 £600 +26.32% 353
West Midlands +10 38 £650 +36.84% 166
South West -21 24 £475 -2.56% 260
East Midlands -27 13 £500 +11.11% 187
North East +6 4 £600 +6.19% 56
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 18 (1.81%) CMS
2 16 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 16 (1.61%) Confluence
3 11 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.70%) SAS
5 5 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 5 (0.50%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.10%) Appian
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 47 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.10%) Photoshop
5 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 9 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
6 9 (0.90%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.60%) InDesign
8 5 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.30%) Trello
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.10%) Blender
11 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
11 1 (0.10%) InVision
11 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 37 (3.71%) Shopify
2 32 (3.21%) Dynamics AX
2 32 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (1.41%) SAP Retail
4 10 (1.00%) SAP Hybris
5 7 (0.70%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.60%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.60%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.40%) Magento
8 4 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.40%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.40%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
10 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 124 (12.45%) Azure
2 86 (8.63%) AWS
3 78 (7.83%) Power Platform
4 57 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
6 45 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (4.12%) GCP
8 29 (2.91%) BigCommerce
9 27 (2.71%) Power Automate
9 27 (2.71%) PowerApps
10 18 (1.81%) Serverless
11 16 (1.61%) Google Analytics
12 15 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.51%) SaaS
13 14 (1.41%) Adobe Analytics
13 14 (1.41%) Cloudflare
14 13 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.20%) Akamai
16 11 (1.10%) Figma
16 11 (1.10%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (1.81%) Firewall
3 13 (1.31%) DNS
4 12 (1.20%) Network Security
5 11 (1.10%) ATM
5 11 (1.10%) VPN
6 9 (0.90%) VoIP
7 7 (0.70%) LAN
8 6 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (0.60%) Internet
9 4 (0.40%) CTI
9 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.40%) WAN
10 3 (0.30%) Wireless
10 3 (0.30%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.20%) DHCP
11 2 (0.20%) FTP
11 2 (0.20%) IP Telephony
11 2 (0.20%) SCCP
11 2 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.63%) Power BI
2 39 (3.92%) Data Lake
3 28 (2.81%) Tableau
4 19 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.91%) MySQL
5 16 (1.61%) SQL Server
6 12 (1.20%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 9 (0.90%) Metadata
9 8 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.70%) Big Data
10 7 (0.70%) Data Mining
10 7 (0.70%) Looker
10 7 (0.70%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.60%) MS Access
11 6 (0.60%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 38 (3.82%) JIRA
2 21 (2.11%) Git
3 16 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.41%) Postman
5 8 (0.80%) Maven
6 6 (0.60%) ERwin
6 6 (0.60%) Selenium
6 6 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.40%) PHPUnit
7 4 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.40%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 4 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.30%) GitLab
8 3 (0.30%) JMeter
8 3 (0.30%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.20%) Appium
9 2 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.20%) Darcs
9 2 (0.20%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 305 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 239 (24.00%) Finance
3 119 (11.95%) Marketing
4 115 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (7.23%) Banking
6 43 (4.32%) Manufacturing
7 36 (3.61%) Corporate Banking
8 34 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 33 (3.31%) Investment Banking
10 30 (3.01%) Public Sector
11 28 (2.81%) Legal
11 28 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (2.81%) Retail Banking
12 26 (2.61%) General Ledger
13 21 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.51%) Automotive
16 14 (1.41%) Advertising
17 12 (1.20%) Publishing
18 9 (0.90%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 160 (16.06%) Analyst
2 105 (10.54%) Project Manager
3 89 (8.94%) Architect
4 75 (7.53%) Developer
5 74 (7.43%) Consultant
6 66 (6.63%) Lead
7 64 (6.43%) Senior
8 51 (5.12%) Business Analyst
9 47 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (3.82%) Service Analyst
11 33 (3.31%) Service Desk Analyst
12 25 (2.51%) Data Analyst
13 21 (2.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 20 (2.01%) Microsoft Consultant
15 19 (1.91%) SAP Consultant
16 18 (1.81%) Programme Manager
17 17 (1.71%) Product Manager
18 15 (1.51%) IT Manager
18 15 (1.51%) IT Support
18 15 (1.51%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.41%) HTML
2 22 (2.21%) VML
3 19 (1.91%) CSS
3 19 (1.91%) React
3 19 (1.91%) Spring
4 16 (1.61%) .NET
4 16 (1.61%) REST
5 15 (1.51%) Spring Boot
6 14 (1.41%) Node.js
7 13 (1.31%) GraphQL
7 13 (1.31%) Web Services
8 12 (1.20%) Swagger
9 10 (1.00%) AngularJS
9 10 (1.00%) jQuery
9 10 (1.00%) JSON
9 10 (1.00%) Kafka
10 9 (0.90%) PySpark
11 8 (0.80%) Middleware
11 8 (0.80%) OAuth
11 8 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (4.72%) FMCG
2 33 (3.31%) Data Structures
2 33 (3.31%) Management Information System
3 30 (3.01%) EPoS
3 30 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.41%) Mobile App
5 23 (2.31%) Driving Licence
6 16 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.31%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.20%) Credit Risk
9 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.10%) Smartphone
9 11 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
11 9 (0.90%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.70%) CMDB
12 7 (0.70%) Digital Signage
13 6 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.32%) Windows
2 26 (2.61%) Apple iOS
3 16 (1.61%) Unix
4 15 (1.51%) Linux
5 14 (1.41%) Android
6 12 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.80%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.30%) Debian
8 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (17.17%) Agile
2 137 (13.76%) E-Commerce
3 107 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 104 (10.44%) DevOps
5 90 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (8.73%) Customer Service
7 86 (8.63%) Analytics
8 84 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
9 82 (8.23%) Project Management
10 80 (8.03%) Migration
11 69 (6.93%) Customer Experience
12 62 (6.22%) CRM
13 60 (6.02%) Decision-Making
14 54 (5.42%) CI/CD
15 53 (5.32%) Coaching
15 53 (5.32%) Roadmaps
16 52 (5.22%) ITIL
17 50 (5.02%) Time Management
18 48 (4.82%) Requirements Gathering
19 42 (4.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 116 (11.65%) SQL
2 75 (7.53%) Python
3 35 (3.51%) Java
4 33 (3.31%) JavaScript
5 16 (1.61%) C#
6 11 (1.10%) PHP
7 10 (1.00%) Go
7 10 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.70%) ABAP
10 5 (0.50%) VBA
11 4 (0.40%) Bash
11 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.40%) R
11 4 (0.40%) Scala
12 3 (0.30%) C
12 3 (0.30%) C++
12 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.30%) Ruby
12 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (9.94%) Degree
2 39 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (2.81%) A+ Certification
3 28 (2.81%) MCSA
4 27 (2.71%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.71%) Security Cleared
5 19 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.41%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.20%) PMP
9 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.60%) MCP
9 6 (0.60%) SAP Certification
10 5 (0.50%) CISSP
11 4 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.40%) CEH
12 3 (0.30%) CIMA
12 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.31%) PMO
2 29 (2.91%) QA
3 26 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.21%) GDPR
4 22 (2.21%) SLA
5 10 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.50%) IFRS
8 5 (0.50%) ISO 22301
8 5 (0.50%) NIST
9 4 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.40%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.30%) COBIT
10 3 (0.30%) GAAP
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 28 (2.81%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.31%) Docker
3 2 (0.20%) HDFS
3 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.10%) Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.51%) Ansible
2 15 (1.51%) Terraform
3 8 (0.80%) Puppet
4 6 (0.60%) SCCM
5 4 (0.40%) Grafana
6 3 (0.30%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
7 2 (0.20%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.20%) Nessus
7 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.10%) AppManager
8 1 (0.10%) Control-M
8 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.10%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.10%) logstash
8 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 126 (12.65%) SAP
3 61 (6.12%) Adobe
4 60 (6.02%) Google
5 51 (5.12%) Salesforce
6 36 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 32 (3.21%) Oracle
8 29 (2.91%) Citrix
9 26 (2.61%) Sitecore
10 21 (2.11%) F5
11 18 (1.81%) Cisco
12 16 (1.61%) Apple
13 15 (1.51%) Databricks
14 12 (1.20%) Dell
14 12 (1.20%) Intel
15 10 (1.00%) Workday
16 9 (0.90%) Optimizely
17 8 (0.80%) Alteryx
17 8 (0.80%) Monetate
17 8 (0.80%) RedPrairie