Retail Contracts in the East of England

Retailing
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 29 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -6
Contract jobs citing Retail 100 115 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.24% 5.85% 7.11%
As % of the General category 8.79% 9.75% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 53
10th Percentile £278 £427 £401
25th Percentile £311 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £534 £738 £600
90th Percentile £585 £975 £688
England median daily rate £505 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 56
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.37 £19.81 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% +1.59% +44.44%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £20.61
90th Percentile £21.46 - £22.00
England median hourly rate £16.00 £20.41 £16.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% +23.67% +20.00%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,138 1,179 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 59.67% 59.97% 59.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 640 782
10th Percentile £214 £204 £181
25th Percentile £350 £331 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £627 £561
90th Percentile £650 £738 £654
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 244 334
10th Percentile £14.43 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% +32.07% -
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.64 £30.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £30.16 £31.96 £21.63
% change year-on-year -5.63% +47.79% +1.76%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
Hertfordshire -13 45 £356 -40.63% 89
Cambridgeshire -3 40 £425 -1.16% 42
Bedfordshire 0 8 £500 -14.89% 17
Essex +10 7 £425 +11.84% 28
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 1 (1.00%) CMS
1 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.00%) Camtasia
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Magento
1 4 (4.00%) Shopify
2 2 (2.00%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.00%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (5.00%) Google Sheets
2 5 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.00%) AWS
3 4 (4.00%) Azure
4 2 (2.00%) BigCommerce
4 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.00%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.00%) Boomi
5 1 (1.00%) Figma
5 1 (1.00%) SaaS
5 1 (1.00%) Serverless
5 1 (1.00%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 28 (28.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.00%) GIS
1 5 (5.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.00%) MS Access
2 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.00%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.00%) Metadata
3 1 (1.00%) MySQL
3 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.00%) Redis
3 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.00%) SQLPlus
General
1 43 (43.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.00%) Marketing
3 11 (11.00%) Finance
4 8 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Back Office
5 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.00%) Automotive
8 2 (2.00%) German Language
8 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (33.00%) Analyst
2 32 (32.00%) Service Analyst
2 32 (32.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (6.00%) Architect
3 6 (6.00%) Developer
4 5 (5.00%) Digital Transformation
4 5 (5.00%) Digital Transformation Manager
4 5 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 5 (5.00%) Transformation Manager
5 3 (3.00%) Administrator
5 3 (3.00%) Contracts Manager
5 3 (3.00%) Copywriter
5 3 (3.00%) Head of IT
5 3 (3.00%) Procurement Manager
5 3 (3.00%) Software Manager
5 3 (3.00%) Software Project Manager
5 3 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.00%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (2.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (2.00%) Technical Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) .NET
2 2 (2.00%) HTML
2 2 (2.00%) Kafka
2 2 (2.00%) VML
3 1 (1.00%) CSS
3 1 (1.00%) Micronaut
3 1 (1.00%) Node.js
3 1 (1.00%) RESTful
3 1 (1.00%) Spring
3 1 (1.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) FMCG
2 5 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.00%) Blog
4 1 (1.00%) CMDB
4 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.00%) EPoS
4 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.00%) IoT
4 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.00%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (1.00%) PropTech
4 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.00%) Social Media
4 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.00%) Windows
1 2 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) Customer Service
2 30 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 29 (29.00%) ITIL
4 22 (22.00%) Decision-Making
5 21 (21.00%) Time Management
6 20 (20.00%) Coaching
7 12 (12.00%) E-Commerce
8 6 (6.00%) Data Analysis
8 6 (6.00%) Line Management
8 6 (6.00%) Migration
8 6 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (5.00%) IT Strategy
9 5 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.00%) Project Management
9 5 (5.00%) Service Management
10 4 (4.00%) Business Strategy
11 3 (3.00%) Budget Management
11 3 (3.00%) Contract Negotiation
11 3 (3.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.00%) SQL
2 3 (3.00%) Python
3 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.00%) C#
4 1 (1.00%) Java
4 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.00%) PHP
4 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (28.00%) A+ Certification
1 28 (28.00%) MCSA
1 28 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 20 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) MCP
4 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.00%) Degree
4 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (28.00%) Citrix
1 28 (28.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.00%) Google
4 4 (4.00%) Adobe
4 4 (4.00%) SAP
5 2 (2.00%) Apple
5 2 (2.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.00%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.00%) Sophos
5 2 (2.00%) Sun
6 1 (1.00%) Databricks
6 1 (1.00%) OpenText