Retail Contracts in the North of England

Retailing
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 47 51
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing Retail 146 218 297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.15% 3.91% 4.19%
As % of the General category 5.75% 7.01% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 139 189
10th Percentile £190 £402 £373
25th Percentile £334 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £575
90th Percentile £600 £725 £700
England median daily rate £513 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -3.30% +0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 1
10th Percentile £12.05 - -
25th Percentile £12.15 - £10.25
Median hourly rate £12.30 - £10.50
75th Percentile £13.00 - £10.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £20.63 £16.50
% change year-on-year -22.42% +25.00% +13.79%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,541 3,108 3,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.89% 55.74% 50.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,121 2,548
10th Percentile £264 £300 £208
25th Percentile £400 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.47% +6.74%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £573
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 94 185
10th Percentile £12.13 £14.08 £10.92
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.68 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £23.15 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.63% +21.84% +5.85%
75th Percentile £34.32 £35.02 £33.92
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.24 £55.43
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +48.84% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
Yorkshire -6 72 £500 -9.09% 170
North West +6 64 £450 -10.00% 295
North East +7 5 £600 +6.19% 54
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 8 (5.48%) CMS
2 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.42%) SAP Retail
1 5 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
3 1 (0.68%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.68%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.68%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.38%) Azure
2 14 (9.59%) Cloudflare
3 13 (8.90%) AWS
4 12 (8.22%) Akamai
5 10 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.48%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.42%) Serverless
8 5 (3.42%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.05%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.05%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.05%) GCP
11 2 (1.37%) BrowserStack
11 2 (1.37%) Figma
11 2 (1.37%) SaaS
12 1 (0.68%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.16%) ATM
2 7 (4.79%) DNS
3 5 (3.42%) Firewall
3 5 (3.42%) Network Security
4 4 (2.74%) LAN
4 4 (2.74%) WAN
5 3 (2.05%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.68%) VLAN
6 1 (0.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.48%) Power BI
2 5 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.42%) Tableau
3 4 (2.74%) MySQL
4 3 (2.05%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.05%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.68%) DB2
6 1 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (7.53%) JIRA
2 4 (2.74%) Git
2 4 (2.74%) SonarQube
2 4 (2.74%) Zephyr
3 2 (1.37%) Postman
4 1 (0.68%) ERwin
4 1 (0.68%) GitLab
4 1 (0.68%) JMeter
4 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.68%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.01%) Finance
3 15 (10.27%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.79%) Marketing
5 6 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.11%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.74%) Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Billing
7 1 (0.68%) Electronics
7 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.68%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (13.70%) Analyst
2 16 (10.96%) Developer
3 15 (10.27%) Project Manager
4 10 (6.85%) Architect
5 9 (6.16%) IT Technician
6 8 (5.48%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.79%) IT Support
7 7 (4.79%) Site Engineer
7 7 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (4.11%) Consultant
8 6 (4.11%) Senior
9 5 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.42%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (2.74%) Database Marketing Analyst
10 4 (2.74%) Enterprise Architect
10 4 (2.74%) IT Manager
10 4 (2.74%) Lead
10 4 (2.74%) Marketing Analyst
10 4 (2.74%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.37%) ADO
1 2 (1.37%) Ajax
1 2 (1.37%) CSS
1 2 (1.37%) CSS3
1 2 (1.37%) HTML
1 2 (1.37%) HTML5
1 2 (1.37%) JSON
1 2 (1.37%) LESS
1 2 (1.37%) React
1 2 (1.37%) Sass
2 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.68%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.68%) AWS SAM
2 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.68%) Jest
2 1 (0.68%) Kafka
2 1 (0.68%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (0.68%) Node.js
2 1 (0.68%) SAP TM
2 1 (0.68%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.75%) Driving Licence
2 19 (13.01%) EPoS
3 9 (6.16%) Smartphone
4 7 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.79%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.42%) FMCG
6 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.68%) iSeries
8 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.05%) Debian
1 3 (2.05%) Linux
1 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
1 3 (2.05%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (21.23%) E-Commerce
2 23 (15.75%) Migration
3 17 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (10.96%) CRM
4 16 (10.96%) Customer Service
5 15 (10.27%) DevOps
6 13 (8.90%) Logistics
7 11 (7.53%) Agile
8 10 (6.85%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (6.85%) Data Migration
9 9 (6.16%) Break/Fix
9 9 (6.16%) Preventative Maintenance
9 9 (6.16%) RAD
10 8 (5.48%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (5.48%) ERP
10 8 (5.48%) Project Delivery
11 7 (4.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (4.79%) User Experience
12 6 (4.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.27%) SQL
2 11 (7.53%) Python
3 4 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.05%) Bash
4 3 (2.05%) Go
4 3 (2.05%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.37%) Java
5 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.68%) PHP
6 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (4.11%) Degree
2 3 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.37%) CCNP
3 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.37%) PMP
4 1 (0.68%) CCNA
4 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.42%) QA
2 3 (2.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.05%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.37%) GDPR
3 2 (1.37%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.11%) Terraform
2 3 (2.05%) Ansible
2 3 (2.05%) HP Fortify
2 3 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (10.96%) SAP
2 12 (8.22%) F5
3 8 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.79%) RedPrairie
4 7 (4.79%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.05%) Cadence
5 3 (2.05%) Google
5 3 (2.05%) Splunk
6 2 (1.37%) Ariba
6 2 (1.37%) Ceridian
6 2 (1.37%) JDA
7 1 (0.68%) HP
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Sparx