Retail Contracts in the North West

Retailing
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 82 95
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 -21
Contract jobs citing Retail 39 61 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.64% 2.23% 2.23%
As % of the General category 2.84% 4.05% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 42 57
10th Percentile £300 £414 £273
25th Percentile £400 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £575
90th Percentile £673 £716 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.13 - £14.78
Median hourly rate £25.32 - £16.57
75th Percentile £33.75 - £18.35
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £19.81 £19.81
% change year-on-year +64.06% - +36.62%

All General Skills
North West

Retail falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,374 1,505 1,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.71% 54.97% 50.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 985 1,440
10th Percentile £274 £250 £250
25th Percentile £382 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £476
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.99% +5.83%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 113 103
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.14 £10.20
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.85 £15.33
Median hourly rate £32.50 £22.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.25% +12.65% +8.11%
75th Percentile £43.10 £45.88 £45.04
90th Percentile £62.00 £60.62 £64.65
England median hourly rate £31.97 £31.09 £25.71
% change year-on-year +2.84% +20.92% +35.32%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the North West

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in the North West

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the North West over the 6 months to 13 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the North West

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the North West

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Retail in the North West over the 6 months to 13 November 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Retail in the North West

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Manchester +7 26 £463 -15.91% 80
Cheshire -3 8 £314 +10.75% 28
Cumbria - 2 - - 2
Merseyside -7 1 - - 52
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (5.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Trello
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) BambooHR
1 1 (2.56%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (2.56%) iTrent
1 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) Azure
1 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
2 3 (7.69%) AWS
2 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.13%) Salesforce Einstein
3 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
3 2 (5.13%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (2.56%) ClickUp
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.56%) dbt
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) MVNO
1 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Power BI
2 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.69%) Tableau
3 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.56%) Postman
2 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.56%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Banking
3 5 (12.82%) Automotive
3 5 (12.82%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Finance
5 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Project Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Business IT Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) IT Business Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Business Process Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.13%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Scrum Master
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Telephony Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) React Native
2 2 (5.13%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.56%) Jest
3 1 (2.56%) Next.js
3 1 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 5 (12.82%) Mobile Banking
2 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.69%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (7.69%) e-Learning
3 3 (7.69%) Podcast
3 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.69%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (5.13%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Agile
2 9 (23.08%) Project Management
3 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (12.82%) Business Case
5 5 (12.82%) Coaching
5 5 (12.82%) Content Management
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) Micro Frontends
5 5 (12.82%) Mobile Application Development
5 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) Supplier Management
6 4 (10.26%) Change Management
6 4 (10.26%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.26%) E-Commerce
6 4 (10.26%) Migration
6 4 (10.26%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (7.69%) Benchmarking
7 3 (7.69%) Scrum
7 3 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) SQL
2 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.56%) Python
2 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
2 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle
1 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
1 2 (5.13%) SAP
1 2 (5.13%) Workday
2 1 (2.56%) Ceridian
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco
2 1 (2.56%) Fujitsu
2 1 (2.56%) Infor
2 1 (2.56%) Meraki
2 1 (2.56%) Sage
2 1 (2.56%) UiPath