Retail Contracts in the UK excluding London

Retailing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 91 88 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 -29 +28
Contract jobs citing Retail 455 636 1,164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.21% 2.76% 3.79%
As % of the General category 4.11% 4.90% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 387 705
10th Percentile £263 £363 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £700 £727 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 46 101
10th Percentile £11.13 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.90 £19.81 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +20.06% +20.00%
75th Percentile £21.37 £22.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £21.46 £22.08 £22.00
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £19.81 £16.50
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.06% +10.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,084 12,976 17,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.92% 56.37% 55.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,320 8,807 11,770
10th Percentile £210 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £698 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,675 734 1,047
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.04
Median hourly rate £28.25 £27.60 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +41.54% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.09 £36.58
90th Percentile £66.90 £68.75 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.60%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -4 148 £500 -4.76% 538
South East +18 123 £450 -18.18% 607
East of England +3 100 £438 -27.08% 206
Yorkshire -12 72 £500 -9.09% 174
North West +17 66 £450 -10.00% 305
Midlands -12 51 £600 +31.87% 377
West Midlands +14 38 £650 +36.84% 174
South West -25 23 £475 -2.56% 213
East Midlands -14 13 £500 +14.29% 198
Scotland +26 7 £430 +7.50% 128
North East +8 5 £600 +6.19% 68
Wales +3 3 - - 43
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (2.64%) CMS
2 9 (1.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (1.98%) Confluence
3 7 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.66%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.22%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.64%) Shopify
2 9 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.76%) SAP Hybris
4 7 (1.54%) SAP Retail
5 5 (1.10%) Magento
6 3 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.44%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.44%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle AGIS
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.22%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 50 (10.99%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (8.79%) Azure
3 35 (7.69%) AWS
4 34 (7.47%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.08%) Cloudflare
6 12 (2.64%) Akamai
6 12 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (1.98%) BigCommerce
7 9 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (1.98%) SaaS
8 8 (1.76%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 8 (1.76%) Serverless
9 7 (1.54%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.32%) Google Sheets
10 6 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (1.10%) CloudFront
11 5 (1.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (2.64%) DNS
3 10 (2.20%) Network Security
4 9 (1.98%) ATM
4 9 (1.98%) Firewall
4 9 (1.98%) VPN
5 8 (1.76%) LAN
6 5 (1.10%) VoIP
6 5 (1.10%) WAN
7 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.66%) Wireless
7 3 (0.66%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.44%) DHCP
8 2 (0.44%) IP Telephony
8 2 (0.44%) PBX
8 2 (0.44%) SMS
8 2 (0.44%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.44%) VLAN
9 1 (0.22%) Broadband
9 1 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.03%) Power BI
2 16 (3.52%) Tableau
3 10 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.54%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.32%) MS Access
5 6 (1.32%) MySQL
6 5 (1.10%) GIS
6 5 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.66%) Big Data
8 3 (0.66%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.44%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (5.27%) JIRA
2 5 (1.10%) Git
3 4 (0.88%) SonarQube
3 4 (0.88%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.44%) kappa
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.44%) Postman
5 1 (0.22%) ERwin
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) JMeter
5 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.22%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 154 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 91 (20.00%) Finance
3 56 (12.31%) Marketing
4 45 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (5.27%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.96%) Legal
7 17 (3.74%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.08%) Banking
8 14 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.86%) Automotive
10 10 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.76%) Publishing
12 7 (1.54%) Back Office
12 7 (1.54%) Billing
12 7 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.88%) German Language
15 3 (0.66%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 99 (21.76%) Analyst
2 42 (9.23%) Project Manager
3 38 (8.35%) Service Analyst
4 33 (7.25%) Service Desk Analyst
5 32 (7.03%) Developer
6 31 (6.81%) Architect
7 24 (5.27%) Business Analyst
8 20 (4.40%) Consultant
9 17 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.52%) Lead
11 14 (3.08%) IT Support
12 12 (2.64%) Administrator
12 12 (2.64%) Data Analyst
12 12 (2.64%) IT Manager
12 12 (2.64%) Senior
13 10 (2.20%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (1.98%) IT Technician
15 8 (1.76%) Coordinator
15 8 (1.76%) Programme Manager
15 8 (1.76%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.54%) HTML
2 5 (1.10%) .NET
2 5 (1.10%) OAuth
2 5 (1.10%) OAuth2
2 5 (1.10%) SAML
2 5 (1.10%) VML
3 4 (0.88%) CSS
3 4 (0.88%) JSON
3 4 (0.88%) Kafka
3 4 (0.88%) XML
4 3 (0.66%) React
4 3 (0.66%) REST
5 2 (0.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.44%) CSS3
5 2 (0.44%) HTML5
5 2 (0.44%) LESS
5 2 (0.44%) Node.js
5 2 (0.44%) React Native
5 2 (0.44%) RESTful
5 2 (0.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.05%) Driving Licence
2 22 (4.84%) EPoS
2 22 (4.84%) FMCG
3 16 (3.52%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.42%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.42%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.98%) Smartphone
6 9 (1.98%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.54%) Digital Signage
8 7 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.32%) Blog
9 6 (1.32%) CMDB
9 6 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.10%) Social Media
11 4 (0.88%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.88%) e-Health
11 4 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.05%) Windows
2 9 (1.98%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.98%) Windows 10
3 7 (1.54%) Windows 7
4 5 (1.10%) Unix
5 4 (0.88%) Linux
5 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.66%) Debian
6 3 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (14.73%) E-Commerce
2 66 (14.51%) Customer Service
3 56 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (10.55%) Migration
5 44 (9.67%) ITIL
6 43 (9.45%) Agile
7 40 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (8.79%) Project Management
8 37 (8.13%) Incident Management
9 35 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (7.25%) CRM
11 31 (6.81%) Decision-Making
12 30 (6.59%) Coaching
13 29 (6.37%) Time Management
14 28 (6.15%) DevOps
15 25 (5.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 22 (4.84%) Data Migration
17 21 (4.62%) Logistics
18 20 (4.40%) Analytics
18 20 (4.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 61 (13.41%) SQL
2 20 (4.40%) Python
3 11 (2.42%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.10%) Java
4 5 (1.10%) VBA
5 4 (0.88%) PHP
6 3 (0.66%) Bash
6 3 (0.66%) Go
6 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.44%) C#
7 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.22%) ABAP
8 1 (0.22%) C++
8 1 (0.22%) Scala
8 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (6.15%) A+ Certification
1 28 (6.15%) MCSA
1 28 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (5.71%) Degree
3 21 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.76%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.32%) MCP
6 4 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.44%) CCNA
7 2 (0.44%) CCNP
7 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.44%) PMP
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.22%) PhD
8 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.30%) PMO
2 14 (3.08%) SLA
3 13 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.42%) QA
5 6 (1.32%) GDPR
6 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.88%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.66%) IFRS
8 3 (0.66%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.66%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.44%) GRC
9 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.20%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (1.32%) Kubernetes
1 6 (1.32%) Terraform
2 3 (0.66%) Ansible
2 3 (0.66%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.22%) AppManager
3 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
3 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 47 (10.33%) SAP
2 44 (9.67%) Microsoft
3 33 (7.25%) ServiceNow
4 29 (6.37%) Citrix
5 19 (4.18%) Salesforce
6 16 (3.52%) Adobe
7 15 (3.30%) F5
8 12 (2.64%) Oracle
9 9 (1.98%) Google
10 8 (1.76%) Workday
11 7 (1.54%) RedPrairie
12 6 (1.32%) Alteryx
12 6 (1.32%) Cisco
13 5 (1.10%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.10%) Informatica
13 5 (1.10%) Sitecore
13 5 (1.10%) Splunk
14 3 (0.66%) Aruba
14 3 (0.66%) Ceridian
14 3 (0.66%) JDA