Retail Contracts in Manchester

Retailing
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 61 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -26
Contract jobs citing Retail 45 55 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.94% 2.91% 2.81%
As % of the General category 6.07% 5.93% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 37 56
10th Percentile £126 £388 £355
25th Percentile £306 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £578 £500 £570
90th Percentile £630 £575 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +15.15%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 741 927 1,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.34% 48.97% 44.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 646 899
10th Percentile £302 £305 £248
25th Percentile £381 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £659 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 39 31
10th Percentile £12.27 £14.52 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.31 £19.63 £14.82
Median hourly rate £21.73 £25.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +38.89% -21.74%
75th Percentile £31.50 £37.30 £20.57
90th Percentile £59.75 £45.05 £27.00
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Bolton - 1 £425 - 7
Retail
North West

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) NetSuite
1 2 (4.44%) SAP Retail
1 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) AWS
2 6 (13.33%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 5 (11.11%) Snowflake
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (8.89%) Serverless
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.22%) Datadog
7 1 (2.22%) Fivetran
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.22%) Matillion
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) ATM
2 1 (2.22%) LAN
2 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Power BI
2 4 (8.89%) Metadata
2 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) ERwin
1 4 (8.89%) Git
1 4 (8.89%) SonarQube
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Zephyr
3 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Gradle
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) JUnit
3 1 (2.22%) Maven
3 1 (2.22%) Mockito
General
1 17 (37.78%) Finance
2 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.89%) Electronics
4 4 (8.89%) Marketing
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 7 (15.56%) Site Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Data Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Power BI Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.44%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.22%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.22%) AWS SAM
2 1 (2.22%) Jest
2 1 (2.22%) JSON
2 1 (2.22%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (2.22%) Node.js
2 1 (2.22%) React
2 1 (2.22%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) RESTful
2 1 (2.22%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) EPoS
2 9 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 9 (20.00%) Smartphone
3 4 (8.89%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (8.89%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (8.89%) Wiki
4 2 (4.44%) FMCG
4 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Debian
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) E-Commerce
2 9 (20.00%) Break/Fix
2 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 8 (17.78%) Migration
4 7 (15.56%) DevOps
4 7 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (13.33%) Agile
5 6 (13.33%) Data Management
6 5 (11.11%) Logistics
7 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.89%) Data Architecture
7 4 (8.89%) Data Governance
7 4 (8.89%) Data Modelling
7 4 (8.89%) Data Protection
7 4 (8.89%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (8.89%) Master Data Management
7 4 (8.89%) Programme Management
7 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) SQL
2 5 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) Bash
3 3 (6.67%) Go
3 3 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) PHP
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.22%) Degree
1 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 4 (8.89%) GDPR
4 3 (6.67%) ISO 22301
4 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.89%) Terraform
2 3 (6.67%) Ansible
2 3 (6.67%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) SAP
2 4 (8.89%) Sparx
3 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.67%) Splunk
4 2 (4.44%) Ceridian
5 1 (2.22%) Confluent
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) New Relic