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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 52 52
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Retail 151 219 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.22% 3.84% 4.27%
As % of the General category 5.87% 6.93% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 138 197
10th Percentile £183 £405 £375
25th Percentile £363 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +4.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £716 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile £12.05 - -
25th Percentile £12.15 - -
Median hourly rate £12.30 - -
75th Percentile £13.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.81 £16.50
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.06% +20.00%

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 2,572 3,162 3,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.81% 55.40% 50.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 2,185 2,585
10th Percentile £256 £300 £206
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% +7.95%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £560
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 90 178
10th Percentile £12.13 £14.23 £11.20
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.95 £14.96
Median hourly rate £16.06 £25.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +35.51% +1.72%
75th Percentile £33.00 £37.30 £31.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.02 £50.98
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.17%

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 8 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 8 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 West +12 71 £500 - 282
Yorkshire -3 71 £515 -6.36% 164
North East +7 5 £600 +6.19% 46
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 (5.30%) CMS
2 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.30%) SAP Retail
2 6 (3.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.32%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.66%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.66%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 1 (0.66%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.66%) SAP Travel Management
4 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (15.89%) Azure
2 14 (9.27%) AWS
2 14 (9.27%) Cloudflare
3 12 (7.95%) Akamai
4 10 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (4.64%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.31%) Serverless
7 5 (3.31%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.65%) GCP
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.99%) SaaS
10 2 (1.32%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.32%) Figma
10 2 (1.32%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.96%) ATM
2 7 (4.64%) DNS
3 5 (3.31%) Firewall
3 5 (3.31%) Network Security
4 3 (1.99%) LAN
4 3 (1.99%) WAN
4 3 (1.99%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.66%) DHCP
5 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.66%) VLAN
5 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.64%) Power BI
2 4 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.65%) Metadata
2 4 (2.65%) MySQL
2 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.65%) Tableau
3 3 (1.99%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.99%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.66%) DB2
5 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.28%) JIRA
2 4 (2.65%) ERwin
2 4 (2.65%) Git
2 4 (2.65%) SonarQube
2 4 (2.65%) Zephyr
3 2 (1.32%) Postman
4 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
4 1 (0.66%) Gradle
4 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) JMeter
4 1 (0.66%) JUnit
4 1 (0.66%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.66%) Maven
4 1 (0.66%) Mockito
4 1 (0.66%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.57%) Finance
3 18 (11.92%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.96%) Manufacturing
4 9 (5.96%) Marketing
5 5 (3.31%) Banking
6 4 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.65%) Electronics
6 4 (2.65%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.66%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (13.91%) Analyst
2 14 (9.27%) Developer
2 14 (9.27%) Project Manager
3 13 (8.61%) Architect
4 9 (5.96%) Business Analyst
4 9 (5.96%) IT Technician
5 7 (4.64%) Consultant
5 7 (4.64%) Enterprise Architect
5 7 (4.64%) IT Support
5 7 (4.64%) Site Engineer
5 7 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (3.97%) SAP Consultant
6 6 (3.97%) Senior
7 5 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.65%) Data Architect
8 4 (2.65%) Data Consultant
8 4 (2.65%) Database Analyst
8 4 (2.65%) Marketing Analyst
8 4 (2.65%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.99%) Kafka
2 2 (1.32%) ADO
2 2 (1.32%) Ajax
2 2 (1.32%) CSS
2 2 (1.32%) CSS3
2 2 (1.32%) HTML
2 2 (1.32%) HTML5
2 2 (1.32%) JSON
2 2 (1.32%) LESS
2 2 (1.32%) React
2 2 (1.32%) REST
2 2 (1.32%) Sass
3 1 (0.66%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.66%) AWS SAM
3 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.66%) Jest
3 1 (0.66%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (0.66%) React Native
3 1 (0.66%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.23%) Driving Licence
2 19 (12.58%) EPoS
3 9 (5.96%) Smartphone
4 7 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (4.64%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.31%) FMCG
6 5 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.65%) Wiki
8 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.66%) iSeries
9 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.66%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.99%) Debian
1 3 (1.99%) Linux
1 3 (1.99%) Ubuntu
1 3 (1.99%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) Android
2 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.21%) E-Commerce
2 24 (15.89%) Migration
3 18 (11.92%) DevOps
4 16 (10.60%) Customer Service
4 16 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (9.93%) Agile
5 15 (9.93%) CRM
6 13 (8.61%) Logistics
7 12 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (7.28%) Data Migration
9 9 (5.96%) Break/Fix
9 9 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (5.96%) Preventative Maintenance
9 9 (5.96%) RAD
10 8 (5.30%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (5.30%) Project Delivery
11 7 (4.64%) ERP
11 7 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (3.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (3.97%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.27%) SQL
2 11 (7.28%) Python
3 4 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (2.65%) Java
3 4 (2.65%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.99%) Bash
4 3 (1.99%) Go
5 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.66%) PHP
6 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (3.97%) Degree
2 3 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.32%) CCNP
3 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.32%) PMP
4 1 (0.66%) CCNA
4 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.66%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.97%) QA
2 5 (3.31%) GDPR
3 3 (1.99%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.66%) PMO
4 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.99%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.97%) Terraform
2 4 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.99%) Ansible
3 3 (1.99%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.66%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (13.91%) SAP
2 12 (7.95%) F5
3 8 (5.30%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.64%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.97%) RedPrairie
6 4 (2.65%) Sparx
7 3 (1.99%) Cadence
7 3 (1.99%) Splunk
8 2 (1.32%) Ariba
8 2 (1.32%) Ceridian
8 2 (1.32%) Google
8 2 (1.32%) JDA
9 1 (0.66%) Confluent
9 1 (0.66%) HP
9 1 (0.66%) New Relic
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle
9 1 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud