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 advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 83 67
Rank change year-on-year +13 -16 -20
Contract jobs citing Retail 70 74 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.53% 2.30% 3.30%
As % of the General category 4.73% 4.46% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 46 85
10th Percentile £126 £375 £366
25th Percentile £308 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £514 £563
90th Percentile £630 £575 £650
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £11.13 - -
25th Percentile £12.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.81 £16.50
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.06% +26.92%

All General Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,480 1,660 2,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.56% 51.67% 49.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 1,140 1,425
10th Percentile £300 £305 £213
25th Percentile £395 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 83 115
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.67 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.04 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £36.95 £38.03 £43.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £52.81 £53.52
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

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 27 April 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
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 27 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
Manchester +9 45 £513 +7.89% 137
Cumbria - 10 - - 3
Lancashire +6 5 £692 -1.21% 19
Cheshire +1 5 £381 -19.74% 44
Merseyside +14 4 £315 -30.00% 26
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 7 (10.00%) CMS
2 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.86%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.86%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.43%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.14%) AWS
2 8 (11.43%) Azure
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.71%) Serverless
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.29%) GCP
7 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.86%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.43%) Datadog
8 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.43%) GitHub
8 1 (1.43%) Oracle CX
8 1 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) ATM
2 1 (1.43%) DHCP
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) LAN
2 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.43%) VLAN
2 1 (1.43%) VPN
2 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Power BI
2 4 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.71%) Metadata
2 4 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.29%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.29%) MySQL
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) ERwin
1 4 (5.71%) Git
1 4 (5.71%) SonarQube
1 4 (5.71%) Zephyr
2 3 (4.29%) JIRA
3 2 (2.86%) Postman
4 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.43%) GitLab
4 1 (1.43%) Gradle
4 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.43%) JUnit
4 1 (1.43%) Maven
4 1 (1.43%) Mockito
4 1 (1.43%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.71%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Electronics
4 4 (5.71%) Marketing
4 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (12.86%) IT Technician
2 8 (11.43%) Analyst
3 7 (10.00%) IT Support
3 7 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 7 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (5.71%) Architect
4 4 (5.71%) Data Architect
4 4 (5.71%) Developer
4 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 4 (5.71%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.29%) Administrator
5 3 (4.29%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 3 (4.29%) Commercial Officer
5 3 (4.29%) Data Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Help Desk Administrator
5 3 (4.29%) Java Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) Kafka
2 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.43%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.43%) AWS SAM
2 1 (1.43%) Jest
2 1 (1.43%) JSON
2 1 (1.43%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (1.43%) Node.js
2 1 (1.43%) React
2 1 (1.43%) REST
2 1 (1.43%) RESTful
2 1 (1.43%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.29%) EPoS
2 9 (12.86%) Driving Licence
2 9 (12.86%) Smartphone
3 7 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 5 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (5.71%) Wiki
6 2 (2.86%) FMCG
6 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Android
1 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.43%) Debian
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) E-Commerce
2 11 (15.71%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (15.71%) Migration
3 9 (12.86%) Break/Fix
3 9 (12.86%) Preventative Maintenance
3 9 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (11.43%) CRM
4 8 (11.43%) DevOps
5 7 (10.00%) Agile
5 7 (10.00%) Logistics
5 7 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (8.57%) Data Management
6 6 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (7.14%) Data Migration
8 4 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (5.71%) Data Architecture
8 4 (5.71%) Data Governance
8 4 (5.71%) Data Protection
8 4 (5.71%) Master Data Management
8 4 (5.71%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.86%) SQL
2 5 (7.14%) Python
3 4 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.29%) Bash
4 3 (4.29%) Go
4 3 (4.29%) Java
5 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.43%) PHP
5 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.43%) Degree
1 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) GDPR
2 5 (7.14%) QA
3 3 (4.29%) ISO 22301
3 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) PMO
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.71%) Terraform
2 3 (4.29%) Ansible
2 3 (4.29%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.43%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) SAP
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.71%) Sparx
4 3 (4.29%) Cadence
4 3 (4.29%) Splunk
5 2 (2.86%) Ceridian
5 2 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) Confluent
6 1 (1.43%) HP
6 1 (1.43%) New Relic
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle