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 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 87 87 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 -27 +24
Contract jobs citing Retail 454 658 1,150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.21% 2.80% 3.75%
As % of the General category 4.07% 4.96% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 397 674
10th Percentile £275 £363 £350
25th Percentile £375 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +10.19%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £725 £733 £684
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 55 100
10th Percentile £11.13 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £18.25 £14.00
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 £22.10 £22.03
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 11,166 13,277 17,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.40% 56.49% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,357 9,083 11,757
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 766 1,031
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.68 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.69 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -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 8 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 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 of England -3 151 £513 -1.91% 484
South East +9 121 £488 -10.55% 361
East of England -2 96 £413 -31.25% 179
North West +12 71 £500 - 280
Yorkshire -3 71 £515 -6.36% 167
Midlands -2 51 £620 +37.78% 337
West Midlands +24 39 £650 +36.84% 170
South West -20 23 £475 -2.56% 187
East Midlands -13 12 £494 +23.44% 167
Scotland +29 9 £430 -1.71% 74
North East +7 5 £600 +6.19% 46
Wales +8 3 - - 37
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 4 (0.88%) SAS
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.22%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (2.42%) Shopify
2 10 (2.20%) SAP Retail
2 10 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.76%) SAP Hybris
4 6 (1.32%) Magento
5 3 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.66%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.44%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.44%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.44%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.22%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 49 (10.79%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (9.69%) Azure
3 37 (8.15%) AWS
4 33 (7.27%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.08%) Cloudflare
6 12 (2.64%) Akamai
7 11 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.98%) BigCommerce
9 8 (1.76%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.76%) SaaS
9 8 (1.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 8 (1.76%) Serverless
10 7 (1.54%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.10%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.10%) GCP
12 5 (1.10%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.15%) 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 7 (1.54%) LAN
6 4 (0.88%) WAN
7 3 (0.66%) VoIP
7 3 (0.66%) Wireless
7 3 (0.66%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.44%) DHCP
8 2 (0.44%) SMS
8 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.44%) VLAN
9 1 (0.22%) DMVPN
9 1 (0.22%) HTTP
9 1 (0.22%) MPLS
9 1 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.61%) Power BI
2 15 (3.30%) Tableau
3 8 (1.76%) 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%) Metadata
6 5 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.10%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.88%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 2 (0.44%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.51%) JIRA
2 5 (1.10%) Git
3 4 (0.88%) ERwin
3 4 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (0.88%) SonarQube
3 4 (0.88%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.44%) kappa
4 2 (0.44%) Postman
5 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) Gradle
5 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) JMeter
5 1 (0.22%) JUnit
5 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.22%) Maven
5 1 (0.22%) Mockito
5 1 (0.22%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 147 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 93 (20.48%) Finance
3 54 (11.89%) Marketing
4 42 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.85%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.96%) Legal
6 18 (3.96%) Manufacturing
7 17 (3.74%) Banking
8 15 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.86%) Automotive
10 8 (1.76%) Corporate Banking
10 8 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.76%) Publishing
11 7 (1.54%) Back Office
12 6 (1.32%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.10%) Billing
13 5 (1.10%) Electronics
14 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.66%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (22.03%) Analyst
2 44 (9.69%) Project Manager
3 40 (8.81%) Service Analyst
4 34 (7.49%) Service Desk Analyst
5 31 (6.83%) Developer
6 30 (6.61%) Architect
7 25 (5.51%) Business Analyst
8 20 (4.41%) Consultant
9 16 (3.52%) Lead
9 16 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (3.30%) IT Support
11 13 (2.86%) Data Analyst
12 12 (2.64%) Administrator
12 12 (2.64%) Senior
13 10 (2.20%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (1.98%) IT Manager
14 9 (1.98%) IT Technician
14 9 (1.98%) SAP Consultant
14 9 (1.98%) SAP Manager
15 8 (1.76%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.54%) HTML
2 6 (1.32%) .NET
3 5 (1.10%) Kafka
3 5 (1.10%) OAuth
3 5 (1.10%) OAuth2
3 5 (1.10%) SAML
3 5 (1.10%) VML
4 4 (0.88%) CSS
4 4 (0.88%) JSON
4 4 (0.88%) REST
5 3 (0.66%) React
5 3 (0.66%) React Native
5 3 (0.66%) XML
6 2 (0.44%) Ajax
6 2 (0.44%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.44%) CSS3
6 2 (0.44%) HTML5
6 2 (0.44%) LESS
6 2 (0.44%) Node.js
6 2 (0.44%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.07%) Driving Licence
1 23 (5.07%) EPoS
2 18 (3.96%) FMCG
3 15 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.64%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.98%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.98%) Smartphone
5 9 (1.98%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.32%) Blog
7 6 (1.32%) CMDB
7 6 (1.32%) Digital Signage
7 6 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.10%) Social Media
9 4 (0.88%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.88%) e-Health
9 4 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.07%) Windows
2 8 (1.76%) Apple iOS
2 8 (1.76%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.32%) 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 65 (14.32%) Customer Service
1 65 (14.32%) E-Commerce
2 51 (11.23%) Agile
2 51 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 48 (10.57%) Migration
4 43 (9.47%) ITIL
4 43 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (9.25%) Project Management
6 37 (8.15%) Incident Management
7 36 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (6.83%) CRM
9 30 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (6.61%) DevOps
10 25 (5.51%) Decision-Making
11 24 (5.29%) Coaching
11 24 (5.29%) Data Migration
12 22 (4.85%) Time Management
13 21 (4.63%) Logistics
14 20 (4.41%) Analytics
14 20 (4.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 60 (13.22%) SQL
2 20 (4.41%) Python
3 11 (2.42%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.32%) Java
5 5 (1.10%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.10%) VBA
6 4 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.66%) Bash
7 3 (0.66%) Go
7 3 (0.66%) PHP
8 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.44%) Scala
8 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.22%) ABAP
9 1 (0.22%) C#
9 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (6.17%) A+ Certification
1 28 (6.17%) MCSA
1 28 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (5.73%) Degree
3 22 (4.85%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.85%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.76%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.54%) MCP
6 6 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.88%) CCNA
8 3 (0.66%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.66%) PMP
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.44%) CCNP
9 2 (0.44%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.22%) PhD
10 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.52%) Data Quality
2 13 (2.86%) PMO
2 13 (2.86%) SLA
3 11 (2.42%) QA
4 9 (1.98%) GDPR
5 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.66%) IFRS
7 3 (0.66%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.66%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.44%) GRC
8 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (3.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.98%) 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%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (11.23%) SAP
2 42 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 33 (7.27%) ServiceNow
4 30 (6.61%) Citrix
5 18 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.74%) Adobe
7 16 (3.52%) Oracle
8 15 (3.30%) F5
9 9 (1.98%) Workday
10 8 (1.76%) Google
11 7 (1.54%) Cisco
12 6 (1.32%) Alteryx
12 6 (1.32%) RedPrairie
13 5 (1.10%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.10%) Informatica
13 5 (1.10%) Meraki
13 5 (1.10%) Sitecore
14 4 (0.88%) Sparx
15 3 (0.66%) Aruba
15 3 (0.66%) Databricks