Retail Contracts in Bedfordshire

Retailing
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Bedfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 -15
Contract jobs citing Retail 2 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.27% 3.66% 5.43%
As % of the General category 1.47% 4.69% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £263 £481
25th Percentile - £322 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.89% +12.98%
75th Percentile - £538 £600
90th Percentile - £569 -
East of England median daily rate £525 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +23.53% -29.17% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £15.29 -
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.72% +7.87% +1.59%

All General Skills
Bedfordshire

Retail falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 136 192 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 86.62% 78.05% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 107 76
10th Percentile £350 £308 £208
25th Percentile £500 £406 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +3.70% +1.25%
75th Percentile £681 £586 £600
90th Percentile £700 £750 £641
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.78% +6.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 3
10th Percentile £20.26 £15.33 £59.00
25th Percentile £27.94 £15.39 £70.63
Median hourly rate £60.00 £21.50 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +179.07% -76.11% +56.52%
75th Percentile £77.50 £38.33 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £65.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £31.21 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -18.13% +81.52% +44.83%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Bedfordshire

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Bedfordshire

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Bedfordshire

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Dunstable +3 1 - - 1
Bedford -1 1 £600 - 7
Retail
East of England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (50.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (50.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (50.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Accounts Payable
1 1 (50.00%) Accounts Receivable
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cash Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP