Retail Contracts in Belfast

Retailing
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Retail 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 1.36% - 0.61%
As % of the General category 1.57% - 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £174 - -
25th Percentile £232 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £342 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £342 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All General Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 127 60 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 86.39% 48.39% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 35 54
10th Percentile £153 £191 £161
25th Percentile £273 £276 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -6.71%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £488
90th Percentile £625 £650 £609
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 9
10th Percentile £22.67 - £13.88
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £32.13 £15.38 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.88% -0.77% +34.78%
75th Percentile £58.85 £16.12 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £17.50 £18.16
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.59 £16.12 £15.50
% change year-on-year +64.95% +4.00% +11.59%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Belfast

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Belfast

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Belfast

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 1 (50.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (50.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RAML
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow