Retail Contract Job Trends in Bury

Retailing
Manchester > Bury

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Bury. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retail 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bury 68.42% - -
As % of the General category 81.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £772 - -
90th Percentile £775 - -
Manchester median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -14.29%

All General Skills
Bury

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 general skills in Bury.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 16 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bury 84.21% 42.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £766 - -
90th Percentile £775 - -
Manchester median daily rate £476 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.77 -
Manchester median hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +100.00% -36.51% +77.77%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Bury

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bury.

Retail job vacancy trend in Bury

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Bury

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bury citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bury citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Bury

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Bury over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Bury

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
1 8 (61.54%) GitHub
2 6 (46.15%) Anthropic Claude
2 6 (46.15%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (46.15%) GitHub Copilot
2 6 (46.15%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Claude Code
2 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Product Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Mobile Product Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Principal Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Next.js
1 6 (46.15%) React
1 6 (46.15%) REST
2 5 (38.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
3 3 (23.08%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) AI
2 10 (76.92%) Customer Experience
3 9 (69.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 8 (61.54%) DevOps
4 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (61.54%) Monorepo
4 8 (61.54%) Observability
5 7 (53.85%) E-Commerce
6 6 (46.15%) Code Quality
6 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
6 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (46.15%) Mentoring
6 6 (46.15%) Microservices
6 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
6 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
6 6 (46.15%) Technical Debt
6 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) TypeScript
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes