Retail Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Retailing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 29 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Retail 16 14 20
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.62% 4.17% 4.78%
As % of the General category 8.25% 7.04% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile - - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% -5.26% +61.02%
75th Percentile £601 - £550
90th Percentile £657 - £558
East of England median daily rate £600 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 15
10th Percentile £13.41 £14.60 -
25th Percentile £14.22 £16.10 £16.30
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.30 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% -23.72% +7.87%
75th Percentile £15.96 £17.75 -
90th Percentile £16.54 £18.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £15.84 £16.30 £16.90
% change year-on-year -2.82% -3.55% -14.69%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 194 199 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 56.07% 59.23% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 74 52
10th Percentile £188 £213 £228
25th Percentile £381 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +0.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £574 £634 £575
90th Percentile £615 £688 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 62 103
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.85 £15.00
25th Percentile - £14.75 £15.62
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.23 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% - +11.93%
75th Percentile £17.38 £18.85 £19.11
90th Percentile £32.68 £31.00 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £27.49 £30.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -8.38% -21.30% +115.12%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Retail job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Cambridgeshire

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Retail

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 2 September 2026. 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
Peterborough +5 9 - - 8
Cambridge +6 3 £509 +13.11% 10
Retail
East of England

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) OCI
1 2 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 11 (68.75%) Organisational Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Manufacturing
2 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Romanian Language
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Dutch Language
4 2 (12.50%) Hungarian Language
4 2 (12.50%) Local Government
4 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Spanish Language
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) German Language
5 1 (6.25%) Lithuanian Language
5 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
1 7 (43.75%) Service Analyst
1 7 (43.75%) Service Desk Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Head of IT
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Customer Service Advisor
3 2 (12.50%) Data Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Migration Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Active Listening
1 9 (56.25%) Customer Experience
2 8 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 2 (12.50%) ERP
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Release Management
6 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.25%) Data Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Data Transformation
6 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) ETL
6 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks