Retail Contracts in Central London

Retailing
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 85 86
Rank change year-on-year +21 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Retail 78 91 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.18% 2.36% 2.79%
As % of the General category 4.84% 3.80% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 50 78
10th Percentile £249 £358 £420
25th Percentile £430 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £634 £684
90th Percentile £768 £791 £813
London median daily rate £513 £545 £589
% change year-on-year -5.96% -7.43% +12.14%

All General Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,613 2,397 2,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 65.86% 62.10% 56.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,692 1,903
10th Percentile £338 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £475 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +5.26% +6.05%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 26
10th Percentile £20.10 £15.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.42 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +137.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £53.25 £57.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 £64.13
London median hourly rate £28.50 £32.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -10.94% -9.86% +29.09%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Central London

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Central London

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Central London

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Central London

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
City of London +35 66 £575 +9.52% 53
West End of London - 9 £505 - 5
Camden - 6 £505 - 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £425 - 1
Retail
London

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (5.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.56%) Trello
4 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.28%) Magento
3 1 (1.28%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.28%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.28%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.28%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.28%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.23%) Azure
2 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (10.26%) Power Automate
2 8 (10.26%) Power Platform
2 8 (10.26%) PowerApps
3 7 (8.97%) AWS
4 4 (5.13%) GCP
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.56%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.56%) Google Sheets
5 2 (2.56%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.28%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.28%) GitHub
6 1 (1.28%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.28%) SaaS
6 1 (1.28%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (2.56%) Firewall
1 2 (2.56%) VPN
2 1 (1.28%) DHCP
2 1 (1.28%) DNS
2 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.28%) VLAN
2 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) Data Lake
1 8 (10.26%) Power BI
2 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.41%) MySQL
4 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.56%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.56%) Redis
5 2 (2.56%) Tableau
6 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.28%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.28%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.28%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (5.13%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.56%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) PHPUnit
4 1 (1.28%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.28%) Darcs
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.28%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.28%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (30.77%) Finance
2 23 (29.49%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Banking
5 8 (10.26%) General Ledger
5 8 (10.26%) Legal
5 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.97%) Corporate Banking
6 7 (8.97%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.69%) Retail Banking
8 4 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.56%) Front Office
9 2 (2.56%) Marketing
9 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Games
10 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (15.38%) Analyst
2 11 (14.10%) Developer
3 10 (12.82%) Consultant
4 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Consultant
5 7 (8.97%) Project Manager
6 6 (7.69%) Product Manager
7 5 (6.41%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Architect
8 4 (5.13%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Lead
9 3 (3.85%) Business Manager
9 3 (3.85%) Business Project Manager
9 3 (3.85%) E-Commerce Manager
9 3 (3.85%) Senior
10 2 (2.56%) Business Change Project Manager
10 2 (2.56%) Change Manager
10 2 (2.56%) Data Migration Specialist
10 2 (2.56%) PHP Developer
10 2 (2.56%) Programme Director
10 2 (2.56%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.56%) .NET
1 2 (2.56%) Laravel
1 2 (2.56%) React
1 2 (2.56%) Symfony
1 2 (2.56%) Yii
2 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.28%) BAPI
2 1 (1.28%) CSS
2 1 (1.28%) EDI
2 1 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.28%) HTML
2 1 (1.28%) jQuery
2 1 (1.28%) Middleware
2 1 (1.28%) Node.js
2 1 (1.28%) Pandas
2 1 (1.28%) REST
2 1 (1.28%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.28%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.28%) Svelte
2 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.56%) EPoS
3 2 (2.56%) IoT
3 2 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.28%) CBDC
4 1 (1.28%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.28%) Derivative
4 1 (1.28%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.28%) FMCG
4 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.28%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.28%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Windows
2 2 (2.56%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.56%) Mac OS X
2 2 (2.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.28%) Android
3 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.38%) Agile
1 12 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (14.10%) Requirements Gathering
3 10 (12.82%) DevOps
4 9 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (10.26%) Accounts Payable
5 8 (10.26%) Accounts Receivable
5 8 (10.26%) Coaching
5 8 (10.26%) Mentoring
5 8 (10.26%) Requirements Workshops
6 7 (8.97%) Risk Management
7 6 (7.69%) E-Commerce
7 6 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (7.69%) Wealth Management
8 5 (6.41%) Analytics
8 5 (6.41%) Continuous Deployment
8 5 (6.41%) Migration
9 4 (5.13%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (5.13%) Project Delivery
9 4 (5.13%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.10%) SQL
2 6 (7.69%) Python
3 3 (3.85%) C#
3 3 (3.85%) Java
3 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.56%) ABAP
4 2 (2.56%) PHP
5 1 (1.28%) C
5 1 (1.28%) C++
5 1 (1.28%) Go
5 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.28%) R
5 1 (1.28%) Rust
5 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.28%) IIBA
2 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.28%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.28%) PMP
2 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (1.28%) SANS
2 1 (1.28%) SAP Certification
2 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) PMO
2 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) GAAP
3 1 (1.28%) IFRS
3 1 (1.28%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.28%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.28%) NIST
3 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.56%) Docker
1 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.28%) Ansible
1 1 (1.28%) Grafana
1 1 (1.28%) Kibana
1 1 (1.28%) logstash
1 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.28%) Puppet
1 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) Google
3 6 (7.69%) Adobe
4 5 (6.41%) SAP
5 4 (5.13%) Oracle
6 3 (3.85%) Cisco
7 2 (2.56%) Cadence
7 2 (2.56%) Planview
8 1 (1.28%) Apple
8 1 (1.28%) Brio
8 1 (1.28%) Ensighten
8 1 (1.28%) JDA
8 1 (1.28%) Omniture
8 1 (1.28%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.28%) Splunk
8 1 (1.28%) Tealium
8 1 (1.28%) Workday