Retail Contracts in Central London

Retailing
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 55 102
Rank change year-on-year -1 +47 -23
Contract jobs citing Retail 72 84 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.78% 3.51% 2.17%
As % of the General category 5.27% 5.29% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 47 45
10th Percentile £424 £232 £378
25th Percentile £452 £428 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +1.42% -11.67%
75th Percentile £609 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £810
London median daily rate £550 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -4.35%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,365 1,587 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 71.58% 66.35% 62.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,117 1,633
10th Percentile £331 £325 £325
25th Percentile £435 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 13
10th Percentile £21.45 £19.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.94 £20.22 £15.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.80 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.14% -32.00% -7.89%
75th Percentile £46.15 £30.00 £42.32
90th Percentile £67.38 £43.75 £53.55
London median hourly rate £34.00 £30.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% -4.76% -11.27%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
City of London 0 62 £550 +0.92% 45
West End of London -1 6 £450 -10.89% 10
Camden +4 5 £450 -10.89% 1
City of Westminster +3 3 £575 - 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 5 (6.94%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.78%) CMS
2 2 (2.78%) Drupal
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Chatbot
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.17%) Sketch
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.39%) Magento
2 1 (1.39%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.39%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.67%) Azure
2 11 (15.28%) AWS
3 6 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.94%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.17%) ChatGPT
5 3 (4.17%) dbt
5 3 (4.17%) Figma
5 3 (4.17%) GCP
5 3 (4.17%) GitHub
5 3 (4.17%) IBM Watson
5 3 (4.17%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.78%) Attraqt
6 2 (2.78%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Storyblok
7 1 (1.39%) Alation
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Power BI
2 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.78%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.78%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.78%) Tableau
4 1 (1.39%) Big Data
4 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Parquet
4 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (38.89%) Finance
2 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 18 (25.00%) Banking
4 17 (23.61%) Corporate Banking
4 17 (23.61%) Investment Banking
4 17 (23.61%) Retail Banking
5 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.72%) Marketing
7 5 (6.94%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (4.17%) Law
9 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Analyst
2 9 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 9 (12.50%) Senior
3 8 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.72%) Designer
4 7 (9.72%) Developer
5 5 (6.94%) Data Analyst
5 5 (6.94%) Data Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Lead
5 5 (6.94%) Retail Business Analyst
6 4 (5.56%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.17%) Administrator
7 3 (4.17%) Architect
7 3 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Specialist
7 3 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.17%) MiFID Specialist
7 3 (4.17%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) HTML
2 4 (5.56%) Kafka
2 4 (5.56%) React
3 3 (4.17%) FastAPI
3 3 (4.17%) Flask
3 3 (4.17%) JSON
3 3 (4.17%) Middleware
3 3 (4.17%) PySpark
3 3 (4.17%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (1.39%) Ajax
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.39%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.39%) Node.js
5 1 (1.39%) OAuth
5 1 (1.39%) OpenID
5 1 (1.39%) Semantic HTML
5 1 (1.39%) SOAP
5 1 (1.39%) Web Services
5 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.39%) BYOD
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) CMDB
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.39%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Android
2 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) Wealth Management
2 16 (22.22%) Agile
3 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (15.28%) Artificial Intelligence
5 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (13.89%) User Experience
6 9 (12.50%) UX Design
6 9 (12.50%) Validation
7 7 (9.72%) ERP
8 6 (8.33%) Analytics
8 6 (8.33%) Data Modelling
8 6 (8.33%) Project Management
8 6 (8.33%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (6.94%) Business Strategy
9 5 (6.94%) Customer Experience
9 5 (6.94%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (6.94%) Project Delivery
9 5 (6.94%) SAP Implementation
9 5 (6.94%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.28%) SQL
2 9 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.17%) Degree
1 3 (4.17%) PMP
2 2 (2.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) MiFID
2 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) PMO
3 1 (1.39%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (12.50%) SAP
2 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.56%) Adobe
4 3 (4.17%) Genesys
4 3 (4.17%) Google
4 3 (4.17%) IBM
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle
5 2 (2.78%) Dell
5 2 (2.78%) HP
5 2 (2.78%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.39%) Confluent
6 1 (1.39%) Databricks
6 1 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk