Retail Contracts in Cheshire

Retailing
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 54 52
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -11
Contract jobs citing Retail 5 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.99% 1.70% 0.76%
As % of the General category 1.60% 2.92% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £313 £463 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +5.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £472 £488 £469
90th Percentile £500 - £480
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 313 308 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 62.10% 58.11% 58.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 205 187
10th Percentile £276 £219 £206
25th Percentile £391 £363 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +0.90%
75th Percentile £563 £566 £531
90th Percentile £627 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 21
10th Percentile £16.57 £14.65 £9.90
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.15 £11.21
Median hourly rate £24.58 £30.54 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.52% +45.43% +17.32%
75th Percentile £37.25 £33.95 £31.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £36.00 £58.75
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Cheshire

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Cheshire

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Cheshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Cheshire

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Cheshire

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Warrington - 4 £325 - 17
Retail
North West

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Commercetools
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
1 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Support Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Order Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) HP