Retail Contracts in Cheshire

Retailing
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 46 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Retail 5 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.92% 1.77% 1.27%
As % of the General category 1.45% 2.92% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £418 £454
25th Percentile £313 £434 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% -2.61% +25.87%
75th Percentile £381 £488 £510
90th Percentile £426 - £526
North West median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +11.76%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 345 308 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 63.42% 60.63% 59.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 197 189
10th Percentile £313 £262 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +4.07%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 28
10th Percentile £16.89 £14.50 £9.90
25th Percentile £18.92 £22.13 £10.96
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.74 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.17% +26.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £37.25 £34.47 £31.44
90th Percentile £43.75 £37.52 £47.38
North West median hourly rate £21.47 £23.15 £23.22
% change year-on-year -7.28% -0.31% +13.28%

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
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 22 June 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 +6 3 £325 -21.21% 8
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%) BrowserStack
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Commercetools
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (40.00%) 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%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Support Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Report Developer
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
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
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 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) HP