Retail Contracts in the City of London

Retailing
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 59 93
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 -13
Contract jobs citing Retail 65 69 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.72% 3.15% 2.22%
As % of the General category 5.23% 4.75% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 33 41
10th Percentile £327 £216 £313
25th Percentile £456 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £700
90th Percentile £740 £818 £825
Central London median daily rate £556 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +8.01% -1.90% -12.50%

All General Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,243 1,452 2,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 71.23% 66.36% 62.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 1,030 1,589
10th Percentile £330 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +2.68% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.13 £14.48
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £15.78
Median hourly rate £29.58 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.23% +14.29% -51.72%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £96.38 £32.05 £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £24.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +25.15% -14.29% -35.63%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the City of London

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Retail in the City of London

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the City of London

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the City of London

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (9.23%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.08%) CMS
2 2 (3.08%) Drupal
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.08%) SAP Retail
3 1 (1.54%) Magento
3 1 (1.54%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.54%) SAP CAR
3 1 (1.54%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.54%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.54%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.54%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.54%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.46%) AWS
2 9 (13.85%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.62%) GitHub
5 3 (4.62%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.08%) Attraqt
6 2 (3.08%) GCP
6 2 (3.08%) IBM Blueworks
6 2 (3.08%) Storyblok
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.54%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.54%) SaaS
7 1 (1.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) DHCP
1 1 (1.54%) DNS
1 1 (1.54%) Firewall
1 1 (1.54%) VLAN
1 1 (1.54%) VPN
1 1 (1.54%) VRRP
1 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Power BI
1 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.54%) Big Data
3 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.54%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Parquet
3 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.54%) JIRA
1 1 (1.54%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (33.85%) Finance
1 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Banking
2 15 (23.08%) Corporate Banking
2 15 (23.08%) Investment Banking
2 15 (23.08%) Retail Banking
3 8 (12.31%) Marketing
4 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Games
7 1 (1.54%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (12.31%) Analyst
2 7 (10.77%) Lead
2 7 (10.77%) Project Manager
3 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 5 (7.69%) Developer
3 5 (7.69%) Senior
4 4 (6.15%) Administrator
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Business Analyst
4 4 (6.15%) Data Analyst
4 4 (6.15%) Designer
5 3 (4.62%) Compliance Specialist
5 3 (4.62%) Data Modeller
5 3 (4.62%) Electronic Trading Specialist
5 3 (4.62%) MiFID Specialist
5 3 (4.62%) Product Owner
5 3 (4.62%) Python Data Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Python Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Kafka
2 3 (4.62%) HTML
2 3 (4.62%) PySpark
2 3 (4.62%) React
3 2 (3.08%) .NET
3 2 (3.08%) FastAPI
3 2 (3.08%) Flask
3 2 (3.08%) JSON
3 2 (3.08%) Middleware
3 2 (3.08%) Node.js
3 2 (3.08%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.54%) Ajax
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.54%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.54%) OAuth
4 1 (1.54%) OpenID
4 1 (1.54%) SOAP
4 1 (1.54%) Web Services
4 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.08%) Digital Media
4 2 (3.08%) Replication
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) CMDB
5 1 (1.54%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (1.54%) FMCG
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Android
2 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.08%) Wealth Management
2 14 (21.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (18.46%) Agile
4 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.85%) Validation
6 7 (10.77%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
7 6 (9.23%) Migration
7 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (9.23%) User Experience
8 5 (7.69%) Data Engineering
8 5 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (7.69%) Decision-Making
8 5 (7.69%) ETL
8 5 (7.69%) Project Delivery
8 5 (7.69%) Project Management
8 5 (7.69%) UX Design
9 4 (6.15%) Business Strategy
9 4 (6.15%) CI/CD
9 4 (6.15%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) SQL
2 8 (12.31%) Python
3 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.62%) Degree
2 2 (3.08%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) MiFID
2 2 (3.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) PMO
3 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Firmware
2 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
1 8 (12.31%) SAP
2 4 (6.15%) Adobe
3 2 (3.08%) Dell
3 2 (3.08%) Google
3 2 (3.08%) HP
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle
3 2 (3.08%) Pure Storage
3 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.54%) BMC
4 1 (1.54%) Confluent
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks
4 1 (1.54%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) Klarna
4 1 (1.54%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.54%) Remedy
4 1 (1.54%) Splunk
4 1 (1.54%) Veeam