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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 59 92
Rank change year-on-year -21 +33 -13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Retail 45 67 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.48% 3.24% 2.26%
As % of the General category 3.32% 4.77% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 47
10th Percentile £185 £211 £382
25th Percentile £456 £429 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £573
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -4.80% -1.72%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £675
90th Percentile £725 £736 £740
Central London median daily rate £538 £515 £561
% change year-on-year +4.37% -8.24% -0.88%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,356 1,405 2,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 74.79% 67.87% 63.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 913 1,407
10th Percentile £325 £351 £363
25th Percentile £423 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £810 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 11
10th Percentile £17.02 £13.73 -
25th Percentile £24.00 £17.06 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.25 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% +50.00% -56.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £74.38 £40.16
90th Percentile £67.89 £98.13 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +25.93% -1.82% -32.10%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retail

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 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the City of London

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retail

Retail
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
Retail
Central 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 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Chatbot
1 3 (6.67%) Sketch
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.67%) ChatGPT
1 3 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (6.67%) Figma
1 3 (6.67%) IBM Watson
1 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.44%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) Cloud Functions
2 2 (4.44%) dbt
2 2 (4.44%) GCP
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.22%) AWS
3 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.22%) Boomi
3 1 (2.22%) Datadog
3 1 (2.22%) GitHub
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.22%) SaaS
3 1 (2.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) NFC
1 1 (2.22%) RFID
1 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.44%) Tableau
3 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.22%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) Parquet
3 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (42.22%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 12 (26.67%) Banking
4 10 (22.22%) Investment Banking
5 9 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
5 9 (20.00%) Retail Banking
6 6 (13.33%) Marketing
7 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (6.67%) Law
9 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
9 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (2.22%) Front Office
10 1 (2.22%) Games
10 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (2.22%) Legal
10 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Analyst
2 6 (13.33%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Designer
3 5 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 4 (8.89%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.89%) React Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Digital Product Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Gen AI Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.67%) SQL Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Product Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) HTML
2 4 (8.89%) React
3 3 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.67%) Flask
3 3 (6.67%) JSON
3 3 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.22%) CSS
4 1 (2.22%) CSS3
4 1 (2.22%) HTML5
4 1 (2.22%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.22%) Kafka
4 1 (2.22%) LESS
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
4 1 (2.22%) Sass
4 1 (2.22%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) BYOD
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Android
1 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) Agile
1 11 (24.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (20.00%) User Experience
2 9 (20.00%) Wealth Management
3 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
4 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (13.33%) UX Design
5 5 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 5 (11.11%) Generative AI
5 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (8.89%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (8.89%) Analytics
6 4 (8.89%) API Development
6 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (8.89%) LLM
6 4 (8.89%) Risk Management
6 4 (8.89%) Software Engineering
6 4 (8.89%) Validation
7 3 (6.67%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) Python
1 5 (11.11%) SQL
2 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
1 2 (4.44%) PMP
2 1 (2.22%) CISA
2 1 (2.22%) CISSP
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) MiFID
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
3 1 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.67%) Genesys
1 3 (6.67%) IBM
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (4.44%) Adobe
2 2 (4.44%) Dell
2 2 (4.44%) Google
2 2 (4.44%) HP
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Pure Storage
3 1 (2.22%) Calypso
3 1 (2.22%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (2.22%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.22%) SAP
3 1 (2.22%) TikTok