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 advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 97 77
Rank change year-on-year +37 -20 +25
Contract jobs citing Retail 68 79 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.15% 2.21% 2.93%
As % of the General category 4.73% 3.54% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 39 77
10th Percentile £211 £353 £420
25th Percentile £420 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -12.50% +11.63%
75th Percentile £678 £669 £700
90th Percentile £821 £825 £813
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +12.94%

All General Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,437 2,233 2,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.53% 62.53% 57.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,571 1,788
10th Percentile £338 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £688
90th Percentile £823 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £551 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.13% +5.26% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 28
10th Percentile £19.13 £14.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -50.59% +142.86%
75th Percentile £27.00 £52.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £32.05 £57.75 £67.55
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% -50.59% +142.86%

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 13 May 2024.

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 3 (4.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (4.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.94%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.47%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.47%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.47%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.47%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.47%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.47%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.53%) Azure
2 9 (13.24%) AWS
3 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (11.76%) Power Automate
3 8 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 8 (11.76%) PowerApps
4 5 (7.35%) GCP
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.94%) Google Sheets
6 2 (2.94%) Twilio
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub
7 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.47%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.47%) SaaS
7 1 (1.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (2.94%) CTI
1 2 (2.94%) Firewall
1 2 (2.94%) VoIP
1 2 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) DHCP
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) Data Lake
1 8 (11.76%) Power BI
2 6 (8.82%) MySQL
3 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.94%) Redis
4 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.94%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.94%) Tableau
5 1 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.47%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.47%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.47%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) JIRA
2 3 (4.41%) PHPUnit
3 2 (2.94%) Git
3 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.47%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.47%) Darcs
4 1 (1.47%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.47%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.47%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (33.82%) Finance
2 21 (30.88%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Banking
4 8 (11.76%) General Ledger
4 8 (11.76%) Legal
4 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.29%) Corporate Banking
5 7 (10.29%) Investment Banking
5 7 (10.29%) Retail Banking
6 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.47%) Advertising
8 1 (1.47%) Front Office
8 1 (1.47%) Marketing
8 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) Analyst
2 10 (14.71%) Consultant
3 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Consultant
4 7 (10.29%) Developer
4 7 (10.29%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.35%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.35%) Product Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) AWS Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Business Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Business Project Manager
7 3 (4.41%) E-Commerce Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Lead
7 3 (4.41%) PHP Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Senior
7 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.94%) Audio Visual Support
8 2 (2.94%) Programme Director
8 2 (2.94%) Project Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Laravel
1 3 (4.41%) Middleware
1 3 (4.41%) Symfony
1 3 (4.41%) Yii
2 2 (2.94%) React
2 2 (2.94%) Web Services
3 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.47%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.47%) BAPI
3 1 (1.47%) EDI
3 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.47%) HTML
3 1 (1.47%) IDoc
3 1 (1.47%) jQuery
3 1 (1.47%) Node.js
3 1 (1.47%) Pandas
3 1 (1.47%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.47%) Svelte
3 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.94%) IoT
3 2 (2.94%) IVR
3 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.47%) CBDC
4 1 (1.47%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.47%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.47%) EPoS
4 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.47%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Mac OS
1 2 (2.94%) Mac OS X
1 2 (2.94%) Windows
1 2 (2.94%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.47%) Android
2 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (19.12%) Agile
1 13 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (17.65%) DevOps
3 10 (14.71%) Requirements Gathering
4 9 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (11.76%) Accounts Payable
5 8 (11.76%) Accounts Receivable
5 8 (11.76%) Requirements Workshops
6 7 (10.29%) Coaching
6 7 (10.29%) Risk Management
6 7 (10.29%) Wealth Management
7 6 (8.82%) E-Commerce
8 5 (7.35%) Analytics
8 5 (7.35%) Customer Experience
8 5 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.35%) Workflow
9 4 (5.88%) Business Case
9 4 (5.88%) Customer Service
9 4 (5.88%) Event-Driven
9 4 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.82%) SQL
2 5 (7.35%) Python
3 3 (4.41%) ABAP
3 3 (4.41%) C#
3 3 (4.41%) Java
3 3 (4.41%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.41%) PHP
4 1 (1.47%) C
4 1 (1.47%) C++
4 1 (1.47%) Go
4 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.47%) R
4 1 (1.47%) Rust
4 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (20.59%) Degree
2 3 (4.41%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.47%) IIBA
4 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.47%) PMP
4 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.47%) SANS
4 1 (1.47%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) PMO
2 3 (4.41%) GDPR
2 3 (4.41%) QA
3 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.94%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.47%) GAAP
4 1 (1.47%) IFRS
4 1 (1.47%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.47%) NIST
4 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Ansible
1 1 (1.47%) Grafana
1 1 (1.47%) Kibana
1 1 (1.47%) logstash
1 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.47%) Puppet
1 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) Google
3 6 (8.82%) SAP
4 5 (7.35%) Adobe
5 4 (5.88%) Cisco
5 4 (5.88%) Oracle
6 2 (2.94%) Avaya
6 2 (2.94%) Genesys
7 1 (1.47%) Apple
7 1 (1.47%) Cadence
7 1 (1.47%) Ensighten
7 1 (1.47%) JDA
7 1 (1.47%) Omniture
7 1 (1.47%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.47%) Planview
7 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.47%) Splunk
7 1 (1.47%) Tealium
7 1 (1.47%) Workday