Retail Contracts in Coventry

Retailing
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Coventry. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 16 37
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing Retail 9 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 9.28% 7.69% 0.73%
As % of the General category 14.29% 14.86% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 2
10th Percentile £307 £550 £472
25th Percentile £419 £606 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £553
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +17.65% +10.50%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £602
90th Percentile £650 £738 £631
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -30.77% +36.84% +2.15%

All General Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 63 74 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 64.95% 51.75% 41.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 68 79
10th Percentile £200 £378 £173
25th Percentile £206 £472 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £563 £480
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +17.19% +1.05%
75th Percentile £488 £639 £588
90th Percentile £568 £688 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.64
25th Percentile - - £17.86
Median hourly rate - - £23.22
Median % change year-on-year - - +54.80%
75th Percentile - - £25.61
90th Percentile - - £27.04
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Coventry

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Coventry

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Coventry over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Coventry

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Coventry

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
1 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
1 2 (22.22%) Unified Communications
1 2 (22.22%) VoIP
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
1 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Network Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Network Design
3 2 (22.22%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) API Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Vision
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Product Vision
4 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
4 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Aruba
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Mitel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow