Retail Contracts in the East Midlands

Retailing
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 38 54 39
Rank change year-on-year +16 -15 +3
Contract jobs citing Retail 18 12 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.36% 1.55% 4.61%
As % of the General category 5.50% 3.10% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 42
10th Percentile £415 £313 £315
25th Percentile £457 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £393
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +25.80% -12.78%
75th Percentile - £596 £528
90th Percentile £539 £621 £676
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -1.87%

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 327 387 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.01% 50.06% 53.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 255 426
10th Percentile £202 £160 £213
25th Percentile £320 £230 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £575
90th Percentile £578 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 56 41
10th Percentile £14.45 £12.20 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.68 £13.88 £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.25 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.40% +0.79%
75th Percentile £30.30 £35.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £37.00 £51.91 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the East Midlands

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Retail in the East Midlands

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the East Midlands

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the East Midlands

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +16 12 £500 +19.40% 98
Leicestershire +9 4 £550 +46.67% 47
Northamptonshire -3 1 £465 -25.00% 15
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (44.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.56%) Automotive
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Business Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Retail Business Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Process Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Business Integration Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Integration Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Procurement Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) EPoS
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (22.22%) Project Management
3 3 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (11.11%) B2C
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 2 (11.11%) Indirect Procurement
4 2 (11.11%) Master Data Management
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
4 2 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (5.56%) B2B
5 1 (5.56%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AAT
1 1 (5.56%) ACCA
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.56%) CIMA
1 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) GAAP
1 3 (16.67%) IFRS
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
2 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Cognos