Retail Contracts in the East of England

Retailing
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in the East of England. 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 57 33 28
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Retail 25 92 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.67% 4.82% 6.34%
As % of the General category 4.22% 7.78% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 53
10th Percentile £446 £268 £408
25th Percentile £466 £300 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -29.17% +15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £738
90th Percentile £788 £612 £975
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 34 46
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.72% +7.87% +1.59%
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - £21.46 -
England median hourly rate £30.25 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +89.06% -19.23% +20.06%

All General Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 592 1,183 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 63.11% 61.97% 60.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 448 692
10th Percentile £200 £237 £200
25th Percentile £363 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £568 £625
90th Percentile £675 £655 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 458 261
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +81.52% +44.83%
75th Percentile £65.19 £50.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.63 £65.00 £65.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +11 16 £500 +11.11% 51
Cambridgeshire -18 6 - - 34
Bedfordshire -5 2 £600 +20.00% 16
Essex +6 1 - - 36
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (4.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (4.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (4.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Akamai
4 1 (4.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (8.00%) LAN
2 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 2 (8.00%) WAN
3 1 (4.00%) BGP
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) DMVPN
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) DWDM
3 1 (4.00%) GLBP
3 1 (4.00%) HTTP
3 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.00%) Internet
3 1 (4.00%) IPsec
3 1 (4.00%) MPLS
3 1 (4.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (4.00%) OSPF
3 1 (4.00%) SNMP
3 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) Metadata
3 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.00%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Call Centre Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Auditor
5 2 (8.00%) IT Auditor
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Auditor
5 2 (8.00%) Senior IT Auditor
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (4.00%) Report Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (4.00%) RESTful
1 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) FMCG
1 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) EPoS
3 1 (4.00%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (20.00%) ITIL
2 5 (20.00%) Migration
2 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (16.00%) Project Management
3 4 (16.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.00%) Conceptual Models
5 2 (8.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (8.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (8.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 5 (20.00%) MCSA
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CCDP
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.00%) NIST
1 2 (8.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Citrix
2 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Arista
4 1 (4.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) Instagram
4 1 (4.00%) Juniper
4 1 (4.00%) Riverbed
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) TikTok
4 1 (4.00%) Zscaler