Retail Contracts in Edinburgh

Retailing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 70 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 +26
Contract jobs citing Retail 9 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.37% 0.70% 1.52%
As % of the General category 1.75% 1.01% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £450 £441 £355
25th Percentile £501 £479 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +25.00% -17.95%
75th Percentile £681 £517 -
90th Percentile £693 £548 £423
Scotland median daily rate £533 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +6.50% +25.00% -17.95%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 514 596 873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 78.35% 69.79% 73.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 325 604
10th Percentile £205 £156 £233
25th Percentile £400 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £534 £550 £545
90th Percentile £600 £655 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.26% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 33 5
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.22 -
25th Percentile £19.77 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -14.06% -18.23%
75th Percentile £31.34 £60.75 £21.67
90th Percentile £45.80 - £33.27
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £18.84
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.46% -46.17%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Edinburgh

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Edinburgh

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Edinburgh

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Edinburgh

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (22.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Corporate Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Investment Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Retail Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Payments Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Wealth Management
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Segmentation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle