Retail Contracts in England

Retailing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 85 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 -24 +22
Contract jobs citing Retail 984 1,436 2,749
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.66% 2.84% 3.86%
As % of the General category 4.56% 4.80% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 859 1,649
10th Percentile £287 £325 £399
25th Percentile £406 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 60 102
10th Percentile £11.38 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £17.50 £14.06
Median hourly rate £16.00 £19.81 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +20.06% +26.92%
75th Percentile £21.37 £22.00 £22.00
90th Percentile £21.46 £22.16 £22.25
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £19.81 £16.50
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.06% +17.86%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in England

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in England

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in England

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in England

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Retail in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Retail in England

Retail
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +27 506 £513 -5.09% 578
North of England +1 153 £514 +2.75% 445
South East +14 118 £475 -9.95% 363
East of England -5 92 £425 -29.17% 175
Yorkshire -5 74 £515 -6.36% 161
North West +13 70 £475 - 237
Midlands -6 54 £620 +45.88% 332
West Midlands +31 42 £650 +36.84% 180
South West -21 24 £475 -2.56% 178
East Midlands -15 12 £494 +25.80% 152
North East +9 5 £600 +6.19% 58
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 17 (1.73%) CMS
2 13 (1.32%) Confluence
3 11 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.41%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.41%) SAS
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.20%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) Appian
7 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 45 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.12%) Photoshop
5 9 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.81%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.61%) InDesign
8 5 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.41%) Adobe Premiere
9 4 (0.41%) Trello
10 2 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
10 2 (0.20%) Sketch
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.10%) Blender
11 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.10%) InVision
Business Applications
1 37 (3.76%) Shopify
2 36 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 32 (3.25%) Dynamics AX
4 19 (1.93%) SAP Retail
5 10 (1.02%) SAP Hybris
6 9 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.71%) Magento
7 7 (0.71%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.61%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.61%) Oracle Retail
9 5 (0.51%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.41%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.41%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
10 4 (0.41%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
11 3 (0.30%) SAP CAR
11 3 (0.30%) SAP SD
11 3 (0.30%) Workday HCM
12 2 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 123 (12.50%) Azure
2 83 (8.43%) AWS
3 78 (7.93%) Power Platform
4 59 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
6 41 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.96%) GCP
8 30 (3.05%) BigCommerce
9 28 (2.85%) PowerApps
10 27 (2.74%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.34%) Serverless
12 17 (1.73%) Google Analytics
13 16 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
14 15 (1.52%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.42%) Cloudflare
15 14 (1.42%) SaaS
16 13 (1.32%) GitHub
17 12 (1.22%) Akamai
18 11 (1.12%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (1.52%) Firewall
3 14 (1.42%) DNS
4 12 (1.22%) Network Security
5 11 (1.12%) ATM
6 9 (0.91%) VPN
7 6 (0.61%) LAN
7 6 (0.61%) Wireless
8 4 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.41%) VoIP
9 3 (0.30%) DHCP
9 3 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.30%) WAN
9 3 (0.30%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.20%) FTP
10 2 (0.20%) RFID
10 2 (0.20%) SCCP
10 2 (0.20%) SMS
10 2 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.62%) Power BI
2 39 (3.96%) Data Lake
3 25 (2.54%) Tableau
4 19 (1.93%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.83%) MySQL
6 16 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.42%) Metadata
8 12 (1.22%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.02%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.81%) Data Mining
10 8 (0.81%) Looker
11 7 (0.71%) Big Data
11 7 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.61%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.61%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.51%) GIS
13 5 (0.51%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 38 (3.86%) JIRA
2 17 (1.73%) Git
3 16 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.12%) ERwin
5 10 (1.02%) Postman
6 7 (0.71%) Maven
7 6 (0.61%) Selenium
8 5 (0.51%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.41%) GitLab
9 4 (0.41%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.41%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 2 (0.20%) Appium
10 2 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.20%) Darcs
10 2 (0.20%) kappa
10 2 (0.20%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.20%) PHPUnit
10 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.10%) Mockito
General
1 292 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 236 (23.98%) Finance
3 117 (11.89%) Marketing
4 109 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (7.42%) Banking
6 45 (4.57%) Manufacturing
7 37 (3.76%) Corporate Banking
7 37 (3.76%) Investment Banking
8 35 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
8 35 (3.56%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 30 (3.05%) Retail Banking
11 29 (2.95%) Legal
12 26 (2.64%) General Ledger
13 19 (1.93%) Automotive
14 16 (1.63%) Electronics
14 16 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (1.22%) Publishing
17 11 (1.12%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 153 (15.55%) Analyst
2 104 (10.57%) Project Manager
3 90 (9.15%) Architect
4 79 (8.03%) Consultant
5 65 (6.61%) Developer
6 56 (5.69%) Lead
6 56 (5.69%) Senior
7 54 (5.49%) Business Analyst
8 46 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (4.07%) Service Analyst
10 34 (3.46%) Service Desk Analyst
11 26 (2.64%) Data Analyst
12 23 (2.34%) SAP Consultant
13 21 (2.13%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 20 (2.03%) Enterprise Architect
14 20 (2.03%) Microsoft Consultant
15 19 (1.93%) Programme Manager
16 18 (1.83%) Data Architect
16 18 (1.83%) IT Support
16 18 (1.83%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.44%) HTML
2 19 (1.93%) CSS
2 19 (1.93%) VML
3 18 (1.83%) .NET
4 17 (1.73%) React
5 15 (1.52%) REST
5 15 (1.52%) Spring
6 13 (1.32%) JSON
6 13 (1.32%) Node.js
7 12 (1.22%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.12%) GraphQL
9 10 (1.02%) AngularJS
9 10 (1.02%) jQuery
10 9 (0.91%) Kafka
11 8 (0.81%) OAuth
11 8 (0.81%) Swagger
12 7 (0.71%) OAuth2
12 7 (0.71%) Sass
12 7 (0.71%) Web Services
12 7 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.27%) FMCG
2 32 (3.25%) Data Structures
3 31 (3.15%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.95%) EPoS
5 28 (2.85%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.34%) Driving Licence
7 17 (1.73%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.22%) Cloud Native
10 12 (1.22%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.12%) Smartphone
11 11 (1.12%) Wiki
12 10 (1.02%) Credit Risk
13 9 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
14 8 (0.81%) Onboarding
14 8 (0.81%) Social Media
15 7 (0.71%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.76%) Windows
2 21 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 13 (1.32%) Android
4 11 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 10 (1.02%) Unix
6 9 (0.91%) Linux
7 8 (0.81%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.61%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.30%) Debian
9 3 (0.30%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (17.17%) Agile
2 138 (14.02%) E-Commerce
3 101 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (9.86%) DevOps
5 96 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 90 (9.15%) Project Management
7 88 (8.94%) Business Intelligence
8 85 (8.64%) Analytics
9 84 (8.54%) Customer Service
10 82 (8.33%) Migration
11 60 (6.10%) Roadmaps
12 57 (5.79%) Customer Experience
13 55 (5.59%) CI/CD
14 53 (5.39%) CRM
15 47 (4.78%) ITIL
16 46 (4.67%) Requirements Gathering
17 45 (4.57%) Decision-Making
18 44 (4.47%) Continuous Improvement
19 43 (4.37%) Data Migration
20 40 (4.07%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 102 (10.37%) SQL
2 64 (6.50%) Python
3 33 (3.35%) JavaScript
4 31 (3.15%) Java
5 18 (1.83%) C#
6 12 (1.22%) Go
7 10 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 9 (0.91%) PHP
9 7 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.61%) ABAP
11 5 (0.51%) VBA
12 4 (0.41%) Bash
12 4 (0.41%) Scala
13 3 (0.30%) C++
13 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.30%) R
14 2 (0.20%) C
14 2 (0.20%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.20%) Rust
14 2 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (9.55%) Degree
2 35 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (2.85%) A+ Certification
3 28 (2.85%) MCSA
3 28 (2.85%) SC Cleared
3 28 (2.85%) Security Cleared
4 16 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (1.63%) PMI Certification
5 15 (1.52%) PMP
6 9 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 8 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 8 (0.81%) SAP Certification
8 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (0.71%) MCP
9 5 (0.51%) CCNA
10 4 (0.41%) CEH
10 4 (0.41%) CISSP
11 3 (0.30%) CIMA
11 3 (0.30%) PhD
12 2 (0.20%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.66%) PMO
2 32 (3.25%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.15%) QA
4 20 (2.03%) SLA
5 19 (1.93%) GDPR
6 7 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.51%) IFRS
8 5 (0.51%) ISO 22301
9 4 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.41%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.41%) NIST
10 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.30%) GAAP
11 2 (0.20%) COBIT
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.20%) P3O
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.13%) Docker
3 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.10%) Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (1.63%) Terraform
2 15 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.12%) Ansible
4 4 (0.41%) Grafana
4 4 (0.41%) Puppet
5 3 (0.30%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.30%) Kibana
5 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.20%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.20%) Consul
6 2 (0.20%) Nessus
6 2 (0.20%) Packer
6 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.10%) AppManager
7 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 134 (13.62%) SAP
2 132 (13.41%) Microsoft
3 64 (6.50%) Adobe
4 59 (6.00%) Google
5 46 (4.67%) Salesforce
6 40 (4.07%) Oracle
7 36 (3.66%) ServiceNow
8 30 (3.05%) Citrix
9 26 (2.64%) Sitecore
10 17 (1.73%) F5
11 14 (1.42%) Apple
11 14 (1.42%) Cisco
12 13 (1.32%) Dell
12 13 (1.32%) Workday
13 12 (1.22%) Databricks
13 12 (1.22%) Intel
14 11 (1.12%) Sparx
15 10 (1.02%) Optimizely
16 9 (0.91%) Meraki
17 8 (0.81%) Cadence