Retail Contracts in England

Retailing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in 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 95 80 85
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 -25
Contract jobs citing Retail 674 983 1,430
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.77% 2.64% 2.83%
As % of the General category 4.32% 4.53% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 546 859
10th Percentile £313 £284 £325
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -1.87%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £625
90th Percentile £730 £738 £763
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 85 59
10th Percentile £15.78 £11.38 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £12.15 £18.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £16.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +89.06% -19.23% +20.06%
75th Percentile £51.88 £21.37 £22.00
90th Percentile £61.38 £21.46 £22.16
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +100.00% -19.23% +20.06%

All General Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
London -11 402 £550 +7.32% 2,251
North of England -28 81 £450 -11.11% 996
South East +8 76 £500 +5.26% 1,083
Midlands +14 48 £500 -19.35% 845
North West -13 39 £500 +5.26% 521
Yorkshire -20 37 £370 -28.16% 396
West Midlands -1 27 £450 -30.77% 431
East of England -24 25 £525 +23.53% 323
East Midlands +16 18 £500 +1.27% 390
South West +36 14 £428 -10.00% 284
North East -2 3 £750 +25.00% 94
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 9 (1.34%) Confluence
2 7 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.74%) CMS
4 4 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.45%) SAS
6 2 (0.30%) Drupal
6 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 32 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.74%) SketchUp
7 4 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.59%) Trello
8 3 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.30%) Blender
9 2 (0.30%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.30%) Final Cut Pro
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 35 (5.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (3.41%) Shopify
3 14 (2.08%) SAP Retail
4 10 (1.48%) SAP MDG
5 8 (1.19%) Oracle Retail
5 8 (1.19%) SAP CAR
6 6 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.89%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.59%) Magento
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.45%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.45%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.45%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.30%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 91 (13.50%) Azure
2 45 (6.68%) AWS
3 38 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 29 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
5 28 (4.15%) GCP
6 21 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (2.82%) BigCommerce
9 15 (2.23%) Entra ID
10 13 (1.93%) SaaS
11 11 (1.63%) GitHub
11 11 (1.63%) PowerApps
12 10 (1.48%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.34%) Figma
14 8 (1.19%) Power Automate
14 8 (1.19%) Serverless
15 7 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.04%) Google Analytics
16 6 (0.89%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (0.89%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.48%) WAN
2 9 (1.34%) Firewall
2 9 (1.34%) LAN
2 9 (1.34%) Network Security
2 9 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (0.89%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.59%) Structured Cabling
4 4 (0.59%) VPN
5 3 (0.45%) DHCP
5 3 (0.45%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) BGP
6 2 (0.30%) DSL
6 2 (0.30%) Internet
6 2 (0.30%) OSPF
6 2 (0.30%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.30%) VoIP
6 2 (0.30%) Wireless
7 1 (0.15%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.15%) GLBP
7 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.45%) Power BI
2 22 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (2.52%) Tableau
4 10 (1.48%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.04%) Looker
6 6 (0.89%) Data Vault
6 6 (0.89%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.74%) MySQL
7 5 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.59%) Redis
8 4 (0.59%) SAP BW
9 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.45%) Big Data
9 3 (0.45%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (3.12%) JIRA
2 11 (1.63%) Git
3 9 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.59%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.59%) Terragrunt
5 3 (0.45%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.30%) GitLab
6 2 (0.30%) Gradle
6 2 (0.30%) Grunt
6 2 (0.30%) JMeter
6 2 (0.30%) Maven
6 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.30%) Subversion
6 2 (0.30%) webpack
7 1 (0.15%) Mockito
7 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.15%) TestComplete
General
1 228 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 157 (23.29%) Finance
3 113 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (8.01%) Banking
5 46 (6.82%) Marketing
6 40 (5.93%) Investment Banking
7 39 (5.79%) Retail Banking
8 36 (5.34%) Corporate Banking
9 27 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (3.41%) Manufacturing
11 21 (3.12%) Telecoms
12 18 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.08%) Automotive
13 14 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.78%) Billing
15 10 (1.48%) Back Office
15 10 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.34%) Games
16 9 (1.34%) General Ledger
17 8 (1.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 102 (15.13%) Analyst
2 76 (11.28%) Architect
3 74 (10.98%) Senior
4 69 (10.24%) Project Manager
5 53 (7.86%) Consultant
6 49 (7.27%) Business Analyst
7 43 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (5.93%) Developer
9 35 (5.19%) IT Manager
10 32 (4.75%) Lead
11 31 (4.60%) Product Manager
12 22 (3.26%) Senior Manager
13 20 (2.97%) Data Engineer
14 19 (2.82%) Designer
15 18 (2.67%) SAP Consultant
16 15 (2.23%) Retail Business Analyst
17 14 (2.08%) Data Analyst
18 13 (1.93%) Operations Manager
18 13 (1.93%) Senior Product Manager
18 13 (1.93%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.82%) VML
2 18 (2.67%) Kafka
3 14 (2.08%) .NET
3 14 (2.08%) Middleware
4 13 (1.93%) HTML
5 11 (1.63%) Spring Boot
6 10 (1.48%) CSS
7 9 (1.34%) Spring
7 9 (1.34%) Web Services
8 8 (1.19%) Node.js
9 7 (1.04%) Micronaut
9 7 (1.04%) React
10 6 (0.89%) PySpark
10 6 (0.89%) RESTful
11 5 (0.74%) EDI
11 5 (0.74%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.59%) Matplotlib
12 4 (0.59%) Pandas
12 4 (0.59%) SAP Fiori
13 3 (0.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.15%) Product Ownership
2 19 (2.82%) Onboarding
3 18 (2.67%) Data Centre
4 16 (2.37%) EPoS
4 16 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (2.08%) FMCG
6 13 (1.93%) iPhone
6 13 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.93%) Smartphone
7 12 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 12 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.04%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
11 6 (0.89%) Digital Media
11 6 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.82%) Windows
2 15 (2.23%) Mac OS
3 9 (1.34%) Linux
4 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.45%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Unix
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (20.18%) Agile
2 119 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (12.17%) Project Management
5 70 (10.39%) E-Commerce
6 65 (9.64%) Roadmaps
7 56 (8.31%) DevOps
7 56 (8.31%) Migration
8 51 (7.57%) Analytics
9 47 (6.97%) ERP
10 46 (6.82%) Decision-Making
11 43 (6.38%) User Experience
12 39 (5.79%) Wealth Management
13 38 (5.64%) Data Modelling
13 38 (5.64%) ITIL
14 37 (5.49%) Product Management
15 36 (5.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 36 (5.34%) Workshop Facilitation
16 35 (5.19%) Actionable Insight
16 35 (5.19%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (9.94%) SQL
2 37 (5.49%) Python
3 26 (3.86%) Java
4 18 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.19%) C#
6 7 (1.04%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.89%) PHP
8 5 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.74%) Scala
9 4 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.45%) ABAP
11 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.30%) Perl
11 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.30%) VBA
11 2 (0.30%) VBScript
12 1 (0.15%) Groovy
12 1 (0.15%) R
12 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (4.45%) Degree
2 10 (1.48%) PMI Certification
3 9 (1.34%) PMP
4 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (0.89%) A+ Certification
5 6 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.74%) MCSA
6 5 (0.74%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.59%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.45%) ACCA
8 3 (0.45%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (0.45%) CISSP
8 3 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.45%) MRICS
8 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.30%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.30%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.30%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.56%) QA
2 19 (2.82%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.37%) PMO
4 9 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.34%) SLA
5 8 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.04%) GDPR
7 6 (0.89%) IFRS
8 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.59%) NIST
9 4 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.45%) GAAP
10 3 (0.45%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.30%) P3O
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) CRD IV
12 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 22 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.89%) Docker
3 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) Gluster
4 1 (0.15%) GlusterFS
4 1 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (2.82%) Terraform
2 17 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.45%) Ansible
4 3 (0.45%) Puppet
5 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.30%) Salt
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 110 (16.32%) SAP
2 70 (10.39%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.79%) Salesforce
4 34 (5.04%) Adobe
5 33 (4.90%) Oracle
6 31 (4.60%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.82%) Ariba
7 19 (2.82%) Sitecore
8 16 (2.37%) Google
9 15 (2.23%) Apple
9 15 (2.23%) Databricks
9 15 (2.23%) Splunk
10 10 (1.48%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.04%) Cisco
12 6 (0.89%) Citrix
13 5 (0.74%) Fujitsu
13 5 (0.74%) Workday
14 4 (0.59%) Ceridian
14 4 (0.59%) Dell
14 4 (0.59%) Planview