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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 76 87
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 -27
Contract jobs citing Retail 678 1,038 1,282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.57% 2.78% 2.69%
As % of the General category 4.03% 4.85% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 577 782
10th Percentile £313 £278 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £509 £530
% change year-on-year +0.74% -4.01% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 85 42
10th Percentile £14.80 £11.85 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.15 £19.06
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -19.23% +20.06%
75th Percentile £27.08 £21.37 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.65 £21.46 £22.14
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +1.88% -19.23% +10.06%

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 16,841 21,385 28,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 63.91% 57.26% 59.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,813 13,650 19,777
10th Percentile £282 £300 £315
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 839 1,772 959
10th Percentile £13.37 £13.00 £13.99
25th Percentile £16.46 £15.67 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.90 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.28% +9.65% +27.13%
75th Percentile £51.14 £53.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.22 £31.80 £30.54
% change year-on-year -14.42% +4.13% +25.42%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -15 395 £550 +2.09% 4,892
North of England -23 96 £513 +10.81% 1,779
South East -13 63 £550 +15.79% 1,352
Midlands +4 51 £463 -22.92% 1,038
North West -6 46 £500 +11.11% 1,035
Yorkshire -14 46 £525 +5.00% 612
East Midlands +25 34 £463 -7.50% 461
South West +45 31 £403 -10.56% 599
East of England -39 20 £550 +29.41% 669
West Midlands -14 17 £456 -29.81% 574
North East +3 4 £825 +32.00% 139
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 16 (2.36%) Confluence
2 7 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.74%) CMS
4 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) Camunda
5 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Appian
6 1 (0.15%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 34 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.88%) Trello
5 4 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.59%) Sketch
6 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.29%) SketchUp
7 2 (0.29%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.15%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 30 (4.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (3.54%) Shopify
3 7 (1.03%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.59%) Avolution ABACUS
4 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.59%) SAP CAR
5 3 (0.44%) Magento
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.44%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.29%) SAP GTS
6 2 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.29%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.29%) Sprinklr
7 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 90 (13.27%) Azure
2 56 (8.26%) AWS
3 39 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 35 (5.16%) GCP
5 32 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (2.51%) BigCommerce
10 16 (2.36%) SaaS
11 13 (1.92%) Figma
11 13 (1.92%) GitHub
12 9 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (1.33%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (1.18%) Serverless
14 7 (1.03%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (1.03%) Firewall
3 6 (0.88%) LAN
3 6 (0.88%) WAN
4 4 (0.59%) HTTP
4 4 (0.59%) Network Security
4 4 (0.59%) Structured Cabling
4 4 (0.59%) VPN
5 3 (0.44%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.29%) ATM
6 2 (0.29%) BGP
6 2 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.29%) DHCP
6 2 (0.29%) DSL
6 2 (0.29%) Internet
6 2 (0.29%) OSPF
6 2 (0.29%) Wireless
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (5.01%) Power BI
2 21 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.62%) Tableau
4 10 (1.47%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.18%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.03%) Data Vault
8 6 (0.88%) Big Data
8 6 (0.88%) Metadata
9 5 (0.74%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.59%) Looker
10 4 (0.59%) Power Query
10 4 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.44%) Redis
12 2 (0.29%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 34 (5.01%) JIRA
2 18 (2.65%) Git
3 16 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.74%) GitLab
5 4 (0.59%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.44%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.44%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.44%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.44%) Gradle
7 2 (0.29%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.29%) Grunt
7 2 (0.29%) JMeter
7 2 (0.29%) Subversion
7 2 (0.29%) webpack
7 2 (0.29%) Xcode
8 1 (0.15%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.15%) Maven
8 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 244 (35.99%) Social Skills
2 178 (26.25%) Finance
3 100 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (11.80%) Banking
5 56 (8.26%) Investment Banking
6 54 (7.96%) Retail Banking
7 50 (7.37%) Corporate Banking
8 49 (7.23%) Marketing
9 36 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (4.28%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.06%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.92%) Legal
14 13 (1.92%) Public Sector
15 12 (1.77%) Back Office
16 11 (1.62%) Automotive
17 10 (1.47%) General Ledger
17 10 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 116 (17.11%) Analyst
2 78 (11.50%) Architect
3 64 (9.44%) Project Manager
4 61 (9.00%) Senior
5 53 (7.82%) Business Analyst
6 47 (6.93%) Developer
7 39 (5.75%) Consultant
7 39 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (4.57%) Lead
9 30 (4.42%) Product Manager
10 26 (3.83%) IT Manager
11 24 (3.54%) Senior Manager
12 21 (3.10%) Designer
13 19 (2.80%) Support Manager
14 17 (2.51%) Data Analyst
15 16 (2.36%) IT Support
16 15 (2.21%) Retail Business Analyst
17 14 (2.06%) Administrator
17 14 (2.06%) Data Engineer
18 13 (1.92%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.24%) HTML
2 18 (2.65%) Kafka
3 17 (2.51%) CSS
3 17 (2.51%) VML
4 14 (2.06%) Middleware
5 12 (1.77%) .NET
5 12 (1.77%) React
6 10 (1.47%) REST
6 10 (1.47%) Web Services
7 9 (1.33%) EDI
7 9 (1.33%) Node.js
8 7 (1.03%) PySpark
9 6 (0.88%) RESTful
9 6 (0.88%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.74%) Pandas
10 5 (0.74%) Spring
11 4 (0.59%) CSS3
11 4 (0.59%) GraphQL
11 4 (0.59%) Redux
11 4 (0.59%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.16%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.24%) EPoS
3 19 (2.80%) iPhone
3 19 (2.80%) Smartphone
4 18 (2.65%) Data Centre
4 18 (2.65%) Mobile App
5 14 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 13 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.62%) FMCG
8 10 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.74%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.59%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.83%) Windows
2 20 (2.95%) Mac OS
3 8 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.03%) Linux
5 5 (0.74%) Android
6 3 (0.44%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (23.89%) Agile
2 119 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 108 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (11.65%) E-Commerce
5 69 (10.18%) Project Management
6 65 (9.59%) Roadmaps
7 63 (9.29%) DevOps
8 56 (8.26%) Wealth Management
9 54 (7.96%) Migration
10 52 (7.67%) Analytics
10 52 (7.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 48 (7.08%) ITIL
12 45 (6.64%) User Experience
13 44 (6.49%) Decision-Making
14 41 (6.05%) Customer Service
15 39 (5.75%) Artificial Intelligence
15 39 (5.75%) CI/CD
16 38 (5.60%) Customer Experience
16 38 (5.60%) ERP
17 37 (5.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 62 (9.14%) SQL
2 51 (7.52%) Python
3 29 (4.28%) JavaScript
4 18 (2.65%) Java
5 12 (1.77%) TypeScript
6 10 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (1.33%) C#
8 4 (0.59%) PHP
8 4 (0.59%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.44%) Korn
9 3 (0.44%) Scala
9 3 (0.44%) VBA
10 2 (0.29%) Bash
10 2 (0.29%) Go
10 2 (0.29%) JSX
10 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.15%) Perl
11 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (5.46%) Degree
2 13 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.18%) PMP
4 7 (1.03%) Security Cleared
5 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (0.88%) PMI Certification
5 6 (0.88%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.74%) A+ Certification
6 5 (0.74%) CISSP
6 5 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (0.74%) MCSA
7 4 (0.59%) ACCA
8 3 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.44%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.44%) CISM
8 3 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 3 (0.44%) SnowPro
8 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.29%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.54%) QA
2 17 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.06%) GDPR
4 13 (1.92%) PMO
5 11 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.33%) GRC
7 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.88%) IFRS
9 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.74%) SLA
10 4 (0.59%) MiFID
10 4 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.44%) GAAP
12 2 (0.29%) NIST
12 2 (0.29%) WCAG
13 1 (0.15%) FATCA
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 31 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.77%) Docker
3 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (3.83%) Kubernetes
1 26 (3.83%) Terraform
2 19 (2.80%) Jamf Pro
3 10 (1.47%) Ansible
4 3 (0.44%) Puppet
4 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.29%) Salt
5 2 (0.29%) SCCM
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 72 (10.62%) SAP
3 42 (6.19%) Salesforce
4 33 (4.87%) Oracle
5 31 (4.57%) ServiceNow
6 28 (4.13%) Adobe
7 23 (3.39%) Apple
7 23 (3.39%) Google
8 17 (2.51%) Sitecore
9 10 (1.47%) Databricks
10 7 (1.03%) Cisco
10 7 (1.03%) Planview
10 7 (1.03%) Splunk
11 6 (0.88%) Citrix
11 6 (0.88%) HP
11 6 (0.88%) Workday
12 5 (0.74%) Genesys
12 5 (0.74%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.59%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.59%) Facebook