Retail Contract Job Trends in Hatfield

Retailing
Hertfordshire > Hatfield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Hatfield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 2 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing Retail 2 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hatfield 1.18% 31.03% -
As % of the General category 1.45% 37.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £565 £550 £301
% change year-on-year +2.73% +82.57% -50.84%

All General Skills
Hatfield

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 general skills in Hatfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 138 24 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield 81.18% 82.76% 59.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 39
10th Percentile £419 £471 £172
25th Percentile £525 £490 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +57.14% -30.00%
75th Percentile £706 £600 £500
90th Percentile £713 £610 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £496 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -3.22% +13.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 3 1
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.37 -
25th Percentile £16.98 £16.58 -
Median hourly rate £18.50 £16.92 £13.82
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% +22.43% -10.84%
75th Percentile £19.91 £17.27 -
90th Percentile £20.35 £17.47 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £20.09 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -69.09% +8.33% -2.48%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Hatfield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield.

Retail job vacancy trend in Hatfield

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Hatfield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hatfield citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hatfield citing Retail

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Hatfield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hatfield citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hatfield citing Retail

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hatfield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Payroll Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Payroll Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow