Retail Contracts in Hertfordshire

Retailing
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 41 19
Rank change year-on-year +11 -22 -6
Contract jobs citing Retail 16 36 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.02% 4.29% 8.51%
As % of the General category 8.25% 6.91% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 43
10th Percentile £443 £278 £469
25th Percentile £463 £294 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £601
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.06% -9.36%
75th Percentile £650 £605 £788
90th Percentile £788 £647 £975
East of England median daily rate £525 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +23.53% -29.17% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £21.37 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.72% +7.87% +1.59%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 194 521 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 60.82% 62.10% 56.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 145 224
10th Percentile £348 £200 £218
25th Percentile £431 £331 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £523
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.05% +16.11%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £675
90th Percentile £675 £700 £810
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £479
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.78% +6.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 242 96
10th Percentile £17.45 - £40.74
25th Percentile £36.48 £38.12 £53.42
Median hourly rate £62.50 £45.78 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.53% -23.70% +22.45%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.21 £38.12 £21.00
% change year-on-year -18.13% +81.52% +44.83%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Hertfordshire

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Hertfordshire

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Hertfordshire

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Hertfordshire

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Welwyn Garden City -1 8 £775 +34.78% 6
Hatfield - 3 £563 - 8
Letchworth - 2 £463 -
Hemel Hempstead +10 1 £550 +10.00% 8
Watford -6 1 - - 15
Retail
East of England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
1 1 (6.25%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Akamai
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) LAN
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) BGP
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) DMVPN
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) DWDM
2 1 (6.25%) GLBP
2 1 (6.25%) HTTP
2 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
2 1 (6.25%) Internet
2 1 (6.25%) MPLS
2 1 (6.25%) Multicast
2 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
2 1 (6.25%) OSPF
2 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.25%) SNMP
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Auditor
3 2 (12.50%) IT Auditor
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Auditor
3 2 (12.50%) Senior IT Auditor
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.25%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) FMCG
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Media
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) EPoS
3 1 (6.25%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 5 (31.25%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Security
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Product Management
5 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
5 2 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CCDP
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
1 2 (12.50%) NIST 800
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Arista
2 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) F5
2 1 (6.25%) Instagram
2 1 (6.25%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Riverbed
2 1 (6.25%) TikTok
2 1 (6.25%) Zscaler