Retail Contract Job Trends 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 28 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Retail 17 53 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.76% 9.01% 8.04%
As % of the General category 6.44% 16.01% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 34
10th Percentile £473 £255 £224
25th Percentile £513 £287 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £470
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +22.34% -1.05%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £613
90th Percentile £740 £630 £834
East of England median daily rate £625 £513 £470
% change year-on-year +21.95% +9.04% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £19.81
% change year-on-year - -17.72% -

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 264 331 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 58.41% 56.29% 50.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 82 205
10th Percentile £189 £216 £250
25th Percentile £400 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £523
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -25.84% +4.50%
75th Percentile £614 £564 £675
90th Percentile £748 £600 £765
East of England median daily rate £501 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.22% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 120 91
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.10 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.88 - £42.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -35.34% +97.52% -10.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Hertfordshire

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Retail

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 28 September 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 9 £663 +65.63% 2
Hatfield -9 2 £550 -6.38% 4
Watford -10 2 - - 20
Letchworth -1 1 £500 -16.67%
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.88%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) TestRail
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Project Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Data Modeller
3 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Finance Systems Manager
3 1 (5.88%) IT Finance Manager
3 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.88%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
3 1 (5.88%) QA Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Django
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth
1 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.88%) Playwright
1 1 (5.88%) React
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.88%) Digital Media
1 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Motion Graphics
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (5.88%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Experience
3 3 (17.65%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Architectural Design
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.76%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
1 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.88%) GRC
2 1 (5.88%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Avature
2 1 (5.88%) Instagram
2 1 (5.88%) OneTrust
2 1 (5.88%) TikTok