Retail Contracts in Lancashire

Retailing
North West > Lancashire

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 29 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Retail 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.52% 0.46% 0.71%
As % of the General category 3.13% 0.95% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £518
25th Percentile £463 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +41.18%
75th Percentile £506 - £669
90th Percentile £518 - £703
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +13.89%

All General Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 96 105 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 48.48% 48.39% 52.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 30 95
10th Percentile £153 £253 £319
25th Percentile £393 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £644 £643
90th Percentile £626 £776 £700
North West median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 48 26
10th Percentile £26.05 - £16.70
25th Percentile £26.88 £16.06 £27.20
Median hourly rate £47.12 £18.00 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year +161.78% -60.82% +14.74%
75th Percentile £63.40 £43.10 £55.64
90th Percentile £72.33 £44.57 £74.37
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £30.00 £27.20
% change year-on-year -4.17% +10.29% +18.12%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Lancashire

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Lancashire

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Lancashire

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Blackburn - 2 £488 - 3
Retail
North West

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks