Retail Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Retailing
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Leicestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Retail 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 1.44% 2.73% 2.19%
As % of the General category 2.63% 6.25% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £335
25th Percentile £613 - £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £200 £546
Median % change year-on-year +212.50% -63.39% +28.53%
75th Percentile £638 £394 £725
90th Percentile - £510 -
East Midlands median daily rate £436 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.80% - +17.30%

All General Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 76 48 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 54.68% 43.64% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 37 48
10th Percentile £164 £196 £160
25th Percentile £250 £281 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -11.76% -0.29%
75th Percentile £500 £503 £556
90th Percentile £620 £714 £646
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £445 £490
% change year-on-year -7.87% -9.09% +3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £15.70 - £13.85
25th Percentile £18.50 - £16.63
Median hourly rate £20.50 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.62%
75th Percentile £21.30 - £44.38
90th Percentile £24.42 - £56.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £17.66 £27.50
% change year-on-year +21.12% -35.78% +50.68%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Retail job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Retail

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Retail

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 8 October 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
Leicester -1 1 £625 +212.50% 10
Retail
East Midlands

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle