Retail Contracts in London

Retailing
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 75 101
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 -33
Contract jobs citing Retail 402 507 685
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.20% 2.84% 2.53%
As % of the General category 4.74% 4.50% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 305 430
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £758 £814
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £38.38 - -
25th Percentile £48.63 £18.25 £31.17
Median hourly rate £53.00 £20.00 £31.92
Median % change year-on-year +165.00% -37.34% -36.16%
75th Percentile £64.44 £30.12 £32.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £47.15 -
England median hourly rate £30.25 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +89.06% -19.23% +20.06%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,474 11,265 17,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.53% 63.18% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,727 8,041 12,396
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 245 221
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.61
25th Percentile £22.72 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £51.81 £43.75 £58.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £65.02 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in London

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in London

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in London

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in London

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Retail in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Retail in London

Retail
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +8 75 £556 +10.15% 81
West London +8 3 £488 +95.00% 37
South London - 3 £135 - 21
East London +15 1 - - 9
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (1.99%) Confluence
2 5 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.24%) CMS
3 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.50%) Drupal
4 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.50%) SAS
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.00%) Trello
4 2 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.50%) Blender
4 2 (0.50%) CINEMA 4D
4 2 (0.50%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 22 (5.47%) Shopify
2 20 (4.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (3.23%) SAP Retail
4 10 (2.49%) SAP MDG
5 8 (1.99%) SAP CAR
6 6 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (1.24%) SAP EWM
8 4 (1.00%) Magento
9 3 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.75%) SAP CX
10 2 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Retail
10 2 (0.50%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.50%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.50%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.50%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 49 (12.19%) Azure
2 30 (7.46%) AWS
3 21 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 20 (4.98%) GCP
5 19 (4.73%) BigCommerce
6 17 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.24%) Figma
8 8 (1.99%) GitHub
8 8 (1.99%) SaaS
9 7 (1.74%) Serverless
9 7 (1.74%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.49%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 5 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.24%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.00%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.00%) dbt
12 4 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.00%) IBM Blueworks
12 4 (1.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) WAN
2 3 (0.75%) LAN
2 3 (0.75%) Network Security
2 3 (0.75%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.50%) DHCP
3 2 (0.50%) DNS
3 2 (0.50%) DSL
3 2 (0.50%) Firewall
3 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VLAN
4 1 (0.25%) VPN
4 1 (0.25%) VRRP
4 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.23%) Power BI
2 16 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.74%) Tableau
4 7 (1.74%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.74%) Looker
5 6 (1.49%) Data Vault
5 6 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.24%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.24%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.00%) Redis
7 4 (1.00%) SAP BW
8 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.75%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.75%) MySQL
8 3 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.50%) Metadata
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (4.23%) JIRA
2 8 (1.99%) Git
3 7 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.75%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.50%) GitLab
5 2 (0.50%) Grunt
5 2 (0.50%) JMeter
5 2 (0.50%) Subversion
5 2 (0.50%) webpack
6 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.25%) ESLint
6 1 (0.25%) Gradle
6 1 (0.25%) Maven
6 1 (0.25%) Postman
6 1 (0.25%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.25%) Spock
6 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 135 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 97 (24.13%) Finance
3 57 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.45%) Banking
5 35 (8.71%) Investment Banking
5 35 (8.71%) Retail Banking
6 33 (8.21%) Corporate Banking
7 27 (6.72%) Marketing
8 15 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.74%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.74%) Back Office
12 7 (1.74%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.24%) Legal
14 4 (1.00%) Games
15 3 (0.75%) Advertising
15 3 (0.75%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (14.18%) Analyst
2 51 (12.69%) Architect
3 48 (11.94%) Senior
4 35 (8.71%) Business Analyst
5 34 (8.46%) Project Manager
6 27 (6.72%) Lead
6 27 (6.72%) Product Manager
7 25 (6.22%) Developer
7 25 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.47%) Consultant
9 17 (4.23%) Data Engineer
10 16 (3.98%) Designer
10 16 (3.98%) Senior Manager
11 12 (2.99%) SAP Consultant
12 11 (2.74%) Senior Product Manager
13 10 (2.49%) Retail Business Analyst
14 9 (2.24%) Data Analyst
15 8 (1.99%) Data Architect
15 8 (1.99%) SAP Analyst
15 8 (1.99%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.73%) VML
2 17 (4.23%) Kafka
3 10 (2.49%) Spring Boot
4 9 (2.24%) Middleware
4 9 (2.24%) Spring
5 7 (1.74%) HTML
5 7 (1.74%) Micronaut
5 7 (1.74%) Web Services
6 6 (1.49%) .NET
6 6 (1.49%) React
7 5 (1.24%) CSS
7 5 (1.24%) Node.js
7 5 (1.24%) PySpark
8 4 (1.00%) EDI
8 4 (1.00%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.00%) Matplotlib
8 4 (1.00%) Pandas
9 3 (0.75%) REST
9 3 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.98%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.73%) Onboarding
3 10 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.24%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.24%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.24%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.24%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.74%) FMCG
6 6 (1.49%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.24%) EPoS
8 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.00%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.75%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.75%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.50%) Animation
10 2 (0.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.23%) Windows
2 7 (1.74%) Linux
3 3 (0.75%) Android
3 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.50%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (23.88%) Agile
2 83 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 61 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (13.68%) E-Commerce
5 43 (10.70%) Roadmaps
6 38 (9.45%) Migration
7 36 (8.96%) Analytics
7 36 (8.96%) Wealth Management
8 35 (8.71%) Project Management
9 33 (8.21%) Data Modelling
10 32 (7.96%) Decision-Making
10 32 (7.96%) Product Management
11 28 (6.97%) DevOps
12 27 (6.72%) ERP
12 27 (6.72%) User Experience
12 27 (6.72%) Workshop Facilitation
13 26 (6.47%) B2B
14 24 (5.97%) Requirements Gathering
15 23 (5.72%) Artificial Intelligence
16 22 (5.47%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.94%) SQL
2 28 (6.97%) Python
3 22 (5.47%) Java
4 10 (2.49%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.49%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.24%) Scala
7 3 (0.75%) ABAP
7 3 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.75%) PHP
8 2 (0.50%) C#
8 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.50%) VBA
8 2 (0.50%) VBScript
9 1 (0.25%) Groovy
9 1 (0.25%) Perl
9 1 (0.25%) R
9 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 18 (4.48%) Degree
2 7 (1.74%) PMP
3 6 (1.49%) PMI Certification
4 5 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.50%) PCI QSA
5 2 (0.50%) SnowPro
5 2 (0.50%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.25%) CISA
6 1 (0.25%) CISSP
6 1 (0.25%) CSPO
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.25%) MBA
6 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.73%) Data Quality
1 15 (3.73%) QA
2 8 (1.99%) PMO
3 7 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.74%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.24%) GDPR
5 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.75%) MiFID
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 2 (0.50%) P3O
6 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.50%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.49%) Docker
3 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Gluster
4 1 (0.25%) GlusterFS
4 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.73%) Terraform
2 13 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.75%) Ansible
4 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.50%) Puppet
4 2 (0.50%) Salt
Vendors
1 84 (20.90%) SAP
2 34 (8.46%) Salesforce
3 33 (8.21%) Microsoft
4 28 (6.97%) Adobe
5 19 (4.73%) Sitecore
6 17 (4.23%) Ariba
7 16 (3.98%) Oracle
8 10 (2.49%) Databricks
8 10 (2.49%) Google
8 10 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.00%) Dell
9 4 (1.00%) Planview
10 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.75%) NCR
10 3 (0.75%) Workday
11 2 (0.50%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.50%) HP
11 2 (0.50%) MicroStrategy
11 2 (0.50%) New Relic
11 2 (0.50%) webMethods