Retail Contracts in London

Retailing
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 110 65
Rank change year-on-year +31 -45 +24
Contract jobs citing Retail 517 600 1,502
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.93% 2.37% 3.85%
As % of the General category 4.68% 3.74% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 372 941
10th Percentile £308 £368 £410
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £730 £836 £788
England median daily rate £513 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -3.30% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile - - £26.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £31.17 £34.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.92 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.34% -36.16% -25.93%
75th Percentile £42.50 £37.71 £60.75
90th Percentile £64.24 £40.73 £72.30
England median hourly rate £16.00 £20.41 £16.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% +23.67% +22.22%

All General Skills
London

Retail is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,045 16,061 23,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.60% 63.39% 60.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,887 11,711 17,243
10th Percentile £335 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +3.45% +7.91%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 199 283
10th Percentile £15.95 £16.11 £18.09
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.71 £25.68
Median hourly rate £30.14 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -15.49% +22.41%
75th Percentile £47.81 £52.38 £49.50
90th Percentile £66.20 £70.00 £64.95
England median hourly rate £30.83 £31.76 £21.50
% change year-on-year -2.94% +47.72% +2.14%

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 6 June 2024.

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 6 June 2024.

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 6 June 2024. 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 +41 83 £539 +0.94% 52
West London +28 7 £250 +4.17% 39
East London -4 2 £593 +35.43% 32
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 6 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 6 (1.16%) CMS
2 5 (0.97%) Confluence
2 5 (0.97%) WebSphere
3 4 (0.77%) Headless CMS
3 4 (0.77%) SAS
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.39%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.39%) Apache
5 2 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.19%) Appian
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.93%) Photoshop
4 9 (1.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.55%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (1.16%) InDesign
7 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.58%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.58%) Trello
9 2 (0.39%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.19%) Blender
10 1 (0.19%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.19%) InVision
10 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 26 (5.03%) Shopify
2 22 (4.26%) Dynamics AX
2 22 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.97%) SAP EWM
3 5 (0.97%) SAP Retail
4 4 (0.77%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.77%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.58%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.58%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.39%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.19%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 77 (14.89%) Azure
2 46 (8.90%) AWS
3 41 (7.93%) Power Platform
4 35 (6.77%) GCP
5 32 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
6 30 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.06%) BigCommerce
7 21 (4.06%) Power Automate
7 21 (4.06%) PowerApps
8 15 (2.90%) Google Analytics
9 12 (2.32%) Adobe Analytics
10 9 (1.74%) GitHub
10 9 (1.74%) Serverless
11 8 (1.55%) Apigee
12 7 (1.35%) Figma
12 7 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.93%) Firewall
2 6 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (1.16%) Internet
3 4 (0.77%) VPN
4 2 (0.39%) ATM
4 2 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.39%) CTI
4 2 (0.39%) FTP
4 2 (0.39%) Network Security
4 2 (0.39%) SCCP
4 2 (0.39%) VoIP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) RFID
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (7.93%) Power BI
2 28 (5.42%) Data Lake
3 13 (2.51%) MySQL
4 12 (2.32%) Tableau
5 10 (1.93%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.74%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.35%) Looker
8 7 (1.35%) Metadata
8 7 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.16%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.97%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.77%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.77%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.58%) Big Data
12 3 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 14 (2.71%) Git
3 12 (2.32%) Postman
4 11 (2.13%) JIRA
5 7 (1.35%) Maven
6 6 (1.16%) Selenium
6 6 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.97%) ERwin
8 4 (0.77%) PHPUnit
8 4 (0.77%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 2 (0.39%) Appium
9 2 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.39%) fastlane
9 2 (0.39%) GitLab
9 2 (0.39%) JMeter
9 2 (0.39%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.19%) JUnit
10 1 (0.19%) LSMW
General
1 147 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 141 (27.27%) Finance
3 67 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.41%) Banking
4 59 (11.41%) Marketing
5 30 (5.80%) Investment Banking
6 28 (5.42%) Corporate Banking
7 26 (5.03%) Public Sector
8 25 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 25 (4.84%) Retail Banking
9 21 (4.06%) General Ledger
10 14 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.32%) Advertising
13 11 (2.13%) Legal
14 10 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.55%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.35%) Electronics
17 6 (1.16%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.97%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (11.80%) Analyst
1 61 (11.80%) Project Manager
2 52 (10.06%) Architect
2 52 (10.06%) Senior
3 47 (9.09%) Lead
4 44 (8.51%) Consultant
5 42 (8.12%) Developer
6 26 (5.03%) Business Analyst
6 26 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (3.68%) Microsoft Consultant
8 15 (2.90%) Product Manager
9 13 (2.51%) Data Analyst
9 13 (2.51%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 13 (2.51%) Software Engineer
10 12 (2.32%) Functional Consultant
10 12 (2.32%) Java Engineer
11 11 (2.13%) Product Owner
11 11 (2.13%) Senior Manager
11 11 (2.13%) Technical Leader
12 10 (1.93%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.29%) HTML
1 17 (3.29%) VML
2 16 (3.09%) CSS
3 15 (2.90%) React
3 15 (2.90%) Spring
4 13 (2.51%) Spring Boot
5 12 (2.32%) GraphQL
5 12 (2.32%) Node.js
5 12 (2.32%) REST
5 12 (2.32%) Swagger
6 11 (2.13%) .NET
6 11 (2.13%) Web Services
7 10 (1.93%) jQuery
8 8 (1.55%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.55%) PySpark
9 6 (1.16%) EDI
9 6 (1.16%) Sass
10 5 (0.97%) Kafka
10 5 (0.97%) Laravel
10 5 (0.97%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.03%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.26%) FMCG
3 16 (3.09%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 10 (1.93%) Marketing Technology
6 9 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.74%) Credit Risk
6 9 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.55%) EPoS
8 6 (1.16%) Hedge funds
9 5 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.97%) Life Science
9 5 (0.97%) Replication
9 5 (0.97%) Taxonomies
9 5 (0.97%) Wiki
10 4 (0.77%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.48%) Apple iOS
1 18 (3.48%) Windows
2 13 (2.51%) Android
3 10 (1.93%) Linux
3 10 (1.93%) Unix
4 4 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.58%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.39%) VMS
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (24.18%) Agile
2 71 (13.73%) E-Commerce
3 69 (13.35%) DevOps
4 61 (11.80%) Analytics
5 48 (9.28%) Customer Experience
5 48 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (8.32%) Project Management
8 37 (7.16%) Software Engineering
9 36 (6.96%) CI/CD
10 31 (6.00%) Roadmaps
10 31 (6.00%) Scrum
10 31 (6.00%) Wealth Management
11 29 (5.61%) Decision-Making
12 28 (5.42%) Migration
13 27 (5.22%) Accounts Payable
13 27 (5.22%) CRM
13 27 (5.22%) Data Modelling
13 27 (5.22%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 54 (10.44%) SQL
2 52 (10.06%) Python
3 28 (5.42%) Java
4 22 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.71%) C#
6 9 (1.74%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.55%) PHP
8 5 (0.97%) ABAP
8 5 (0.97%) Go
9 4 (0.77%) R
10 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.58%) Ruby
11 2 (0.39%) Perl
11 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.39%) Scala
11 2 (0.39%) Swift
12 1 (0.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.19%) Rust
12 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (13.54%) Degree
2 11 (2.13%) Master's Degree
2 11 (2.13%) PMI Certification
3 9 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.74%) PMP
4 8 (1.55%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (1.16%) SAP Certification
6 5 (0.97%) CISSP
6 5 (0.97%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.97%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.77%) CEH
8 3 (0.58%) CIMA
9 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.39%) CSSLP
9 2 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.39%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.48%) PMO
2 16 (3.09%) QA
3 13 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.51%) GDPR
4 8 (1.55%) SLA
5 7 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.77%) NIST
8 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.58%) COBIT
8 3 (0.58%) GAAP
8 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.39%) IFRS
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.39%) P3O
9 2 (0.39%) PSD2
9 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (2.32%) Docker
2 10 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) HDFS
3 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.32%) Ansible
2 9 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.55%) Puppet
3 8 (1.55%) Terraform
4 6 (1.16%) SCCM
5 4 (0.77%) Grafana
6 3 (0.58%) Kibana
7 2 (0.39%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.39%) Nessus
7 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.19%) logstash
8 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 71 (13.73%) SAP
3 47 (9.09%) Google
4 44 (8.51%) Adobe
5 32 (6.19%) Salesforce
6 21 (4.06%) Sitecore
7 19 (3.68%) Oracle
8 13 (2.51%) Apple
9 12 (2.32%) Databricks
10 11 (2.13%) Cisco
11 9 (1.74%) Dell
11 9 (1.74%) Intel
11 9 (1.74%) Optimizely
12 8 (1.55%) Monetate
13 7 (1.35%) Planview
14 6 (1.16%) F5
14 6 (1.16%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.16%) Omniture
14 6 (1.16%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.16%) Tealium