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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 80 116
Rank change year-on-year -25 +36 -52
Contract jobs citing Retail 360 499 532
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.65% 3.07% 2.23%
As % of the General category 3.86% 4.92% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 296 326
10th Percentile £318 £313 £409
25th Percentile £450 £427 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £754 £738 £838
England median daily rate £525 £505 £534
% change year-on-year +3.96% -5.39% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.07 -
25th Percentile £44.81 £33.19 £31.17
Median hourly rate £51.00 £40.00 £31.92
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% +25.31% -36.16%
75th Percentile £54.13 £57.50 £37.71
90th Percentile £54.80 £68.47 £40.73
England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £19.81
% change year-on-year - -17.72% +1.59%

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 9,338 10,150 15,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.69% 62.52% 64.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 7,130 11,162
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 145 174
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £17.19
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £30.90 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% +1.43% -1.41%
75th Percentile £49.56 £51.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £67.20 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +12.24%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 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
Central London -15 57 £550 +2.33% 132
West London +4 10 £600 +26.32% 35
South London +7 5 £550 - 17
North London - 1 £900 - 3
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 12 (3.33%) Confluence
2 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.56%) CMS
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Appian
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.67%) Trello
4 4 (1.11%) Chatbot
4 4 (1.11%) Sketch
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.56%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
1 20 (5.56%) Shopify
2 7 (1.94%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (1.11%) Magento
4 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.83%) SAP GTS
5 2 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.56%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.28%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.94%) Azure
2 25 (6.94%) AWS
3 23 (6.39%) GCP
4 22 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (3.61%) BigCommerce
7 11 (3.06%) Figma
8 8 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.94%) GitHub
10 6 (1.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (1.67%) SaaS
11 5 (1.39%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.39%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.11%) dbt
12 4 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.11%) Miro
12 4 (1.11%) Serverless
13 3 (0.83%) Datadog
13 3 (0.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) LAN
2 3 (0.83%) Firewall
2 3 (0.83%) WAN
3 2 (0.56%) DNS
3 2 (0.56%) DSL
3 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.28%) ATM
4 1 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.28%) DHCP
4 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) RFID
4 1 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.56%) Power BI
2 12 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.22%) Tableau
4 7 (1.94%) Data Vault
5 6 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.11%) Looker
6 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.83%) Metadata
7 3 (0.83%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.56%) Big Data
8 2 (0.56%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.56%) Parquet
8 2 (0.56%) Power Query
8 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (7.78%) JIRA
2 14 (3.89%) Git
3 9 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.83%) GitLab
4 3 (0.83%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.56%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.56%) JMeter
5 2 (0.56%) Subversion
6 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) Gradle
6 1 (0.28%) Postman
6 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.28%) Spock
6 1 (0.28%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 129 (35.83%) Social Skills
2 117 (32.50%) Finance
3 62 (17.22%) Banking
4 52 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 48 (13.33%) Retail Banking
6 44 (12.22%) Corporate Banking
7 30 (8.33%) Marketing
8 16 (4.44%) Manufacturing
9 12 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.50%) Legal
12 8 (2.22%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.94%) Advertising
13 7 (1.94%) Back Office
13 7 (1.94%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.11%) Law
15 3 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 66 (18.33%) Analyst
2 46 (12.78%) Architect
3 45 (12.50%) Senior
4 38 (10.56%) Project Manager
5 33 (9.17%) Business Analyst
6 25 (6.94%) Product Manager
7 20 (5.56%) Developer
8 18 (5.00%) Designer
8 18 (5.00%) Senior Manager
9 16 (4.44%) Data Analyst
9 16 (4.44%) Lead
10 15 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.61%) Consultant
12 12 (3.33%) Senior Product Manager
13 11 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (2.78%) Data Architect
15 9 (2.50%) Enterprise Architect
16 8 (2.22%) Data Engineer
16 8 (2.22%) Product Owner
17 7 (1.94%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.61%) VML
2 12 (3.33%) HTML
3 10 (2.78%) React
4 8 (2.22%) Middleware
4 8 (2.22%) Node.js
5 7 (1.94%) CSS
5 7 (1.94%) Kafka
6 6 (1.67%) EDI
6 6 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.39%) PySpark
7 5 (1.39%) Web Services
8 4 (1.11%) React Native
8 4 (1.11%) REST
9 3 (0.83%) Flask
9 3 (0.83%) JSON
9 3 (0.83%) Pandas
9 3 (0.83%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.83%) Spring
9 3 (0.83%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.83%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.06%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.06%) Cloud Native
4 7 (1.94%) EPoS
4 7 (1.94%) FMCG
4 7 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (1.94%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.11%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.11%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.83%) Mainframe
7 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.28%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.50%) Windows
2 5 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.83%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.06%) Agile
2 81 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (13.89%) E-Commerce
4 50 (13.89%) Wealth Management
5 41 (11.39%) Roadmaps
6 35 (9.72%) Decision-Making
7 34 (9.44%) Customer Experience
8 32 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (8.61%) Migration
9 31 (8.61%) Project Management
9 31 (8.61%) User Experience
10 30 (8.33%) Analytics
11 29 (8.06%) Artificial Intelligence
12 28 (7.78%) DevOps
13 27 (7.50%) Data Modelling
14 26 (7.22%) ERP
15 25 (6.94%) B2B
15 25 (6.94%) Data Analysis
16 23 (6.39%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (11.11%) SQL
2 35 (9.72%) Python
3 13 (3.61%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (1.67%) Java
5 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.83%) Scala
5 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.56%) Bash
6 2 (0.56%) C#
6 2 (0.56%) Go
6 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
6 2 (0.56%) R
7 1 (0.28%) Groovy
7 1 (0.28%) Korn
7 1 (0.28%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.28%) Perl
7 1 (0.28%) PHP
7 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 24 (6.67%) Degree
2 7 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (1.94%) PMP
3 5 (1.39%) PMI Certification
4 3 (0.83%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.56%) CIPD
5 2 (0.56%) CISA
5 2 (0.56%) CISSP
5 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (0.56%) PCI QSA
5 2 (0.56%) SnowPro
5 2 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.28%) ACCA
6 1 (0.28%) APMG
6 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.28%) PhD
6 1 (0.28%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.50%) QA
3 8 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.94%) GDPR
5 6 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.67%) PMO
6 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.56%) MiFID
7 2 (0.56%) WCAG
8 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.28%) FATCA
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
8 1 (0.28%) PSD2
8 1 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (3.89%) Terraform
2 12 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.39%) Ansible
4 3 (0.83%) SCCM
5 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.56%) Puppet
5 2 (0.56%) Salt
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (12.22%) SAP
2 32 (8.89%) Salesforce
3 31 (8.61%) Microsoft
4 24 (6.67%) Oracle
5 19 (5.28%) Adobe
6 16 (4.44%) Google
7 13 (3.61%) Sitecore
8 7 (1.94%) Databricks
9 6 (1.67%) Planview
10 4 (1.11%) Dell
10 4 (1.11%) Splunk
10 4 (1.11%) Workday
11 3 (0.83%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.83%) Apple
11 3 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.83%) Cisco
11 3 (0.83%) Genesys
11 3 (0.83%) IBM
11 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.83%) NCR