Retail Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Retailing
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 52 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Retail 80 35 33
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.02% 3.40% 2.74%
As % of the General category 7.66% 5.54% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 27 30
10th Percentile £425 £420 £126
25th Percentile £500 £466 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £575
90th Percentile £700 £710 £605
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £12.98 - -
25th Percentile £16.99 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £95.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.89% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £95.00 £12.00
% change year-on-year -77.89% +691.67% -

All General Skills
Manchester

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 general skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,044 632 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 52.52% 61.42% 51.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 402 377
10th Percentile £275 £300 £320
25th Percentile £400 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £599 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £674 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 55 28
10th Percentile £18.09 - £16.54
25th Percentile £24.39 £13.00 £22.94
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.10 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.73% -37.94% +91.98%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £62.50
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% +31.58%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Retail job vacancy trend in Manchester

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Retail

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 August 2026. 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
Bury - 13 £600 -
Salford - 1 £375 - 1
Retail
North West

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (13.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (5.00%) Shopify
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.50%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.25%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (1.25%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) AWS
2 13 (16.25%) Azure
3 11 (13.75%) GitHub
4 9 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 6 (7.50%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (7.50%) GCP
6 6 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (7.50%) Google Gemini
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.75%) dbt
7 3 (3.75%) Fivetran
7 3 (3.75%) SaaS
7 3 (3.75%) Serverless
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
1 2 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (2.50%) Wireless
2 1 (1.25%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (1.25%) Network Security
2 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
2 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) Data Lake
1 6 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.50%) Power BI
5 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) JIRA
2 6 (7.50%) Claude Code
3 5 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) Hudson
General
1 36 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.50%) Finance
3 17 (21.25%) Banking
4 16 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.00%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Billing
9 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Analyst
1 16 (20.00%) Senior
2 11 (13.75%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 6 (7.50%) Product Manager
5 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Architect
6 4 (5.00%) Business Systems Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Finance Manager
6 4 (5.00%) Lead
6 4 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Documentation Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) Terraform
2 10 (12.50%) React
3 7 (8.75%) Node.js
3 7 (8.75%) REST
4 6 (7.50%) Next.js
5 5 (6.25%) MACH
6 3 (3.75%) Jakarta EE
6 3 (3.75%) Spring
6 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.50%) Kafka
8 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.25%) EDI
8 1 (1.25%) JSON
8 1 (1.25%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.25%) OAuth
8 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.25%) OpenAPI
8 1 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) Credit Risk
2 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (8.75%) Mobile App
5 5 (6.25%) EPoS
6 4 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.75%) Culture of Ownership
7 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.75%) FMCG
8 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.50%) Digital Media
8 2 (2.50%) iPad
9 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.25%) EMV
9 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.25%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (55.00%) Agile
2 34 (42.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 22 (27.50%) E-Commerce
5 20 (25.00%) Migration
6 18 (22.50%) Logistics
7 16 (20.00%) AI
8 15 (18.75%) DevOps
8 15 (18.75%) Supplier Management
9 14 (17.50%) Event-Driven
9 14 (17.50%) Project Management
9 14 (17.50%) Roadmaps
9 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
10 13 (16.25%) Data Modelling
11 12 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (13.75%) Customer Experience
12 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (13.75%) Observability
12 11 (13.75%) Systems Analysis
13 10 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
2 9 (11.25%) SQL
3 6 (7.50%) Python
4 3 (3.75%) Java
5 2 (2.50%) Bash
5 2 (2.50%) Bicep
6 1 (1.25%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) Korn
6 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.50%) City & Guilds
2 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 7 (8.75%) SAP
3 6 (7.50%) Databricks
3 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.75%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.50%) Ariba
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco
5 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.50%) Infor
5 2 (2.50%) Informatica
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.50%) Teradata
6 1 (1.25%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.25%) OpenText
6 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.25%) Qualys
6 1 (1.25%) Tenable
6 1 (1.25%) Workday