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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Retail 80 35 31
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.01% 3.51% 2.61%
As % of the General category 7.60% 5.70% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 26 28
10th Percentile £425 £419 £252
25th Percentile £500 £464 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £575
90th Percentile £700 £713 £615
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £12.98 £26.15 -
25th Percentile £16.99 £37.63 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £57.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.16% - -
75th Percentile - £76.13 -
90th Percentile - £87.45 -
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £57.00 £12.00
% change year-on-year -63.16% +375.00% -

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 1,052 614 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 52.73% 61.58% 52.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 392 371
10th Percentile £272 £300 £324
25th Percentile £400 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £677 £713
North West median daily rate £500 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +9.29% -8.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 54 29
10th Percentile £18.59 £13.00 £16.62
25th Percentile £28.23 £13.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.06 £20.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.78% -37.73% +86.34%
75th Percentile £73.94 £46.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £62.50
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £24.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% +50.28%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 - 1
Salford - 1 £375 - 7
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 1 (1.25%) 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 12 (15.00%) Azure
3 10 (12.50%) GitHub
4 8 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 6 (7.50%) Anthropic Claude
5 6 (7.50%) GCP
5 6 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (7.50%) Google Gemini
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (3.75%) dbt
6 3 (3.75%) Fivetran
6 3 (3.75%) SaaS
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.50%) Serverless
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 4 (5.00%) Git
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) Hudson
General
1 37 (46.25%) Social Skills
2 27 (33.75%) Finance
3 18 (22.50%) 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%) Senior
2 15 (18.75%) Analyst
3 11 (13.75%) Business Analyst
4 9 (11.25%) Project Manager
5 6 (7.50%) Product Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Finance Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Business Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Lead
7 4 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) CRM Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) React
1 10 (12.50%) Terraform
2 7 (8.75%) Node.js
2 7 (8.75%) REST
3 6 (7.50%) Next.js
4 5 (6.25%) MACH
5 3 (3.75%) Jakarta EE
5 3 (3.75%) Spring
5 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.50%) Kafka
7 1 (1.25%) EDI
7 1 (1.25%) JSON
7 1 (1.25%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) OAuth
7 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.25%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.50%) Credit Risk
2 10 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.25%) EPoS
5 4 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.75%) Culture of Ownership
6 3 (3.75%) FMCG
7 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.50%) Digital Media
7 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.50%) iPad
8 1 (1.25%) Contactless
8 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.25%) EMV
8 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.25%) Agile
2 35 (43.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
3 23 (28.75%) E-Commerce
4 20 (25.00%) Migration
5 18 (22.50%) Logistics
6 16 (20.00%) Supplier Management
7 15 (18.75%) AI
7 15 (18.75%) Project Management
8 14 (17.50%) DevOps
8 14 (17.50%) Event-Driven
8 14 (17.50%) Roadmaps
8 14 (17.50%) Software Engineering
9 13 (16.25%) Data Modelling
10 12 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 11 (13.75%) Customer Experience
11 11 (13.75%) Scrum
11 11 (13.75%) Systems Analysis
12 10 (12.50%) Observability
12 10 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
2 9 (11.25%) SQL
3 5 (6.25%) Python
4 3 (3.75%) Java
5 2 (2.50%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) Bicep
6 1 (1.25%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.50%) City & Guilds
2 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
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 7 (8.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 7 (8.75%) SAP
3 6 (7.50%) Databricks
4 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.75%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.50%) Ariba
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco
6 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.50%) Infor
6 2 (2.50%) Informatica
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.50%) Teradata
7 1 (1.25%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (1.25%) OpenText
7 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.25%) Qualys
7 1 (1.25%) Tenable
7 1 (1.25%) Workday