Retail Contracts 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 51 53
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Retail 32 42 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.34% 2.93% 3.31%
As % of the General category 5.70% 5.81% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 51
10th Percentile £413 £126 £363
25th Percentile £425 £309 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £649 £575 £575
90th Percentile £725 £625 £588
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £95.00 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year +630.77% - -

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 common skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 561 723 925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 58.50% 50.38% 50.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 456 658
10th Percentile £273 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £598
90th Percentile £700 £675 £678
North West median daily rate £460 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -6.60% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 58 38
10th Percentile - £12.74 £14.00
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.66 £15.81
Median hourly rate £21.10 £25.25 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% +42.57% -11.45%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.56 £25.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £59.00 £46.25
North West median hourly rate £29.27 £23.48 £23.15
% change year-on-year +24.69% +1.40% -1.03%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (3.13%) Confluence
1 1 (3.13%) SAS
1 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.13%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.13%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.13%) SAP EWM
1 1 (3.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) ATM
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.13%) Power BI
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Robot Framework
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Retail Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.13%) Marketing
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Network Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Network Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Security Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (3.13%) GCP Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Service Transition Leader
5 1 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
2 2 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) pytest
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
3 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.25%) EPoS
2 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.13%) FMCG
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Agile
2 7 (21.88%) DevOps
2 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 4 (12.50%) Project Management
4 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Debt
4 4 (12.50%) Wealth Management
5 3 (9.38%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (9.38%) Data Extraction
5 3 (9.38%) E-Commerce
5 3 (9.38%) ERP
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.38%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
5 3 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (6.25%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) Java
2 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) C#
3 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) CISM
1 1 (3.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.38%) SAP
2 2 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (3.13%) Ceridian
3 1 (3.13%) Fujitsu
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) SendGrid
3 1 (3.13%) VMware