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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 58 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +27
Contract jobs citing Retail 28 40 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.14% 2.82% 3.57%
As % of the General category 5.41% 5.96% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 39 50
10th Percentile £344 £126 £401
25th Percentile £416 £359 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £575
90th Percentile £672 £605 £576
North West median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% +5.26%
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 518 671 908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 58.01% 47.39% 49.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 437 638
10th Percentile £240 £306 £303
25th Percentile £375 £388 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £675 £659 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 61 32
10th Percentile - £12.24 £15.81
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £16.85
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.50 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +15.46% +1.76%
75th Percentile £60.00 £33.00 £30.16
90th Percentile £76.00 £60.00 £38.61
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £17.86 £26.00
% change year-on-year +60.97% -31.31% +8.58%

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 20 May 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 (3.57%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) BambooHR
1 1 (3.57%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.57%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.57%) SAP EWM
1 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) AWS
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.57%) Datadog
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.57%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) ATM
2 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.57%) Mixpanel
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.57%) Gradle
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) JUnit
1 1 (3.57%) Maven
1 1 (3.57%) Mockito
1 1 (3.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Retail Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (14.29%) Analyst
1 4 (14.29%) Developer
1 4 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.71%) Consultant
2 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 2 (7.14%) .NET Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Lead
3 2 (7.14%) Network Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Network Project Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (3.57%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Risk Manager
4 1 (3.57%) SAS Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Security Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Product Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Web Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
2 1 (3.57%) React
2 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 7 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.71%) Analytics
4 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
4 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
4 3 (10.71%) E-Commerce
4 3 (10.71%) ERP
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Project Management
4 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
4 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Debt
4 3 (10.71%) Wealth Management
5 2 (7.14%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (7.14%) Data Extraction
5 2 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.14%) Test Scripting
5 2 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) Java
3 2 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
1 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) SAP
2 2 (7.14%) Cisco
2 2 (7.14%) Fujitsu
2 2 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Ceridian
3 1 (3.57%) Confluent
3 1 (3.57%) Hotjar
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) New Relic
3 1 (3.57%) Sage
3 1 (3.57%) SendGrid
3 1 (3.57%) Workday