Retail Contracts in the North of England

Retailing
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 59 58
Rank change year-on-year -28 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Retail 81 151 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.46% 3.17% 3.62%
As % of the General category 4.16% 5.78% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 88 128
10th Percentile £323 £176 £405
25th Percentile £375 £353 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +1.25% +2.56%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £663 £625 £695
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 24 0
10th Percentile - £12.05 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £12.15 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £12.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +164.23% - -
75th Percentile £33.75 £13.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.25 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +89.06% -19.23% +20.06%

All General Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,947 2,614 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.09% 54.82% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,539 2,212
10th Percentile £255 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £662 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 310 96
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.11 £14.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.30 £17.60
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.06 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.67% -35.76% +33.69%
75th Percentile £39.75 £27.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £48.75 £53.17
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West -13 39 £500 +5.26% 520
Yorkshire -20 37 £370 -28.16% 390
North East -2 3 £750 +25.00% 91
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (1.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.23%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (4.94%) AutoCAD
3 4 (4.94%) SketchUp
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) BambooHR
1 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.23%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.23%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.28%) Azure
2 13 (16.05%) Entra ID
2 13 (16.05%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.94%) AWS
4 4 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.70%) GCP
5 3 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.70%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.47%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.23%) Datadog
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub
7 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.23%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.23%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Power BI
2 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
2 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.47%) Tableau
3 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.23%) Big Data
3 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.23%) Mixpanel
3 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.23%) Gradle
1 1 (1.23%) JIRA
1 1 (1.23%) JUnit
1 1 (1.23%) Maven
1 1 (1.23%) Mockito
1 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 39 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.99%) Finance
3 15 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.64%) Automotive
5 6 (7.41%) Banking
5 6 (7.41%) Marketing
6 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.94%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.70%) Games
8 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.70%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.47%) Brand Awareness
9 2 (2.47%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.23%) Advertising
10 1 (1.23%) Billing
10 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (16.05%) Support Manager
2 12 (14.81%) IT Manager
2 12 (14.81%) Project Manager
3 10 (12.35%) Analyst
4 8 (9.88%) 1st Line Support
4 8 (9.88%) 1st Line Support Manager
4 8 (9.88%) IT Support
4 8 (9.88%) IT Support Manager
5 7 (8.64%) Consultant
5 7 (8.64%) Senior
6 5 (6.17%) Architect
6 5 (6.17%) Support Assistant
7 4 (4.94%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (3.70%) AutoCAD Designer
8 3 (3.70%) CAD Designer
8 3 (3.70%) Designer
8 3 (3.70%) Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 3 (3.70%) Network Manager
8 3 (3.70%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (1.23%) ADO
2 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.23%) Kafka
2 1 (1.23%) Middleware
2 1 (1.23%) Node.js
2 1 (1.23%) React
2 1 (1.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) iPhone
1 13 (16.05%) Smartphone
2 8 (9.88%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.17%) Augmented Reality
3 5 (6.17%) e-Learning
3 5 (6.17%) Podcast
3 5 (6.17%) Virtual Reality
4 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.47%) Blog
5 2 (2.47%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.47%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.47%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.47%) Digital Signage
5 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.47%) PMI
5 2 (2.47%) Social Media
6 1 (1.23%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.23%) Windows
2 1 (1.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.46%) Project Management
2 16 (19.75%) Agile
3 15 (18.52%) ITIL
3 15 (18.52%) ITSM
3 15 (18.52%) Service Management
4 14 (17.28%) Customer Service
5 13 (16.05%) Incident Management
5 13 (16.05%) Mobile Device Management
6 11 (13.58%) DevOps
7 7 (8.64%) Roadmaps
7 7 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (8.64%) Supplier Management
8 6 (7.41%) Benchmarking
8 6 (7.41%) Business Case
8 6 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (7.41%) Change Management
8 6 (7.41%) Decision-Making
8 6 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (7.41%) Visualisation
9 5 (6.17%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.17%) SQL
2 2 (2.47%) Python
3 1 (1.23%) C#
3 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (4.94%) Degree
2 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) PMO
2 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
2 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.23%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (16.05%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 13 (16.05%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.23%) Puppet
2 1 (1.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.28%) Apple
2 14 (17.28%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.17%) Adobe
3 5 (6.17%) SAP
4 4 (4.94%) Databricks
5 3 (3.70%) Google
6 2 (2.47%) Ariba
6 2 (2.47%) Ceridian
6 2 (2.47%) Cisco
6 2 (2.47%) Facebook
6 2 (2.47%) Fujitsu
6 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.23%) Commvault
7 1 (1.23%) IBM
7 1 (1.23%) New Relic
7 1 (1.23%) Sage
7 1 (1.23%) Veeam
7 1 (1.23%) Veritas
7 1 (1.23%) Workday