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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 48 50
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing Retail 143 222 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.95% 4.07% 4.22%
As % of the General category 5.47% 7.29% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 138 192
10th Percentile £183 £380 £358
25th Percentile £313 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £575
90th Percentile £600 £725 £675
England median daily rate £515 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -2.83% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 3
10th Percentile £12.02 - -
25th Percentile £12.15 - £10.25
Median hourly rate £12.30 - £10.50
75th Percentile £12.45 - £10.75
90th Percentile £13.00 - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.81 £16.50
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.06% +22.22%

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 2,614 3,046 3,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 53.95% 55.85% 51.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,498 2,098 2,576
10th Percentile £263 £280 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 97 182
10th Percentile £12.13 £13.98 £10.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.12 £22.00 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -26.75% +15.05% +6.83%
75th Percentile £35.23 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £48.75 £50.84 £57.73
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.54 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.14% +35.73% +7.14%

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 11 June 2024.

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 11 June 2024. 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
Yorkshire -18 74 £500 -9.09% 184
North West -7 60 £425 -15.00% 262
North East +5 4 £600 +6.19% 38
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 6 (4.20%) CMS
2 3 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) SAP Retail
1 5 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.40%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.70%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.70%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.70%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
3 1 (0.70%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.70%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.70%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (13.29%) Azure
2 14 (9.79%) Cloudflare
3 12 (8.39%) Akamai
4 10 (6.99%) AWS
5 9 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.50%) Serverless
7 5 (3.50%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.80%) SaaS
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.40%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.40%) Figma
10 2 (1.40%) GCP
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.29%) ATM
2 6 (4.20%) DNS
3 5 (3.50%) Firewall
3 5 (3.50%) Network Security
4 4 (2.80%) LAN
4 4 (2.80%) WAN
5 3 (2.10%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.40%) IP Telephony
6 2 (1.40%) PBX
6 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.40%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.40%) VoIP
7 1 (0.70%) RFID
7 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.59%) Power BI
2 5 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.50%) Tableau
3 4 (2.80%) MySQL
4 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.10%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) JIRA
2 4 (2.80%) Git
2 4 (2.80%) SonarQube
2 4 (2.80%) Zephyr
3 2 (1.40%) Postman
4 1 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.70%) JMeter
4 1 (0.70%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.70%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 42 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.59%) Finance
3 16 (11.19%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.20%) Marketing
5 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.80%) Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Billing
7 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (13.29%) Analyst
2 17 (11.89%) Developer
2 17 (11.89%) Project Manager
3 12 (8.39%) Architect
4 9 (6.29%) Business Analyst
4 9 (6.29%) IT Technician
5 6 (4.20%) Consultant
5 6 (4.20%) Senior
6 5 (3.50%) IT Support
6 5 (3.50%) SAP Consultant
6 5 (3.50%) Site Engineer
6 5 (3.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (2.80%) Database Analyst
7 4 (2.80%) Database Marketing Analyst
7 4 (2.80%) IT Manager
7 4 (2.80%) Marketing Analyst
7 4 (2.80%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.40%) ADO
1 2 (1.40%) Ajax
1 2 (1.40%) CSS
1 2 (1.40%) CSS3
1 2 (1.40%) HTML
1 2 (1.40%) HTML5
1 2 (1.40%) JSON
1 2 (1.40%) LESS
1 2 (1.40%) React
1 2 (1.40%) Sass
2 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.70%) Kafka
2 1 (0.70%) Middleware
2 1 (0.70%) Node.js
2 1 (0.70%) React Native
2 1 (0.70%) REST
2 1 (0.70%) RESTful
2 1 (0.70%) SAP TM
2 1 (0.70%) SOAP
2 1 (0.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.08%) Driving Licence
2 17 (11.89%) EPoS
3 9 (6.29%) Smartphone
4 7 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.50%) FMCG
6 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.50%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.80%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.40%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.70%) IoT
9 1 (0.70%) iSeries
9 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Debian
1 3 (2.10%) Linux
1 3 (2.10%) Ubuntu
1 3 (2.10%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) Android
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (18.18%) E-Commerce
2 23 (16.08%) Migration
3 21 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (11.19%) Customer Service
5 15 (10.49%) DevOps
6 14 (9.79%) CRM
7 13 (9.09%) Logistics
8 12 (8.39%) Agile
9 10 (6.99%) Data Migration
10 9 (6.29%) Break/Fix
10 9 (6.29%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (6.29%) Preventative Maintenance
10 9 (6.29%) RAD
10 9 (6.29%) Requirements Gathering
11 8 (5.59%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (5.59%) ERP
11 8 (5.59%) Project Delivery
12 7 (4.90%) Knowledge Transfer
12 7 (4.90%) User Experience
13 6 (4.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.49%) SQL
2 11 (7.69%) Python
3 4 (2.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.10%) Bash
4 3 (2.10%) Go
4 3 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.40%) Java
5 2 (1.40%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.70%) PHP
6 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (4.20%) Degree
2 3 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.40%) CCNP
3 2 (1.40%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.40%) PMP
4 1 (0.70%) CCNA
4 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) QA
2 3 (2.10%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.40%) PMO
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.20%) Terraform
2 3 (2.10%) Ansible
2 3 (2.10%) HP Fortify
2 3 (2.10%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (10.49%) SAP
2 12 (8.39%) F5
3 10 (6.99%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.90%) RedPrairie
4 7 (4.90%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.10%) Cadence
5 3 (2.10%) Splunk
6 2 (1.40%) Ariba
6 2 (1.40%) Ceridian
6 2 (1.40%) Cisco
6 2 (1.40%) Google
6 2 (1.40%) JDA
6 2 (1.40%) Mitel
7 1 (0.70%) HP
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud