Retail Contracts in the North West

Retailing
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 81 68 85
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -23
Contract jobs citing Retail 39 70 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.98% 2.54% 2.35%
As % of the General category 3.45% 4.74% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 50 47
10th Percentile £408 £126 £378
25th Percentile £413 £308 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £638 £575 £509
90th Percentile £658 £630 £575
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 0
10th Percentile - £11.13 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% - -
75th Percentile £33.75 - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,131 1,478 1,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.47% 53.65% 51.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 905 1,142
10th Percentile £265 £300 £305
25th Percentile £380 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 191 82
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £14.88
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.50 £19.28
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -31.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £49.06 £36.72 £38.39
90th Percentile £75.38 £51.91 £52.90
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the North West

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in the North West

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the North West

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the North West

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -4 24 £500 -2.44% 216
Cheshire +6 11 £425 +11.48% 50
Merseyside +2 2 £538 +70.63% 88
Lancashire -1 1 £475 -31.31% 142
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) BambooHR
1 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.56%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.56%) SAP EWM
1 1 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.26%) AWS
3 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.69%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.13%) Google Analytics
5 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.56%) Datadog
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.56%) Google Ads
6 1 (2.56%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) Tableau
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
3 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.56%) Mixpanel
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.56%) Gradle
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
1 1 (2.56%) JUnit
1 1 (2.56%) Maven
1 1 (2.56%) Mockito
1 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Automotive
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 5 (12.82%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
5 4 (10.26%) Marketing
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Advertising
7 1 (2.56%) Billing
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Project Manager
2 5 (12.82%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Network Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Network Project Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Chief Technology Officer
6 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk Developer
6 1 (2.56%) ERP Project Manager
6 1 (2.56%) SAP Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Security Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Technical Product Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Web Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Web Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (2.56%) ADO
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) Node.js
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Augmented Reality
1 5 (12.82%) e-Learning
1 5 (12.82%) Podcast
1 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
1 5 (12.82%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Agile
2 10 (25.64%) Project Management
3 7 (17.95%) DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) Benchmarking
4 5 (12.82%) Business Case
4 5 (12.82%) Coaching
4 5 (12.82%) Supplier Management
5 4 (10.26%) Analytics
5 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (10.26%) ERP
5 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (7.69%) Decision-Making
6 3 (7.69%) Process Improvement
6 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (7.69%) Technical Debt
6 3 (7.69%) User Experience
7 2 (5.13%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (5.13%) Data Extraction
7 2 (5.13%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (2.56%) C#
2 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.56%) Java
2 1 (2.56%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) QA
1 1 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Google
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.69%) SAP
2 2 (5.13%) Ceridian
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco
2 2 (5.13%) Databricks
2 2 (5.13%) Fujitsu
2 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe
3 1 (2.56%) Apple
3 1 (2.56%) Confluent
3 1 (2.56%) Criteo
3 1 (2.56%) Hotjar
3 1 (2.56%) New Relic
3 1 (2.56%) Sage
3 1 (2.56%) Workday