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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 71 78
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Retail 46 59 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.19% 2.14% 2.51%
As % of the General category 3.73% 3.95% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 46 64
10th Percentile £408 £126 £393
25th Percentile £425 £313 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £575
90th Percentile £720 £613 £588
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +630.77% - -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +1.88% -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 1,232 1,494 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 58.58% 54.07% 52.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 881 1,106
10th Percentile £299 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £588
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £518 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.27% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 192 88
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.00 £14.62
25th Percentile £14.55 £15.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £29.27 £23.48 £24.08
Median % change year-on-year +24.69% -2.49% +2.93%
75th Percentile £58.42 £42.93 £35.21
90th Percentile £76.25 £51.90 £55.60
England median hourly rate £27.17 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.67% +10.00% +28.26%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +2 32 £513 +13.89% 564
Cheshire -6 8 £475 +40.74% 113
Lancashire +1 3 £475 -20.83% 199
Merseyside +2 2 £395 +25.40% 71
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 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.17%) SAS
1 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.17%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.17%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.17%) SAP EWM
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.52%) PowerApps
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.17%) Google Ads
7 1 (2.17%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.17%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) ATM
2 1 (2.17%) DHCP
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Power BI
2 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.17%) Big Data
4 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.17%) Robot Framework
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Banking
4 4 (8.70%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking
4 4 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.70%) Retail Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Marketing
5 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Automotive
6 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Advertising
7 1 (2.17%) Billing
7 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Analyst
2 6 (13.04%) Project Manager
3 5 (10.87%) Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) Lead
5 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) Network Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Change Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Network Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.17%) ERP Project Manager
7 1 (2.17%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (2.17%) SAP Manager
7 1 (2.17%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (2.17%) ADO
3 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.17%) CSS
3 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.17%) pytest
3 1 (2.17%) React
3 1 (2.17%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.35%) EPoS
2 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.17%) FMCG
3 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Agile
2 11 (23.91%) DevOps
3 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (15.22%) Project Management
5 6 (13.04%) Analytics
5 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (8.70%) Containerisation
7 4 (8.70%) Data Modelling
7 4 (8.70%) ERP
7 4 (8.70%) Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
7 4 (8.70%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.70%) Technical Debt
7 4 (8.70%) Wealth Management
8 3 (6.52%) Data Cleansing
8 3 (6.52%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) SQL
2 2 (4.35%) Java
2 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (2.17%) C#
3 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.17%) CISM
1 1 (2.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (2.17%) GDPR
1 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.17%) NIST
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) SAP
3 2 (4.35%) Ceridian
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco
3 2 (4.35%) Databricks
3 2 (4.35%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.17%) Adobe
4 1 (2.17%) Apple
4 1 (2.17%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.17%) Criteo
4 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.17%) Fujitsu
4 1 (2.17%) SendGrid
4 1 (2.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) VMware