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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 81 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Retail 54 42 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.44% 1.73% 2.69%
As % of the General category 3.98% 3.16% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 65
10th Percentile £286 £198 £409
25th Percentile £463 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% +15.56%
75th Percentile £626 £575 £575
90th Percentile £674 £600 £655
England median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 £12.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +691.67% - -
England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £19.81
% change year-on-year - -17.72% +1.59%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,357 1,329 1,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 61.21% 54.62% 54.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 792 1,049
10th Percentile £270 £300 £255
25th Percentile £380 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £585 £588
90th Percentile £688 £680 £675
England median daily rate £508 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.67% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 97 108
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.06 £15.72
25th Percentile £14.92 £18.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £32.90 £26.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +23.67% +33.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £57.50 £63.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +38.62% +14.58%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the North West over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the North West

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Retail

Retail
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +2 36 £500 +11.11% 209
Cheshire -12 9 £120 -72.57% 50
Lancashire -4 4 £488 -18.75% 153
Merseyside - 4 £495 - 26
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 (1.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.85%) Confluence
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.85%) SAS
1 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.85%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.85%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.85%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) AWS
2 8 (14.81%) Azure
3 7 (12.96%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (7.41%) GCP
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Serverless
7 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.85%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) ATM
1 1 (1.85%) DHCP
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
1 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Power BI
2 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.85%) Big Data
3 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.85%) Robot Framework
General
1 25 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Banking
3 5 (9.26%) Marketing
4 4 (7.41%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Retail Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Automotive
5 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.85%) Advertising
6 1 (1.85%) Billing
6 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Analyst
2 6 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 5 (9.26%) Architect
3 5 (9.26%) Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Consultant
4 4 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (5.56%) Lead
5 3 (5.56%) Senior
5 3 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 2 (3.70%) Change Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Implementation Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Service Transition Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (1.85%) CSS
2 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.85%) HTML
2 1 (1.85%) Kafka
2 1 (1.85%) Node.js
2 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.85%) pytest
2 1 (1.85%) RESTful
2 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
1 4 (7.41%) IoT
2 3 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.70%) EPoS
3 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.85%) FMCG
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (18.52%) Agile
2 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (18.52%) Project Management
3 9 (16.67%) Migration
4 7 (12.96%) Analytics
4 7 (12.96%) DevOps
5 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 6 (11.11%) Supplier Management
6 5 (9.26%) E-Commerce
6 5 (9.26%) ERP
6 5 (9.26%) Roadmaps
7 4 (7.41%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.41%) Containerisation
7 4 (7.41%) Customer Experience
7 4 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (7.41%) Logistics
7 4 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (7.41%) Risk Management
7 4 (7.41%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.11%) SQL
2 4 (7.41%) Python
3 2 (3.70%) Java
3 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.85%) C#
4 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (1.85%) CISM
1 1 (1.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) SAP
3 2 (3.70%) Databricks
3 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe
4 1 (1.85%) Apple
4 1 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (1.85%) Ceridian
4 1 (1.85%) Criteo
4 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.85%) Fujitsu
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) SendGrid
4 1 (1.85%) Splunk
4 1 (1.85%) VMware