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

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 72 73
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -19
Contract jobs citing Retail 60 84 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.15% 2.79% 3.18%
As % of the General category 4.09% 5.30% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 64 85
10th Percentile £126 £393 £350
25th Percentile £308 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £585 £588 £650
England median daily rate £514 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -3.07% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £11.13 - -
25th Percentile £11.78 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £20.41 £16.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% +23.67% +22.22%

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 1,468 1,586 2,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 52.58% 52.66% 50.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 1,099 1,403
10th Percentile £300 £312 £230
25th Percentile £392 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £577 £588 £586
90th Percentile £659 £675 £662
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 81 112
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.75 £10.69
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.47 £23.15 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -0.31% +13.28%
75th Percentile £37.94 £35.00 £50.68
90th Percentile £51.88 £53.35 £64.80
England median hourly rate £31.97 £30.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.32% +36.21% +7.14%

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 16 June 2024.

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 16 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
Manchester -8 38 £450 -11.11% 149
Cumbria - 8 - - 7
Cheshire -8 5 £331 -30.26% 50
Merseyside +8 4 £315 -37.00% 28
Lancashire +6 4 £600 - 27
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 5 (8.33%) CMS
2 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.33%) AWS
1 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (6.67%) Azure
4 4 (6.67%) Serverless
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.33%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.67%) Commercetools
7 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.67%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.67%) Matillion
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) ATM
2 1 (1.67%) LAN
2 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Power BI
2 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.00%) MySQL
3 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Git
1 4 (6.67%) SonarQube
1 4 (6.67%) Zephyr
2 3 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (3.33%) Postman
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (51.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.67%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Analyst
2 9 (15.00%) IT Technician
3 6 (10.00%) Developer
4 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.33%) IT Support
4 5 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 4 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
5 4 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Administrator
6 3 (5.00%) Commercial Officer
6 3 (5.00%) Help Desk Administrator
6 3 (5.00%) Lead
6 3 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Finance Business Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Power BI Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Service Transition Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (1.67%) AWS SAM
1 1 (1.67%) Jest
1 1 (1.67%) JSON
1 1 (1.67%) Kafka
1 1 (1.67%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (1.67%) Node.js
1 1 (1.67%) React
1 1 (1.67%) React Native
1 1 (1.67%) RESTful
1 1 (1.67%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) EPoS
2 9 (15.00%) Driving Licence
2 9 (15.00%) Smartphone
3 5 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.33%) FMCG
5 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Android
1 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.67%) Debian
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 10 (16.67%) Migration
3 9 (15.00%) Break/Fix
3 9 (15.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (10.00%) CRM
5 6 (10.00%) Logistics
6 5 (8.33%) DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (6.67%) Code Quality
7 4 (6.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (6.67%) Contract Negotiation
7 4 (6.67%) Data Migration
7 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (5.00%) ERP
8 3 (5.00%) Portfolio Management
8 3 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (5.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 4 (6.67%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) Bash
3 3 (5.00%) Go
4 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.67%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.67%) PHP
5 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) ISO 22301
2 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) PMO
4 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Ansible
2 3 (5.00%) HP Fortify
2 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.00%) Cadence
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
3 3 (5.00%) Splunk
4 2 (3.33%) Ceridian
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) HP
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle