Retail Contracts in Northern Ireland

Retailing
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 23 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Retail 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.26% 0.68% 0.50%
As % of the General category 1.55% 1.35% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £174 - -
25th Percentile £232 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £342 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.94 -
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +100.00% -19.23% +20.06%

All General Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 129 74 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 81.13% 50.34% 61.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 35 63
10th Percentile £153 £191 £159
25th Percentile £273 £288 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £435 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +8.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £529 £553 £494
90th Percentile £625 £650 £578
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 9
10th Percentile £15.61 - £13.88
25th Percentile £22.92 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £14.66 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.38% -5.42% +11.59%
75th Percentile £48.48 £22.50 £16.88
90th Percentile £78.47 £23.54 £18.16
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £34.31
% change year-on-year -8.33% -12.56% +57.28%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Northern Ireland

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Retail in Northern Ireland

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Northern Ireland

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Northern Ireland

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 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
County Antrim - 2 £342 - 22
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (50.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (50.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RAML
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow