Retail Contracts in Scotland

Retailing
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 99 120 141
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 +1
Contract jobs citing Retail 17 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.05% 0.41% 0.77%
As % of the General category 1.45% 0.62% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 10
10th Percentile £445 - £361
25th Percentile £484 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £430 £438
Median % change year-on-year +22.97% -1.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £445 £698
90th Percentile £606 £507 £778
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £13.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +100.00% -19.23% +20.06%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,171 1,442 1,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 72.06% 65.04% 65.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 864 1,390
10th Percentile £240 £182 £236
25th Percentile £375 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £570
90th Percentile £612 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 73 28
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.52 £16.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%
75th Percentile £28.22 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £55.74 £69.00 £66.84
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Scotland

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Scotland

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Scotland

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Scotland

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +7 11 £550 +27.91% 32
Glasgow - 5 £529 - 37
West Lothian - 1 £500 - 2
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (5.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Tableau
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (52.94%) Banking
2 7 (41.18%) Retail Banking
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 5 (29.41%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (29.41%) Investment Banking
4 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
5 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.88%) Front Office
6 1 (5.88%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Portfolio Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Tableau Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Tableau Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
1 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (5.88%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Wealth Management
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (11.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (11.76%) Business Case
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
6 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (5.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) Basel III
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe
2 1 (5.88%) BT
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Planview