Retail Contracts in Scotland

Retailing
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 143 142
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing Retail 9 22 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% 0.77% 0.82%
As % of the General category 0.63% 1.17% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 17
10th Percentile - £361 £290
25th Percentile £415 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -12.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £445 £698 £575
90th Percentile £507 £778 £615
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.46% +9.90%

All General Skills
Scotland

Retail is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,432 1,884 2,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.88% 65.90% 71.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,387 1,831
10th Percentile £181 £234 £215
25th Percentile £362 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 28 40
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.75 £12.91
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £16.84
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.88 £25.91
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -23.27% -3.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £47.97
90th Percentile £69.00 £66.84 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +62.79% -4.44%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 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
Edinburgh +28 9 £430 +1.18% 14
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Change Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Biometrics
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
2 2 (22.22%) Use Case
2 2 (22.22%) User Stories
2 2 (22.22%) Wealth Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Banking
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PL/SQL
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Google