Retail Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Retailing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retail 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.88% - -
As % of the General category 1.87% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £220 - -
25th Percentile £251 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £301 - -
75th Percentile £352 - -
90th Percentile £382 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £525 £644
% change year-on-year -11.90% -18.45% +35.53%

All General Skills
Shropshire

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 general skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 268 76 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 46.94% 52.41% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 41 28
10th Percentile £315 £210 £260
25th Percentile £400 £308 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £413 £535
Median % change year-on-year +13.94% -22.90% -0.93%
75th Percentile £500 £515 £535
90th Percentile £540 £540 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.63 - -
Median hourly rate £12.75 £23.60 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year -45.97% +126.49% -71.59%
75th Percentile £25.97 - £11.32
90th Percentile £49.54 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £17.16 £18.75
% change year-on-year +34.07% -8.51% +5.87%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retail relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Retail job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Shropshire over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Shropshire

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. 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
Market Drayton - 3 - -
Telford - 1 £402 - 5
Retail
West Midlands

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NFC
1 1 (20.00%) RFID
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) EJB
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) FMCG
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (60.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) TikTok
2 1 (20.00%) Google