Retail Contract Job Trends in Slough

Retailing
Berkshire > Slough

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Slough. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Retail 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Slough 3.23% 4.17% -
As % of the General category 3.77% 6.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -16.00%

All General Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 53 45 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 85.48% 62.50% 63.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 34
10th Percentile £163 £178 £319
25th Percentile £273 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +15.85%
75th Percentile £508 £675 £638
90th Percentile £608 £720 £663
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £18.65 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - £24.34
Median hourly rate £20.79 - £25.12
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.60%
75th Percentile - - £25.89
90th Percentile £21.06 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £58.34 £58.00
% change year-on-year -56.89% +0.58% +118.87%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

Retail job vacancy trend in Slough

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Retail

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Slough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Retail

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) B2C
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Story Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft