Retail Contracts in South London

Retailing
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 38 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +9
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Retail 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.86% 0.53% 1.23%
As % of the General category 4.50% 1.03% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £211 - £482
25th Percentile £329 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £491
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.09%
75th Percentile £605 - £500
90th Percentile £623 - £502
London median daily rate £550 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -4.35%

All General Skills
South London

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 South London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 111 97 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 63.43% 51.60% 71.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 62 173
10th Percentile £213 £216 £313
25th Percentile £403 £406 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £464 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.68% -
75th Percentile £597 £555 £650
90th Percentile £686 £725 £725
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 15
10th Percentile - - £19.36
25th Percentile - £17.25 £41.80
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -63.19% +17.71%
75th Percentile - £21.75 £55.39
90th Percentile - - £66.54
London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.25 £34.62
% change year-on-year -14.89% +1.82% -3.83%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in South London

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in South London over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in South London

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Retail

Retail
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the South London region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 £135 - 2
Bromley - 2 £593 - 2
Retail
London

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Designer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Network Designer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (20.00%) Software Packaging
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) ITSM
1 1 (20.00%) Logistics
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Observability
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Progress
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk