Retail Contract Job Trends in Southwark

Retailing
Central London > Southwark

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Southwark. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retail 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southwark 10.00% - -
As % of the General category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £750 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £850 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £544 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.43% -4.17% +9.09%

All General Skills
Southwark

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 Southwark.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southwark 100.00% 66.67% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile - £175 £464
25th Percentile £190 £190 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £221 £500
Median % change year-on-year +169.41% -55.83% -24.53%
75th Percentile £738 £400 £563
90th Percentile £760 £484 £608
Central London median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.18% +1.96% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Southwark

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

Retail job vacancy trend in Southwark

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Southwark

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southwark citing Retail

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Southwark

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Southwark region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
London Bridge - 1 £800 -
Retail
Central London

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southwark 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 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI