Retail Contracts in the UK excluding London

Retailing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 90 88
Rank change year-on-year -26 -2 -28
Contract jobs citing Retail 265 452 667
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.07% 2.18% 2.79%
As % of the General category 3.33% 3.99% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 233 404
10th Percentile £296 £276 £363
25th Percentile £391 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £563 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £735 £729
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 79 57
10th Percentile £13.90 £11.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.78 £12.15 £18.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £15.29 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -22.82% +20.06%
75th Percentile £28.25 £21.37 £22.00
90th Percentile £33.75 £21.46 £22.06
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +100.00% -19.23% +20.06%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,951 11,315 13,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.24% 54.66% 56.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 6,454 9,246
10th Percentile £213 £205 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 1,658 783
10th Percentile £13.86 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £24.76 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% -6.67% +60.43%
75th Percentile £55.13 £52.95 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.25 £68.95
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £34.31
% change year-on-year -8.33% -12.56% +57.28%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
North of England -34 81 £450 -12.20% 810
South East -3 74 £500 +5.26% 845
Midlands +12 47 £500 -19.35% 653
North West -20 40 £500 +5.26% 442
Yorkshire -18 38 £370 -28.16% 314
West Midlands -1 26 £450 -30.77% 325
East of England -16 26 £550 +29.41% 179
East Midlands +20 18 £500 +1.27% 314
Scotland +19 17 £529 +22.97% 124
South West +22 16 £355 -25.26% 177
Wales +7 3 £147 - 30
North East -6 3 £750 +25.00% 69
Northern Ireland -5 2 £342 - 26
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) Camunda
3 1 (0.38%) Mule
3 1 (0.38%) SAS
3 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (1.51%) AutoCAD
5 4 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.51%) SketchUp
6 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.89%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.38%) Avolution ABACUS
4 1 (0.38%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.38%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (15.09%) Azure
2 19 (7.17%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (6.42%) AWS
4 16 (6.04%) Power Platform
5 15 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.91%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.64%) GCP
9 6 (2.26%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.26%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.89%) SaaS
10 5 (1.89%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.13%) GitHub
11 3 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.13%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.75%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 1 (0.38%) Adobe Analytics
13 1 (0.38%) Akamai
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (2.26%) LAN
2 6 (2.26%) Network Security
3 5 (1.89%) Firewall
3 5 (1.89%) WAN
4 4 (1.51%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.13%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.13%) VPN
6 2 (0.75%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.75%) VoIP
7 1 (0.38%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.38%) DNS
7 1 (0.38%) DWDM
7 1 (0.38%) GLBP
7 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.38%) Internet
7 1 (0.38%) Multicast
7 1 (0.38%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.38%) NGFW
7 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.53%) Power BI
2 9 (3.40%) Tableau
3 7 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.13%) Big Data
5 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.38%) Metadata
6 1 (0.38%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (1.89%) JIRA
2 3 (1.13%) Git
3 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Gradle
4 1 (0.38%) JUnit
4 1 (0.38%) Maven
4 1 (0.38%) Mockito
4 1 (0.38%) SpecFlow
General
1 88 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.75%) Finance
3 53 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.68%) Banking
5 20 (7.55%) Telecoms
6 18 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (6.42%) Marketing
8 14 (5.28%) Automotive
9 11 (4.15%) Retail Banking
10 10 (3.77%) Investment Banking
11 8 (3.02%) Billing
11 8 (3.02%) Corporate Banking
11 8 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.26%) Games
12 6 (2.26%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.89%) Local Government
14 4 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (18.87%) Analyst
2 31 (11.70%) Project Manager
3 29 (10.94%) Consultant
4 27 (10.19%) IT Manager
5 25 (9.43%) Senior
6 20 (7.55%) Architect
7 19 (7.17%) Business Analyst
8 16 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (5.28%) Developer
10 13 (4.91%) Support Manager
11 12 (4.53%) IT Operations Manager
11 12 (4.53%) Operations Manager
12 11 (4.15%) Performance Manager
13 8 (3.02%) 1st Line Support
13 8 (3.02%) 1st Line Support Manager
13 8 (3.02%) Data Manager
13 8 (3.02%) IT Support
13 8 (3.02%) IT Support Manager
13 8 (3.02%) Service Analyst
13 8 (3.02%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.40%) .NET
2 6 (2.26%) HTML
3 5 (1.89%) CSS
3 5 (1.89%) Middleware
3 5 (1.89%) RESTful
4 3 (1.13%) Node.js
5 2 (0.75%) Kafka
5 2 (0.75%) Parceljs
5 2 (0.75%) Web Services
5 2 (0.75%) XML
6 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.38%) EDI
6 1 (0.38%) JMS
6 1 (0.38%) LDAP
6 1 (0.38%) PySpark
6 1 (0.38%) RAML
6 1 (0.38%) React
6 1 (0.38%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.38%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (4.91%) iPhone
2 13 (4.91%) Smartphone
3 12 (4.53%) EPoS
4 8 (3.02%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.26%) Augmented Reality
5 6 (2.26%) FMCG
6 5 (1.89%) e-Learning
6 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.89%) Podcast
6 5 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
7 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.13%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.13%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.13%) Social Media
9 2 (0.75%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.28%) Mac OS
2 8 (3.02%) Windows
3 2 (0.75%) Linux
3 2 (0.75%) zOS
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (16.23%) Project Management
2 40 (15.09%) Agile
3 34 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 33 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (10.94%) ITIL
6 26 (9.81%) DevOps
7 24 (9.06%) Customer Service
8 23 (8.68%) Roadmaps
9 22 (8.30%) Data Analysis
10 20 (7.55%) Actionable Insight
10 20 (7.55%) Migration
11 19 (7.17%) Incident Management
12 18 (6.79%) Analytics
13 17 (6.42%) ERP
14 16 (6.04%) Decision-Making
14 16 (6.04%) Service Management
15 15 (5.66%) Business Case
15 15 (5.66%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (5.66%) Collaborative Working
15 15 (5.66%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.55%) SQL
2 9 (3.40%) Python
3 8 (3.02%) JavaScript
4 6 (2.26%) C#
5 5 (1.89%) Java
6 3 (1.13%) PHP
6 3 (1.13%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.38%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.38%) Perl
8 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (4.53%) Degree
2 7 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (2.26%) A+ Certification
3 6 (2.26%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.89%) MCSA
4 5 (1.89%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.13%) ACCA
5 3 (1.13%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.13%) MRICS
5 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.75%) CISM
6 2 (0.75%) CISSP
7 1 (0.38%) CCDP
7 1 (0.38%) CIMA
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.38%) MBA
7 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.02%) PMO
1 8 (3.02%) QA
2 7 (2.64%) SLA
3 6 (2.26%) IFRS
4 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.13%) GAAP
5 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.75%) NIST
6 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) Basel III
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.38%) CRD IV
7 1 (0.38%) GDPR
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (4.91%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.75%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.38%) Puppet
4 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.92%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.42%) SAP
4 15 (5.66%) Oracle
5 14 (5.28%) Apple
5 14 (5.28%) Splunk
6 10 (3.77%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.64%) Adobe
8 6 (2.26%) Citrix
9 5 (1.89%) Cisco
9 5 (1.89%) Databricks
9 5 (1.89%) Google
9 5 (1.89%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.51%) Fujitsu
11 2 (0.75%) Aruba
11 2 (0.75%) Ceridian
11 2 (0.75%) Facebook
11 2 (0.75%) IBM
11 2 (0.75%) Mitel
11 2 (0.75%) Zscaler