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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 96 90
Rank change year-on-year -26 -6 -31
Contract jobs citing Retail 272 448 612
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.94% 2.12% 2.67%
As % of the General category 3.14% 3.97% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 225 371
10th Percentile £308 £217 £335
25th Percentile £410 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 76 40
10th Percentile £13.68 £11.44 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.15 £18.92
Median hourly rate £15.73 £15.95 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -19.49% +20.06%
75th Percentile £17.24 £21.37 £22.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.42 -
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £16.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year +1.88% -19.23% +10.06%

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 8,649 11,285 12,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 61.79% 53.41% 55.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,243 6,328 8,592
10th Percentile £213 £206 £243
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 1,683 788
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.53 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.17 £15.21
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.37 £25.13
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% +20.88% +25.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £27.34 £31.71 £30.50
% change year-on-year -13.78% +3.97% +24.49%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -22 95 £506 +6.58% 1,766
South East -2 61 £550 +15.79% 1,347
Midlands +5 50 £463 -25.40% 1,029
North West -2 46 £500 +11.11% 1,063
Yorkshire -17 46 £525 +5.00% 562
East Midlands +25 33 £463 -9.76% 445
South West +44 29 £403 -10.56% 594
East of England -44 18 £525 +23.53% 657
West Midlands -13 17 £456 -29.81% 583
Scotland +11 14 £513 +2.50% 374
Wales +9 5 £147 - 173
North East -1 3 £750 +20.00% 149
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 69
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 2 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.74%) Camunda
1 2 (0.74%) CMS
1 2 (0.74%) Confluence
1 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.37%) Mule
2 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (8.46%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.74%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.74%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.37%) InDesign
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.37%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 12 (4.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.10%) Avolution ABACUS
3 2 (0.74%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.37%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.37%) SAP POS DM
4 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (13.24%) Azure
2 27 (9.93%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (9.19%) AWS
4 19 (6.99%) Entra ID
5 16 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 15 (5.51%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.94%) GCP
8 8 (2.94%) SaaS
9 5 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.84%) GitHub
10 4 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.10%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.10%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.74%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.74%) Serverless
12 2 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.47%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (1.10%) Firewall
3 3 (1.10%) HTTP
3 3 (1.10%) Network Security
4 2 (0.74%) DHCP
4 2 (0.74%) DNS
4 2 (0.74%) LAN
4 2 (0.74%) VPN
4 2 (0.74%) WAN
5 1 (0.37%) ATM
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
5 1 (0.37%) DWDM
5 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.37%) MPLS
5 1 (0.37%) OSPF
5 1 (0.37%) SAN
5 1 (0.37%) SNMP
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.15%) Power BI
2 10 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.84%) Big Data
4 3 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.74%) Power Query
5 2 (0.74%) Tableau
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.37%) Metadata
6 1 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.37%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.84%) JIRA
3 3 (1.10%) Git
3 3 (1.10%) GitLab
4 2 (0.74%) Android Studio
4 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.74%) Gradle
4 2 (0.74%) Xcode
5 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.37%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (0.37%) Maven
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 103 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.96%) Finance
3 43 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.46%) Banking
5 22 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.25%) Marketing
7 12 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.04%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.68%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.31%) Automotive
10 9 (3.31%) Retail Banking
11 8 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
11 8 (2.94%) General Ledger
12 7 (2.57%) French Language
12 7 (2.57%) Games
12 7 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.84%) Law
14 5 (1.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (19.49%) Analyst
2 23 (8.46%) Consultant
2 23 (8.46%) Project Manager
3 20 (7.35%) Architect
4 19 (6.99%) Business Analyst
4 19 (6.99%) Developer
4 19 (6.99%) Support Manager
5 18 (6.62%) IT Manager
6 17 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (5.15%) Senior
8 13 (4.78%) IT Support
9 12 (4.41%) 1st Line Support
9 12 (4.41%) 1st Line Support Manager
9 12 (4.41%) IT Support Manager
10 10 (3.68%) Lead
11 8 (2.94%) Service Analyst
11 8 (2.94%) Service Desk Analyst
12 7 (2.57%) Administrator
12 7 (2.57%) Information Analyst
12 7 (2.57%) Information Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.31%) HTML
2 8 (2.94%) .NET
2 8 (2.94%) CSS
3 6 (2.21%) REST
4 5 (1.84%) Middleware
4 5 (1.84%) RESTful
4 5 (1.84%) Web Services
5 3 (1.10%) Kafka
5 3 (1.10%) Node.js
5 3 (1.10%) React
5 3 (1.10%) React Native
5 3 (1.10%) Redux
5 3 (1.10%) SOAP
6 2 (0.74%) EDI
6 2 (0.74%) Jest
6 2 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.74%) PySpark
6 2 (0.74%) XML
7 1 (0.37%) Flash
7 1 (0.37%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.99%) iPhone
1 19 (6.99%) Smartphone
2 15 (5.51%) EPoS
3 9 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 8 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.94%) FMCG
4 8 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.21%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.47%) Social Media
9 3 (1.10%) Blog
9 3 (1.10%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.10%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.74%) Clustering
10 2 (0.74%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.99%) Mac OS
2 13 (4.78%) Windows
3 3 (1.10%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.10%) Linux
4 2 (0.74%) Android
4 2 (0.74%) zOS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (17.28%) Agile
2 40 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (14.34%) ITIL
4 38 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 31 (11.40%) Project Management
7 28 (10.29%) DevOps
7 28 (10.29%) ITSM
8 26 (9.56%) E-Commerce
8 26 (9.56%) Incident Management
9 25 (9.19%) Service Management
10 21 (7.72%) Analytics
10 21 (7.72%) Migration
11 20 (7.35%) Roadmaps
12 19 (6.99%) Mobile Device Management
13 18 (6.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 16 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (5.88%) Project Delivery
15 15 (5.51%) CI/CD
15 15 (5.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.88%) SQL
2 13 (4.78%) JavaScript
3 12 (4.41%) Python
4 5 (1.84%) C#
4 5 (1.84%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.47%) Java
6 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.74%) JSX
7 2 (0.74%) Korn
8 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.37%) PHP
8 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (3.31%) Degree
2 8 (2.94%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (2.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.84%) A+ Certification
4 5 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (1.84%) MCSA
5 4 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.10%) ACCA
6 3 (1.10%) CISM
6 3 (1.10%) CISSP
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.74%) PMP
7 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.37%) AAT
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.41%) QA
2 9 (3.31%) GRC
3 7 (2.57%) PMO
4 6 (2.21%) GDPR
4 6 (2.21%) IFRS
5 4 (1.47%) SLA
6 3 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.10%) GAAP
6 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) CRD IV
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (8.09%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.21%) Docker
3 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (6.99%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.47%) Terraform
4 3 (1.10%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.37%) Puppet
5 1 (0.37%) SCCM
5 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.19%) ServiceNow
3 20 (7.35%) Apple
3 20 (7.35%) SAP
4 11 (4.04%) Oracle
5 7 (2.57%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.21%) Adobe
6 6 (2.21%) Citrix
6 6 (2.21%) Google
7 3 (1.10%) Cisco
7 3 (1.10%) Facebook
7 3 (1.10%) HP
7 3 (1.10%) Splunk
7 3 (1.10%) VMware
8 2 (0.74%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.74%) Avaya
8 2 (0.74%) Ceridian
8 2 (0.74%) Fujitsu
8 2 (0.74%) Genesys
8 2 (0.74%) IBM