Retail Finance Contracts

Retail Finance/Credit
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Finance in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail Finance 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 524 580 699
Rank change year-on-year +56 +119 +135
Contract jobs citing Retail Finance 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.007% 0.010%
As % of the General category 0.011% 0.012% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £446 £404
25th Percentile - £448 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £642 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% +5.88% -19.81%
75th Percentile - £513 £547
90th Percentile - £550 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £642 £550 £400
% change year-on-year +16.73% +37.50% -5.88%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Finance 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,500 25,239 34,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.14% 58.13% 58.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,809 15,915 24,101
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 790 1,949 1,062
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.46 £15.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £34.31
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -12.56% +57.28%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.35 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.76 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.57% -6.67% +60.43%

Retail Finance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retail Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Finance in the UK

Retail Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail Finance.

Daily rate trend for Retail Finance in the UK

Retail Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail Finance.

Hourly rate trend for Retail Finance in the UK

Retail Finance
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Finance within the UK 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
UK excluding London +61 2 £642 +16.73% 6
England +66 1 £642 +42.67% 12
North of England +11 1 £642 +16.73%
Scotland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £642 -

Retail Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
1 2 (100.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft