Retail Contracts

Retailing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 83 95
Rank change year-on-year -32 +12 -33
Contract jobs citing Retail 738 1,084 1,414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.41% 2.51% 2.54%
As % of the General category 3.80% 4.40% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 606 859
10th Percentile £308 £278 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -1.89% -0.93%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 85 42
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.85 £15.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.15 £19.06
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -19.23% +20.06%
75th Percentile £41.31 £21.37 £22.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £21.46 £22.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.73 £15.95 £19.81
% change year-on-year -1.38% -19.49% +20.06%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,407 24,648 32,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.31% 57.10% 58.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,169 15,400 22,495
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -4.08% -2.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 954 1,974 1,037
10th Percentile £13.47 £12.79 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.37 £15.62 £16.85
Median hourly rate £27.45 £31.61 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +5.35% +25.00%
75th Percentile £53.25 £53.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.10 £30.37 £25.13
% change year-on-year -23.94% +20.88% +25.63%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the UK

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in the UK

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the UK

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the UK

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Retail over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Retail in the UK

Retail
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 June 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
England -25 653 £525 - 10,602
London -17 378 £550 +1.85% 5,219
UK excluding London -27 273 £500 - 5,832
Work from Home -32 243 £500 - 4,797
North of England -18 96 £506 +12.50% 1,745
South East 0 61 £550 +15.79% 1,334
Midlands +10 50 £463 -25.40% 985
Yorkshire -14 47 £525 +5.00% 542
North West +3 46 £500 +12.68% 1,069
East Midlands +24 33 £463 -9.76% 422
South West +46 29 £403 -10.56% 585
East of England -40 18 £525 +23.53% 623
West Midlands -16 17 £456 -29.81% 562
Scotland +11 14 £533 +6.50% 382
Wales +12 5 £147 - 171
North East +1 3 £750 +20.00% 141
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 - 68

Retail
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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (2.44%) Confluence
2 11 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.68%) CMS
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Appian
7 1 (0.14%) Drupal
7 1 (0.14%) Mule
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 34 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.47%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.95%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.81%) Trello
6 5 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.54%) Sketch
8 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.27%) SketchUp
8 2 (0.27%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.14%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 33 (4.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (3.25%) Shopify
3 5 (0.68%) SAP Retail
4 4 (0.54%) Avolution ABACUS
4 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.54%) Magento
4 4 (0.54%) SAP CAR
5 3 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
5 3 (0.41%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.41%) SAP POS DM
6 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.27%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.27%) SAP GTS
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 98 (13.28%) Azure
2 60 (8.13%) AWS
3 42 (5.69%) Power Platform
4 38 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
5 34 (4.61%) GCP
6 29 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (3.12%) Entra ID
9 17 (2.30%) BigCommerce
9 17 (2.30%) SaaS
10 14 (1.90%) Figma
10 14 (1.90%) GitHub
11 10 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (1.22%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.22%) Serverless
13 8 (1.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (1.08%) Snowflake
14 7 (0.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (0.95%) WAN
3 6 (0.81%) Firewall
3 6 (0.81%) LAN
4 4 (0.54%) HTTP
4 4 (0.54%) Network Security
4 4 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (0.41%) BGP
5 3 (0.41%) Internet
5 3 (0.41%) OSPF
5 3 (0.41%) VPN
5 3 (0.41%) Wireless
6 2 (0.27%) ATM
6 2 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.27%) DHCP
6 2 (0.27%) DNS
6 2 (0.27%) DSL
6 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (5.01%) Power BI
2 23 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (1.36%) Data Lake
3 10 (1.36%) Tableau
4 9 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.08%) Big Data
5 8 (1.08%) BigQuery
6 7 (0.95%) Data Vault
7 6 (0.81%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.54%) Looker
8 4 (0.54%) Metadata
8 4 (0.54%) Power Query
8 4 (0.54%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.41%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.41%) Redis
9 3 (0.41%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 34 (4.61%) JIRA
2 17 (2.30%) Git
2 17 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.81%) GitLab
4 4 (0.54%) Terragrunt
5 3 (0.41%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.41%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.41%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.41%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.41%) Gradle
6 2 (0.27%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.27%) Grunt
6 2 (0.27%) JMeter
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.27%) Subversion
6 2 (0.27%) webpack
6 2 (0.27%) Xcode
7 1 (0.14%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.14%) Maven
General
1 265 (35.91%) Social Skills
2 189 (25.61%) Finance
3 114 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (11.38%) Banking
5 58 (7.86%) Investment Banking
6 55 (7.45%) Retail Banking
7 52 (7.05%) Corporate Banking
8 49 (6.64%) Marketing
9 36 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (4.88%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.90%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.76%) Legal
13 13 (1.76%) Public Sector
14 12 (1.63%) Back Office
15 11 (1.49%) Automotive
15 11 (1.49%) Law
16 10 (1.36%) General Ledger
16 10 (1.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (18.16%) Analyst
2 79 (10.70%) Architect
3 68 (9.21%) Business Analyst
4 67 (9.08%) Project Manager
5 61 (8.27%) Senior
6 55 (7.45%) Consultant
7 50 (6.78%) Developer
8 41 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (4.61%) Product Manager
10 33 (4.47%) Lead
11 26 (3.52%) IT Manager
12 24 (3.25%) Senior Manager
13 21 (2.85%) Designer
14 19 (2.57%) Support Manager
15 18 (2.44%) Data Analyst
16 16 (2.17%) Data Engineer
16 16 (2.17%) IT Support
16 16 (2.17%) Retail Business Analyst
17 13 (1.76%) 1st Line Support
17 13 (1.76%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.85%) HTML
2 19 (2.57%) Kafka
3 17 (2.30%) CSS
3 17 (2.30%) VML
4 15 (2.03%) Middleware
5 13 (1.76%) .NET
6 12 (1.63%) Web Services
7 10 (1.36%) Node.js
7 10 (1.36%) React
7 10 (1.36%) REST
8 9 (1.22%) EDI
9 8 (1.08%) PySpark
9 8 (1.08%) RESTful
10 7 (0.95%) Spring Boot
11 6 (0.81%) Spring
12 5 (0.68%) Pandas
12 5 (0.68%) SAP Fiori
12 5 (0.68%) SOAP
13 4 (0.54%) GraphQL
13 4 (0.54%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (4.34%) Product Ownership
2 27 (3.66%) EPoS
3 19 (2.57%) Data Centre
3 19 (2.57%) iPhone
3 19 (2.57%) Smartphone
4 17 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.90%) FMCG
8 12 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.22%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.81%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
15 4 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.52%) Windows
2 20 (2.71%) Mac OS
3 8 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.95%) Linux
5 5 (0.68%) Android
6 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (23.17%) Agile
2 127 (17.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 121 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (10.57%) E-Commerce
5 68 (9.21%) DevOps
5 68 (9.21%) Migration
5 68 (9.21%) Project Management
6 64 (8.67%) Roadmaps
7 62 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 58 (7.86%) Wealth Management
9 57 (7.72%) Analytics
10 50 (6.78%) ITIL
11 47 (6.37%) Decision-Making
11 47 (6.37%) User Experience
12 43 (5.83%) ERP
13 42 (5.69%) Customer Service
14 41 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
14 41 (5.56%) CI/CD
14 41 (5.56%) Data Modelling
15 40 (5.42%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 69 (9.35%) SQL
2 53 (7.18%) Python
3 28 (3.79%) JavaScript
4 20 (2.71%) Java
5 11 (1.49%) TypeScript
6 10 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (1.22%) C#
8 4 (0.54%) PHP
8 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.41%) Korn
9 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.41%) Scala
9 3 (0.41%) VBA
10 2 (0.27%) Go
10 2 (0.27%) JSX
10 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.27%) X++
11 1 (0.14%) VB
11 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (5.15%) Degree
2 11 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.22%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.08%) PMP
5 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (0.95%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.81%) CISSP
6 6 (0.81%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.68%) A+ Certification
7 5 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.68%) MCSA
8 4 (0.54%) ACCA
8 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.54%) CISM
9 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 3 (0.41%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.27%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.25%) QA
2 21 (2.85%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.03%) PMO
4 14 (1.90%) GDPR
5 11 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.36%) GRC
7 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.81%) IFRS
8 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.54%) MiFID
9 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.54%) SLA
10 3 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.41%) GAAP
10 3 (0.41%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) FATCA
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 31 (4.20%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.63%) Docker
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.52%) Terraform
3 19 (2.57%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (1.22%) Ansible
5 3 (0.41%) Puppet
6 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.27%) Salt
6 2 (0.27%) SCCM
6 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) Foglight
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 80 (10.84%) SAP
3 47 (6.37%) Salesforce
4 36 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 31 (4.20%) Adobe
6 30 (4.07%) Oracle
7 22 (2.98%) Apple
8 20 (2.71%) Google
9 17 (2.30%) Sitecore
10 12 (1.63%) Databricks
11 8 (1.08%) Cisco
12 7 (0.95%) Planview
12 7 (0.95%) Splunk
13 6 (0.81%) Citrix
13 6 (0.81%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.81%) Workday
14 5 (0.68%) Genesys
14 5 (0.68%) HP
14 5 (0.68%) IBM
15 4 (0.54%) NCR