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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 97 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 -15 -9
Contract jobs citing Retail 865 1,009 1,926
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.81% 2.29% 2.89%
As % of the General category 4.52% 3.90% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 582 1,108
10th Percentile £266 £264 £328
25th Percentile £410 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £762 £738 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 53 80
10th Percentile £18.13 £11.01 -
25th Percentile £23.19 £13.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £33.00 £16.30 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +102.45% -17.72% +27.81%
75th Percentile £64.44 £21.37 £22.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £21.46 £22.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £15.29 £19.81
% change year-on-year +47.16% -22.82% +27.81%

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 19,124 25,904 39,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.06% 58.75% 59.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,594 16,674 26,926
10th Percentile £285 £265 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.60% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 1,651 1,161
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.16 £17.62
Median hourly rate £29.00 £26.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% +28.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £25.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +8.50% - +42.86%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +3 755 £525 - 1,829
London +11 443 £550 +4.76% 941
Work from Home +10 318 £525 +5.00% 820
UK excluding London -4 313 £500 - 1,054
South East +26 94 £550 +12.82% 312
North of England -24 74 £450 -18.18% 291
Midlands +13 63 £500 -13.04% 198
East of England +1 38 £550 +83.33% 110
North West -10 38 £450 -15.29% 175
West Midlands +1 32 £525 -12.50% 100
Yorkshire -11 29 £400 -27.27% 98
East Midlands +23 27 £500 +33.33% 93
Scotland +34 25 £525 +22.09% 35
South West +6 11 £325 -33.33% 98
Wales 0 6 £146 -73.48% 28
North East -6 5 £600 - 21
Northern Ireland -4 2 £134 -5.64% 5

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 21 (2.43%) Confluence
2 18 (2.08%) CMS
3 7 (0.81%) Drupal
4 6 (0.69%) SAS
5 5 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.46%) CICS
6 4 (0.46%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Joomla!
Applications
1 26 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.58%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.58%) SketchUp
7 3 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.23%) Blender
8 2 (0.23%) CINEMA 4D
8 2 (0.23%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.23%) Trello
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.12%) Revit
Business Applications
1 46 (5.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (2.20%) SAP Retail
3 18 (2.08%) Shopify
4 10 (1.16%) SAP CAR
4 10 (1.16%) SAP FI
4 10 (1.16%) SAP MDG
5 9 (1.04%) SAP CO
5 9 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
6 8 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.69%) Oracle Retail
7 6 (0.69%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.58%) Magento
9 4 (0.46%) BambooHR
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.46%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.35%) Infor CloudSuite
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
10 3 (0.35%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 95 (10.98%) Azure
2 56 (6.47%) AWS
3 37 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
4 33 (3.82%) Power Platform
5 26 (3.01%) GCP
6 24 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.97%) BigCommerce
8 16 (1.85%) WhatsApp
9 14 (1.62%) SaaS
9 14 (1.62%) Serverless
10 11 (1.27%) Snowflake
11 10 (1.16%) GitHub
11 10 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
12 8 (0.92%) Figma
12 8 (0.92%) PowerApps
13 7 (0.81%) Google Analytics
13 7 (0.81%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.69%) Bloomreach
14 6 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.97%) Network Security
2 13 (1.50%) LAN
2 13 (1.50%) WAN
3 9 (1.04%) Firewall
4 8 (0.92%) ATM
5 7 (0.81%) DHCP
5 7 (0.81%) DNS
5 7 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.69%) Broadband
6 6 (0.69%) VPN
7 5 (0.58%) Internet
8 4 (0.46%) HTTP
8 4 (0.46%) SSL
9 3 (0.35%) BGP
9 3 (0.35%) DWDM
9 3 (0.35%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.35%) MPLS
9 3 (0.35%) OSPF
9 3 (0.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.89%) Power BI
2 23 (2.66%) Tableau
3 15 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.92%) Data Lake
4 8 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 8 (0.92%) Redis
5 7 (0.81%) MySQL
5 7 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.58%) Data Mining
6 5 (0.58%) Looker
6 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.58%) SAP BW
6 5 (0.58%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.46%) Big Data
7 4 (0.46%) DB2
8 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.35%) Couchbase
8 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (3.70%) JIRA
2 11 (1.27%) Git
3 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
3 5 (0.58%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
4 4 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.23%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.23%) GitLab
5 2 (0.23%) Grunt
5 2 (0.23%) Maven
5 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.23%) webpack
6 1 (0.12%) Ant
6 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.12%) ESLint
6 1 (0.12%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.12%) JMeter
6 1 (0.12%) JUnit
6 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.12%) Subversion
General
1 224 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 158 (18.27%) Finance
3 121 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (7.75%) Banking
5 55 (6.36%) Marketing
6 39 (4.51%) Corporate Banking
7 38 (4.39%) Retail Banking
8 36 (4.16%) Investment Banking
9 34 (3.93%) Telecoms
10 28 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.73%) Automotive
14 14 (1.62%) General Ledger
14 14 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.50%) Back Office
16 12 (1.39%) Legal
17 11 (1.27%) Billing
18 8 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 8 (0.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 148 (17.11%) Architect
2 110 (12.72%) Analyst
3 93 (10.75%) Consultant
4 68 (7.86%) Project Manager
5 67 (7.75%) Senior
6 63 (7.28%) Developer
7 60 (6.94%) Business Analyst
8 53 (6.13%) Solutions Architect
9 48 (5.55%) Lead
10 36 (4.16%) ServiceNow Architect
11 31 (3.58%) SAP Consultant
12 25 (2.89%) Data Engineer
13 23 (2.66%) Designer
13 23 (2.66%) IT Manager
14 21 (2.43%) Product Manager
15 18 (2.08%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 16 (1.85%) Retail Business Analyst
17 15 (1.73%) Data Analyst
17 15 (1.73%) Functional Consultant
18 14 (1.62%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.43%) .NET
1 21 (2.43%) HTML
2 20 (2.31%) Kafka
3 17 (1.97%) Spring Boot
3 17 (1.97%) VML
4 14 (1.62%) CSS
4 14 (1.62%) Middleware
4 14 (1.62%) Node.js
4 14 (1.62%) Spring
5 13 (1.50%) Web Services
6 11 (1.27%) LDAP
6 11 (1.27%) RESTful
6 11 (1.27%) XML
7 10 (1.16%) Micronaut
7 10 (1.16%) React
8 6 (0.69%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.58%) HTML5
9 5 (0.58%) JSON
9 5 (0.58%) Matplotlib
9 5 (0.58%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.05%) EPoS
2 28 (3.24%) Product Ownership
3 21 (2.43%) FMCG
4 20 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 17 (1.97%) Mobile App
5 17 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.27%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.81%) Mainframe
14 7 (0.81%) Social Media
15 6 (0.69%) Augmented Reality
15 6 (0.69%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.97%) Windows
2 9 (1.04%) Linux
3 5 (0.58%) Android
4 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.23%) zOS
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (18.50%) Agile
2 123 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 119 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (10.29%) Project Management
5 87 (10.06%) E-Commerce
6 74 (8.55%) Roadmaps
7 68 (7.86%) Migration
8 58 (6.71%) Analytics
9 57 (6.59%) DevOps
10 51 (5.90%) User Experience
11 49 (5.66%) ERP
12 45 (5.20%) ITSM
13 44 (5.09%) Data Analysis
14 42 (4.86%) Decision-Making
15 39 (4.51%) Workshop Facilitation
16 38 (4.39%) Requirements Gathering
17 37 (4.28%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (4.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 37 (4.28%) Wealth Management
18 36 (4.16%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 65 (7.51%) SQL
2 55 (6.36%) Python
3 43 (4.97%) Java
4 24 (2.77%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.16%) PowerShell
5 10 (1.16%) TypeScript
6 7 (0.81%) PHP
7 6 (0.69%) C#
7 6 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 5 (0.58%) ABAP
8 5 (0.58%) Go
8 5 (0.58%) Scala
9 3 (0.35%) COBOL
9 3 (0.35%) R
10 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.23%) VBA
10 2 (0.23%) VBScript
11 1 (0.12%) SAS Macro
11 1 (0.12%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (4.62%) Degree
2 10 (1.16%) PMI Certification
3 8 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (0.81%) PMP
5 6 (0.69%) SAP Certification
5 6 (0.69%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.58%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.58%) CISM
6 5 (0.58%) CISSP
7 4 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (0.46%) MRICS
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.35%) CCDP
8 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.35%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.23%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.82%) QA
2 19 (2.20%) PMO
3 17 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.62%) SLA
5 10 (1.16%) NIST
6 9 (1.04%) GDPR
7 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.46%) IFRS
8 4 (0.46%) P3O
8 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.35%) MiFID
10 2 (0.23%) GAAP
10 2 (0.23%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) Basel III
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) HITRUST
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 16 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.27%) Docker
3 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) Gluster
5 1 (0.12%) GlusterFS
5 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (3.12%) Terraform
2 18 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.46%) Control-M
4 2 (0.23%) Ansible
4 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.12%) SCCM
5 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 132 (15.26%) SAP
2 57 (6.59%) Microsoft
3 51 (5.90%) ServiceNow
4 46 (5.32%) Oracle
5 32 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 30 (3.47%) Adobe
7 23 (2.66%) Ariba
8 17 (1.97%) Sitecore
8 17 (1.97%) Splunk
9 15 (1.73%) Google
10 13 (1.50%) Workday
11 12 (1.39%) Databricks
12 10 (1.16%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.92%) Cisco
14 7 (0.81%) IBM
15 5 (0.58%) Citrix
15 5 (0.58%) Fujitsu
15 5 (0.58%) Planview
15 5 (0.58%) Zscaler
16 4 (0.46%) Ceridian