Retail Contract Job Trends in Welwyn Garden City

Retailing
Hertfordshire > Welwyn Garden City

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Welwyn Garden City. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Retail 9 11 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City 33.33% 31.43% 72.73%
As % of the General category 50.00% 45.83% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £519 £288 -
25th Percentile £603 £325 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £400 £725
Median % change year-on-year +65.63% -44.83% +16.00%
75th Percentile £703 £475 £838
90th Percentile £731 £513 £856
Hertfordshire median daily rate £625 £575 £470
% change year-on-year +8.70% +22.34% -1.05%

All General Skills
Welwyn Garden City

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 Welwyn Garden City.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City 66.67% 68.57% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 11
10th Percentile £444 £288 -
25th Percentile £528 £325 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £400 £625
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% -36.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £703 £475 £838
90th Percentile £773 £513 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £388 £523
% change year-on-year +35.48% -25.84% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £15.74 £15.51 -
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.52 £61.25
Median hourly rate £16.67 £16.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -73.21% +13.64%
75th Percentile £17.10 £19.29 £63.75
90th Percentile £17.21 £20.42 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £43.00 £43.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -28.33% +9.09%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Welwyn Garden City

Retail
Daily Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Retail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Retail

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Welwyn Garden City

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Welwyn Garden City over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Welwyn Garden City

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Retail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Retail

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Finance Systems Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Finance Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Django
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Product Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Avature
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle