Retail Contracts in the West Midlands

Retailing
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 83 72
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing Retail 38 44 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.90% 1.99% 3.00%
As % of the General category 3.52% 3.54% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 28 87
10th Percentile £504 £298 £290
25th Percentile £573 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year +36.13% +6.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £750 £580 £550
90th Percentile £813 £658 £688
England median daily rate £518 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -2.36% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £11.06 - -
25th Percentile £11.23 - -
Median hourly rate £13.83 - -
75th Percentile £16.63 - -
90th Percentile £16.67 - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.81 £16.50
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.06% +22.22%

All General Skills
West Midlands

Retail is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,080 1,242 2,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 54.03% 56.22% 57.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 868 1,548
10th Percentile £253 £263 £250
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +18.56%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £575
90th Percentile £750 £701 £675
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.03% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 44 45
10th Percentile £11.13 £12.15 £11.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.11 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £21.69 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +27.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £54.88 £22.25
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.54 £22.00
% change year-on-year +3.14% +38.82% +4.51%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 June 2024. 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
Birmingham +12 15 £700 +43.59% 69
Coventry +18 10 £650 +17.65% 13
Staffordshire +3 3 £750 +56.25% 22
Warwickshire -4 2 - - 21
Walsall - 1 - - 6
Wolverhampton - 1 £525 - 1
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (2.63%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.63%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (2.63%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) AWS
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 5 (13.16%) CloudFront
2 5 (13.16%) Entra ID
2 5 (13.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) DNS
1 5 (13.16%) Network Security
1 5 (13.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
1 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (2.63%) Tableau
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 6 (15.79%) Automotive
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Cantonese Language
5 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Mandarin Language
5 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Publishing
6 1 (2.63%) Back Office
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Business Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.26%) Agile Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Coordinator
6 2 (5.26%) Head of Analytics
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Retail Business Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) OAuth
1 5 (13.16%) OAuth2
1 5 (13.16%) SAML
2 2 (5.26%) Laravel
3 1 (2.63%) Dask
3 1 (2.63%) Keras
3 1 (2.63%) NumPy
3 1 (2.63%) Pandas
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.63%) React
3 1 (2.63%) React Native
3 1 (2.63%) SAP PI
3 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
1 5 (13.16%) FMCG
2 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.63%) CCTV
3 1 (2.63%) Handset
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Agile
2 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (13.16%) Analytics
3 5 (13.16%) Application Security
3 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Security
3 5 (13.16%) Data Security
3 5 (13.16%) Defensive Programming
3 5 (13.16%) DevSecOps
3 5 (13.16%) E-Commerce
3 5 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (13.16%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (13.16%) Task Automation
3 5 (13.16%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 4 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (10.53%) Data Integration
4 4 (10.53%) Data Science
5 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) SQL
2 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 2 (5.26%) PHP
2 2 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) PhD
3 1 (2.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Informatica
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) PeopleSoft
2 2 (5.26%) Workday
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) SAP