Retail Contracts in Wiltshire

Retailing
South West > Wiltshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies in Wiltshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 88 83
Rank change year-on-year +35 -5 -52
Contract jobs citing Retail 4 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.89% 0.11% 0.91%
As % of the General category 1.43% 0.20% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile - - £251
25th Percentile £308 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.26%
75th Percentile £412 - £527
90th Percentile £506 - £614
South West median daily rate £428 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £11.25 -
South West median hourly rate £11.91 £13.00 -
% change year-on-year -8.38% - -

All General Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 280 504 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 62.36% 53.39% 51.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 369 471
10th Percentile £241 £263 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £648
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 5
10th Percentile - £12.00 -
25th Percentile - £14.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £14.54 £70.80
Median % change year-on-year +312.65% -79.46% +11.50%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - £39.00 £102.50
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
% change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Wiltshire

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Retail in Wiltshire

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in Wiltshire

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Retail in Wiltshire

Retail
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Swindon +3 4 £335 - 19
Retail
South West

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Build Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Build Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (25.00%) EPoS
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) CRD IV
1 1 (25.00%) IFRS
1 1 (25.00%) IFRS 9