Retail Contracts in the UK excluding London

Retailing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 88 59
Rank change year-on-year -1 -29 +24
Contract jobs citing Retail 449 654 1,140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.19% 2.80% 3.75%
As % of the General category 4.04% 4.96% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 392 674
10th Percentile £278 £363 £341
25th Percentile £375 £424 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £725 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -4.72% -1.40% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 53 98
10th Percentile £11.13 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £12.15 £18.25 £14.06
Median hourly rate £15.90 £19.81 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +20.06% +13.79%
75th Percentile £21.37 £22.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £21.46 £22.13 £22.00
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £19.81 £16.50
% change year-on-year -19.23% +20.06% +10.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,126 13,178 16,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.32% 56.40% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 8,992 11,677
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 757 1,033
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.19 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +57.89% -4.88%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.74 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% +54.55% -2.22%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North of England -2 151 £513 -2.38% 491
South East +8 119 £475 -12.84% 363
East of England -4 94 £438 -27.08% 167
Yorkshire -7 72 £508 -7.73% 176
North West +5 69 £500 - 275
Midlands -7 50 £620 +37.78% 340
West Midlands +13 38 £650 +36.84% 178
South West -28 23 £475 -2.56% 196
East Midlands -14 12 £494 +19.70% 162
Scotland +31 9 £430 +1.18% 78
North East +10 5 £600 +6.19% 49
Wales +9 3 - - 35
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (2.67%) CMS
2 9 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.78%) Confluence
4 7 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.89%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.11%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.22%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.45%) Shopify
2 10 (2.23%) SAP Retail
2 10 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.78%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (1.11%) Magento
5 3 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.67%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.45%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.45%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.45%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.22%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.22%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 50 (11.14%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (9.35%) Azure
3 35 (7.80%) AWS
4 33 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.12%) Cloudflare
6 12 (2.67%) Akamai
7 11 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.00%) BigCommerce
8 9 (2.00%) SaaS
9 8 (1.78%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 8 (1.78%) Serverless
10 7 (1.56%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.34%) Google Sheets
11 6 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.11%) CloudFront
12 5 (1.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 39 (8.69%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (2.67%) DNS
3 10 (2.23%) Network Security
4 9 (2.00%) ATM
4 9 (2.00%) Firewall
4 9 (2.00%) VPN
5 8 (1.78%) LAN
6 5 (1.11%) WAN
7 3 (0.67%) VoIP
7 3 (0.67%) Wireless
7 3 (0.67%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.45%) DHCP
8 2 (0.45%) SMS
8 2 (0.45%) VLAN
9 1 (0.22%) Broadband
9 1 (0.22%) DMVPN
9 1 (0.22%) HTTP
9 1 (0.22%) IPsec
9 1 (0.22%) MPLS
9 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.68%) Power BI
2 15 (3.34%) Tableau
3 8 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.56%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.34%) MS Access
5 6 (1.34%) MySQL
6 5 (1.11%) GIS
6 5 (1.11%) Metadata
6 5 (1.11%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.89%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.89%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.89%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.45%) Big Data
9 2 (0.45%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.35%) JIRA
2 5 (1.11%) Git
3 4 (0.89%) ERwin
3 4 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
3 4 (0.89%) SonarQube
3 4 (0.89%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.45%) kappa
4 2 (0.45%) Postman
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) JMeter
5 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.22%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 149 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 93 (20.71%) Finance
3 53 (11.80%) Marketing
4 43 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.90%) Telecoms
6 18 (4.01%) Legal
6 18 (4.01%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.56%) Banking
8 14 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.90%) Automotive
10 8 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.78%) Publishing
11 7 (1.56%) Back Office
11 7 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.34%) Billing
12 6 (1.34%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.11%) Electronics
14 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.67%) German Language
15 3 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (22.05%) Analyst
2 42 (9.35%) Project Manager
3 40 (8.91%) Service Analyst
4 34 (7.57%) Service Desk Analyst
5 32 (7.13%) Architect
6 30 (6.68%) Developer
7 24 (5.35%) Business Analyst
8 20 (4.45%) Consultant
9 17 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.56%) Lead
11 15 (3.34%) IT Support
12 13 (2.90%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.67%) Administrator
13 12 (2.67%) Senior
14 10 (2.23%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (2.00%) IT Manager
15 9 (2.00%) IT Technician
15 9 (2.00%) SAP Consultant
15 9 (2.00%) SAP Manager
16 8 (1.78%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.56%) HTML
2 5 (1.11%) .NET
2 5 (1.11%) OAuth
2 5 (1.11%) OAuth2
2 5 (1.11%) SAML
2 5 (1.11%) VML
3 4 (0.89%) CSS
3 4 (0.89%) JSON
3 4 (0.89%) Kafka
4 3 (0.67%) React
4 3 (0.67%) React Native
4 3 (0.67%) REST
4 3 (0.67%) XML
5 2 (0.45%) Ajax
5 2 (0.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.45%) CSS3
5 2 (0.45%) HTML5
5 2 (0.45%) LESS
5 2 (0.45%) RESTful
5 2 (0.45%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.12%) Driving Licence
2 22 (4.90%) EPoS
3 19 (4.23%) FMCG
4 15 (3.34%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.00%) Smartphone
6 9 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.56%) Digital Signage
7 7 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.34%) Blog
8 6 (1.34%) CMDB
8 6 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.11%) Social Media
10 4 (0.89%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.89%) e-Health
10 4 (0.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.35%) Windows
2 9 (2.00%) Apple iOS
2 9 (2.00%) Windows 10
3 7 (1.56%) Windows 7
4 5 (1.11%) Unix
5 4 (0.89%) Linux
5 4 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.67%) Debian
6 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (14.70%) Customer Service
2 64 (14.25%) E-Commerce
3 50 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (10.69%) Agile
4 48 (10.69%) Migration
5 44 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (9.58%) ITIL
7 42 (9.35%) Project Management
8 37 (8.24%) Incident Management
9 36 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (7.13%) CRM
11 31 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (6.46%) DevOps
13 26 (5.79%) Decision-Making
14 24 (5.35%) Coaching
14 24 (5.35%) Data Migration
15 22 (4.90%) Time Management
16 21 (4.68%) Logistics
17 20 (4.45%) Roadmaps
18 19 (4.23%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 61 (13.59%) SQL
2 20 (4.45%) Python
3 11 (2.45%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.11%) Java
4 5 (1.11%) PL/SQL
4 5 (1.11%) VBA
5 4 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.67%) Bash
6 3 (0.67%) Go
6 3 (0.67%) PHP
7 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.45%) Scala
7 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.22%) ABAP
8 1 (0.22%) C#
8 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (6.24%) A+ Certification
1 28 (6.24%) MCSA
1 28 (6.24%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (6.01%) Degree
3 22 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.90%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.78%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.56%) MCP
6 4 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.67%) PMP
8 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.45%) CCNA
8 2 (0.45%) CCNP
8 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.22%) PhD
9 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.12%) PMO
2 14 (3.12%) SLA
3 10 (2.23%) QA
4 9 (2.00%) GDPR
5 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.89%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.67%) IFRS
7 3 (0.67%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (3.79%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.00%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (1.34%) Terraform
2 5 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.67%) Ansible
3 3 (0.67%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.22%) AppManager
4 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 51 (11.36%) SAP
2 43 (9.58%) Microsoft
3 33 (7.35%) ServiceNow
4 30 (6.68%) Citrix
5 18 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.79%) Adobe
7 15 (3.34%) F5
7 15 (3.34%) Oracle
8 9 (2.00%) Google
8 9 (2.00%) Workday
9 6 (1.34%) Alteryx
9 6 (1.34%) RedPrairie
10 5 (1.11%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.11%) Cisco
10 5 (1.11%) Informatica
10 5 (1.11%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.89%) Sparx
12 3 (0.67%) Aruba
12 3 (0.67%) Ceridian
12 3 (0.67%) Splunk