Retailing
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 44 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +17
Permanent jobs citing Retail 4,883 5,742 9,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.64% 6.06% 5.72%
As % of the General category 7.99% 8.95% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,669 3,082 4,148
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +3.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £94,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

All General Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 61,146 64,155 110,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.10% 67.68% 65.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40,306 35,663 51,819
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail.

Salary trend for Retail in the UK

Retail
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in the UK

Retail
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +4 4,586 £47,500 -20.20% 2,387
UK excluding London -3 3,532 £45,000 -18.18% 1,784
Work from Home -13 1,760 £47,500 -24.00% 863
London -2 1,207 £61,000 -9.63% 697
North of England -13 923 £45,000 -18.18% 497
Midlands +54 895 £41,492 -24.56% 361
South East +26 768 £45,000 -18.18% 391
North West +6 559 £45,000 -18.18% 276
East Midlands +41 460 £37,500 -31.82% 190
West Midlands +46 430 £45,000 -16.67% 171
East of England +45 387 £48,750 -11.36% 156
South West -17 384 £47,500 -13.45% 260
Yorkshire -32 237 £45,000 -18.18% 174
North East -1 127 £30,000 -45.45% 58
Scotland -126 92 £48,000 -18.10% 128
Wales -22 58 £37,000 -17.78% 44
Northern Ireland +45 33 £28,000 -30.00% 7

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
1 162 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 42 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (0.78%) CMS
4 35 (0.72%) Confluence
5 21 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.43%) WordPress
6 17 (0.35%) SAS
7 14 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.27%) Apache
9 9 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 8 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.12%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.10%) Office Communications Server
14 3 (0.061%) Drupal
14 3 (0.061%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.061%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.061%) Smallworld
Applications
1 737 (15.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 449 (9.20%) Microsoft Office
3 401 (8.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 42 (0.86%) Photoshop
6 38 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 35 (0.72%) Adobe Illustrator
8 33 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
9 23 (0.47%) Trello
10 22 (0.45%) Simulink
11 18 (0.37%) AutoCAD
11 18 (0.37%) InDesign
12 14 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
13 11 (0.23%) Adobe XD
14 8 (0.16%) MS Visio
15 7 (0.14%) Stateflow
16 6 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
16 6 (0.12%) Sketch
17 5 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
18 4 (0.082%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 66 (1.35%) Shopify
2 51 (1.04%) Magento
3 42 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 35 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 28 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
5 28 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
6 27 (0.55%) Endur
7 23 (0.47%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.31%) ResourceLink
9 14 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
10 12 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
11 10 (0.20%) Misys Midas
11 10 (0.20%) SAP PP
12 9 (0.18%) Epicor Tropos
12 9 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 9 (0.18%) SAP Retail
13 8 (0.16%) SAP BPC
13 8 (0.16%) SAP WM
14 7 (0.14%) SAP ERP
15 6 (0.12%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 617 (12.64%) Azure
2 421 (8.62%) AWS
3 363 (7.43%) Power Platform
4 255 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
5 158 (3.24%) SaaS
6 139 (2.85%) GCP
7 98 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
9 46 (0.94%) Serverless
10 45 (0.92%) GitHub
11 37 (0.76%) Google Analytics
12 36 (0.74%) PowerApps
13 35 (0.72%) Power Automate
13 35 (0.72%) WhatsApp
14 34 (0.70%) Entra ID
15 31 (0.63%) Figma
16 28 (0.57%) Snowflake
17 26 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
18 25 (0.51%) Google Sheets
19 23 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 131 (2.68%) Firewall
2 114 (2.33%) WAN
3 112 (2.29%) LAN
4 106 (2.17%) Internet
5 76 (1.56%) Intranet
5 76 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
6 71 (1.45%) VPN
7 53 (1.09%) Broadband
8 39 (0.80%) Wireless
9 37 (0.76%) Network Security
10 26 (0.53%) TCP/IP
11 24 (0.49%) DNS
12 23 (0.47%) SD-WAN
12 23 (0.47%) VoIP
13 19 (0.39%) DHCP
14 18 (0.37%) VLAN
14 18 (0.37%) WLAN
15 11 (0.23%) MPLS
15 11 (0.23%) OSPF
15 11 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (6.66%) Power BI
2 277 (5.67%) SQL Server
3 192 (3.93%) Tableau
4 170 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
5 117 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 80 (1.64%) MySQL
7 60 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 50 (1.02%) MongoDB
9 45 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (0.78%) BigQuery
11 35 (0.72%) Data Lake
11 35 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 33 (0.68%) Big Data
13 29 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
14 27 (0.55%) GIS
15 22 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (0.41%) DynamoDB
17 18 (0.37%) Redis
18 17 (0.35%) Hadoop
19 16 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 242 (4.96%) Git
2 101 (2.07%) JIRA
3 40 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 33 (0.68%) GitLab
5 32 (0.66%) Visual Studio
6 26 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 12 (0.25%) JUnit
7 12 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.20%) JBehave
8 10 (0.20%) JMeter
8 10 (0.20%) SpecFlow
8 10 (0.20%) webpack
9 9 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.14%) gulp
10 7 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 7 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,971 (40.36%) Social Skills
2 1,377 (28.20%) Finance
3 1,196 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
4 629 (12.88%) Marketing
5 339 (6.94%) Legal
6 327 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 276 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
8 267 (5.47%) Manufacturing
9 259 (5.30%) German Language
10 187 (3.83%) Public Sector
11 171 (3.50%) Banking
12 168 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
13 126 (2.58%) Telecoms
14 92 (1.88%) Law
15 90 (1.84%) Advertising
16 78 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
17 67 (1.37%) Billing
18 64 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
19 63 (1.29%) Automotive
20 54 (1.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 845 (17.30%) Analyst
2 655 (13.41%) Senior
3 438 (8.97%) Developer
4 312 (6.39%) Architect
5 284 (5.82%) Lead
6 272 (5.57%) Graduate
7 246 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 224 (4.59%) Data Analyst
9 221 (4.53%) Business Analyst
10 212 (4.34%) Consultant
11 174 (3.56%) Development Manager
12 171 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
13 166 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
14 146 (2.99%) IT Manager
15 138 (2.83%) Administrator
16 112 (2.29%) Software Engineer
17 111 (2.27%) Senior Data Analyst
18 103 (2.11%) Business Manager
19 102 (2.09%) Senior Developer
20 96 (1.97%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (4.61%) .NET
2 196 (4.01%) HTML
3 169 (3.46%) CSS
4 146 (2.99%) React
5 111 (2.27%) .NET Core
6 83 (1.70%) ASP.NET
7 80 (1.64%) Web Services
8 77 (1.58%) Vue
9 75 (1.54%) Node.js
10 72 (1.47%) .NET Framework
11 71 (1.45%) REST
12 66 (1.35%) AngularJS
12 66 (1.35%) XML
13 56 (1.15%) ASP.NET Web API
14 50 (1.02%) JSON
15 47 (0.96%) RESTful
16 44 (0.90%) Entity Framework
17 36 (0.74%) Laravel
18 32 (0.66%) ASP.NET MVC
19 29 (0.59%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 468 (9.58%) Self-Motivation
2 340 (6.96%) Driving Licence
3 161 (3.30%) Management Information System
4 127 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 125 (2.56%) FMCG
6 105 (2.15%) EPoS
6 105 (2.15%) Social Media
7 97 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 82 (1.68%) Cloud Native
8 82 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 77 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 77 (1.58%) PMI
10 75 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 74 (1.52%) Data Centre
12 66 (1.35%) Photography
13 49 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 49 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 43 (0.88%) Blog
15 39 (0.80%) NHS
16 34 (0.70%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 305 (6.25%) Windows
2 121 (2.48%) Linux
3 96 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 50 (1.02%) VMS
5 49 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 43 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 36 (0.74%) Android
8 34 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
11 18 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 15 (0.31%) Windows 7
13 11 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 11 (0.23%) Unix
13 11 (0.23%) Windows 8
14 10 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 8 (0.16%) AIX
16 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.10%) CentOS
18 3 (0.061%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,152 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
2 924 (18.92%) Agile
3 578 (11.84%) Customer Service
4 533 (10.92%) E-Commerce
5 512 (10.49%) Analytics
6 495 (10.14%) Logistics
7 491 (10.06%) Project Management
8 436 (8.93%) Decision-Making
9 387 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
10 379 (7.76%) Roadmaps
11 326 (6.68%) Coaching
12 320 (6.55%) Business Development
13 293 (6.00%) Mentoring
14 289 (5.92%) Data Management
15 279 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 277 (5.67%) Data Analysis
17 264 (5.41%) Mathematics
18 260 (5.32%) Visualisation
19 246 (5.04%) Stakeholder Management
20 242 (4.96%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 730 (14.95%) SQL
2 386 (7.90%) Python
3 270 (5.53%) JavaScript
4 220 (4.51%) C#
5 139 (2.85%) TypeScript
6 128 (2.62%) PHP
7 101 (2.07%) Java
8 55 (1.13%) R
9 49 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 45 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 39 (0.80%) C
11 39 (0.80%) Go
12 36 (0.74%) VBA
13 31 (0.63%) VB.NET
14 27 (0.55%) MATLAB
15 24 (0.49%) Ruby
16 23 (0.47%) Bash
17 22 (0.45%) VB
18 20 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 11 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 1,056 (21.63%) Degree
2 514 (10.53%) DBS Check
3 137 (2.81%) Security Cleared
4 94 (1.93%) PMI Certification
5 82 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 56 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 54 (1.11%) HNC
10 50 (1.02%) ACCA
10 50 (1.02%) SC Cleared
11 49 (1.00%) CIMA
12 47 (0.96%) CCNP
13 42 (0.86%) CISSP
14 35 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 34 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
16 31 (0.63%) CCNA
17 24 (0.49%) AWS Certification
18 22 (0.45%) CREST Certified
18 22 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (5.47%) QA
2 142 (2.91%) SLA
3 91 (1.86%) GDPR
4 71 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 54 (1.11%) PMO
6 52 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.94%) NIST
8 39 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 37 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 26 (0.53%) ISO 9001
11 15 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.25%) IFRS
13 11 (0.23%) GMP
13 11 (0.23%) ISO 14000
14 9 (0.18%) IFRS 9
15 8 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.14%) ISO 22301
16 7 (0.14%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.14%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 211 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 103 (2.11%) Docker
3 46 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.74%) Firmware
5 33 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.082%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.061%) KVM
10 3 (0.061%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.041%) vSphere
12 1 (0.020%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.020%) IAG
12 1 (0.020%) LXC
12 1 (0.020%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.020%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.020%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 127 (2.60%) Terraform
2 113 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 60 (1.23%) Ansible
4 35 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.51%) Grafana
6 24 (0.49%) Progress Chef
7 17 (0.35%) Puppet
8 14 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.18%) CASB
9 9 (0.18%) SCCM
10 6 (0.12%) Consul
10 6 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.10%) AirWatch
11 5 (0.10%) Kibana
11 5 (0.10%) logstash
11 5 (0.10%) SCOM
12 4 (0.082%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 4 (0.082%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.082%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,114 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 196 (4.01%) Google
3 163 (3.34%) SAP
4 158 (3.24%) Databricks
5 99 (2.03%) Adobe
6 84 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.49%) Cisco
8 70 (1.43%) Oracle
9 67 (1.37%) VMware
10 66 (1.35%) Virgin Media
11 50 (1.02%) IBM
12 46 (0.94%) NEC
13 37 (0.76%) Dell
14 32 (0.66%) HP
15 31 (0.63%) NetApp
16 30 (0.61%) MuleSoft
17 29 (0.59%) Apple
18 27 (0.55%) Northgate
19 25 (0.51%) Citrix
20 20 (0.41%) Meraki