England Retail Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in IT jobs within the England region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Retailing
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Altrincham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Castleford Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Fife Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gourock Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Wight Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Royston Rugby Sale Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Wantage Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Wigan Willenhall Wiltshire Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodford Green Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	59
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	7626	6646
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.717 %	2.970 %
As % of the category below	7.526 %	5.952 %
Salaries quoted	6194	5425
Average minimum salary	£43,857	£44,052
Average salary	£48,901	£47,684
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Average maximum salary	£53,944	£51,316
UK excluding London average salary	£44,939	£44,339
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
General England
Matching permanent IT job ads	101329	111651
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	49.39 %	49.89 %
Salaries quoted	82460	87772
Average minimum salary	£43,996	£46,276
Average salary	£48,346	£50,638
% change on same period last year	-4.52 %
Average maximum salary	£52,696	£55,001
UK excluding London average salary	£40,683	£41,991
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
Retail UK

Retail
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Retail across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Retail
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing Retail across the England region.

Retail
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Retail across the England region over the past 3 months.

Retail
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	+12	3286	£55,848	+5.76 %
2	South East	+9	1549	£43,541	-8.76 %
3	East of England	+11	886	£43,967	-0.63 %
4	North West	+13	700	£45,955	+10.96 %
5	West Midlands	+44	343	£42,610	+11.92 %
6	Yorkshire	-32	329	£38,534	+3.26 %
7	East Midlands	-16	219	£39,471	+9.99 %
8	South West	-3	205	£40,142	+1.37 %
9	Midlands	+24	68	£56,174	+8.35 %
10	North East	0	13	£48,563	+21.02 %
11	South Coast	-7	9	£32,333	-25.08 %

Retail UK

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Retail also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Retail.

1 4475 (31.67 %) Finance 2 2317 (16.40 %) Banking 3 2176 (15.40 %) .NET 4 2070 (14.65 %) SQL 5 1813 (12.83 %) SAP 6 1793 (12.69 %) E-Commerce 7 1769 (12.52 %) Oracle 8 1699 (12.02 %) SQL Server 9 1623 (11.49 %) Project Management 10 1615 (11.43 %) Microsoft 11 1435 (10.16 %) Java 12 1333 (9.434 %) Degree 13 1222 (8.648 %) Retail Banking 14 1197 (8.471 %) C# 15 1053 (7.452 %) Windows

16 979 (6.929 %) ASP.NET 17 966 (6.837 %) Insurance 18 939 (6.645 %) XML 19 919 (6.504 %) Marketing 20 868 (6.143 %) J2EE 21 815 (5.768 %) PRINCE2 22 809 (5.725 %) Business Intelligence 23 802 (5.676 %) Telecoms 24 780 (5.520 %) Pensions 25 766 (5.421 %) MS Excel 26 760 (5.379 %) Unix 27 756 (5.350 %) EPoS 28 737 (5.216 %) UML 29 687 (4.862 %) CRM 30 682 (4.827 %) HTML

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Retail also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Retail. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2176 (15.40 %) .NET 2 979 (6.929 %) ASP.NET 3 939 (6.645 %) XML 4 868 (6.143 %) J2EE 5 682 (4.827 %) HTML 6 583 (4.126 %) CSS 7 559 (3.956 %) WebSphere 8 331 (2.343 %) WebServices 9 298 (2.109 %) AJAX 10 275 (1.946 %) XHTML 10 275 (1.946 %) JSP 11 227 (1.607 %) ASP 12 201 (1.423 %) .NET Framework 13 131 (0.927 %) Servlets 14 106 (0.750 %) Middleware 15 104 (0.736 %) EJB 16 98 (0.694 %) Spring 17 93 (0.658 %) Hibernate 18 91 (0.644 %) JSF 19 90 (0.637 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 411 (2.909 %) SAS 2 235 (1.663 %) BizTalk Server 3 208 (1.472 %) SharePoint 4 182 (1.288 %) MS Exchange 5 162 (1.146 %) WebLogic 6 155 (1.097 %) IIS 7 139 (0.984 %) Apache 8 132 (0.934 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 129 (0.913 %) JBoss 10 124 (0.878 %) NetWeaver 11 122 (0.863 %) Tomcat 12 100 (0.708 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 97 (0.686 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 79 (0.559 %) CMS 15 76 (0.538 %) WebSphere MQ 16 49 (0.347 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 44 (0.311 %) Commerce Server 18 35 (0.248 %) CICS 19 32 (0.226 %) Lotus Notes 20 27 (0.191 %) ESB
Applications 1 766 (5.421 %) MS Excel 2 408 (2.887 %) MS Office 3 302 (2.137 %) MS Visio 4 219 (1.550 %) Photoshop 5 162 (1.146 %) SPSS 6 123 (0.870 %) MS Project 7 92 (0.651 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 60 (0.425 %) MS PowerPoint 9 34 (0.241 %) CA Clarity 10 22 (0.156 %) Fireworks 11 15 (0.106 %) 3ds Max 12 8 (0.057 %) AutoCAD 13 4 (0.028 %) InfoPath 13 4 (0.028 %) QuarkXPress 14 3 (0.021 %) ArcView 15 2 (0.014 %) Adobe Director 15 2 (0.014 %) FreeHand 15 2 (0.014 %) PrintSoft PReS 16 1 (0.007 %) SmartSuite 16 1 (0.007 %) InDesign	Business Applications 1 528 (3.737 %) SAP Oil and Gas 2 304 (2.151 %) SAP Retail 3 194 (1.373 %) SAP FI 4 165 (1.168 %) SAP CO 5 164 (1.161 %) SAP FI/CO 6 153 (1.083 %) Navision 7 148 (1.047 %) SAP SD 8 99 (0.701 %) Oracle Financials 9 88 (0.623 %) SAP CRM 10 83 (0.587 %) SAP HR 11 78 (0.552 %) Oracle Applications 12 76 (0.538 %) SAP ERP 13 68 (0.481 %) Dynamics CRM 14 65 (0.460 %) Dynamics NAV 15 64 (0.453 %) Oracle EBS 16 61 (0.432 %) SAP IS-U 17 58 (0.410 %) Retail-J 17 58 (0.410 %) Axapta 18 56 (0.396 %) Oracle ERP 19 52 (0.368 %) SAP MM
Communications & Networking 1 613 (4.338 %) Internet 2 258 (1.826 %) TCP/IP 3 200 (1.415 %) SAN 4 141 (0.998 %) LAN 5 125 (0.885 %) WAN 6 115 (0.814 %) DNS 7 106 (0.750 %) WINS 7 106 (0.750 %) Firewall 8 74 (0.524 %) VPN 9 73 (0.517 %) Wireless 10 70 (0.495 %) VoIP 11 65 (0.460 %) Intranet 12 60 (0.425 %) Network Security 13 59 (0.418 %) HTTP 14 53 (0.375 %) DHCP 15 43 (0.304 %) ATM 16 41 (0.290 %) Wi-Fi 17 37 (0.262 %) Broadband 18 34 (0.241 %) LDAP 19 25 (0.177 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1699 (12.02 %) SQL Server 2 562 (3.977 %) Datawarehouse 3 532 (3.765 %) SQL Server 2005 4 391 (2.767 %) SQL Server 2000 5 343 (2.427 %) BusinessObjects 6 320 (2.265 %) DB2 7 195 (1.380 %) RDBMS 8 191 (1.352 %) ETL 9 190 (1.345 %) MySQL 10 163 (1.154 %) SAP BW 11 158 (1.118 %) Oracle 10g 12 124 (0.878 %) SQL Server 7 13 114 (0.807 %) Oracle 9i 14 112 (0.793 %) Data Mining 15 99 (0.701 %) Oracle Reports 16 96 (0.679 %) Crystal Reports 17 93 (0.658 %) Oracle 8/8i 18 82 (0.580 %) SQL Server Integration Services 19 74 (0.524 %) DTS 20 73 (0.517 %) SAP BI
Development Applications 1 270 (1.911 %) Visual Studio 2 202 (1.430 %) TestDirector 3 141 (0.998 %) Flash 4 90 (0.637 %) Eclipse 5 82 (0.580 %) Oracle Forms 6 66 (0.467 %) LoadRunner 7 65 (0.460 %) QuickTest Pro 8 54 (0.382 %) Subversion 9 53 (0.375 %) JIRA 10 48 (0.340 %) WinRunner 11 45 (0.318 %) ProC 12 36 (0.255 %) Dreamweaver 13 28 (0.198 %) Rational Rose 14 27 (0.191 %) JDeveloper 15 26 (0.184 %) Ant 16 21 (0.149 %) NUnit 17 20 (0.142 %) JUnit 18 15 (0.106 %) VSS/SourceSafe 19 12 (0.085 %) MorphX 20 11 (0.078 %) Selenium	General 1 4475 (31.67 %) Finance 2 2317 (16.40 %) Banking 3 1222 (8.648 %) Retail Banking 4 966 (6.837 %) Insurance 5 919 (6.504 %) Marketing 6 802 (5.676 %) Telecoms 7 780 (5.520 %) Pensions 8 547 (3.871 %) Health 9 458 (3.241 %) Manufacturing 10 349 (2.470 %) Government 11 316 (2.236 %) Investment Banking 12 287 (2.031 %) Education 13 178 (1.260 %) Back Office 14 164 (1.161 %) Financial Institution 15 159 (1.125 %) Pharmaceutical 15 159 (1.125 %) Billing 16 131 (0.927 %) Games 17 109 (0.771 %) Construction 18 100 (0.708 %) Corporate Banking 19 96 (0.679 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 3270 (23.14 %) Analyst 2 2277 (16.11 %) Consultant 3 2176 (15.40 %) Developer 4 1612 (11.41 %) Business Analyst 5 1510 (10.69 %) Project Manager 6 969 (6.858 %) Architect 7 905 (6.405 %) SAP Consultant 8 607 (4.296 %) .NET Developer 9 370 (2.619 %) Programme Manager 10 364 (2.576 %) Senior Consultant 11 362 (2.562 %) C# Developer 12 360 (2.548 %) Senior Analyst 13 346 (2.449 %) Support Analyst 14 345 (2.442 %) Web Developer 15 340 (2.406 %) Programmer 16 316 (2.236 %) Test Manager 17 282 (1.996 %) Systems Analyst 17 282 (1.996 %) Solutions Architect 18 273 (1.932 %) Senior Developer 19 271 (1.918 %) Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 756 (5.350 %) EPoS 2 190 (1.345 %) Mainframe 3 170 (1.203 %) Computer Science 4 139 (0.984 %) Asset Management 5 136 (0.962 %) W3C 5 136 (0.962 %) Credit Risk 6 127 (0.899 %) AS400 7 106 (0.750 %) Management Information System 8 99 (0.701 %) PMI 9 93 (0.658 %) EFT 10 86 (0.609 %) Chip and PIN 11 77 (0.545 %) Client/Server 12 73 (0.517 %) Mathematics 13 67 (0.474 %) Derivative 13 67 (0.474 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 14 65 (0.460 %) EFTPOS 15 62 (0.439 %) N-Tier 16 61 (0.432 %) Fund Management 17 58 (0.410 %) Statistics 18 56 (0.396 %) Fixed Income
Operating Systems 1 1053 (7.452 %) Windows 2 760 (5.379 %) Unix 3 468 (3.312 %) Linux 4 183 (1.295 %) AIX 5 178 (1.260 %) Windows 2000 6 129 (0.913 %) Windows XP 7 120 (0.849 %) Solaris 8 96 (0.679 %) Windows Server 2003 9 88 (0.623 %) Windows NT 10 36 (0.255 %) HPUX 11 26 (0.184 %) zOS 12 16 (0.113 %) Mac OS X 13 14 (0.099 %) Windows Mobile 13 14 (0.099 %) MVS 14 13 (0.092 %) VMS 15 12 (0.085 %) Windows CE 16 7 (0.050 %) SUSE 17 4 (0.028 %) Debian 17 4 (0.028 %) OS/390 18 3 (0.021 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 1793 (12.69 %) E-Commerce 2 1623 (11.49 %) Project Management 3 815 (5.768 %) PRINCE2 4 809 (5.725 %) Business Intelligence 5 737 (5.216 %) UML 6 687 (4.862 %) CRM 7 678 (4.798 %) Business Analysis 8 641 (4.536 %) ERP 9 454 (3.213 %) OO 10 389 (2.753 %) SOA 11 377 (2.668 %) ITIL 12 355 (2.512 %) Business Development 13 340 (2.406 %) Change Management 14 333 (2.357 %) Service Delivery 15 316 (2.236 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 299 (2.116 %) E-business 17 294 (2.081 %) Logistics 18 280 (1.982 %) Risk Management 19 273 (1.932 %) RUP 20 270 (1.911 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 2070 (14.65 %) SQL 2 1435 (10.16 %) Java 3 1197 (8.471 %) C# 4 614 (4.345 %) JavaScript 5 513 (3.631 %) VB.NET 6 449 (3.178 %) VB 7 382 (2.703 %) C 8 342 (2.420 %) C++ 9 272 (1.925 %) PL/SQL 10 204 (1.444 %) Transact-SQL 11 166 (1.175 %) PHP 12 153 (1.083 %) VB6 13 129 (0.913 %) ABAP 14 128 (0.906 %) VBA 15 104 (0.736 %) Perl 16 103 (0.729 %) VC++ 17 99 (0.701 %) COBOL 18 84 (0.594 %) Shell Script 19 70 (0.495 %) RPG 20 67 (0.474 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 1333 (9.434 %) Degree 2 278 (1.967 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 269 (1.904 %) ISEB 4 262 (1.854 %) Microsoft Certification 5 135 (0.955 %) PMI Certification 6 121 (0.856 %) MCSE 7 119 (0.842 %) PMP 8 115 (0.814 %) Cisco Certification 9 100 (0.708 %) MCP 10 80 (0.566 %) MCSD 11 68 (0.481 %) CCNA 12 64 (0.453 %) MBA 13 63 (0.446 %) ITIL Certification 14 52 (0.368 %) MCAD 15 48 (0.340 %) ACCA 16 46 (0.326 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 17 44 (0.311 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 17 44 (0.311 %) CISA 18 42 (0.297 %) HND 19 40 (0.283 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 302 (2.137 %) QA 2 195 (1.380 %) SLA 3 89 (0.630 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 84 (0.594 %) WAI 5 78 (0.552 %) Basel II 6 29 (0.205 %) WCAG 7 25 (0.177 %) BS7799 8 20 (0.142 %) ISO27001 9 17 (0.120 %) MiFID 10 12 (0.085 %) COBIT 11 11 (0.078 %) PCI DSS 12 10 (0.071 %) ISO9000 13 6 (0.042 %) ISO9001 13 6 (0.042 %) PCI QSA 14 3 (0.021 %) IAS 39 15 1 (0.007 %) ISO17799 15 1 (0.007 %) GAAP 15 1 (0.007 %) ISO8583	System Software 1 320 (2.265 %) Active Directory 2 33 (0.234 %) AquaLogic 3 29 (0.205 %) MSMQ 4 25 (0.177 %) Oracle RAC 5 20 (0.142 %) ISA Server 6 16 (0.113 %) Oracle RMAN 7 12 (0.085 %) Backup Exec 7 12 (0.085 %) Xen 8 10 (0.071 %) NetBackup 9 9 (0.064 %) Terminal Services 9 9 (0.064 %) Samba 10 6 (0.042 %) Terminal Server 10 6 (0.042 %) VMware Server 11 5 (0.035 %) VMware ESX 12 4 (0.028 %) MetaFrame 13 3 (0.021 %) Citrix Presentation Server 14 1 (0.007 %) RACF 14 1 (0.007 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 14 1 (0.007 %) Cronacle
Systems Management 1 23 (0.163 %) MOM 2 21 (0.149 %) Tivoli 3 16 (0.113 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 15 (0.106 %) Nagios 5 14 (0.099 %) OpenView 6 11 (0.078 %) CiscoWorks 7 10 (0.071 %) Netcool 7 10 (0.071 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 7 10 (0.071 %) Netcool/Proviso 8 9 (0.064 %) Netcool/Webtop 9 8 (0.057 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 9 8 (0.057 %) Legato 10 6 (0.042 %) OVSD 10 6 (0.042 %) AllFusion Endevor 10 6 (0.042 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 11 5 (0.035 %) OMEGAMON 11 5 (0.035 %) Unicenter 11 5 (0.035 %) AutoSys 12 4 (0.028 %) EMC NetWorker 13 3 (0.021 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 1813 (12.83 %) SAP 2 1769 (12.52 %) Oracle 3 1615 (11.43 %) Microsoft 4 385 (2.725 %) IBM 5 343 (2.427 %) Business Objects 6 215 (1.522 %) Cisco 7 214 (1.515 %) Cognos 8 165 (1.168 %) Citrix 9 148 (1.047 %) Siebel 10 135 (0.955 %) JDA 11 134 (0.948 %) Retek 11 134 (0.948 %) HP 12 123 (0.870 %) VMware 13 103 (0.729 %) MicroStrategy 14 84 (0.594 %) Adobe 15 80 (0.566 %) Informatica 16 78 (0.552 %) Teradata 17 68 (0.481 %) Ab Initio 18 67 (0.474 %) JD Edwards 19 62 (0.439 %) Manugistics