Retail Jobs in England

Retailing
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 44 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +30
Permanent jobs citing Retail 4,191 5,831 7,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.90% 6.33% 5.71%
As % of the General category 8.27% 9.28% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 2,941 3,684
10th Percentile £26,000 £34,605 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,150 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £58,135
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +3.21% +0.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +3.45% +0.87%

All General Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,683 62,855 85,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.30% 68.24% 63.90%
Number of salaries quoted 35,702 34,113 45,308
10th Percentile £27,445 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,994 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in England

Retail
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Retail in England

Retail
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in England

Retail
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -3 1,180 £62,500 -7.41% 632
North of England -21 815 £45,000 -18.18% 499
Midlands +53 717 £41,000 -25.45% 344
South East +15 698 £45,000 -18.18% 376
North West +7 496 £45,000 -18.18% 293
South West -20 379 £45,000 -18.01% 180
East of England +43 376 £48,000 -12.73% 173
East Midlands +54 357 £37,500 -31.82% 168
West Midlands +40 355 £45,000 -14.29% 176
Yorkshire -36 233 £47,000 -21.67% 169
North East -12 86 £40,001 -27.27% 46
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 157 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 37 (0.88%) CMS
4 31 (0.74%) Confluence
5 26 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.57%) SAS
7 18 (0.43%) WordPress
8 16 (0.38%) Apache
9 12 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 8 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
13 4 (0.095%) Office Communications Server
14 3 (0.072%) Drupal
14 3 (0.072%) IIS
14 3 (0.072%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 522 (12.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 322 (7.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 235 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
5 36 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 36 (0.86%) Photoshop
6 31 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
7 29 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
8 24 (0.57%) Trello
9 22 (0.52%) Simulink
10 18 (0.43%) InDesign
11 14 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
11 14 (0.33%) AutoCAD
12 9 (0.21%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.17%) Stateflow
14 6 (0.14%) MS Visio
14 6 (0.14%) Sketch
15 5 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
15 5 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
15 5 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 62 (1.48%) Shopify
2 47 (1.12%) Magento
3 35 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 32 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 31 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
6 26 (0.62%) Endur
7 24 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
8 23 (0.55%) NetSuite
9 14 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
9 14 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
9 14 (0.33%) Epicor Tropos
10 11 (0.26%) SAP PP
11 10 (0.24%) Misys Midas
12 9 (0.21%) SAP BPC
12 9 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 8 (0.19%) SAP FI
13 8 (0.19%) SAP MM
14 7 (0.17%) SAP PLM
14 7 (0.17%) SAP Retail
14 7 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 583 (13.91%) Azure
2 362 (8.64%) Power Platform
3 357 (8.52%) AWS
4 251 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
5 139 (3.32%) SaaS
6 136 (3.25%) GCP
7 94 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
9 40 (0.95%) Serverless
10 37 (0.88%) GitHub
11 34 (0.81%) WhatsApp
12 33 (0.79%) Entra ID
13 31 (0.74%) Google Analytics
14 30 (0.72%) PowerApps
15 29 (0.69%) Power Automate
16 28 (0.67%) Figma
17 26 (0.62%) Snowflake
18 25 (0.60%) Google Sheets
19 21 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
19 21 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 122 (2.91%) Firewall
2 117 (2.79%) WAN
3 111 (2.65%) LAN
4 101 (2.41%) Internet
5 76 (1.81%) Intranet
6 73 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
7 66 (1.57%) VPN
8 50 (1.19%) Broadband
9 35 (0.84%) Wireless
10 27 (0.64%) Network Security
11 25 (0.60%) DNS
11 25 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 25 (0.60%) TCP/IP
12 20 (0.48%) VoIP
13 18 (0.43%) WLAN
14 17 (0.41%) DHCP
15 15 (0.36%) VLAN
16 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
17 9 (0.21%) Ethernet
17 9 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (7.78%) Power BI
2 269 (6.42%) SQL Server
3 169 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (3.72%) Tableau
5 114 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 81 (1.93%) MySQL
7 57 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 49 (1.17%) MongoDB
9 44 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 36 (0.86%) BigQuery
12 35 (0.84%) Big Data
13 32 (0.76%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (0.62%) GIS
16 21 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
17 19 (0.45%) DynamoDB
18 17 (0.41%) Redis
19 16 (0.38%) NoSQL
20 15 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 214 (5.11%) Git
2 92 (2.20%) JIRA
3 36 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 33 (0.79%) GitLab
4 33 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 27 (0.64%) TeamCity
6 11 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.24%) JBehave
7 10 (0.24%) JMeter
7 10 (0.24%) Selenium
7 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 10 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.17%) gulp
9 7 (0.17%) JUnit
9 7 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 1,711 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 1,148 (27.39%) Finance
3 1,026 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
4 446 (10.64%) Marketing
5 264 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 259 (6.18%) German Language
7 244 (5.82%) Presentation Skills
8 205 (4.89%) Legal
9 193 (4.61%) Manufacturing
10 176 (4.20%) Public Sector
11 167 (3.98%) Banking
12 141 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
13 125 (2.98%) Telecoms
14 89 (2.12%) Advertising
15 86 (2.05%) Law
16 71 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
17 67 (1.60%) Automotive
18 61 (1.46%) Billing
19 52 (1.24%) Back Office
20 48 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 727 (17.35%) Analyst
2 590 (14.08%) Senior
3 397 (9.47%) Developer
4 272 (6.49%) Graduate
5 266 (6.35%) Architect
6 242 (5.77%) Lead
7 231 (5.51%) Project Manager
8 217 (5.18%) Consultant
9 178 (4.25%) Business Analyst
10 164 (3.91%) Data Analyst
11 146 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
12 134 (3.20%) IT Manager
13 132 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
14 118 (2.82%) Administrator
15 97 (2.31%) Senior Developer
16 93 (2.22%) Software Engineer
17 81 (1.93%) Senior Manager
18 80 (1.91%) Business Intelligence Consultant
18 80 (1.91%) Principal Business Analyst
19 79 (1.88%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (5.18%) .NET
2 190 (4.53%) HTML
3 160 (3.82%) CSS
4 140 (3.34%) React
5 99 (2.36%) .NET Core
6 77 (1.84%) ASP.NET
7 74 (1.77%) Web Services
8 71 (1.69%) Vue
9 68 (1.62%) .NET Framework
9 68 (1.62%) AngularJS
10 65 (1.55%) Node.js
11 58 (1.38%) REST
12 56 (1.34%) ASP.NET Web API
12 56 (1.34%) XML
13 48 (1.15%) RESTful
14 46 (1.10%) JSON
15 44 (1.05%) Entity Framework
16 39 (0.93%) Laravel
17 31 (0.74%) Kafka
18 30 (0.72%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 448 (10.69%) Self-Motivation
2 318 (7.59%) Driving Licence
3 151 (3.60%) Management Information System
4 130 (3.10%) FMCG
5 125 (2.98%) Product Ownership
6 97 (2.31%) PMI
7 91 (2.17%) Social Media
8 88 (2.10%) EPoS
9 87 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 82 (1.96%) Cloud Native
11 79 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
12 75 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 68 (1.62%) Photography
14 65 (1.55%) Mobile App
15 60 (1.43%) Data Centre
16 49 (1.17%) Algorithms
17 39 (0.93%) Blog
17 39 (0.93%) Data Structures
18 37 (0.88%) NHS
19 32 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 300 (7.16%) Windows
2 109 (2.60%) Linux
3 100 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 50 (1.19%) Windows 10
5 49 (1.17%) VMS
6 41 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 23 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.52%) Android
9 21 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.38%) Unix
11 16 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.31%) Windows 7
13 11 (0.26%) Windows 8
14 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.19%) AIX
17 5 (0.12%) CentOS
18 3 (0.072%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 993 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
2 752 (17.94%) Agile
3 528 (12.60%) Customer Service
4 491 (11.72%) E-Commerce
5 454 (10.83%) Analytics
6 448 (10.69%) Project Management
7 380 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
8 373 (8.90%) Roadmaps
9 372 (8.88%) Decision-Making
10 266 (6.35%) Mentoring
11 258 (6.16%) Coaching
12 252 (6.01%) Data Analysis
13 248 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 235 (5.61%) Stakeholder Management
15 232 (5.54%) Change Management
15 232 (5.54%) Logistics
16 226 (5.39%) ERP
17 222 (5.30%) Visualisation
18 217 (5.18%) Machine Learning
18 217 (5.18%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 682 (16.27%) SQL
2 339 (8.09%) Python
3 262 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 214 (5.11%) C#
5 129 (3.08%) PHP
6 124 (2.96%) TypeScript
7 97 (2.31%) Java
8 59 (1.41%) R
9 46 (1.10%) PowerShell
10 41 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 40 (0.95%) VBA
12 34 (0.81%) Go
13 33 (0.79%) C
14 32 (0.76%) MATLAB
15 31 (0.74%) VB.NET
16 24 (0.57%) Bash
17 22 (0.52%) VB
18 21 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 21 (0.50%) Ruby
19 11 (0.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 906 (21.62%) Degree
2 450 (10.74%) DBS Check
3 129 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 110 (2.62%) PMI Certification
5 66 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 51 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.19%) ACCA
10 48 (1.15%) SC Cleared
11 47 (1.12%) HNC
12 42 (1.00%) CIMA
12 42 (1.00%) CISSP
13 41 (0.98%) CCNP
14 35 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (0.60%) CCNA
16 24 (0.57%) AWS Certification
17 21 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
17 21 (0.50%) HND
18 19 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (4.01%) QA
2 98 (2.34%) SLA
3 82 (1.96%) GDPR
4 58 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 52 (1.24%) PMO
6 48 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (1.00%) NIST
8 36 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.67%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.60%) ISO 9001
11 16 (0.38%) IFRS
12 14 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.31%) IFRS 9
14 11 (0.26%) CRD IV
14 11 (0.26%) ISO 14000
15 8 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.17%) ISO 14001
16 7 (0.17%) ISO 22301
16 7 (0.17%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 212 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 102 (2.43%) Docker
3 51 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 22 (0.52%) Firmware
6 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.095%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.072%) KVM
10 3 (0.072%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) LXC
11 1 (0.024%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) vSphere
11 1 (0.024%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 123 (2.93%) Terraform
2 113 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.36%) Ansible
4 39 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.60%) Grafana
6 19 (0.45%) SCCM
7 17 (0.41%) Puppet
8 14 (0.33%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.21%) CASB
11 8 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (0.19%) SCOM
12 5 (0.12%) AirWatch
12 5 (0.12%) Kibana
12 5 (0.12%) logstash
13 4 (0.095%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 4 (0.095%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.095%) WSUS
14 3 (0.072%) Consul
14 3 (0.072%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 882 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 162 (3.87%) Google
3 134 (3.20%) SAP
4 120 (2.86%) Databricks
5 93 (2.22%) Adobe
6 71 (1.69%) Oracle
7 69 (1.65%) VMware
8 66 (1.57%) Virgin Media
9 65 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 59 (1.41%) Cisco
11 46 (1.10%) NEC
12 40 (0.95%) IBM
13 31 (0.74%) Dell
14 28 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.64%) HP
15 27 (0.64%) Northgate
16 25 (0.60%) Apple
17 23 (0.55%) Citrix
18 18 (0.43%) Epicor
18 18 (0.43%) ServiceNow