Retail Jobs in the South East

Retailing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 71 81
Rank change year-on-year +19 +10 +39
Permanent jobs citing Retail 687 622 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.14% 4.12% 4.13%
As % of the General category 7.32% 6.43% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 363 332 507
10th Percentile £24,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,438 £37,344 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,175 £82,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £58,135
% change year-on-year -20.83% +3.21% +1.10%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,383 9,680 11,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 56.51% 64.20% 58.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,025 4,662 6,557
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,713 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +4.35%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the South East

Retail
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Retail in the South East

Retail
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in the South East

Retail
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley +9 229 £45,000 -10.00% 132
Surrey +15 161 £47,500 -17.39% 48
Buckinghamshire +5 109 £42,500 -15.00% 61
Berkshire +21 89 £47,500 -20.83% 48
East Sussex +57 80 £47,500 -13.64% 22
Hampshire -35 78 £47,500 -13.64% 61
Kent -9 76 £47,500 -13.64% 34
West Sussex +33 46 £35,000 -30.00% 17
Oxfordshire +1 31 £45,000 -18.18% 23
Sussex - 9 £45,000 -
Home Counties +14 1 - -
Middlesex -10 1 £24,000 -76.00%
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 49 (7.13%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.31%) CMS
2 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.02%) Confluence
4 3 (0.44%) WordPress
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 117 (17.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (12.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 62 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.02%) Simulink
5 7 (1.02%) Stateflow
6 6 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.73%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.58%) SPSS
9 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.29%) InDesign
9 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.29%) Sketch
10 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.58%) Magento
2 4 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.58%) Shopify
3 3 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.29%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 127 (18.49%) Azure
2 59 (8.59%) Power Platform
3 57 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (3.64%) AWS
5 17 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 10 (1.46%) OneDrive
7 10 (1.46%) PowerApps
8 7 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.02%) SaaS
9 6 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (0.87%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.73%) Google Analytics
10 5 (0.73%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.58%) Google Ads
11 4 (0.58%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.44%) GitHub
13 2 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.09%) Intranet
2 11 (1.60%) Firewall
3 7 (1.02%) J1939
4 6 (0.87%) HTTP
5 5 (0.73%) FTP
6 3 (0.44%) LAN
6 3 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.44%) WAN
7 2 (0.29%) 4G
7 2 (0.29%) Network Security
7 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (8.15%) Power BI
2 54 (7.86%) SQL Server
3 35 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (2.47%) MongoDB
6 16 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.89%) Tableau
9 8 (1.16%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.73%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.58%) Big Data
12 4 (0.58%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.58%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
14 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.29%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 34 (4.95%) JIRA
2 14 (2.04%) Git
3 9 (1.31%) Selenium
4 6 (0.87%) Cucumber
4 6 (0.87%) JBehave
4 6 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.87%) SpecFlow
4 6 (0.87%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.58%) ClearCase
5 4 (0.58%) Plastic SCM
6 3 (0.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Continuum
7 2 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 343 (49.93%) Social Skills
2 182 (26.49%) Analytical Skills
3 177 (25.76%) Finance
4 81 (11.79%) German Language
5 73 (10.63%) Marketing
6 49 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (4.37%) Legal
8 28 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
9 27 (3.93%) Public Sector
10 18 (2.62%) Advertising
10 18 (2.62%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.47%) Automotive
11 17 (2.47%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.75%) Law
13 11 (1.60%) Games
13 11 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.46%) Police
15 9 (1.31%) Electronics
15 9 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.16%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 96 (13.97%) Graduate
2 63 (9.17%) Developer
3 58 (8.44%) Analyst
4 47 (6.84%) Senior
5 46 (6.70%) Administrator
6 42 (6.11%) Consultant
7 37 (5.39%) IT Administrator
8 35 (5.09%) Architect
9 26 (3.78%) Project Manager
9 26 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 20 (2.91%) CCTV Operator
12 19 (2.77%) Lead
13 18 (2.62%) .NET Developer
14 16 (2.33%) Trainee
15 15 (2.18%) IT Manager
16 14 (2.04%) Business Analyst
16 14 (2.04%) Trainee Operator
17 13 (1.89%) Support Technician
18 12 (1.75%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (7.86%) .NET
2 35 (5.09%) .NET Core
3 33 (4.80%) ASP.NET
4 26 (3.78%) .NET Framework
5 25 (3.64%) Entity Framework
6 21 (3.06%) CSS
6 21 (3.06%) React
7 19 (2.77%) AngularJS
7 19 (2.77%) ASP.NET MVC
8 18 (2.62%) ASP.NET Web API
9 16 (2.33%) Node.js
9 16 (2.33%) Vue
10 13 (1.89%) HTML
10 13 (1.89%) Web Services
11 8 (1.16%) JSON
12 7 (1.02%) XML
13 6 (0.87%) EDI
13 6 (0.87%) Gherkin
13 6 (0.87%) RESTful
14 5 (0.73%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 114 (16.59%) Self-Motivation
2 68 (9.90%) Driving Licence
3 36 (5.24%) Management Information System
4 34 (4.95%) PMI
5 22 (3.20%) Social Media
6 21 (3.06%) CCTV
6 21 (3.06%) Cloud Native
7 20 (2.91%) FMCG
7 20 (2.91%) Photography
8 18 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (2.18%) EPoS
10 15 (2.18%) Product Ownership
11 14 (2.04%) Low-Code
11 14 (2.04%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.89%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.16%) Graphic Design
15 7 (1.02%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.87%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.55%) Windows
2 16 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.46%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.16%) Android
4 8 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.58%) VMS
6 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.44%) Windows NT
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
2 120 (17.47%) Customer Service
3 112 (16.30%) Agile
4 93 (13.54%) Project Management
5 71 (10.33%) Customer Insight
6 70 (10.19%) Decision-Making
7 69 (10.04%) Business Intelligence
8 65 (9.46%) Roadmaps
9 47 (6.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (6.70%) DevOps
11 45 (6.55%) E-Commerce
12 42 (6.11%) Data Science
13 38 (5.53%) Analytics
14 35 (5.09%) CI/CD
15 34 (4.95%) Agile Project Management
15 34 (4.95%) Machine Learning
15 34 (4.95%) Microservices
16 31 (4.51%) Artificial Intelligence
16 31 (4.51%) Migration
17 28 (4.08%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 90 (13.10%) SQL
2 45 (6.55%) C#
3 36 (5.24%) JavaScript
4 26 (3.78%) Python
5 19 (2.77%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.04%) C
7 8 (1.16%) VBA
8 7 (1.02%) MATLAB
8 7 (1.02%) PHP
9 6 (0.87%) VB.NET
10 5 (0.73%) Embedded C
10 5 (0.73%) R
11 4 (0.58%) ActionScript
11 4 (0.58%) ActionScript 2.0
11 4 (0.58%) C++
11 4 (0.58%) Java
11 4 (0.58%) Perl
11 4 (0.58%) VB
11 4 (0.58%) VBScript
12 3 (0.44%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 187 (27.22%) Degree
2 118 (17.18%) DBS Check
3 35 (5.09%) PMI Certification
4 10 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.31%) Security Cleared
6 6 (0.87%) SC Cleared
7 5 (0.73%) MCP
7 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.58%) CISSP
8 4 (0.58%) HND
9 3 (0.44%) CCNA
9 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.44%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.44%) GCIA
9 3 (0.44%) HNC
10 2 (0.29%) CCNP
10 2 (0.29%) CRISC
10 2 (0.29%) GIAC
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.53%) QA
2 29 (4.22%) GDPR
3 16 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.60%) ISO 9001
4 11 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.02%) Automotive SPICE
5 7 (1.02%) ISO 14001
5 7 (1.02%) ISO 22301
5 7 (1.02%) ISO 26262
5 7 (1.02%) NEBOSH
6 4 (0.58%) AUTOSAR
6 4 (0.58%) GRC
6 4 (0.58%) MISRA
6 4 (0.58%) SLA
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.29%) COBIT
8 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.29%) NCSC
8 2 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
4 2 (0.29%) Docker
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.44%) Functional Safety
2 3 (0.44%) SCCM
2 3 (0.44%) Sysprep
2 3 (0.44%) WSUS
3 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 212 (30.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (2.33%) Adobe
3 15 (2.18%) Salesforce
4 14 (2.04%) SAP
5 12 (1.75%) Google
6 9 (1.31%) Facebook
6 9 (1.31%) Instagram
7 8 (1.16%) Oracle
8 7 (1.02%) Infor
8 7 (1.02%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.02%) WooCommerce
9 6 (0.87%) Cognos
9 6 (0.87%) Thales
10 5 (0.73%) Citrix
10 5 (0.73%) Datto
10 5 (0.73%) IBM
10 5 (0.73%) Sophos
10 5 (0.73%) WatchGuard
11 4 (0.58%) Avaya
11 4 (0.58%) Lauterbach