Retail Jobs in the UK excluding London

Retailing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 43 54
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +42
Permanent jobs citing Retail 3,199 3,849 3,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.51% 6.39% 5.07%
As % of the General category 7.86% 9.30% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 1,944 2,097
10th Percentile £25,438 £31,569 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,534 £77,512
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,700 41,380 42,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.36% 68.67% 60.02%
Number of salaries quoted 26,450 18,780 24,155
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -18 839 £45,000 -18.18% 477
Midlands +57 722 £41,000 -25.45% 329
South East +15 704 £45,000 -18.18% 359
North West +10 515 £45,000 -18.18% 275
East of England +46 379 £48,000 -12.73% 176
South West -24 379 £47,500 -13.45% 182
East Midlands +53 360 £37,500 -31.82% 165
West Midlands +46 357 £45,000 -14.37% 164
Yorkshire -33 237 £47,000 -21.67% 164
Scotland -140 89 £46,250 -22.92% 72
North East -12 87 £41,600 -24.36% 47
Wales -19 59 £37,000 -17.78% 38
Northern Ireland +52 35 £28,000 -30.00% 9
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
1 128 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (0.91%) Confluence
3 29 (0.91%) SAS
4 28 (0.88%) CMS
5 21 (0.66%) Apache
6 20 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.53%) WordPress
8 9 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 8 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 8 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.16%) Office Communications Server
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.094%) IIS
13 2 (0.063%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.031%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.031%) Tomcat
Applications
1 365 (11.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 234 (7.31%) Microsoft Office
3 181 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.06%) Photoshop
5 29 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
7 27 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 22 (0.69%) Simulink
9 21 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
10 17 (0.53%) Trello
11 15 (0.47%) AutoCAD
12 14 (0.44%) InDesign
13 7 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
13 7 (0.22%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
13 7 (0.22%) Stateflow
14 6 (0.19%) SPSS
15 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
16 4 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
16 4 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (1.38%) Shopify
2 43 (1.34%) Magento
3 28 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
4 23 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
5 16 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
6 15 (0.47%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.44%) Epicor Tropos
8 10 (0.31%) Misys Midas
9 9 (0.28%) SAP BPC
10 8 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.22%) SAP WM
12 6 (0.19%) ResourceLink
12 6 (0.19%) SAP MM
13 5 (0.16%) NEC Housing
13 5 (0.16%) SAP FI
13 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
13 5 (0.16%) SAP SD
14 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 491 (15.35%) Azure
2 275 (8.60%) Power Platform
3 219 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
4 205 (6.41%) AWS
5 94 (2.94%) SaaS
6 80 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (2.34%) GCP
8 64 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (1.00%) Entra ID
10 31 (0.97%) Power Automate
11 26 (0.81%) GitHub
12 24 (0.75%) PowerApps
13 22 (0.69%) WhatsApp
14 21 (0.66%) Serverless
15 19 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (0.56%) Google Analytics
17 17 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (0.53%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 79 (2.47%) Firewall
2 70 (2.19%) WAN
3 67 (2.09%) LAN
4 63 (1.97%) Internet
4 63 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
5 59 (1.84%) Intranet
6 52 (1.63%) Broadband
7 37 (1.16%) Wireless
8 25 (0.78%) Network Security
9 24 (0.75%) VPN
10 22 (0.69%) TCP/IP
11 21 (0.66%) DNS
11 21 (0.66%) SD-WAN
12 20 (0.63%) VoIP
13 18 (0.56%) WLAN
14 15 (0.47%) VLAN
15 13 (0.41%) DHCP
16 11 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
17 10 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
18 9 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (7.85%) Power BI
2 242 (7.56%) SQL Server
3 151 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
4 110 (3.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 75 (2.34%) MySQL
6 61 (1.91%) Tableau
7 40 (1.25%) MongoDB
8 37 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (0.91%) Big Data
10 29 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 26 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (0.75%) Data Lake
13 22 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (0.59%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.53%) DynamoDB
16 16 (0.50%) NoSQL
17 15 (0.47%) Redis
18 13 (0.41%) Oracle BI EE
18 13 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 114 (3.56%) Git
2 82 (2.56%) JIRA
3 31 (0.97%) Visual Studio
4 29 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 28 (0.88%) GitLab
6 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
6 10 (0.31%) JBehave
6 10 (0.31%) JMeter
6 10 (0.31%) Selenium
6 10 (0.31%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.25%) webpack
8 7 (0.22%) gulp
8 7 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.19%) JUnit
9 6 (0.19%) Subversion
9 6 (0.19%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.16%) IntelliJ
General
1 1,262 (39.45%) Social Skills
2 895 (27.98%) Finance
3 682 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (8.32%) Marketing
5 175 (5.47%) Legal
6 171 (5.35%) Manufacturing
7 150 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 141 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
8 141 (4.41%) Public Sector
9 121 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
10 117 (3.66%) Banking
11 107 (3.34%) Telecoms
12 95 (2.97%) German Language
13 70 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
14 61 (1.91%) Billing
15 41 (1.28%) Automotive
16 39 (1.22%) Law
16 39 (1.22%) Local Government
17 35 (1.09%) Games
17 35 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 555 (17.35%) Analyst
2 365 (11.41%) Senior
3 358 (11.19%) Developer
4 181 (5.66%) Project Manager
5 165 (5.16%) Lead
6 163 (5.10%) Architect
6 163 (5.10%) Consultant
7 145 (4.53%) Business Analyst
8 112 (3.50%) Graduate
9 105 (3.28%) IT Manager
10 93 (2.91%) Administrator
11 88 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
12 82 (2.56%) Software Engineer
13 80 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 78 (2.44%) Principal Business Analyst
15 77 (2.41%) Senior Developer
16 72 (2.25%) Data Analyst
17 71 (2.22%) .NET Developer
18 64 (2.00%) IT Analyst
18 64 (2.00%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (5.72%) .NET
2 160 (5.00%) HTML
3 152 (4.75%) CSS
4 107 (3.34%) React
5 91 (2.84%) .NET Core
6 71 (2.22%) ASP.NET
7 70 (2.19%) Vue
8 63 (1.97%) AngularJS
9 59 (1.84%) Web Services
10 53 (1.66%) Node.js
11 52 (1.63%) .NET Framework
11 52 (1.63%) ASP.NET Web API
12 49 (1.53%) REST
13 44 (1.38%) Entity Framework
14 43 (1.34%) JSON
14 43 (1.34%) RESTful
15 41 (1.28%) XML
16 39 (1.22%) Laravel
17 30 (0.94%) ASP.NET MVC
18 25 (0.78%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 278 (8.69%) Self-Motivation
2 195 (6.10%) Driving Licence
3 116 (3.63%) Management Information System
4 91 (2.84%) FMCG
5 85 (2.66%) EPoS
6 84 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 79 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 73 (2.28%) PMI
9 64 (2.00%) Onboarding
10 59 (1.84%) Cloud Native
11 55 (1.72%) Mobile App
12 48 (1.50%) Data Centre
13 40 (1.25%) Social Media
14 34 (1.06%) Algorithms
15 30 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
15 30 (0.94%) NHS
16 28 (0.88%) CCTV
16 28 (0.88%) Credit Risk
16 28 (0.88%) Smartphone
17 27 (0.84%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 241 (7.53%) Windows
2 94 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 71 (2.22%) Linux
4 41 (1.28%) Windows 10
5 22 (0.69%) Android
6 21 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (0.41%) Unix
9 13 (0.41%) Windows 7
9 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.34%) Windows 8
11 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (0.25%) AIX
14 7 (0.22%) VMS
15 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.16%) CentOS
17 4 (0.13%) Ubuntu
18 3 (0.094%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
2 616 (19.26%) Agile
3 476 (14.88%) Customer Service
4 377 (11.78%) E-Commerce
5 369 (11.53%) Project Management
6 319 (9.97%) Decision-Making
7 291 (9.10%) Business Intelligence
8 286 (8.94%) Analytics
8 286 (8.94%) Roadmaps
9 248 (7.75%) Coaching
10 224 (7.00%) Mentoring
11 217 (6.78%) Change Management
12 213 (6.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 201 (6.28%) ERP
14 193 (6.03%) Logistics
15 172 (5.38%) DevOps
16 169 (5.28%) Project Delivery
17 167 (5.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 158 (4.94%) Time Management
19 150 (4.69%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 487 (15.22%) SQL
2 231 (7.22%) JavaScript
3 188 (5.88%) C#
4 186 (5.81%) Python
5 131 (4.10%) PHP
6 108 (3.38%) TypeScript
7 66 (2.06%) Java
8 52 (1.63%) R
9 39 (1.22%) VBA
10 38 (1.19%) PowerShell
11 35 (1.09%) T-SQL
12 34 (1.06%) C
13 32 (1.00%) MATLAB
14 30 (0.94%) VB.NET
15 22 (0.69%) VB
16 21 (0.66%) Go
16 21 (0.66%) Ruby
17 19 (0.59%) Bash
18 15 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 9 (0.28%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 534 (16.69%) Degree
2 208 (6.50%) DBS Check
3 85 (2.66%) Security Cleared
4 81 (2.53%) PMI Certification
5 49 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (1.50%) CIMA
6 48 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (1.47%) ACCA
8 43 (1.34%) HNC
9 42 (1.31%) CCNP
10 37 (1.16%) CISSP
10 37 (1.16%) SC Cleared
11 33 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 30 (0.94%) DV Cleared
12 30 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (0.81%) CCNA
14 23 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (0.69%) HND
16 21 (0.66%) AWS Certification
17 18 (0.56%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (4.35%) QA
2 92 (2.88%) SLA
3 72 (2.25%) GDPR
4 45 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 44 (1.38%) PMO
6 40 (1.25%) NIST
7 31 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.59%) IFRS
8 19 (0.59%) IFRS 9
9 17 (0.53%) CRD IV
9 17 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 15 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 8 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.22%) ISO 14000
13 7 (0.22%) ISO 14001
13 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 7 (0.22%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 157 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.56%) Docker
3 48 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.84%) Firmware
6 13 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.13%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.094%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.063%) KVM
11 1 (0.031%) IAG
11 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (2.34%) Kubernetes
2 56 (1.75%) Terraform
3 34 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 20 (0.63%) Ansible
6 18 (0.56%) Puppet
7 13 (0.41%) Grafana
8 11 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.34%) SCCM
9 9 (0.28%) CASB
10 8 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.25%) SCOM
11 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.16%) Kibana
12 4 (0.13%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.094%) Functional Safety
13 3 (0.094%) SELinux
13 3 (0.094%) Sysprep
13 3 (0.094%) WhatsUp Gold
13 3 (0.094%) WSUS
Vendors
1 773 (24.16%) Microsoft
2 119 (3.72%) Google
3 96 (3.00%) SAP
4 66 (2.06%) Virgin Media
4 66 (2.06%) VMware
5 59 (1.84%) Oracle
6 57 (1.78%) Adobe
6 57 (1.78%) Cisco
7 46 (1.44%) NEC
8 45 (1.41%) IBM
9 41 (1.28%) Salesforce
10 34 (1.06%) Dell
11 31 (0.97%) Databricks
12 29 (0.91%) HP
13 27 (0.84%) Northgate
14 24 (0.75%) Citrix
14 24 (0.75%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.69%) NetApp
16 18 (0.56%) Epicor
16 18 (0.56%) Openreach