Retail Jobs in Berkshire

Retailing
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 78 94
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 -25
Permanent jobs citing Retail 82 93 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.97% 2.88% 3.27%
As % of the General category 6.52% 6.25% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 39 67 48
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £28,853
25th Percentile £62,000 £38,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £47,500 £46,581
Median % change year-on-year +73.68% +1.97% -25.77%
75th Percentile £83,750 £55,000 £70,313
90th Percentile - £65,250 £74,125
South East median annual salary £36,750 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.33% -18.18% +8.91%

All General Skills
Berkshire

Retail falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,257 1,487 1,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 76.23% 46.09% 64.81%
Number of salaries quoted 335 860 882
10th Percentile £28,100 £27,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,375 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.63% -9.91%
75th Percentile £76,875 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £76,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Berkshire

Retail
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Retail in Berkshire

Retail
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in Berkshire

Retail
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Reading +47 21 £82,500 +83.33% 32
Slough -17 21 £28,000 -46.67% 15
Maidenhead - 17 £60,000 - 5
Windsor -19 11 - -
Ascot - 10 £82,500 -
Retail
South East

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (1.22%) Apache
1 1 (1.22%) IIS
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (43.90%) Azure
2 24 (29.27%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (25.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 21 (25.61%) Azure Service Bus
3 21 (25.61%) SonarCloud
4 15 (18.29%) Vertex AI
5 12 (14.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (14.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (10.98%) GCP
7 8 (9.76%) Salsify
8 5 (6.10%) SaaS
9 4 (4.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (2.44%) AWS
10 2 (2.44%) IaaS
11 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.22%) PaaS
11 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.44%) DMZ
1 2 (2.44%) DWDM
1 2 (2.44%) Firewall
1 2 (2.44%) Internet
1 2 (2.44%) LAN
1 2 (2.44%) MPLS
1 2 (2.44%) SD-WAN
1 2 (2.44%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (2.44%) VPN
1 2 (2.44%) WAN
1 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (29.27%) Data Mining
2 21 (25.61%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (9.76%) Metadata
4 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.22%) DB2
6 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (28.05%) Visual Studio
2 21 (25.61%) Git
2 21 (25.61%) MSBuild
2 21 (25.61%) Octopus Deploy
2 21 (25.61%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 49 (59.76%) Social Skills
2 42 (51.22%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (46.34%) Law
4 10 (12.20%) Marketing
5 8 (9.76%) Legal
6 7 (8.54%) Finance
7 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (42.68%) Lead
2 33 (40.24%) Senior
3 22 (26.83%) Architect
3 22 (26.83%) Technical Architect
4 8 (9.76%) Senior Manager
5 4 (4.88%) IT Support
6 3 (3.66%) Change Manager
6 3 (3.66%) Data Science Leader
6 3 (3.66%) Project Change Manager
7 2 (2.44%) Business Development Manager
7 2 (2.44%) Business Manager
7 2 (2.44%) Consultant
7 2 (2.44%) Developer
7 2 (2.44%) Development Manager
7 2 (2.44%) Online Development Manager
7 2 (2.44%) Product Lead
8 1 (1.22%) Analyst
8 1 (1.22%) Senior Developer
8 1 (1.22%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.05%) .NET
1 23 (28.05%) ASP.NET
2 21 (25.61%) Bootstrap
2 21 (25.61%) CSS
2 21 (25.61%) gRPC
2 21 (25.61%) HTML
2 21 (25.61%) JSON
2 21 (25.61%) REST
2 21 (25.61%) XML
3 2 (2.44%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.22%) Middleware
4 1 (1.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (34.15%) Algorithms
2 8 (9.76%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.76%) Taxonomies
3 7 (8.54%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.32%) FMCG
5 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.22%) EPoS
7 1 (1.22%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.22%) AIX
1 1 (1.22%) Linux
1 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.95%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (64.63%) DevOps
3 39 (47.56%) Agile
4 38 (46.34%) Analytics
5 37 (45.12%) Roadmaps
6 35 (42.68%) Artificial Intelligence
6 35 (42.68%) Strategic Thinking
7 30 (36.59%) Data Science
7 30 (36.59%) Machine Learning
8 27 (32.93%) Commercialisation
8 27 (32.93%) Customer-Centricity
8 27 (32.93%) Data Engineering
8 27 (32.93%) MLOps
8 27 (32.93%) Natural Language Processing
8 27 (32.93%) Product Management
8 27 (32.93%) Time Series Analysis
9 25 (30.49%) Statistical Analysis
9 25 (30.49%) Visualisation
10 24 (29.27%) Incident Management
10 24 (29.27%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.71%) SQL
2 23 (28.05%) C#
2 23 (28.05%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.22%) Java
3 1 (1.22%) Python
3 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (3.66%) Degree
2 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.44%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.22%) CCNA
3 1 (1.22%) CCNP
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (26.83%) GDPR
2 9 (10.98%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.88%) SLA
4 3 (3.66%) GRC
5 1 (1.22%) QA
5 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (26.83%) Docker
Vendors
1 36 (43.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.29%) Google
2 15 (18.29%) OpenAI
3 12 (14.63%) Databricks
4 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.66%) Infor
5 3 (3.66%) Oracle
5 3 (3.66%) SAP
6 2 (2.44%) IBM
7 1 (1.22%) Adobe
7 1 (1.22%) Red Hat