Retail Jobs in Blackburn

Retailing
Lancashire > Blackburn

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Blackburn. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Retail 18 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 6.36% 10.00% 8.00%
As % of the General category 9.47% 15.38% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 18 10 2
10th Percentile £35,350 - £53,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £22,489 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £23,076 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +105.84% -60.72% +46.88%
75th Percentile £53,060 £23,538 £64,063
90th Percentile £61,400 £57,000 £64,625
Lancashire median annual salary £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% +3.26%

All General Skills
Blackburn

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 Blackburn.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 190 65 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 67.14% 65.00% 88.00%
Number of salaries quoted 153 53 16
10th Percentile £47,537 £22,489 £30,125
25th Percentile £48,869 £24,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.01% -35.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £54,793 £48,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £58,943 £55,000 £63,125
Lancashire median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.38% +5.56% -1.07%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackburn

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Blackburn

Retail
Salary Trend in Blackburn

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

Salary trend for Retail in Blackburn

Retail
Salary Histogram in Blackburn

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in Blackburn over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in Blackburn

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackburn 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DHCP
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
1 3 (16.67%) IPv4
1 3 (16.67%) LAN
1 3 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Power BI
2 5 (27.78%) Big Data
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 4 (22.22%) Test Leader
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) SAP Manager
6 1 (5.56%) SAP Test Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (38.89%) Data Science
3 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
5 4 (22.22%) Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) IT Audit
6 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
6 3 (16.67%) Coaching
6 3 (16.67%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
7 2 (11.11%) Mathematics
7 2 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Statistics
7 2 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
3 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ITGC
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 3 (16.67%) Veeam
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) SAP