Retail Job Trends in Bristol

Retailing
South West > Bristol

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 66 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 -40 +27
Permanent jobs citing Retail 26 41 139
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.30% 2.84% 8.44%
As % of the General category 3.05% 4.97% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 13 33 110
10th Percentile £26,150 - £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,507 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +12.81% -28.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £90,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,750 - £91,934
South West median annual salary £34,000 £51,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +10.87% -3.20%

All General Skills
Bristol

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 general skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 853 825 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 42.63% 57.05% 61.45%
Number of salaries quoted 650 456 805
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £35,850
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -7.65% +8.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £92,274
South West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Retail job vacancy trend in Bristol

Retail
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Retail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Retail

Retail
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in Bristol over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in Bristol

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Chatbot
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) SAP APO
1 3 (11.54%) SAP IBP
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.85%) SAP EWM
2 1 (3.85%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (3.85%) dbt
3 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.85%) Fivetran
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.85%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (3.85%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
1 4 (15.38%) Tableau
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Looker
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Electronics
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Trainer
2 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Developer
3 2 (7.69%) EPoS Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) EPoS Field Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Field Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Backend Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Business Development Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Business Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Development Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (3.85%) Installations Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.85%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) .NET
1 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
1 1 (3.85%) Hugging Face
1 1 (3.85%) NumPy
1 1 (3.85%) Pandas
1 1 (3.85%) React
1 1 (3.85%) Redux
1 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) FMCG
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) CCTV
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) EPoS
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Media
4 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Customer Service
2 8 (30.77%) AI
3 7 (26.92%) Conversational UI
4 5 (19.23%) Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) Budgeting
6 3 (11.54%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (11.54%) Customer-Centricity
6 3 (11.54%) Data Interpretation
6 3 (11.54%) Inventory Management
6 3 (11.54%) Logistics
6 3 (11.54%) Network Design
6 3 (11.54%) Network Optimisation
6 3 (11.54%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.69%) Event-Driven
7 2 (7.69%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) C#
2 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) PayPal
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) Talend
4 1 (3.85%) Zoho