Retail Jobs in Central London

Retailing
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Central London. 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 67 58 101
Rank change year-on-year -9 +43 -44
Permanent jobs citing Retail 100 153 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 4.17% 4.05% 3.02%
As % of the General category 5.80% 6.51% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 54 80 100
10th Percentile - £36,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,063 £43,456
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% +5.45% -21.43%
75th Percentile £81,875 £86,563 £86,250
90th Percentile £101,375 £98,150 £95,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £61,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +14.75% -10.29% +0.74%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,725 2,351 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 71.88% 62.18% 65.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,108 1,747 2,633
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,873
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,975 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,037 £73,500
% change year-on-year +7.09% -4.71% +5.00%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Central London

Retail
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Retail in Central London

Retail
Salary Histogram in Central London

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

Salary histogram for Retail in Central London

Retail
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Central London 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
City of London +19 84 £70,000 +12.00% 45
City of Westminster -8 16 £62,500 -13.79% 1
West End of London -6 8 - - 10
Southwark - 4 £75,000 -
Camden -12 3 £65,000 +153.48% 1
Lambeth +4 1 £80,000 +45.45%
Retail
London

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 16 (16.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.00%) CMS
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.00%) CoreMedia CMS
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (3.00%) SAP Business One
3 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.00%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.00%) AWS
2 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.00%) SaaS
4 3 (3.00%) Azure
4 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.00%) Amazon Ads
5 2 (2.00%) dbt
5 2 (2.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.00%) GCP
6 1 (1.00%) GitHub
6 1 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.00%) PaaS
6 1 (1.00%) Serverless
6 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.00%) HTTP
2 2 (2.00%) WAN
2 2 (2.00%) Wireless
3 1 (1.00%) DHCP
3 1 (1.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.00%) Tableau
2 5 (5.00%) Power BI
3 3 (3.00%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.00%) Metadata
4 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (14.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) JUnit
3 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 69 (69.00%) Finance
2 47 (47.00%) Social Skills
3 29 (29.00%) Games
4 27 (27.00%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (27.00%) Telecoms
5 17 (17.00%) Advertising
5 17 (17.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (16.00%) Marketing
7 12 (12.00%) Manufacturing
8 11 (11.00%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (9.00%) Banking
10 3 (3.00%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (2.00%) Billing
11 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.00%) Local Government
11 2 (2.00%) Multimedia
12 1 (1.00%) Automotive
12 1 (1.00%) Back Office
12 1 (1.00%) Law
12 1 (1.00%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 52 (52.00%) Senior
2 25 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 22 (22.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (16.00%) Analyst
5 15 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
6 13 (13.00%) Data Analyst
6 13 (13.00%) Senior Data Analyst
7 11 (11.00%) Risk Manager
7 11 (11.00%) Technology Risk Manager
8 8 (8.00%) Developer
9 6 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) AWS Software Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Business Developer
10 3 (3.00%) Head of Delivery
10 3 (3.00%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.00%) SAP Business One Developer
10 3 (3.00%) SAP Developer
10 3 (3.00%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.00%) Kafka
2 8 (8.00%) Node.js
3 7 (7.00%) REST
4 6 (6.00%) Web Services
5 4 (4.00%) CSS
5 4 (4.00%) HTML
6 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.00%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.00%) CSS3
7 1 (1.00%) Express.js
7 1 (1.00%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.00%) HTML5
7 1 (1.00%) MEAN Stack
7 1 (1.00%) NumPy
7 1 (1.00%) Pandas
7 1 (1.00%) React
7 1 (1.00%) React Native
7 1 (1.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.00%) Blockchain
1 23 (23.00%) Robotics
2 16 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (12.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.00%) EPoS
6 1 (1.00%) Equities
6 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) Linux
1 1 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.00%) Agile
2 41 (41.00%) Analytics
3 30 (30.00%) Mentoring
3 30 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (29.00%) Software Engineering
5 27 (27.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 27 (27.00%) Coaching
6 24 (24.00%) Computer Science
6 24 (24.00%) Creative Thinking
6 24 (24.00%) Data Analytics
7 23 (23.00%) Robotic Process Automation
8 16 (16.00%) Machine Learning
8 16 (16.00%) Performance Metrics
8 16 (16.00%) Programmatic Advertising
9 14 (14.00%) ERP
9 14 (14.00%) Information Security
9 14 (14.00%) Project Delivery
9 14 (14.00%) Risk Management
10 13 (13.00%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (13.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.00%) Python
2 23 (23.00%) SQL
3 16 (16.00%) Scala
4 8 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.00%) Java
7 3 (3.00%) VBA
8 1 (1.00%) C#
8 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (40.00%) Degree
2 13 (13.00%) DBS Check
3 12 (12.00%) CISA
3 12 (12.00%) ISACA
4 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.00%) PMP
6 2 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.00%) CCSP
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.00%) CISM
6 2 (2.00%) CISSP
6 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.00%) ITGC
2 4 (4.00%) QA
3 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.00%) NIST
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.00%) Docker
1 1 (1.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.00%) RSA Archer
2 1 (1.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.00%) Google
3 16 (16.00%) Apple
4 15 (15.00%) SAP
5 13 (13.00%) Databricks
6 12 (12.00%) Oracle
7 6 (6.00%) Ping Identity
8 3 (3.00%) Alteryx
8 3 (3.00%) Anaplan
9 2 (2.00%) Criteo
9 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.00%) Citrix
10 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow