Retail Jobs in Cheshire

Retailing
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 39 16 28
Rank change year-on-year -23 +12 +1
Permanent jobs citing Retail 62 154 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.88% 9.36% 8.41%
As % of the General category 9.25% 17.82% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13 78 55
10th Percentile - £22,750 £30,178
25th Percentile £36,250 £23,273 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -28.57% +16.40%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
North West median annual salary £45,750 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 670 864 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.13% 52.49% 69.89%
Number of salaries quoted 215 576 313
10th Percentile - £23,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £29,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £48,528 £58,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,950 £71,582 £87,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +3.02%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Cheshire

Retail
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Retail in Cheshire

Retail
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

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

Salary histogram for Retail in Cheshire

Retail
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Cheshire 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
Neston - 16 £50,000 -
Macclesfield +6 5 £37,500 -25.00% 2
Warrington -20 4 £55,000 +116.37% 13
Chester -1 3 £45,000 +20.00% 3
Runcorn -1 2 - - 1
Widnes -3 2 - - 2
Ellesmere Port -5 2 - - 3
Northwich - 2 - -
Wilmslow - 2 - - 2
Crewe - 2 - - 3
Knutsford +8 1 - - 2
Congleton - 1 - -
Middlewich - 1 - -
Sandbach - 1 - -
Winsford - 1 - -
Retail
North West

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.61%) GNU Octave
1 1 (1.61%) InDesign
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (59.68%) AWS
1 37 (59.68%) Azure
2 3 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (4.84%) Power Automate
2 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
2 3 (4.84%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (54.84%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (54.84%) Bitbucket
1 34 (54.84%) Cucumber
1 34 (54.84%) GitLab
1 34 (54.84%) JIRA
1 34 (54.84%) Maven
1 34 (54.84%) Selenium
1 34 (54.84%) SonarQube
1 34 (54.84%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (58.06%) Finance
2 34 (54.84%) Banking
2 34 (54.84%) Corporate Banking
2 34 (54.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (54.84%) Investment Banking
3 18 (29.03%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.45%) Dutch Language
4 4 (6.45%) Finnish Language
4 4 (6.45%) Marketing
4 4 (6.45%) Norwegian Language
5 3 (4.84%) Back Office
5 3 (4.84%) Front Office
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Catalan Language
Job Titles
1 35 (56.45%) Software Engineer
2 15 (24.19%) Trainer
3 5 (8.06%) Project Manager
3 5 (8.06%) Senior
3 5 (8.06%) Senior Manager
3 5 (8.06%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (4.84%) Applications Specialist
4 3 (4.84%) Applications Support
4 3 (4.84%) Applications Support Specialist
4 3 (4.84%) Salesperson
4 3 (4.84%) Support Specialist
5 1 (1.61%) Designer
5 1 (1.61%) Graphic Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (54.84%) CSS
1 34 (54.84%) CSS3
1 34 (54.84%) HTML
1 34 (54.84%) HTML5
1 34 (54.84%) Jest
1 34 (54.84%) JPA
1 34 (54.84%) Kafka
1 34 (54.84%) React
1 34 (54.84%) Redux
1 34 (54.84%) REST
1 34 (54.84%) RESTful
1 34 (54.84%) Sass
1 34 (54.84%) Spring
1 34 (54.84%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.61%) DCOM
Miscellaneous
1 34 (54.84%) Enterprise Software
1 34 (54.84%) Product Ownership
2 15 (24.19%) Robotics
3 3 (4.84%) Digital Signage
4 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) Agile
1 37 (59.68%) Mentoring
2 35 (56.45%) Performance Optimisation
2 35 (56.45%) Software Engineering
2 35 (56.45%) User Experience
3 34 (54.84%) CI/CD
3 34 (54.84%) Containerisation
3 34 (54.84%) DevOps
3 34 (54.84%) Front End Development
3 34 (54.84%) Full-Stack Development
3 34 (54.84%) Microservices
3 34 (54.84%) Migration
3 34 (54.84%) Responsive Web Design
3 34 (54.84%) SDLC
3 34 (54.84%) Strategic Thinking
3 34 (54.84%) Test Automation
4 15 (24.19%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (24.19%) Generative AI
4 15 (24.19%) LLM
4 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 37 (59.68%) SQL
2 34 (54.84%) Java
2 34 (54.84%) JavaScript
2 34 (54.84%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.61%) C
3 1 (1.61%) C++
3 1 (1.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 15 (24.19%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (54.84%) Accessibility
1 34 (54.84%) QA
System Software
1 34 (54.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (54.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (54.84%) Solace
2 18 (29.03%) Databricks
3 16 (25.81%) Adobe
4 15 (24.19%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) Blue Prism
5 3 (4.84%) Facebook
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.84%) UiPath