Retail Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Retailing
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Retail 4 34 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of Westminster 6.45% 13.33% 3.51%
As % of the General category 13.33% 16.19% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 29 2
10th Percentile - - £58,500
25th Percentile - £56,250 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.79% -40.82%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £81,875
90th Percentile - - £84,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +36.00% -13.79% +20.83%

All General Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30 210 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 48.39% 82.35% 70.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4 72 30
10th Percentile £55,242 - £52,500
25th Percentile £57,480 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,047 £60,918 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -13.68% +4.56%
75th Percentile £71,541 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,866 - £96,625
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Retail job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Retail
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Retail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Retail

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scorecard
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (50.00%) MBA
2 2 (50.00%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI