Retail Jobs in the East Midlands

Retailing
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 74
Rank change year-on-year 0 +57 -34
Permanent jobs citing Retail 277 399 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.44% 8.81% 4.25%
As % of the General category 16.08% 16.35% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50 234 83
10th Percentile £24,649 £25,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £24,955 £30,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,438 £48,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,703 £60,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% +4.35%

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,723 2,441 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 64.92% 53.87% 68.50%
Number of salaries quoted 691 1,626 834
10th Percentile £25,267 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the East Midlands

Retail
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Retail in the East Midlands

Retail
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in the East Midlands

Retail
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
Derbyshire +16 113 £40,000 +21.21% 146
Nottinghamshire +10 99 £25,103 -43.59% 133
Lincolnshire -1 30 £43,750 +9.38% 82
Leicestershire +1 27 £45,000 +20.00% 94
Northamptonshire -70 8 £43,750 +34.62% 68
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (1.08%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.72%) CMS
2 2 (0.72%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.72%) Strapi
3 1 (0.36%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (5.05%) Magento
1 14 (5.05%) Shopify
2 6 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.36%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.36%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (5.05%) AWS
1 14 (5.05%) BigCommerce
1 14 (5.05%) SaaS
2 9 (3.25%) Azure
3 6 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.08%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.08%) GitHub
4 3 (1.08%) Serverless
5 2 (0.72%) Contentful
5 2 (0.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.36%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.36%) GCP
6 1 (0.36%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.36%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.36%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (0.36%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (0.72%) IP Telephony
1 2 (0.72%) Network Security
1 2 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.36%) DHCP
2 1 (0.36%) DNS
2 1 (0.36%) Firewall
2 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.33%) Tableau
2 8 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.08%) Parquet
3 3 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.08%) Spark SQL
4 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.36%) Power BI
4 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (5.78%) Git
2 8 (2.89%) GitLab
3 6 (2.17%) JIRA
4 5 (1.81%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.81%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.81%) Maven
4 5 (1.81%) Selenium
4 5 (1.81%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.72%) JMeter
5 2 (0.72%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.72%) Postman
6 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 184 (66.43%) Manufacturing
2 49 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 48 (17.33%) Dutch Language
3 48 (17.33%) Finnish Language
3 48 (17.33%) Norwegian Language
4 38 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.47%) Finance
6 18 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (5.05%) Marketing
8 13 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (4.33%) Catalan Language
9 12 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.81%) Automotive
10 5 (1.81%) Banking
10 5 (1.81%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (1.81%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Aviation
12 2 (0.72%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 180 (64.98%) Trainer
2 17 (6.14%) Analyst
3 13 (4.69%) Developer
4 9 (3.25%) Data Analyst
5 8 (2.89%) Consultant
5 8 (2.89%) Senior
6 7 (2.53%) Lead
7 6 (2.17%) Lead Developer
7 6 (2.17%) Lead Software Developer
7 6 (2.17%) SaaS Developer
7 6 (2.17%) Software Developer
8 5 (1.81%) Architect
8 5 (1.81%) Sales Consultant
8 5 (1.81%) Service Manager
8 5 (1.81%) Software Engineer
8 5 (1.81%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.44%) E-Commerce Manager
9 4 (1.44%) Operations Manager
9 4 (1.44%) Principal Architect
9 4 (1.44%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.42%) HTML
2 9 (3.25%) CSS
2 9 (3.25%) RESTful
3 7 (2.53%) React
4 6 (2.17%) HTML5
4 6 (2.17%) Sass
5 5 (1.81%) CSS3
5 5 (1.81%) Jest
5 5 (1.81%) JPA
5 5 (1.81%) Kafka
5 5 (1.81%) Redux
5 5 (1.81%) REST
5 5 (1.81%) Spring
5 5 (1.81%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.08%) .NET
6 3 (1.08%) PySpark
6 3 (1.08%) XGBoost
7 2 (0.72%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.72%) LESS
7 2 (0.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 180 (64.98%) Robotics
2 16 (5.78%) EPoS
3 6 (2.17%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.72%) FMCG
6 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.72%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.36%) Clustering
7 1 (0.36%) CMDB
7 1 (0.36%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.89%) Windows
2 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
2 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.36%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (73.29%) Problem-Solving
2 183 (66.06%) Artificial Intelligence
2 183 (66.06%) Machine Learning
3 180 (64.98%) Generative AI
3 180 (64.98%) LLM
3 180 (64.98%) Red Team
4 146 (52.71%) Data Privacy
5 23 (8.30%) Customer Service
6 22 (7.94%) E-Commerce
6 22 (7.94%) Mentoring
7 18 (6.50%) ERP
7 18 (6.50%) Roadmaps
8 16 (5.78%) Logistics
9 13 (4.69%) Analytics
9 13 (4.69%) Front End Development
10 12 (4.33%) Biochemistry
10 12 (4.33%) Biology
10 12 (4.33%) Chemistry
10 12 (4.33%) SDLC
11 11 (3.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.94%) SQL
2 15 (5.42%) JavaScript
3 12 (4.33%) Python
4 11 (3.97%) C#
5 6 (2.17%) Delphi
6 5 (1.81%) Java
6 5 (1.81%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.72%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.36%) SAPscript
8 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 204 (73.65%) Degree
2 22 (7.94%) DBS Check
3 9 (3.25%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.72%) MAPM
4 2 (0.72%) MRICS
5 1 (0.36%) CBAP
5 1 (0.36%) CISA
5 1 (0.36%) CISM
5 1 (0.36%) CISMP
5 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.36%) PMP
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.89%) QA
2 5 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.72%) GRC
3 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.36%) GDPR
4 1 (0.36%) NIST
4 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.81%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.36%) SCCM
2 1 (0.36%) SCOM
2 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 193 (69.68%) Databricks
2 182 (65.70%) Adobe
3 181 (65.34%) Google
4 18 (6.50%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.53%) SAP
6 5 (1.81%) Solace
7 2 (0.72%) Facebook
7 2 (0.72%) Freshdesk
7 2 (0.72%) YouTube
8 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.36%) Veeam
8 1 (0.36%) VMware