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 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 16 17 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 +38 -13
Permanent jobs citing Retail 286 441 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.58% 9.08% 5.17%
As % of the General category 16.23% 17.18% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58 236 85
10th Percentile £24,649 £25,375 £37,750
25th Percentile £25,875 £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 £61,875 £48,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,703 £60,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £51,500 £47,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +8.42% -20.20% +3.52%

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 1,762 2,567 1,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 65.16% 52.84% 68.05%
Number of salaries quoted 718 1,673 814
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 £53,750 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,808 £65,000 £75,875
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -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 31 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 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
Derbyshire +12 114 £42,500 +31.78% 20
Nottinghamshire +11 100 £48,750 +10.80% 66
Lincolnshire 0 33 £43,750 +9.38% 22
Leicestershire +2 30 £46,000 +22.67% 32
Northamptonshire -67 9 £40,000 +23.08% 12
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 (1.05%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.70%) CMS
2 2 (0.70%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.70%) Strapi
3 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (5.59%) Magento
1 16 (5.59%) Shopify
2 8 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.35%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.35%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.35%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 16 (5.59%) BigCommerce
1 16 (5.59%) SaaS
2 14 (4.90%) AWS
3 12 (4.20%) Azure
4 6 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (1.05%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.05%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.05%) GitHub
5 3 (1.05%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.05%) Serverless
6 2 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (0.70%) Contentful
6 2 (0.70%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.70%) GCP
6 2 (0.70%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.35%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.35%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (0.70%) IP Telephony
1 2 (0.70%) Network Security
1 2 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.35%) DHCP
2 1 (0.35%) DNS
2 1 (0.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.20%) Tableau
2 9 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.05%) Parquet
3 3 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.05%) Spark SQL
4 2 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.70%) Power BI
5 1 (0.35%) DTS
5 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (5.94%) Git
2 8 (2.80%) GitLab
3 7 (2.45%) JIRA
4 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.75%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.75%) Maven
4 5 (1.75%) Selenium
4 5 (1.75%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.70%) JMeter
5 2 (0.70%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.70%) Postman
5 2 (0.70%) Subversion
6 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 184 (64.34%) Manufacturing
2 54 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.78%) Dutch Language
3 48 (16.78%) Finnish Language
3 48 (16.78%) Norwegian Language
4 42 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (11.19%) Finance
6 20 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.90%) Marketing
8 12 (4.20%) Catalan Language
8 12 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.75%) Automotive
9 5 (1.75%) Banking
9 5 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.70%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 180 (62.94%) Trainer
2 18 (6.29%) Analyst
2 18 (6.29%) Developer
3 9 (3.15%) Consultant
3 9 (3.15%) Data Analyst
3 9 (3.15%) Lead
4 8 (2.80%) Lead Developer
4 8 (2.80%) Lead Software Developer
4 8 (2.80%) SaaS Developer
4 8 (2.80%) Senior
4 8 (2.80%) Software Developer
5 5 (1.75%) Architect
5 5 (1.75%) C# Developer
5 5 (1.75%) C# Software Developer
5 5 (1.75%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 5 (1.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (1.75%) Lead C# Developer
5 5 (1.75%) Service Manager
5 5 (1.75%) Software Engineer
5 5 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.64%) HTML
2 11 (3.85%) CSS
3 9 (3.15%) RESTful
4 7 (2.45%) HTML5
4 7 (2.45%) React
4 7 (2.45%) Sass
5 5 (1.75%) .NET
5 5 (1.75%) CSS3
5 5 (1.75%) Jest
5 5 (1.75%) JPA
5 5 (1.75%) Kafka
5 5 (1.75%) Redux
5 5 (1.75%) REST
5 5 (1.75%) Spring
5 5 (1.75%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.05%) Ajax
6 3 (1.05%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.05%) jQuery
6 3 (1.05%) JSON
6 3 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 180 (62.94%) Robotics
2 18 (6.29%) EPoS
3 6 (2.10%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (2.10%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.70%) FMCG
7 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.35%) Clustering
8 1 (0.35%) CMDB
8 1 (0.35%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.15%) Windows
2 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
2 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (72.38%) Problem-Solving
2 183 (63.99%) Artificial Intelligence
2 183 (63.99%) Machine Learning
3 180 (62.94%) Generative AI
3 180 (62.94%) LLM
3 180 (62.94%) Red Team
4 148 (51.75%) Data Privacy
5 24 (8.39%) Customer Service
5 24 (8.39%) E-Commerce
6 23 (8.04%) ERP
6 23 (8.04%) Mentoring
7 19 (6.64%) Logistics
8 18 (6.29%) Roadmaps
9 15 (5.24%) Front End Development
10 14 (4.90%) Analytics
10 14 (4.90%) SDLC
11 13 (4.55%) Project Management
11 13 (4.55%) Software Engineering
12 12 (4.20%) Biology
12 12 (4.20%) Chemistry
Programming Languages
1 26 (9.09%) SQL
2 19 (6.64%) JavaScript
3 15 (5.24%) C#
4 12 (4.20%) Python
5 8 (2.80%) Delphi
6 5 (1.75%) Java
6 5 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.70%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.35%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 206 (72.03%) Degree
2 21 (7.34%) DBS Check
3 9 (3.15%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.35%) ACCA
5 1 (0.35%) CBAP
5 1 (0.35%) CIMA
5 1 (0.35%) CISA
5 1 (0.35%) CISM
5 1 (0.35%) CISMP
5 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.35%) MAPM
5 1 (0.35%) MRICS
5 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.35%) PMP
5 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.15%) QA
2 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.70%) GRC
3 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.35%) GDPR
4 1 (0.35%) IFRS
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.35%) SCCM
2 1 (0.35%) SCOM
2 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 194 (67.83%) Databricks
2 183 (63.99%) Adobe
3 181 (63.29%) Google
4 19 (6.64%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.15%) SAP
6 5 (1.75%) Solace
7 2 (0.70%) Facebook
7 2 (0.70%) Freshdesk
7 2 (0.70%) YouTube
8 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Veeam
8 1 (0.35%) VMware