Retail Jobs in the East of England

Retailing
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 33 63
Rank change year-on-year -63 +30 +45
Permanent jobs citing Retail 110 296 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.86% 4.81% 3.89%
As % of the General category 4.28% 9.14% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 75 127 107
10th Percentile £28,850 £26,150 £26,750
25th Percentile £38,375 £30,000 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,600 £81,250 £71,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% -4.17%

All General Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,570 3,237 2,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 66.93% 52.55% 67.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 2,224 1,138
10th Percentile £26,900 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,072 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -5.86% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,205 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.37% -11.33% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in the East of England

Retail
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Hertfordshire +20 54 £44,000 -18.52% 73
Cambridgeshire +35 31 £47,500 +5.56% 38
Essex -31 9 £36,250 -27.50% 21
Norfolk -24 8 £80,000 +175.86% 13
Suffolk -38 5 £42,500 +66.67% 22
Bedfordshire -21 3 £27,500 -30.20% 19
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.55%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (2.73%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (2.73%) InDesign
4 2 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.91%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (4.55%) Shopify
3 2 (1.82%) Magento
4 1 (0.91%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.45%) Azure
2 15 (13.64%) AWS
3 8 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (6.36%) Serverless
5 6 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.55%) SaaS
7 2 (1.82%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.82%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.82%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.91%) Figma
8 1 (0.91%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) Firewall
2 3 (2.73%) HTTP
3 2 (1.82%) 5G
3 2 (1.82%) DHCP
3 2 (1.82%) DNS
3 2 (1.82%) LAN
3 2 (1.82%) SAN
3 2 (1.82%) VoIP
4 1 (0.91%) CATAPAN
4 1 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.91%) HSRP
4 1 (0.91%) IPsec
4 1 (0.91%) Multicast
4 1 (0.91%) OSPF
4 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.91%) SNMP
4 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.91%) VPN
4 1 (0.91%) VRRP
4 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) Power BI
2 4 (3.64%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.64%) Power Query
2 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.73%) Tableau
4 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.91%) Big Data
4 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Git
2 7 (6.36%) JIRA
2 7 (6.36%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.55%) GitLab
4 3 (2.73%) Subversion
5 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.82%) Maven
5 2 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.82%) Selenium
5 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.82%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.55%) Finance
4 12 (10.91%) Automotive
5 11 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (10.00%) Marketing
6 10 (9.09%) Banking
7 8 (7.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (6.36%) Publishing
9 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.64%) Back Office
10 4 (3.64%) Dutch Language
10 4 (3.64%) French Language
11 2 (1.82%) Advertising
11 2 (1.82%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (10.91%) Lead
1 12 (10.91%) Project Manager
2 9 (8.18%) Analyst
2 9 (8.18%) Developer
2 9 (8.18%) Technical Manager
3 7 (6.36%) .NET Developer
3 7 (6.36%) C# .NET Developer
3 7 (6.36%) C# Developer
3 7 (6.36%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 7 (6.36%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 7 (6.36%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (6.36%) Pricing Manager
3 7 (6.36%) Support Engineer
4 6 (5.45%) Applications Support
4 6 (5.45%) Applications Support Engineer
4 6 (5.45%) Data Analyst
4 6 (5.45%) Junior
4 6 (5.45%) Principal Test Engineer
4 6 (5.45%) Software Applications Engineer
4 6 (5.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.36%) .NET
2 7 (6.36%) ASP.NET Web API
2 7 (6.36%) HTML
3 6 (5.45%) Spring
4 5 (4.55%) CSS
4 5 (4.55%) CSS3
4 5 (4.55%) HTML5
4 5 (4.55%) Sass
5 4 (3.64%) React
6 3 (2.73%) D3.js
6 3 (2.73%) DOM
6 3 (2.73%) jQuery
6 3 (2.73%) KnockoutJS
6 3 (2.73%) LDAP
6 3 (2.73%) Vue
7 2 (1.82%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.82%) JPA
7 2 (1.82%) Kafka
7 2 (1.82%) Redux
7 2 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) FMCG
2 9 (8.18%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.36%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.36%) Smartphone
4 5 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.64%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.73%) Social Media
7 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.82%) PKI
7 2 (1.82%) Robotics
7 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.91%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.91%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.91%) Motion Graphics
8 1 (0.91%) SCADA
8 1 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.91%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.36%) Linux
1 7 (6.36%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.91%) VMS
3 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.91%) Logistics
2 17 (15.45%) Agile
3 15 (13.64%) DevOps
4 14 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (12.73%) E-Commerce
4 14 (12.73%) Project Delivery
5 13 (11.82%) Collaborative Working
6 11 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (9.09%) Analytics
7 10 (9.09%) User Experience
8 9 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (8.18%) Clean Code
8 9 (8.18%) Data Analysis
8 9 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (7.27%) Data Science
9 8 (7.27%) PRINCE2
9 8 (7.27%) Project Management
9 8 (7.27%) WFM
10 7 (6.36%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (6.36%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.55%) SQL
2 18 (16.36%) Python
3 13 (11.82%) Java
4 10 (9.09%) C#
4 10 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.27%) R
6 4 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.64%) Rust
7 3 (2.73%) Bash
8 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.91%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (13.64%) Degree
2 7 (6.36%) Postgraduate
3 6 (5.45%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.91%) CCNA
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) PCI DSS
2 6 (5.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.64%) PMO
4 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.82%) QA
5 1 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.45%) Docker
3 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.82%) Ansible
1 2 (1.82%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.82%) Puppet
2 1 (0.91%) Avamar
2 1 (0.91%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.91%) Nessus
2 1 (0.91%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.91%) Terraform
2 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
2 1 (0.91%) VxRail
2 1 (0.91%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (0.91%) WMI
2 1 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.64%) Cisco
3 3 (2.73%) Adobe
3 3 (2.73%) Google
4 2 (1.82%) Dell
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle
4 2 (1.82%) Solace
4 2 (1.82%) VMware
4 2 (1.82%) WooCommerce
5 1 (0.91%) Avaya
5 1 (0.91%) EMC
5 1 (0.91%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (0.91%) HP
5 1 (0.91%) Infor
5 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.91%) SAP
5 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.91%) Siemens
5 1 (0.91%) TikTok
5 1 (0.91%) Workday