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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 27 71
Rank change year-on-year -77 +44 0
Permanent jobs citing Retail 76 379 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.28% 6.14% 3.88%
As % of the General category 3.32% 11.11% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 57 181 119
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +4.35%

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 2,288 3,411 3,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 68.75% 55.28% 71.04%
Number of salaries quoted 983 2,463 1,311
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £31,250 £35,764
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -16.67% +13.68%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -

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 17 May 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 17 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
Hertfordshire -3 37 £50,000 -0.99% 59
Cambridgeshire +27 22 £45,000 - 37
Norfolk -39 5 £68,750 +137.07% 13
Essex -42 5 £32,500 -35.00% 16
Bedfordshire -28 4 £77,500 +24.00% 10
Suffolk -41 3 £55,000 -8.71% 2
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 3 (3.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (3.95%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 3 (3.95%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (3.95%) InDesign
1 3 (3.95%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.95%) Shopify
3 2 (2.63%) Magento
4 1 (1.32%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.42%) Azure
2 12 (15.79%) AWS
3 5 (6.58%) Serverless
4 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) BigCommerce
6 2 (2.63%) dbt
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.32%) Figma
7 1 (1.32%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Firewall
2 4 (5.26%) LAN
2 4 (5.26%) WAN
3 3 (3.95%) DHCP
3 3 (3.95%) DNS
3 3 (3.95%) HTTP
4 2 (2.63%) VPN
5 1 (1.32%) SAN
5 1 (1.32%) SNMP
5 1 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.32%) VLAN
5 1 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Power BI
2 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.95%) Big Data
3 3 (3.95%) MariaDB
3 3 (3.95%) MySQL
4 2 (2.63%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) OLTP
4 2 (2.63%) Power Query
4 2 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.32%) GIS
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Git
2 10 (13.16%) Visual Studio
3 7 (9.21%) JIRA
4 6 (7.89%) Subversion
5 5 (6.58%) Maven
6 3 (3.95%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.95%) Gradle
7 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.63%) GitLab
7 2 (2.63%) Selenium
7 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.32%) gulp
8 1 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Finance
2 12 (15.79%) Marketing
3 11 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.21%) Banking
6 5 (6.58%) Automotive
6 5 (6.58%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.58%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (5.26%) Dutch Language
7 4 (5.26%) French Language
7 4 (5.26%) Publishing
8 2 (2.63%) Advertising
8 2 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Developer
2 12 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (13.16%) .NET Developer
3 10 (13.16%) C# .NET Developer
3 10 (13.16%) C# Developer
3 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 10 (13.16%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Lead
5 6 (7.89%) Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior
8 3 (3.95%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.95%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (3.95%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.95%) Software Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.11%) .NET
2 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET Web API
3 9 (11.84%) Spring
4 8 (10.53%) Vue
5 6 (7.89%) CSS
5 6 (7.89%) HTML
5 6 (7.89%) HTML5
5 6 (7.89%) React
5 6 (7.89%) Sass
6 5 (6.58%) CSS3
6 5 (6.58%) REST
7 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.26%) Kafka
7 4 (5.26%) Web Services
8 3 (3.95%) DOM
8 3 (3.95%) JDBC
8 3 (3.95%) JSP
8 3 (3.95%) SOAP
8 3 (3.95%) Swing
8 3 (3.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (11.84%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.21%) Smartphone
4 6 (7.89%) FMCG
5 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.95%) EPoS
6 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.95%) Social Media
7 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.32%) BBC
8 1 (1.32%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.32%) IoT
8 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.32%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Linux
1 7 (9.21%) Windows
2 3 (3.95%) Android
2 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.63%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.32%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.32%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.37%) E-Commerce
2 15 (19.74%) Logistics
3 14 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (17.11%) Web Development
5 12 (15.79%) Agile
6 11 (14.47%) API Development
7 9 (11.84%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (11.84%) User Experience
8 8 (10.53%) Analytics
8 8 (10.53%) Customer Service
8 8 (10.53%) WFM
9 7 (9.21%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (9.21%) Clean Code
9 7 (9.21%) DevOps
9 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.21%) Software Engineering
10 6 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (6.58%) Responsive Web Design
11 5 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.32%) SQL
2 14 (18.42%) Java
3 11 (14.47%) JavaScript
4 10 (13.16%) C#
5 8 (10.53%) Python
6 4 (5.26%) Rust
7 2 (2.63%) Bash
7 2 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.63%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.32%) Groovy
8 1 (1.32%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Degree
1 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.32%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) VCAP
4 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.26%) Government Security Classifications
3 3 (3.95%) QA
3 3 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.63%) SLA
5 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (9.21%) Docker
2 6 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Ansible
2 3 (3.95%) Avamar
2 3 (3.95%) Progress Chef
2 3 (3.95%) Puppet
2 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.95%) VxRail
3 1 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.32%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.32%) SCCM
3 1 (1.32%) WMI
3 1 (1.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) VMware
3 4 (5.26%) Oracle
4 3 (3.95%) Adobe
4 3 (3.95%) Adyen
4 3 (3.95%) Aruba
4 3 (3.95%) Cisco
4 3 (3.95%) Dell
4 3 (3.95%) EMC
4 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.63%) Databricks
5 2 (2.63%) Solace
5 2 (2.63%) WooCommerce
6 1 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) Infor
6 1 (1.32%) JDA
6 1 (1.32%) NetApp
6 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.32%) TikTok
6 1 (1.32%) Workday