Retail Jobs in Hertfordshire

Retailing
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 49 47 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -17
Permanent jobs citing Retail 42 80 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.03% 3.86% 3.92%
As % of the General category 6.57% 7.82% 5.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28 50 40
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,169 £24,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.99% +3.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60,625 £72,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £81,750 £81,250 £76,375
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +15.79%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 639 1,023 1,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 76.53% 49.37% 71.60%
Number of salaries quoted 317 784 437
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,809 £26,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £64,500 £64,450 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £82,500
East of England median annual salary £47,683 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +5.96% -16.67% +13.68%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Hertfordshire

Retail
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail in Hertfordshire.

Salary trend for Retail in Hertfordshire

Retail
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in Hertfordshire

Retail
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Hertfordshire 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
Borehamwood +4 9 £32,500 - 1
Hertford +14 4 £73,750 +22.92%
Watford -16 4 £42,500 -19.05% 19
Hemel Hempstead +7 3 £48,250 -16.09% 5
Letchworth +5 3 £52,000 +89.09%
Hatfield +8 2 - - 6
St Albans - 2 £43,250 - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £44,000 - 9
Stevenage +23 1 £60,000 - 1
Hitchin +7 1 £38,000 +35.71%
Retail
East of England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (11.90%) Serverless
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Firewall
1 3 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.14%) Tableau
3 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) JIRA
2 3 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Automotive
2 8 (19.05%) Banking
2 8 (19.05%) Finance
2 8 (19.05%) Pharmaceutical
3 7 (16.67%) Publishing
4 6 (14.29%) Marketing
5 4 (9.52%) Dutch Language
5 4 (9.52%) French Language
6 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Lead
2 6 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Applications Support
3 4 (9.52%) Applications Support Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Java Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Software Applications Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Software Support Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Administrator
4 3 (7.14%) JavaScript Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (7.14%) Senior
4 3 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.76%) Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Team Leader
5 2 (4.76%) Technical Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Technical Project Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) .NET
2 4 (9.52%) Spring
3 3 (7.14%) CSS
3 3 (7.14%) CSS3
3 3 (7.14%) D3.js
3 3 (7.14%) DOM
3 3 (7.14%) HTML
3 3 (7.14%) HTML5
3 3 (7.14%) jQuery
3 3 (7.14%) KnockoutJS
3 3 (7.14%) Sass
3 3 (7.14%) Vue
4 2 (4.76%) LDAP
5 1 (2.38%) Web Services
5 1 (2.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) FMCG
2 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (16.67%) Smartphone
3 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.14%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.38%) BBC
5 1 (2.38%) IoT
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
1 4 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (21.43%) Logistics
3 8 (19.05%) Analytics
3 8 (19.05%) WFM
4 7 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps
5 6 (14.29%) Agile
5 6 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 6 (14.29%) Project Management
6 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (11.90%) Design Patterns
6 5 (11.90%) Roadmaps
6 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (9.52%) Lead Generation
7 4 (9.52%) Multithreading
7 4 (9.52%) OO
7 4 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (9.52%) Service-Level Objective
8 3 (7.14%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) SQL
2 9 (21.43%) Java
3 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 7 (16.67%) Python
5 4 (9.52%) Rust
6 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.76%) Bash
8 1 (2.38%) C#
8 1 (2.38%) Groovy
8 1 (2.38%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 4 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (7.14%) PMO
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle
2 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.38%) Workday