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 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 48 45 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -38
Permanent jobs citing Retail 37 82 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.48% 4.10% 3.90%
As % of the General category 5.88% 8.06% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 27 52 37
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £27,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £76,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £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 629 1,018 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 76.15% 50.90% 71.79%
Number of salaries quoted 317 780 439
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,821 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £83,750
East of England median annual salary £49,000 £45,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +8.89% -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 17 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 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
Borehamwood +3 6 £32,500 - 2
Hertford +14 5 £60,000 -
Hemel Hempstead +11 4 £55,000 -4.35% 10
Watford -19 3 £42,500 -39.29% 16
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £44,000 - 4
St Albans - 2 £43,250 - 3
Stevenage +20 1 £60,000 -
Hatfield +8 1 - - 10
Letchworth +6 1 £52,000 +89.09% 1
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 3 (8.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (8.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (10.81%) Serverless
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
1 3 (8.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
1 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.11%) MariaDB
2 3 (8.11%) MySQL
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) Big Data
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) Subversion
3 3 (8.11%) Eclipse
3 3 (8.11%) Gradle
3 3 (8.11%) Maven
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Marketing
4 5 (13.51%) Automotive
4 5 (13.51%) Banking
4 5 (13.51%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Dutch Language
5 4 (10.81%) French Language
5 4 (10.81%) Publishing
6 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Lead
2 4 (10.81%) Developer
2 4 (10.81%) Java Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Administrator
3 3 (8.11%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Applications Support
3 3 (8.11%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
3 3 (8.11%) JavaScript Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (8.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Software Applications Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Software Support Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Administrator
4 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Spring
2 6 (16.22%) Vue
3 4 (10.81%) Web Services
4 3 (8.11%) .NET
4 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.11%) CSS
4 3 (8.11%) CSS3
4 3 (8.11%) D3.js
4 3 (8.11%) DOM
4 3 (8.11%) HTML
4 3 (8.11%) J2EE
4 3 (8.11%) JAXB
4 3 (8.11%) JDBC
4 3 (8.11%) jQuery
4 3 (8.11%) JSF
4 3 (8.11%) JSP
4 3 (8.11%) SOAP
4 3 (8.11%) Struts
4 3 (8.11%) Swing
4 3 (8.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
1 7 (18.92%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (18.92%) Smartphone
2 6 (16.22%) FMCG
3 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.11%) EPoS
3 3 (8.11%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) BBC
4 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Android
3 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.41%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) Analytics
1 8 (21.62%) Collaborative Working
1 8 (21.62%) WFM
2 7 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (18.92%) Clean Code
3 6 (16.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
4 5 (13.51%) DevOps
4 5 (13.51%) Logistics
4 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.81%) Agile
5 4 (10.81%) Lead Generation
5 4 (10.81%) Multithreading
5 4 (10.81%) OO
5 4 (10.81%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (8.11%) Customer Service
6 3 (8.11%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (8.11%) Responsive Web Design
6 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) Java
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.22%) Python
5 4 (10.81%) Rust
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
6 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.70%) Groovy
7 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (5.41%) SLA
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.70%) PMO
4 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Workday