Retail Jobs in Kent

Retailing
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 42 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 -18 +40
Permanent jobs citing Retail 43 73 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 5.35% 4.76% 8.16%
As % of the General category 8.81% 8.96% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 41 55 39
10th Percentile - £25,250 £37,200
25th Percentile £23,731 £30,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.74% -17.39% +27.78%
75th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 -
South East median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -18.18% +7.84%

All General Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 488 815 745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 60.77% 53.09% 69.05%
Number of salaries quoted 224 555 284
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.28%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Kent

Retail
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Retail in Kent

Retail
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in Kent over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in Kent

Retail
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Kent region over the 6 months to 28 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
Sevenoaks +12 21 £25,154 -5.08% 1
Maidstone +5 6 £33,000 -17.50% 60
Snodland - 6 £35,750 - 1
Dartford +7 1 £32,000 - 59
Chatham - 1 £85,000 - 1
Retail
South East

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.33%) AWS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.33%) Datadog
3 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (48.84%) 4G
1 21 (48.84%) 5G
2 6 (13.95%) Firewall
2 6 (13.95%) VPN
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (6.98%) DHCP
3 3 (6.98%) DNS
3 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.98%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) MySQL
2 4 (9.30%) Power BI
2 4 (9.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Git
General
1 21 (48.84%) Telecoms
2 6 (13.95%) Back Office
3 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Local Government
5 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (16.28%) Support Engineer
1 7 (16.28%) Technical Engineer
1 7 (16.28%) Technical Support
1 7 (16.28%) Technical Support Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Junior
2 6 (13.95%) Junior Developer
3 4 (9.30%) Junior PHP Developer
3 4 (9.30%) MI Manager
3 4 (9.30%) PHP Developer
3 4 (9.30%) Systems Manager
4 3 (6.98%) Desktop Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (6.98%) IT Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) IT Support
4 3 (6.98%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Senior
4 3 (6.98%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) RESTful
2 6 (13.95%) CSS
2 6 (13.95%) HTML
2 6 (13.95%) LAMP
2 6 (13.95%) Web Services
3 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.98%) CCTV
2 3 (6.98%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Windows
1 9 (20.93%) Windows Server
1 9 (20.93%) Windows Server 2019
2 6 (13.95%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.98%) Mac OS X
3 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Customer Experience
1 21 (48.84%) Customer Service
2 6 (13.95%) E-Commerce
2 6 (13.95%) MVC
2 6 (13.95%) OOP
2 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (13.95%) Project Delivery
2 6 (13.95%) Server Virtualisation
3 5 (11.63%) Analytics
4 4 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (9.30%) Data Security
4 4 (9.30%) GAP Analysis
4 4 (9.30%) People Management
4 4 (9.30%) Quality Management
5 3 (6.98%) Inventory Management
5 3 (6.98%) ITIL
5 3 (6.98%) Time Management
6 2 (4.65%) Coaching
7 1 (2.33%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (2.33%) Digital Banking
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
1 6 (13.95%) PHP
2 4 (9.30%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) C#
3 1 (2.33%) Java
3 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) SCCM
2 1 (2.33%) Grafana
2 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Cognos
1 4 (9.30%) SAP
2 3 (6.98%) Cisco
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) MobileIron
2 3 (6.98%) Riverbed
2 3 (6.98%) Trend Micro
2 3 (6.98%) Twitter
3 1 (2.33%) Databricks
3 1 (2.33%) Google