Retail Jobs in Lancashire

Retailing
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 50 22
Rank change year-on-year -71 -28 +59
Permanent jobs citing Retail 35 43 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.51% 3.17% 10.64%
As % of the General category 2.03% 5.77% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 22 24 51
10th Percentile £32,800 £22,489 £22,500
25th Percentile £36,438 £22,586 £23,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% +3.26%
75th Percentile £51,875 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £68,000 £60,000
North West median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,721 745 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 74.21% 54.98% 69.61%
Number of salaries quoted 835 619 254
10th Percentile £40,620 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £48,275 £32,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% +5.56% -1.07%
75th Percentile £54,793 £58,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,943 £70,000 £67,850
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +3.02%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Lancashire

Retail
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Retail in Lancashire

Retail
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in Lancashire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in Lancashire

Retail
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Blackburn -24 18 £47,500 +105.84% 15
Blackpool -29 1 - - 1
Retail
North West

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DHCP
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
1 3 (8.57%) IPv4
1 3 (8.57%) LAN
1 3 (8.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (48.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.00%) Power BI
3 5 (14.29%) Big Data
4 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) JIRA
2 12 (34.29%) Bitbucket
2 12 (34.29%) Cucumber
2 12 (34.29%) GitLab
2 12 (34.29%) Maven
2 12 (34.29%) Selenium
2 12 (34.29%) SonarQube
2 12 (34.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.71%) Git
General
1 17 (48.57%) Finance
2 14 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (34.29%) Banking
3 12 (34.29%) Corporate Banking
3 12 (34.29%) Investment Banking
4 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Legal
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Software Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Data Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 5 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Test Leader
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Scientist
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Change Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Operations Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Recruitment Resourcer
7 1 (2.86%) Resourcer
7 1 (2.86%) Sales Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) CSS
1 12 (34.29%) CSS3
1 12 (34.29%) HTML
1 12 (34.29%) HTML5
1 12 (34.29%) Jest
1 12 (34.29%) JPA
1 12 (34.29%) Kafka
1 12 (34.29%) React
1 12 (34.29%) Redux
1 12 (34.29%) REST
1 12 (34.29%) RESTful
1 12 (34.29%) Sass
1 12 (34.29%) Spring
1 12 (34.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Enterprise Software
1 12 (34.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) Unix
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
1 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) DevOps
2 13 (37.14%) CI/CD
2 13 (37.14%) Mentoring
2 13 (37.14%) Migration
2 13 (37.14%) Test Automation
3 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 12 (34.29%) Containerisation
3 12 (34.29%) Front End Development
3 12 (34.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (34.29%) Microservices
3 12 (34.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 12 (34.29%) Responsive Web Design
3 12 (34.29%) SDLC
3 12 (34.29%) Software Engineering
3 12 (34.29%) Strategic Thinking
3 12 (34.29%) User Experience
4 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (20.00%) Data Science
6 6 (17.14%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) SQL
2 12 (34.29%) Java
2 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
2 12 (34.29%) TypeScript
3 11 (31.43%) Python
4 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (48.57%) QA
2 14 (40.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (11.43%) ITGC
4 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Solace
2 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.57%) Veeam
4 2 (5.71%) VMware
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.86%) SAP