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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 44 24
Rank change year-on-year -75 -20 +49
Permanent jobs citing Retail 32 44 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.39% 3.38% 10.21%
As % of the General category 1.85% 5.96% 14.37%
Number of salaries quoted 19 25 52
10th Percentile £36,250 £22,489 £22,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £22,614 £24,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% +3.26%
75th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,350 £66,500 £59,875
North West median annual salary £50,749 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.78% -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 1,732 738 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 75.37% 56.68% 71.06%
Number of salaries quoted 847 616 248
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £48,688 £32,500 £31,756
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £44,511
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% +6.71% -2.15%
75th Percentile £54,793 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,943 £70,000 £67,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% -

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 14 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 14 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 -25 18 £46,250 +100.42% 26
Blackpool -32 1 - - 2
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 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) DHCP
1 6 (18.75%) DNS
1 6 (18.75%) Firewall
1 6 (18.75%) IPv4
1 6 (18.75%) LAN
1 6 (18.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) Power BI
3 3 (9.38%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 12 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 12 (37.50%) GitLab
1 12 (37.50%) JIRA
1 12 (37.50%) Maven
1 12 (37.50%) Selenium
1 12 (37.50%) SonarQube
1 12 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 16 (50.00%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (37.50%) Banking
3 12 (37.50%) Corporate Banking
3 12 (37.50%) Investment Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Legal
5 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) IT Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Data Scientist
5 1 (3.13%) Sales Manager
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Manager
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Test Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) CSS
1 12 (37.50%) CSS3
1 12 (37.50%) HTML
1 12 (37.50%) HTML5
1 12 (37.50%) Jest
1 12 (37.50%) JPA
1 12 (37.50%) Kafka
1 12 (37.50%) React
1 12 (37.50%) Redux
1 12 (37.50%) REST
1 12 (37.50%) RESTful
1 12 (37.50%) Sass
1 12 (37.50%) Spring
1 12 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
1 12 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
1 6 (18.75%) Unix
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
1 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
2 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
2 13 (40.63%) Mentoring
2 13 (40.63%) Migration
2 13 (40.63%) Test Automation
3 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 12 (37.50%) Front End Development
3 12 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (37.50%) Microservices
3 12 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 12 (37.50%) Responsive Web Design
3 12 (37.50%) SDLC
3 12 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 12 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 12 (37.50%) User Experience
4 6 (18.75%) Business Continuity
4 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) SQL
2 12 (37.50%) Java
2 12 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 12 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
4 8 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (9.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) DBS Check
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (50.00%) QA
2 13 (40.63%) Accessibility
3 4 (12.50%) ITGC
4 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Docker
2 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Solace
2 6 (18.75%) Veeam
3 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) SAP