Retail Jobs in Manchester

Retailing
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. 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 52 38 47
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 -11
Permanent jobs citing Retail 132 296 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.91% 5.41% 7.11%
As % of the General category 8.04% 9.98% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 82 208 152
10th Percentile £29,600 £24,196 £38,875
25th Percentile £33,175 £30,138 £47,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,250 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -15.97% +4.84%
75th Percentile £74,063 £61,250 £71,563
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £45,750 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.67% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,641 2,966 3,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.42% 54.22% 66.34%
Number of salaries quoted 831 2,177 1,475
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £30,600
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +3.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £81,250
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Retail in Manchester

Retail
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Manchester 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
Bolton -2 15 £31,000 -34.74% 16
Wigan - 3 - - 5
Salford +15 2 - - 2
Stockport +11 2 - - 9
Oldham -9 2 - - 1
Altrincham -10 2 - - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 6
Sale - 2 - -
Retail
North West

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (3.03%) SAS
2 3 (2.27%) Confluence
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.52%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.52%) InDesign
3 2 (1.52%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.76%) Blender
4 1 (0.76%) CINEMA 4D
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.06%) AWS
2 32 (24.24%) Azure
3 10 (7.58%) Google Analytics
4 6 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.03%) Serverless
6 3 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.27%) Contentsquare
6 3 (2.27%) GCP
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.52%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.52%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) DHCP
1 4 (3.03%) DNS
1 4 (3.03%) Firewall
2 3 (2.27%) VLAN
3 1 (0.76%) Broadband
3 1 (0.76%) IPsec
3 1 (0.76%) LAN
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
3 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.76%) VPN
3 1 (0.76%) WAN
3 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.79%) Tableau
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.03%) Power BI
5 3 (2.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (1.52%) Big Data
6 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.52%) Metadata
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.76%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.76%) Looker
7 1 (0.76%) MySQL
7 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (15.91%) JIRA
2 19 (14.39%) GitLab
2 19 (14.39%) Selenium
3 18 (13.64%) Bitbucket
3 18 (13.64%) Cucumber
3 18 (13.64%) Maven
3 18 (13.64%) SonarQube
3 18 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.52%) TestRail
5 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.76%) MLflow
5 1 (0.76%) PHPUnit
General
1 51 (38.64%) Finance
2 42 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 32 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (23.48%) Banking
5 24 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (13.64%) Corporate Banking
6 18 (13.64%) Investment Banking
6 18 (13.64%) Marketing
7 10 (7.58%) Manufacturing
8 7 (5.30%) Automotive
8 7 (5.30%) Back Office
9 6 (4.55%) Advertising
10 5 (3.79%) Games
11 4 (3.03%) Electronics
11 4 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.03%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (1.52%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (1.52%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.52%) Retail Finance
12 2 (1.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 34 (25.76%) Senior
2 29 (21.97%) Software Engineer
3 15 (11.36%) Analyst
4 12 (9.09%) Developer
5 10 (7.58%) IT Support
6 9 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.06%) .NET Developer
7 8 (6.06%) Senior .NET Developer
7 8 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (5.30%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 7 (5.30%) Applications Support
8 7 (5.30%) Applications Support Analyst
8 7 (5.30%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) AWS Software Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Lead
11 4 (3.03%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.70%) REST
2 24 (18.18%) React
3 19 (14.39%) CSS
3 19 (14.39%) HTML
4 18 (13.64%) CSS3
4 18 (13.64%) HTML5
4 18 (13.64%) Jest
4 18 (13.64%) JPA
4 18 (13.64%) Kafka
4 18 (13.64%) Redux
4 18 (13.64%) RESTful
4 18 (13.64%) Sass
4 18 (13.64%) Spring
4 18 (13.64%) Spring Boot
5 10 (7.58%) .NET
6 9 (6.82%) .NET Core
7 7 (5.30%) Node.js
8 6 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (4.55%) Blazor
8 6 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 18 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.58%) EPoS
4 8 (6.06%) Driving Licence
4 8 (6.06%) Social Media
5 7 (5.30%) CCTV
5 7 (5.30%) Cloud Native
5 7 (5.30%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 4 (3.03%) FMCG
6 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.27%) Online Games
7 3 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.52%) Tandem
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.33%) Linux
2 4 (3.03%) Windows
2 4 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.76%) Android
4 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.09%) Agile
2 37 (28.03%) Software Engineering
3 32 (24.24%) Microservices
4 30 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 26 (19.70%) Analytics
5 26 (19.70%) User Experience
6 25 (18.94%) DevOps
7 24 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
8 21 (15.91%) Mentoring
9 20 (15.15%) Migration
10 19 (14.39%) Containerisation
10 19 (14.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (14.39%) Strategic Thinking
10 19 (14.39%) Test Automation
11 18 (13.64%) Front End Development
11 18 (13.64%) Responsive Web Design
11 18 (13.64%) SDLC
12 16 (12.12%) E-Commerce
12 16 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (8.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.61%) SQL
2 28 (21.21%) TypeScript
3 20 (15.15%) Java
3 20 (15.15%) Python
4 19 (14.39%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.82%) C#
5 9 (6.82%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.30%) C-shell
6 7 (5.30%) Korn
6 7 (5.30%) PL/SQL
7 5 (3.79%) Go
8 3 (2.27%) PHP
9 1 (0.76%) C++
9 1 (0.76%) R
9 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (18.94%) Degree
2 9 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (6.82%) PhD
3 6 (4.55%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.27%) Tableau Certification
5 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.76%) CCNA
6 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.67%) QA
2 18 (13.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) ITGC
4 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.76%) PERC
System Software
1 25 (18.94%) Docker
2 4 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Grafana
3 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (13.64%) Solace
2 12 (9.09%) Google
2 12 (9.09%) Oracle
3 11 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.55%) Ping Identity
5 4 (3.03%) VMware
6 3 (2.27%) Concur
6 3 (2.27%) IBM
6 3 (2.27%) MobileIron
6 3 (2.27%) Veeam
7 2 (1.52%) Adobe
7 2 (1.52%) Databricks
7 2 (1.52%) Facebook
7 2 (1.52%) Instagram
7 2 (1.52%) Proofpoint
7 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.76%) Informatica
8 1 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.76%) YouTube
8 1 (0.76%) Zend