Retail Jobs in Merseyside

Retailing
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 12 48 83
Rank change year-on-year +36 +35 -43
Permanent jobs citing Retail 62 48 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 13.96% 3.54% 1.43%
As % of the General category 16.67% 7.06% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9 38 11
10th Percentile - £28,883 £33,000
25th Percentile £24,250 £31,350 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £40,000 £57,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £50,000 £72,500 £71,250
North West median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 372 680 726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 83.78% 50.11% 69.01%
Number of salaries quoted 134 489 250
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,700 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £44,875
Median % change year-on-year - -10.86% -0.37%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,375
90th Percentile £74,375 £68,750 £66,375
North West median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +2.98%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Merseyside

Retail
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Retail in Merseyside

Retail
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

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

Salary histogram for Retail in Merseyside

Retail
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Merseyside 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
Bootle +7 15 - -
Birkenhead +6 15 - - 7
Prenton - 15 - -
Liverpool +29 6 £42,500 -29.17% 86
St Helens 0 4 £29,000 - 2
Prescot +6 2 - -
Retail
North West

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.29%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) AWS
3 3 (4.84%) SaaS
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Ads
4 2 (3.23%) Facebook Ads
4 2 (3.23%) Google Ads
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Advertising
4 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) Power BI
2 1 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (1.61%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Bitbucket
1 6 (9.68%) Cucumber
1 6 (9.68%) GitLab
1 6 (9.68%) JIRA
1 6 (9.68%) Maven
1 6 (9.68%) Selenium
1 6 (9.68%) SonarQube
1 6 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 45 (72.58%) Manufacturing
2 12 (19.35%) Dutch Language
2 12 (19.35%) Finnish Language
2 12 (19.35%) Norwegian Language
3 7 (11.29%) Finance
3 7 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.68%) Banking
4 6 (9.68%) Corporate Banking
4 6 (9.68%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Catalan Language
6 2 (3.23%) Advertising
6 2 (3.23%) Marketing
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (72.58%) Trainer
2 6 (9.68%) Software Engineer
3 3 (4.84%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (4.84%) First Line Help Desk Support
3 3 (4.84%) Help Desk Agent
3 3 (4.84%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (4.84%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (3.23%) Developer
4 2 (3.23%) PPC Executive
5 1 (1.61%) .NET Developer
5 1 (1.61%) Account Executive
5 1 (1.61%) Analyst
5 1 (1.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (1.61%) Data Analyst
5 1 (1.61%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Data Analyst
5 1 (1.61%) Technologist
5 1 (1.61%) Technology Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) CSS
1 6 (9.68%) CSS3
1 6 (9.68%) HTML
1 6 (9.68%) HTML5
1 6 (9.68%) Jest
1 6 (9.68%) JPA
1 6 (9.68%) Kafka
1 6 (9.68%) React
1 6 (9.68%) Redux
1 6 (9.68%) REST
1 6 (9.68%) RESTful
1 6 (9.68%) Sass
1 6 (9.68%) Spring
1 6 (9.68%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.61%) .NET
2 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (72.58%) Robotics
2 6 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (77.42%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (72.58%) Artificial Intelligence
2 45 (72.58%) Generative AI
2 45 (72.58%) LLM
2 45 (72.58%) Machine Learning
2 45 (72.58%) Red Team
3 34 (54.84%) Data Privacy
4 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
4 7 (11.29%) DevOps
4 7 (11.29%) Migration
5 6 (9.68%) Agile
5 6 (9.68%) Containerisation
5 6 (9.68%) Front End Development
5 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
5 6 (9.68%) Microservices
5 6 (9.68%) Responsive Web Design
5 6 (9.68%) SDLC
5 6 (9.68%) Software Engineering
5 6 (9.68%) Test Automation
5 6 (9.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.90%) SQL
2 6 (9.68%) Java
2 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
2 6 (9.68%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.61%) C#
3 1 (1.61%) Python
3 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (72.58%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.68%) QA
3 3 (4.84%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (75.81%) Google
2 45 (72.58%) Adobe
2 45 (72.58%) Databricks
3 6 (9.68%) Solace
4 2 (3.23%) Facebook
4 2 (3.23%) Instagram
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.23%) Pinterest