Retail Jobs in the North East

Retailing
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in the North East. 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 27 28 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +30
Permanent jobs citing Retail 49 125 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 5.52% 6.31% 8.54%
As % of the General category 7.74% 10.79% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 22 101 39
10th Percentile - - £25,000
25th Percentile £28,188 £24,960 £36,332
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,520 £30,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -45.45% +52.78%
75th Percentile £36,375 £51,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £46,665 £65,000 £73,000
England median annual salary £51,943 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -20.83% +4.35%

All General Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 633 1,159 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.36% 58.51% 61.16%
Number of salaries quoted 297 952 331
10th Percentile £24,542 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,375 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £45,000 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +0.75% -0.74%
75th Percentile £55,500 £62,200 £59,875
90th Percentile £72,200 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the North East

Retail
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail in the North East.

Salary trend for Retail in the North East

Retail
Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for Retail in the North East

Retail
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -4 26 £39,100 +53.45% 81
Durham -2 13 £28,188 -29.53% 8
Northumberland - 10 £32,851 - 2
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.12%) Azure
2 2 (4.08%) AWS
3 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
1 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
1 2 (4.08%) Maven
1 2 (4.08%) Selenium
1 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
1 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (32.65%) Manufacturing
2 15 (30.61%) Finance
2 15 (30.61%) Games
3 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.16%) Dutch Language
5 4 (8.16%) Finnish Language
5 4 (8.16%) Norwegian Language
6 3 (6.12%) Social Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.08%) Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Billing
7 2 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Catalan Language
8 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Trainer
2 5 (10.20%) Analyst
3 3 (6.12%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 3 (6.12%) Senior
4 2 (4.08%) IT Manager
4 2 (4.08%) Sales Manager
4 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Support Analyst
5 1 (2.04%) Account Executive
5 1 (2.04%) Business Support Analyst
5 1 (2.04%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.04%) Digital Product Owner
5 1 (2.04%) ERP Analyst
5 1 (2.04%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (2.04%) Product Owner
5 1 (2.04%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) CSS
1 2 (4.08%) CSS3
1 2 (4.08%) HTML
1 2 (4.08%) HTML5
1 2 (4.08%) Jest
1 2 (4.08%) JPA
1 2 (4.08%) Kafka
1 2 (4.08%) React
1 2 (4.08%) Redux
1 2 (4.08%) REST
1 2 (4.08%) RESTful
1 2 (4.08%) Sass
1 2 (4.08%) Spring
1 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.04%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.61%) Robotics
2 14 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.08%) CMDB
4 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.98%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (38.78%) Coaching
2 19 (38.78%) Customer Service
3 15 (30.61%) Artificial Intelligence
3 15 (30.61%) Generative AI
3 15 (30.61%) LLM
3 15 (30.61%) Machine Learning
3 15 (30.61%) Red Team
4 11 (22.45%) Data Privacy
5 7 (14.29%) Customer Experience
5 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 6 (12.24%) Agile
7 3 (6.12%) ERP
7 3 (6.12%) Scrum
7 3 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.12%) Test Automation
7 3 (6.12%) User Experience
8 2 (4.08%) IT Asset Management
8 2 (4.08%) Microservices
8 2 (4.08%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.16%) SQL
2 2 (4.08%) Java
2 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (44.90%) BT
2 15 (30.61%) Adobe
2 15 (30.61%) Databricks
2 15 (30.61%) Google
3 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.08%) Solace
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) SAP