Retail Jobs in the North of England

Retailing
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 22 44
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 +40
Permanent jobs citing Retail 806 1,858 1,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.67% 10.66% 6.54%
As % of the General category 8.36% 14.99% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 577 741 646
10th Percentile £24,582 £34,723 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £37,184
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,600
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.55% -4.80%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £62,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +3.45% +0.87%

All General Skills
North of England

Retail is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,639 12,396 10,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 55.84% 71.10% 57.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,313 5,226 6,129
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,047 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.57% +0.08% +4.35%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in the North of England

Retail
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
North West +5 482 £45,000 -18.18% 238
Yorkshire -34 239 £45,000 -25.00% 162
North East -12 85 £40,001 -27.27% 61
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 20 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.11%) SAS
3 14 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.24%) Apache
5 8 (0.99%) Anypoint
5 8 (0.99%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 8 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (0.99%) WebSphere
5 8 (0.99%) WordPress
6 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.50%) CMS
7 4 (0.50%) Confluence
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.25%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 88 (10.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (4.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (1.61%) Photoshop
5 11 (1.36%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (1.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.87%) InDesign
8 6 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.25%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.25%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.25%) ZBrush
11 1 (0.12%) EViews
11 1 (0.12%) Sketch
11 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.23%) Magento
2 15 (1.86%) Shopify
3 14 (1.74%) Epicor Tropos
4 11 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (1.12%) SAP BPC
6 8 (0.99%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.87%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
9 5 (0.62%) NetSuite
10 4 (0.50%) SAP APO
10 4 (0.50%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.50%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.50%) SAP PP
10 4 (0.50%) SAP SD
10 4 (0.50%) SAP WM
11 2 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.25%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.25%) SAP MDM
11 2 (0.25%) SAP Retail
12 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 150 (18.61%) Azure
2 83 (10.30%) Power Platform
3 75 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (8.93%) AWS
5 41 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (4.09%) GCP
7 20 (2.48%) SaaS
8 16 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (1.74%) GitHub
10 12 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (1.24%) Azure API Management
11 10 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (0.99%) Datadog
13 8 (0.99%) Serverless
14 7 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (0.74%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.22%) Internet
2 28 (3.47%) Broadband
3 27 (3.35%) Firewall
4 20 (2.48%) LAN
4 20 (2.48%) WAN
5 19 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (1.74%) DNS
6 14 (1.74%) Network Security
7 10 (1.24%) VoIP
8 9 (1.12%) VPN
9 8 (0.99%) DHCP
10 7 (0.87%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.87%) WLAN
11 4 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (0.25%) VLAN
13 2 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.68%) Power BI
2 69 (8.56%) SQL Server
3 49 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (4.47%) MySQL
5 27 (3.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.36%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.12%) SAP BW
11 8 (0.99%) Redis
12 7 (0.87%) Big Data
12 7 (0.87%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.87%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.62%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.62%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.62%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 42 (5.21%) Git
2 23 (2.85%) JIRA
3 18 (2.23%) GitLab
4 15 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.62%) JMeter
6 5 (0.62%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.62%) Subversion
7 3 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.25%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (0.25%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.12%) Appium
9 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.12%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.12%) Postman
9 1 (0.12%) QADirector
9 1 (0.12%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 322 (39.95%) Social Skills
2 238 (29.53%) Finance
3 147 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (6.95%) Marketing
5 47 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (5.33%) Manufacturing
7 38 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (4.34%) Banking
8 35 (4.34%) Telecoms
9 34 (4.22%) Public Sector
10 32 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (3.85%) Billing
12 22 (2.73%) Legal
13 17 (2.11%) Retail Finance
14 12 (1.49%) Games
15 10 (1.24%) Local Government
16 8 (0.99%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.74%) Advertising
17 6 (0.74%) Back Office
17 6 (0.74%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 125 (15.51%) Analyst
2 124 (15.38%) Senior
3 118 (14.64%) Developer
4 58 (7.20%) Lead
5 54 (6.70%) Project Manager
6 48 (5.96%) Architect
7 35 (4.34%) IT Support
7 35 (4.34%) Service Analyst
8 31 (3.85%) Service Desk Analyst
9 30 (3.72%) Senior Developer
10 25 (3.10%) IT Manager
10 25 (3.10%) Support Engineer
11 24 (2.98%) IT Analyst
12 23 (2.85%) IT Engineer
12 23 (2.85%) Quantity Surveyor
13 22 (2.73%) Consultant
14 21 (2.61%) Head of IT
15 20 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
16 19 (2.36%) Software Engineer
16 19 (2.36%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.96%) .NET
2 40 (4.96%) CSS
3 38 (4.71%) HTML
3 38 (4.71%) React
4 29 (3.60%) Node.js
5 25 (3.10%) .NET Core
6 20 (2.48%) Vue
7 18 (2.23%) JSON
7 18 (2.23%) XML
8 16 (1.99%) OLE
9 15 (1.86%) .NET Framework
10 14 (1.74%) RESTful
11 13 (1.61%) AngularJS
11 13 (1.61%) Entity Framework
12 12 (1.49%) Laravel
13 9 (1.12%) Kafka
13 9 (1.12%) PySpark
13 9 (1.12%) Spring
14 8 (0.99%) ASP.NET
14 8 (0.99%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (7.57%) Self-Motivation
2 37 (4.59%) Driving Licence
3 33 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 28 (3.47%) EPoS
6 27 (3.35%) Smartphone
7 22 (2.73%) NHS
8 20 (2.48%) FMCG
8 20 (2.48%) Mobile App
9 17 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.61%) Credit Risk
10 13 (1.61%) PMI
11 12 (1.49%) Social Media
12 11 (1.36%) Cloud Native
13 10 (1.24%) e-Learning
14 9 (1.12%) Educational Technology
15 8 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.99%) Onboarding
16 7 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
16 7 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 80 (9.93%) Windows
2 31 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 25 (3.10%) Linux
4 10 (1.24%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.37%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.25%) VMS
10 1 (0.12%) Android
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (22.95%) Agile
2 162 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
3 123 (15.26%) Customer Service
4 94 (11.66%) E-Commerce
5 86 (10.67%) ERP
6 85 (10.55%) DevOps
7 83 (10.30%) Roadmaps
8 81 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
9 76 (9.43%) Analytics
10 75 (9.31%) Project Management
11 72 (8.93%) Mentoring
12 64 (7.94%) Time Management
13 61 (7.57%) Coaching
14 57 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (5.46%) Software Engineering
17 43 (5.33%) Data Science
18 42 (5.21%) Business Strategy
19 41 (5.09%) Decision-Making
20 40 (4.96%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 149 (18.49%) SQL
2 69 (8.56%) C#
3 64 (7.94%) JavaScript
4 58 (7.20%) PHP
5 54 (6.70%) Python
6 41 (5.09%) TypeScript
7 32 (3.97%) R
8 28 (3.47%) Java
9 17 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.74%) Go
11 12 (1.49%) Bash
11 12 (1.49%) VB.NET
12 9 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.99%) Ruby
14 5 (0.62%) Groovy
15 4 (0.50%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.37%) C
17 2 (0.25%) ABAP
17 2 (0.25%) VBA
18 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 100 (12.41%) Degree
2 35 (4.34%) DBS Check
3 29 (3.60%) ACCA
4 23 (2.85%) CIMA
5 20 (2.48%) HNC
6 19 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.23%) PMI Certification
8 14 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.36%) A+ Certification
9 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.36%) Security Cleared
10 10 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.24%) HND
11 8 (0.99%) CCNP
12 7 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (0.87%) PMP
13 6 (0.74%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.74%) CISA
14 5 (0.62%) CISSP
14 5 (0.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.59%) SLA
2 30 (3.72%) QA
3 19 (2.36%) PMO
4 11 (1.36%) GDPR
4 11 (1.36%) IFRS
4 11 (1.36%) IFRS 9
5 10 (1.24%) CRD IV
6 8 (0.99%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.37%) NIST
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 78 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.96%) Docker
3 15 (1.86%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.62%) Firmware
6 4 (0.50%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.37%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.25%) KVM
8 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) IAG
Systems Management
1 46 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 41 (5.09%) Terraform
3 12 (1.49%) Grafana
4 11 (1.36%) Ansible
5 10 (1.24%) Puppet
6 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.62%) Kibana
9 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.37%) SELinux
10 2 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.25%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.25%) SCCM
11 1 (0.12%) Salt
11 1 (0.12%) SCOM
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 176 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.58%) Virgin Media
3 38 (4.71%) SAP
4 31 (3.85%) Google
5 25 (3.10%) VMware
6 23 (2.85%) NEC
7 22 (2.73%) IBM
7 22 (2.73%) Northgate
8 21 (2.61%) Adobe
9 16 (1.99%) Oracle
10 14 (1.74%) Dell
10 14 (1.74%) Epicor
11 12 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.24%) HP
13 9 (1.12%) Cisco
13 9 (1.12%) NetApp
13 9 (1.12%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.99%) Databricks
14 8 (0.99%) New Relic
15 7 (0.87%) CA