Retail Jobs in the North West

Retailing
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 34 39
Rank change year-on-year -44 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Retail 308 594 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.11% 5.11% 7.13%
As % of the General category 5.84% 9.93% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 131 369 286
10th Percentile £29,500 £23,114 £28,625
25th Percentile £32,750 £27,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,542
England median annual salary £51,058 £47,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +7.49% -20.20% +1.13%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,277 5,982 4,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.43% 51.42% 66.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,289 4,149 2,363
10th Percentile £25,313 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +2.94%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the North West

Retail
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Retail in the North West

Retail
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the North West over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in the North West

Retail
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Manchester -18 135 £52,500 +10.53% 985
Cheshire -21 63 £37,500 +7.14% 245
Merseyside +33 62 £29,000 -27.50% 152
Lancashire -54 33 £45,000 +8.43% 217
Cumbria -45 15 £32,851 -53.07% 40
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.97%) Confluence
2 3 (0.97%) SAS
3 2 (0.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.97%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.97%) InDesign
4 3 (0.97%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.65%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.32%) Blender
6 1 (0.32%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (0.32%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (32.14%) AWS
2 94 (30.52%) Azure
3 20 (6.49%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.57%) Google Analytics
5 8 (2.60%) PowerApps
6 7 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.27%) SaaS
7 6 (1.95%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.62%) Facebook Ads
9 4 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.30%) Contentsquare
9 4 (1.30%) GCP
9 4 (1.30%) Serverless
10 3 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.65%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.65%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.60%) DHCP
1 8 (2.60%) DNS
1 8 (2.60%) Firewall
2 7 (2.27%) VLAN
3 3 (0.97%) LAN
4 2 (0.65%) IPv4
4 2 (0.65%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (0.32%) Broadband
5 1 (0.32%) IPsec
5 1 (0.32%) Network Security
5 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.32%) WAN
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (28.25%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.90%) Power BI
3 8 (2.60%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.27%) Big Data
5 6 (1.95%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.62%) Tableau
7 4 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.65%) Metadata
9 2 (0.65%) MySQL
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.32%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.32%) QlikView
10 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 74 (24.03%) JIRA
2 71 (23.05%) GitLab
2 71 (23.05%) Selenium
3 70 (22.73%) Bitbucket
3 70 (22.73%) Cucumber
3 70 (22.73%) Maven
3 70 (22.73%) SonarQube
3 70 (22.73%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.30%) Git
5 2 (0.65%) TestRail
6 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.32%) MLflow
6 1 (0.32%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.32%) Subversion
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 115 (37.34%) Finance
2 90 (29.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 82 (26.62%) Banking
4 79 (25.65%) Manufacturing
5 70 (22.73%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (22.73%) Investment Banking
6 58 (18.83%) Social Skills
7 36 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (10.06%) Marketing
9 18 (5.84%) Dutch Language
10 16 (5.19%) Finnish Language
10 16 (5.19%) Norwegian Language
11 11 (3.57%) Advertising
12 10 (3.25%) Back Office
13 5 (1.62%) Automotive
13 5 (1.62%) Games
13 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.30%) Catalan Language
14 4 (1.30%) Electronics
14 4 (1.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 83 (26.95%) Software Engineer
2 60 (19.48%) Trainer
3 43 (13.96%) Senior
4 19 (6.17%) Analyst
5 16 (5.19%) IT Support
6 13 (4.22%) Applications Support
6 13 (4.22%) Developer
7 9 (2.92%) Data Engineer
8 8 (2.60%) .NET Developer
8 8 (2.60%) Applications Support Analyst
8 8 (2.60%) Senior Developer
8 8 (2.60%) Senior Manager
8 8 (2.60%) Support Analyst
9 7 (2.27%) Lead
9 7 (2.27%) Sales Manager
9 7 (2.27%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (2.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (1.95%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (1.95%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (25.32%) REST
2 76 (24.68%) React
3 71 (23.05%) CSS
3 71 (23.05%) HTML
4 70 (22.73%) CSS3
4 70 (22.73%) HTML5
4 70 (22.73%) Jest
4 70 (22.73%) JPA
4 70 (22.73%) Kafka
4 70 (22.73%) Redux
4 70 (22.73%) RESTful
4 70 (22.73%) Sass
4 70 (22.73%) Spring
4 70 (22.73%) Spring Boot
5 9 (2.92%) .NET
6 8 (2.60%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.27%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (2.27%) Node.js
8 6 (1.95%) Blazor
8 6 (1.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (24.35%) Product Ownership
2 70 (22.73%) Enterprise Software
3 60 (19.48%) Robotics
4 19 (6.17%) Social Media
5 15 (4.87%) EPoS
6 12 (3.90%) Driving Licence
7 10 (3.25%) CCTV
8 8 (2.60%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.27%) FMCG
9 7 (2.27%) Manufacturing Execution System
10 6 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.30%) Digital Signage
11 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.97%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.97%) Online Games
12 3 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
13 2 (0.65%) Graphic Design
13 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.22%) Linux
2 9 (2.92%) Windows
3 8 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.65%) Unix
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.14%) Agile
2 90 (29.22%) Software Engineering
3 85 (27.60%) Microservices
4 84 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 83 (26.95%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (26.30%) User Experience
7 80 (25.97%) DevOps
8 77 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 77 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 74 (24.03%) Migration
10 72 (23.38%) Test Automation
11 71 (23.05%) Containerisation
11 71 (23.05%) Full-Stack Development
12 70 (22.73%) Front End Development
12 70 (22.73%) Responsive Web Design
12 70 (22.73%) SDLC
12 70 (22.73%) Strategic Thinking
13 65 (21.10%) Artificial Intelligence
14 63 (20.45%) Machine Learning
15 60 (19.48%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 114 (37.01%) SQL
2 82 (26.62%) TypeScript
3 73 (23.70%) Java
4 71 (23.05%) JavaScript
5 29 (9.42%) Python
6 10 (3.25%) C#
7 9 (2.92%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.27%) C-shell
8 7 (2.27%) Korn
8 7 (2.27%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.62%) Go
10 3 (0.97%) PHP
10 3 (0.97%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.65%) C++
11 2 (0.65%) VBA
12 1 (0.32%) Bash
12 1 (0.32%) C
12 1 (0.32%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (29.55%) Degree
2 11 (3.57%) PhD
3 9 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.27%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.97%) Tableau Certification
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.65%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) CCNA
8 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (24.68%) QA
2 73 (23.70%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.95%) GDPR
4 4 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.97%) ITGC
5 3 (0.97%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.32%) PERC
System Software
1 78 (25.32%) Docker
2 9 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (25.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.95%) Terraform
3 5 (1.62%) SCCM
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Grafana
4 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 79 (25.65%) Google
2 70 (22.73%) Solace
3 67 (21.75%) Databricks
4 63 (20.45%) Adobe
5 21 (6.82%) Microsoft
6 12 (3.90%) Facebook
6 12 (3.90%) Oracle
7 8 (2.60%) BT
7 8 (2.60%) VMware
8 7 (2.27%) Veeam
9 6 (1.95%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.62%) Blue Prism
10 5 (1.62%) MobileIron
10 5 (1.62%) UiPath
11 4 (1.30%) Instagram
11 4 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.97%) Concur
12 3 (0.97%) IBM
13 2 (0.65%) Pinterest
13 2 (0.65%) Salesforce