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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 36 43
Rank change year-on-year -62 +7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Retail 270 521 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.38% 5.29% 6.52%
As % of the General category 4.82% 9.88% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 139 353 282
10th Percentile £31,850 £22,823 £30,249
25th Percentile £40,000 £27,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £65,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,542
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +3.45%

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 5,606 5,274 5,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.08% 53.53% 67.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,583 3,905 2,452
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,688 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 11 May 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 11 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
Manchester -13 128 £63,750 +34.21% 239
Cheshire -28 54 £55,000 +46.67% 38
Merseyside +30 36 £29,000 -27.50% 33
Lancashire -76 32 £45,000 +20.00% 174
Cumbria -60 20 £55,500 -20.71% 7
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 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.48%) SAS
3 3 (1.11%) Confluence
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.11%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.11%) InDesign
3 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.11%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.74%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.37%) Blender
5 1 (0.37%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.37%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Odoo
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (34.44%) AWS
2 85 (31.48%) Azure
3 12 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 8 (2.96%) Google Analytics
5 7 (2.59%) GCP
6 6 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.85%) Facebook Ads
7 5 (1.85%) SaaS
8 4 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.48%) Serverless
9 3 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.11%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.74%) Amazon Ads
10 2 (0.74%) Azure API Management
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Advertising
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.33%) DNS
2 7 (2.59%) DHCP
2 7 (2.59%) Firewall
2 7 (2.59%) LAN
3 6 (2.22%) IPv4
3 6 (2.22%) VLAN
4 1 (0.37%) Broadband
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) IPsec
4 1 (0.37%) Network Security
4 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) WAN
4 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (30.37%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.33%) Power BI
3 5 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.85%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.85%) Tableau
4 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.11%) Big Data
5 3 (1.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.74%) Metadata
6 2 (0.74%) MySQL
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.37%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.37%) QlikView
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (27.04%) JIRA
2 71 (26.30%) GitLab
2 71 (26.30%) Selenium
3 70 (25.93%) Bitbucket
3 70 (25.93%) Cucumber
3 70 (25.93%) Maven
3 70 (25.93%) SonarQube
3 70 (25.93%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.11%) Git
5 2 (0.74%) TestRail
6 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.37%) MLflow
6 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.37%) Subversion
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 126 (46.67%) Finance
2 91 (33.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 83 (30.74%) Banking
4 70 (25.93%) Corporate Banking
4 70 (25.93%) Investment Banking
5 50 (18.52%) Manufacturing
6 44 (16.30%) Social Skills
7 28 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (8.15%) Marketing
9 10 (3.70%) Automotive
9 10 (3.70%) Back Office
9 10 (3.70%) Dutch Language
10 8 (2.96%) Advertising
10 8 (2.96%) Finnish Language
10 8 (2.96%) Norwegian Language
11 5 (1.85%) Games
11 5 (1.85%) Legal
12 4 (1.48%) Brand Awareness
12 4 (1.48%) Electronics
12 4 (1.48%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 46 (17.04%) Senior
3 25 (9.26%) Trainer
4 22 (8.15%) Analyst
5 16 (5.93%) Project Manager
6 13 (4.81%) Senior Manager
7 12 (4.44%) Developer
8 11 (4.07%) Senior Project Manager
9 10 (3.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 10 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
9 10 (3.70%) Lead
10 9 (3.33%) Applications Support
10 9 (3.33%) Applications Support Analyst
10 9 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (3.33%) Support Analyst
11 8 (2.96%) .NET Developer
11 8 (2.96%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.59%) Facilities Manager
12 7 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.59%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (28.52%) REST
2 76 (28.15%) React
3 71 (26.30%) CSS
3 71 (26.30%) HTML
4 70 (25.93%) CSS3
4 70 (25.93%) HTML5
4 70 (25.93%) Jest
4 70 (25.93%) JPA
4 70 (25.93%) Kafka
4 70 (25.93%) Redux
4 70 (25.93%) RESTful
4 70 (25.93%) Sass
4 70 (25.93%) Spring
4 70 (25.93%) Spring Boot
5 10 (3.70%) .NET
6 8 (2.96%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.59%) Node.js
8 6 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (1.85%) Blazor
9 5 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 70 (25.93%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (8.89%) Robotics
4 12 (4.44%) Social Media
5 9 (3.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 8 (2.96%) FMCG
7 7 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.85%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.11%) Digital Signage
10 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.11%) Online Games
10 3 (1.11%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.74%) EPoS
11 2 (0.74%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.56%) Linux
2 9 (3.33%) Windows
3 7 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.22%) Unix
5 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (37.04%) Agile
2 89 (32.96%) Software Engineering
3 84 (31.11%) CI/CD
4 83 (30.74%) Microservices
5 82 (30.37%) DevOps
5 82 (30.37%) User Experience
6 76 (28.15%) Mentoring
6 76 (28.15%) Performance Optimisation
7 74 (27.41%) Migration
8 72 (26.67%) Test Automation
9 71 (26.30%) Containerisation
9 71 (26.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 71 (26.30%) Strategic Thinking
10 70 (25.93%) Front End Development
10 70 (25.93%) Responsive Web Design
10 70 (25.93%) SDLC
11 49 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (11.11%) Analytics
13 28 (10.37%) Artificial Intelligence
14 26 (9.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 98 (36.30%) SQL
2 79 (29.26%) TypeScript
3 72 (26.67%) Java
4 71 (26.30%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.74%) Python
6 11 (4.07%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.33%) C#
7 9 (3.33%) C-shell
7 9 (3.33%) Korn
7 9 (3.33%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.59%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.85%) Bash
9 5 (1.85%) Go
10 3 (1.11%) PHP
11 2 (0.74%) C++
12 1 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (19.63%) Degree
2 12 (4.44%) DBS Check
2 12 (4.44%) PhD
3 9 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.11%) Tableau Certification
5 2 (0.74%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.37%) CCNA
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.37%) HNC
6 1 (0.37%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (28.89%) QA
2 73 (27.04%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.22%) GDPR
4 5 (1.85%) ITGC
5 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.11%) SLA
7 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.37%) PERC
System Software
1 81 (30.00%) Docker
2 7 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 81 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Grafana
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 70 (25.93%) Solace
2 39 (14.44%) Google
3 28 (10.37%) Databricks
4 27 (10.00%) Adobe
5 14 (5.19%) Oracle
6 12 (4.44%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.96%) BT
8 7 (2.59%) Facebook
9 6 (2.22%) Veeam
10 5 (1.85%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.48%) Instagram
12 3 (1.11%) Concur
12 3 (1.11%) IBM
12 3 (1.11%) VMware
13 2 (0.74%) Pinterest
13 2 (0.74%) Proofpoint
13 2 (0.74%) Salesforce
14 1 (0.37%) Informatica
14 1 (0.37%) YouTube