Retail Jobs in Reading

Retailing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Reading. 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 42 93 96
Rank change year-on-year +51 +3 -29
Permanent jobs citing Retail 21 33 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 4.23% 1.84% 2.46%
As % of the General category 6.54% 3.68% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 20 27 12
10th Percentile £28,500 £24,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £69,375 £28,750 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £45,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -32.08% -5.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £52,875 £71,875
90th Percentile £84,125 £62,500 £74,875
Berkshire median annual salary £82,500 £47,500 £46,581
% change year-on-year +73.68% +1.97% -25.77%

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 321 896 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 64.72% 50.06% 63.99%
Number of salaries quoted 137 503 419
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,175 £27,950
25th Percentile £43,750 £35,500 £37,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £77,250 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.63% -9.91%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in Reading

Retail
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Retail in Reading

Retail
Salary Histogram in Reading

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

Salary histogram for Retail in Reading

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) IIS
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
1 12 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 11 (52.38%) Azure Service Bus
2 11 (52.38%) SonarCloud
3 4 (19.05%) SaaS
3 4 (19.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DMZ
1 2 (9.52%) DWDM
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) Internet
1 2 (9.52%) LAN
1 2 (9.52%) MPLS
1 2 (9.52%) SD-WAN
1 2 (9.52%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (9.52%) VPN
1 2 (9.52%) WAN
1 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) DB2
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Git
1 11 (52.38%) MSBuild
1 11 (52.38%) Octopus Deploy
1 11 (52.38%) Team Foundation Server
1 11 (52.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Architect
1 11 (52.38%) Technical Architect
2 4 (19.05%) IT Support
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
3 1 (4.76%) Account Executive
3 1 (4.76%) Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) .NET
1 11 (52.38%) ASP.NET
1 11 (52.38%) Bootstrap
1 11 (52.38%) CSS
1 11 (52.38%) gRPC
1 11 (52.38%) HTML
1 11 (52.38%) JSON
1 11 (52.38%) REST
1 11 (52.38%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) AIX
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.76%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) API Integration
2 11 (52.38%) Code Quality
2 11 (52.38%) Data Encryption
2 11 (52.38%) Design Patterns
2 11 (52.38%) Event-Driven
2 11 (52.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 11 (52.38%) Microservices
2 11 (52.38%) MVC
2 11 (52.38%) Performance Optimisation
2 11 (52.38%) Performance Testing
2 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (52.38%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (23.81%) B2B
4 4 (19.05%) CRM
4 4 (19.05%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) ITSM
4 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (19.05%) Ticket Management
5 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) C#
2 11 (52.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CCNA
2 1 (4.76%) CCNP
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) GDPR
2 4 (19.05%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
2 2 (9.52%) IBM
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat