Retail Job Trends in Scotland

Retailing
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 14 175
Rank change year-on-year -44 +161 -123
Permanent jobs citing Retail 82 278 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.60% 13.26% 1.44%
As % of the General category 5.39% 16.67% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 42 127 58
10th Percentile £26,500 - £26,250
25th Percentile £29,813 £26,929 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £32,851 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -31.56% -19.06%
75th Percentile £35,813 - £57,346
90th Percentile £41,250 £34,111 £73,953
UK median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -20.20%

All General Skills
Scotland

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 general skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,522 1,668 4,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.18% 79.54% 71.94%
Number of salaries quoted 645 629 1,568
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,313 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £32,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £93,778 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -12.50%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Retail job vacancy trend in Scotland

Retail
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Retail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Retail

Retail
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail in Scotland

Retail
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. 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
Edinburgh -14 31 £30,000 -8.68% 8
Glasgow +22 26 £55,000 +67.42% 16
Perthshire - 15 £30,000 - 2
Perth and Kinross - 15 £30,000 -
Angus - 12 - - 2
Dundee -5 3 £27,000 -
Midlothian -6 3 - - 5
Stirling -17 1 - - 1
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Highlands - 1 £26,500 - 2
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.10%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Chatbot
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.10%) AWS
1 5 (6.10%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (2.44%) Azure
3 1 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.22%) IaaS
3 1 (1.22%) OCI
3 1 (1.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) DHCP
1 3 (3.66%) DNS
2 1 (1.22%) Broadband
2 1 (1.22%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (1.22%) Internet
2 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.22%) WAN
2 1 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) Metadata
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Finance
2 19 (23.17%) Manufacturing
3 12 (14.63%) Legal
4 7 (8.54%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.32%) Marketing
6 4 (4.88%) Billing
7 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (25.61%) Field Engineer
2 15 (18.29%) Development Manager
3 14 (17.07%) Analyst
4 11 (13.41%) Support Analyst
5 10 (12.20%) Field Service Engineer
6 9 (10.98%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (10.98%) Commercial Lawyer
7 8 (9.76%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 7 (8.54%) EPoS Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) EPoS Field Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) EPoS Field Service Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 5 (6.10%) Programmer
9 5 (6.10%) Trainee
9 5 (6.10%) Trainee Programmer
10 4 (4.88%) Applications Support
10 4 (4.88%) Applications Support Analyst
10 4 (4.88%) Business Development Executive
11 3 (3.66%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 3 (3.66%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.10%) Hugging Face
1 5 (6.10%) Matplotlib
1 5 (6.10%) NumPy
1 5 (6.10%) Pandas
1 5 (6.10%) scikit-learn
1 5 (6.10%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.85%) FMCG
1 13 (15.85%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (9.76%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.54%) EPoS
4 5 (6.10%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.66%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Android
2 2 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.22%) AIX
3 1 (1.22%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Solaris
3 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (18.29%) Customer Service
4 8 (9.76%) Data Privacy
5 7 (8.54%) Business Development
6 6 (7.32%) B2B
6 6 (7.32%) Commercial Awareness
6 6 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (6.10%) AI
7 5 (6.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 5 (6.10%) Conversational UI
7 5 (6.10%) LLM
7 5 (6.10%) Machine Learning
7 5 (6.10%) OO
7 5 (6.10%) OOP
7 5 (6.10%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (6.10%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 5 (6.10%) Sentiment Analysis
7 5 (6.10%) Visualisation
7 5 (6.10%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.32%) Python
2 1 (1.22%) Bash
2 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) CIPD
2 6 (7.32%) Degree
3 5 (6.10%) A+ Certification
3 5 (6.10%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Server+ Certification
4 3 (3.66%) CCA
5 1 (1.22%) ACCA
5 1 (1.22%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.66%) SLA
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
2 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.22%) Data Guard
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.44%) Apple
2 2 (2.44%) SAP
3 1 (1.22%) Cisco
3 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.22%) Google
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle
3 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow