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 13 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 35 160
Rank change year-on-year -27 +125 -114
Permanent jobs citing Retail 84 134 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.57% 6.97% 1.88%
As % of the General category 5.21% 9.18% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 39 51 87
10th Percentile £26,500 - £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £26,929 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.97% -3.83% -52.96%
75th Percentile £41,025 £46,250 £52,884
90th Percentile £57,500 - £72,433
UK median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +15.79% -20.83%

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 1,613 1,459 4,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 49.42% 75.91% 74.86%
Number of salaries quoted 666 691 1,593
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +5.77% -12.64%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 13 April 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 13 April 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 +1 36 £30,000 +11.40% 9
Glasgow -6 26 £65,000 +62.50% 13
Perth and Kinross - 12 £30,000 -
Perthshire - 10 £30,000 - 1
Angus - 7 - - 1
Highlands - 4 £32,000 - 1
Dundee - 3 £27,000 - 1
Midlothian -5 1 - - 5
Stirling -18 1 - -
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 (5.95%) Jupyter
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Chatbot
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.33%) AWS
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.95%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (4.76%) Azure
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.19%) IaaS
5 1 (1.19%) OCI
5 1 (1.19%) PaaS
5 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) DHCP
1 4 (4.76%) DNS
2 3 (3.57%) Cisco Wireless
2 3 (3.57%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.57%) WAN
2 3 (3.57%) Wireless
3 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.19%) Power BI
1 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 29 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 25 (29.76%) Finance
3 18 (21.43%) Legal
4 15 (17.86%) Manufacturing
5 13 (15.48%) Banking
6 9 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Billing
9 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.38%) Marketing
10 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (22.62%) Analyst
2 15 (17.86%) Field Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 11 (13.10%) 2nd Line Support
5 10 (11.90%) Field Service Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 9 (10.71%) Commercial Lawyer
7 7 (8.33%) Development Manager
7 7 (8.33%) EPoS Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) EPoS Field Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) EPoS Field Service Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Senior
8 6 (7.14%) IT Support
9 5 (5.95%) Applications Support
9 5 (5.95%) Applications Support Analyst
9 5 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 5 (5.95%) Programmer
9 5 (5.95%) Trainee
9 5 (5.95%) Trainee Programmer
10 3 (3.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.95%) Hugging Face
1 5 (5.95%) Matplotlib
1 5 (5.95%) NumPy
1 5 (5.95%) Pandas
1 5 (5.95%) scikit-learn
1 5 (5.95%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Driving Licence
1 11 (13.10%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (8.33%) EPoS
2 7 (8.33%) FMCG
3 5 (5.95%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.57%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.38%) CMDB
5 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.19%) Equities
6 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.19%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) PDA
6 1 (1.19%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.19%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Windows
2 3 (3.57%) Android
2 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.19%) AIX
3 1 (1.19%) Linux
3 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.19%) Solaris
3 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (9.52%) Strategic Thinking
6 6 (7.14%) ITIL
6 6 (7.14%) Visualisation
7 5 (5.95%) Agile
7 5 (5.95%) AI
7 5 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 5 (5.95%) Conversational UI
7 5 (5.95%) Data Privacy
7 5 (5.95%) Machine Learning
7 5 (5.95%) Neural Network
7 5 (5.95%) OO
7 5 (5.95%) OOP
7 5 (5.95%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (5.95%) Sentiment Analysis
7 5 (5.95%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.14%) Python
2 2 (2.38%) SQL
2 2 (2.38%) VBA
3 1 (1.19%) Bash
3 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (8.33%) CIPD
2 5 (5.95%) A+ Certification
2 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
2 5 (5.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 5 (5.95%) Degree
2 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.95%) Server+ Certification
3 3 (3.57%) CISM
3 3 (3.57%) CISSP
4 1 (1.19%) ACCA
4 1 (1.19%) CIMA
4 1 (1.19%) City & Guilds
4 1 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) GDPR
1 3 (3.57%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.57%) SLA
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
2 2 (2.38%) QA
3 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Data Guard
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 16 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.57%) Apple
2 3 (3.57%) Cisco
2 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.38%) Blue Prism
3 2 (2.38%) Pega
4 1 (1.19%) BT
4 1 (1.19%) Databricks
4 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.19%) SAP