Retail Job Trends in Slough

Retailing
Berkshire > Slough

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Slough. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -28 -5 +34
Permanent jobs citing Retail 5 6 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Slough 1.44% 5.00% 5.21%
As % of the General category 1.98% 7.89% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £47,000 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £40,500 £82,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -50.91% +65.00% -24.53%

All General Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 253 76 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Slough 72.70% 63.33% 44.79%
Number of salaries quoted 60 13 22
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £77,250
90th Percentile £82,750 £68,500 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £49,000 £60,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -18.33% +15.38% -5.45%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

Retail job vacancy trend in Slough

Retail
Salary Trend in Slough

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Retail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Retail

Retail
Salary Histogram in Slough

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in Slough over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail in Slough

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Account Executive
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Advisor
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) B2B
1 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware