Retail Jobs in the South East

Retailing
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 46 72
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 -2
Permanent jobs citing Retail 582 822 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.04% 4.32% 4.14%
As % of the General category 8.83% 7.96% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 213 399 301
10th Percentile £23,731 £24,500 £28,875
25th Percentile £26,500 £31,750 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £67,500 £73,250
England median annual salary £51,058 £47,500 £57,948
% change year-on-year +7.49% -18.03% -1.78%

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,593 10,323 8,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 68.46% 54.30% 62.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,873 6,360 4,209
10th Percentile £27,267 £25,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.51%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the South East

Retail
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail in the South East.

Salary trend for Retail in the South East

Retail
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the South East over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in the South East

Retail
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Thames Valley +16 282 £64,000 +50.59% 754
Buckinghamshire +4 156 £50,000 +17.65% 189
East Sussex +11 111 £35,750 -24.74% 84
Berkshire +38 92 £82,500 +73.68% 470
Surrey +1 71 £27,000 -43.16% 165
Hampshire +23 45 £38,000 -20.00% 301
Kent +20 45 £31,000 -34.74% 124
Oxfordshire -11 34 £55,000 +37.50% 100
West Sussex +3 21 £45,750 +30.71% 102
Middlesex -10 8 - - 7
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 21 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.17%) Apache
3 1 (0.17%) IIS
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 29 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.52%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.20%) Shopify
2 6 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.69%) ResourceLink
3 4 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (8.93%) Azure
2 29 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (4.81%) Vertex AI
4 27 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 22 (3.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 22 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 22 (3.78%) SonarCloud
7 14 (2.41%) Google Analytics
8 13 (2.23%) AWS
8 13 (2.23%) GCP
9 12 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (1.72%) Google Tag Manager
11 8 (1.37%) Salsify
12 7 (1.20%) Google Ads
12 7 (1.20%) SaaS
13 4 (0.69%) Amazon Ads
13 4 (0.69%) IBM Watson
13 4 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.04%) 4G
1 41 (7.04%) 5G
2 9 (1.55%) Firewall
3 8 (1.37%) VPN
4 4 (0.69%) Broadband
5 3 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (0.52%) DHCP
5 3 (0.52%) DNS
5 3 (0.52%) Intranet
5 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.52%) VLAN
6 2 (0.34%) DMZ
6 2 (0.34%) DWDM
6 2 (0.34%) Internet
6 2 (0.34%) LAN
6 2 (0.34%) MPLS
6 2 (0.34%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.34%) WAN
6 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.36%) Data Mining
2 25 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.95%) Power BI
4 22 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (2.06%) MySQL
6 8 (1.37%) Metadata
7 4 (0.69%) QlikView
7 4 (0.69%) Tableau
8 3 (0.52%) GIS
8 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.17%) DB2
10 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 35 (6.01%) Git
2 28 (4.81%) Visual Studio
3 22 (3.78%) MSBuild
3 22 (3.78%) Octopus Deploy
3 22 (3.78%) Team Foundation Server
4 16 (2.75%) JIRA
General
1 246 (42.27%) Manufacturing
2 120 (20.62%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.00%) Dutch Language
4 64 (11.00%) Finnish Language
4 64 (11.00%) Norwegian Language
5 56 (9.62%) Finance
6 55 (9.45%) Law
7 52 (8.93%) Telecoms
8 42 (7.22%) Marketing
9 21 (3.61%) Legal
10 16 (2.75%) Catalan Language
11 14 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.23%) Automotive
13 11 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.37%) Back Office
15 6 (1.03%) Military
16 5 (0.86%) Billing
16 5 (0.86%) Brand Awareness
17 4 (0.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 243 (41.75%) Trainer
2 60 (10.31%) Senior
3 51 (8.76%) Lead
4 25 (4.30%) IT Support
5 23 (3.95%) Architect
5 23 (3.95%) Technical Architect
6 22 (3.78%) Technical Support
7 20 (3.44%) Analyst
8 19 (3.26%) Developer
9 13 (2.23%) Support Engineer
10 11 (1.89%) Technical Engineer
10 11 (1.89%) Technical Support Engineer
11 10 (1.72%) Junior
11 10 (1.72%) Junior Developer
12 9 (1.55%) Graduate
12 9 (1.55%) Support Analyst
13 8 (1.37%) Applications Support
13 8 (1.37%) Senior Manager
13 8 (1.37%) Software Engineer
14 7 (1.20%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.84%) CSS
1 34 (5.84%) HTML
2 31 (5.33%) .NET
3 30 (5.15%) ASP.NET
4 24 (4.12%) XML
5 22 (3.78%) Bootstrap
5 22 (3.78%) gRPC
5 22 (3.78%) JSON
5 22 (3.78%) REST
6 11 (1.89%) LAMP
6 11 (1.89%) Web Services
7 8 (1.37%) RESTful
8 7 (1.20%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.03%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (0.86%) Laravel
11 2 (0.34%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.34%) Entity Framework
11 2 (0.34%) LINQ
11 2 (0.34%) React
12 1 (0.17%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 248 (42.61%) Robotics
2 47 (8.08%) Algorithms
3 21 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.75%) Digital Media
5 13 (2.23%) Driving Licence
6 9 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.37%) FMCG
7 8 (1.37%) Taxonomies
8 7 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.20%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.03%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.03%) Digital Signage
9 6 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.86%) CCTV
10 5 (0.86%) iPad
11 4 (0.69%) Blockchain
11 4 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.69%) Learning Management System
12 3 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.50%) Windows
2 14 (2.41%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (1.03%) Linux
4 6 (1.03%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.52%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.17%) AIX
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.17%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (62.54%) Problem-Solving
2 295 (50.69%) Artificial Intelligence
3 287 (49.31%) Machine Learning
4 276 (47.42%) Generative AI
5 268 (46.05%) LLM
6 240 (41.24%) Red Team
7 195 (33.51%) Data Privacy
8 82 (14.09%) Analytics
9 77 (13.23%) DevOps
10 74 (12.71%) Agile
11 68 (11.68%) Customer Service
12 63 (10.82%) Customer Experience
13 54 (9.28%) Roadmaps
14 51 (8.76%) Customer-Centricity
14 51 (8.76%) Strategic Thinking
15 46 (7.90%) Data Science
16 44 (7.56%) Natural Language Processing
17 42 (7.22%) Data Engineering
17 42 (7.22%) MVC
18 41 (7.04%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (11.34%) SQL
2 41 (7.04%) JavaScript
3 34 (5.84%) C#
4 15 (2.58%) Python
5 12 (2.06%) PHP
6 5 (0.86%) R
7 4 (0.69%) Java
8 3 (0.52%) C
9 2 (0.34%) VBA
10 1 (0.17%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 283 (48.63%) Degree
2 8 (1.37%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (0.69%) APMP
4 4 (0.69%) DV Cleared
4 4 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (0.52%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.34%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.17%) CCNA
7 1 (0.17%) CCNP
7 1 (0.17%) CEH
7 1 (0.17%) CIPD
7 1 (0.17%) CISA
7 1 (0.17%) CISSP
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.17%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.90%) GDPR
2 9 (1.55%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.55%) SLA
3 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.52%) GRC
3 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.52%) PERC
3 3 (0.52%) QA
4 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.34%) ISO 31000
4 2 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.17%) PMO
5 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (4.12%) Docker
2 7 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.52%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (0.52%) SCCM
2 1 (0.17%) Grafana
2 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 287 (49.31%) Google
2 257 (44.16%) Databricks
3 244 (41.92%) Adobe
4 117 (20.10%) Microsoft
5 28 (4.81%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.06%) BT
7 11 (1.89%) SAP
8 9 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.37%) Pinterest
9 8 (1.37%) TikTok
10 6 (1.03%) IBM
11 5 (0.86%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.86%) Sage
12 4 (0.69%) Cognos
12 4 (0.69%) Criteo
12 4 (0.69%) Dell
12 4 (0.69%) Twitter
13 3 (0.52%) Cisco
13 3 (0.52%) Infor
13 3 (0.52%) Oracle