Retail Jobs in South Wales

Retailing
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 68 36
Rank change year-on-year +28 -32 -8
Permanent jobs citing Retail 29 33 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.70% 2.26% 6.56%
As % of the General category 4.42% 4.29% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 19 25 57
10th Percentile £32,750 £23,250 £25,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £26,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.29% -22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £66,813 £52,884 £60,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £58,474 £96,250
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +35.14% -17.78% -18.18%

All General Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 656 769 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 83.78% 52.56% 64.77%
Number of salaries quoted 399 539 366
10th Percentile £23,203 £26,250 £26,391
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,500 £43,500 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year -39.08% -2.61% -10.67%
75th Percentile £62,000 £58,750 £62,288
90th Percentile £70,600 £67,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £37,500 £43,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% -1.14% -7.37%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in South Wales

Retail
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Retail in South Wales

Retail
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in South Wales over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in South Wales

Retail
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Cardiff +26 14 £62,125 +30.79% 13
Newport -9 7 £50,500 +90.57% 7
Torfaen - 6 £33,500 - 3
Gwent +5 2 £57,197 +65.79% 4
Retail
Wales

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (10.34%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.34%) Serverless
3 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) 802.11
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) VLAN
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
1 2 (6.90%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) QA Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Senior QA Manager
4 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Associate Director
5 2 (6.90%) Development Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (6.90%) Insight Director
5 2 (6.90%) Junior
5 2 (6.90%) Junior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Software Development Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Software Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Incident Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Service Transition Leader
6 1 (3.45%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
2 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) SCADA
3 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Coaching
1 7 (24.14%) Customer Experience
2 6 (20.69%) Agile
2 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
2 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (17.24%) Customer Service
4 4 (13.79%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (13.79%) Internal Audit
4 4 (13.79%) Microservices
5 3 (10.34%) Data Strategy
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps
5 3 (10.34%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (10.34%) ITIL
5 3 (10.34%) Project Management
5 3 (10.34%) Scrum
5 3 (10.34%) SDLC
5 3 (10.34%) Service Delivery
5 3 (10.34%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) C#
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) CCIE
3 1 (3.45%) CCNA
3 1 (3.45%) CCNP
3 1 (3.45%) CISA
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CISM
3 1 (3.45%) CRISC
3 1 (3.45%) GCIH
3 1 (3.45%) GIAC
3 1 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) BT
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Facebook
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.45%) VMware