Retail Jobs in the South West

Retailing
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 55 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 +23
Permanent jobs citing Retail 154 363 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.83% 3.80% 6.98%
As % of the General category 6.14% 7.53% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 108 221 347
10th Percentile £25,875 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,115 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,272 £52,500 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -13.77% -4.34% +15.54%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £74,220 £86,250 £82,548
England median annual salary £49,887 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.02% -17.39% -4.17%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,509 4,819 3,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 62.46% 50.43% 60.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,461 3,143 2,349
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £51,367
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -2.66% +7.01%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the South West

Retail
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Retail in the South West

Retail
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the South West over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in the South West

Retail
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Wiltshire +20 44 £56,745 +3.17% 43
Somerset +9 40 £57,500 +51.04% 26
Dorset +1 20 £30,000 -43.13% 12
Bristol -1 20 £44,460 -6.40% 81
Devon +12 17 £28,500 -28.75% 35
Gloucestershire +3 13 £35,000 -22.22% 65
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (16.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (11.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (8.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.95%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.65%) Magento
3 1 (0.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (31.82%) Azure
2 33 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 22 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (9.74%) Power Automate
5 14 (9.09%) OneDrive
6 12 (7.79%) AWS
6 12 (7.79%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (4.55%) GitHub
8 6 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.25%) GCP
10 3 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.95%) Collibra
10 3 (1.95%) Figma
10 3 (1.95%) Matillion
10 3 (1.95%) SaaS
10 3 (1.95%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.30%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.55%) 5G
1 7 (4.55%) SD-WAN
1 7 (4.55%) WAN
2 3 (1.95%) Broadband
3 1 (0.65%) Internet
3 1 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.64%) Power BI
2 18 (11.69%) Data Mining
3 15 (9.74%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (3.25%) Metadata
5 4 (2.60%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.60%) Tableau
6 3 (1.95%) Ataccama
6 3 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.95%) MySQL
6 3 (1.95%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.30%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.65%) Power Query
8 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Git
2 2 (1.30%) JIRA
2 2 (1.30%) Postman
2 2 (1.30%) Selenium
2 2 (1.30%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.65%) RStudio
General
1 53 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 40 (25.97%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (18.83%) Finance
4 16 (10.39%) Marketing
5 15 (9.74%) Legal
6 11 (7.14%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.84%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (5.19%) Banking
8 8 (5.19%) Brand Awareness
8 8 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.55%) Military
10 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.65%) Back Office
11 1 (0.65%) Electronics
11 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (18.18%) Developer
2 24 (15.58%) Senior
3 19 (12.34%) Support Technician
4 18 (11.69%) Lead
5 16 (10.39%) Junior
6 15 (9.74%) Analyst
6 15 (9.74%) Junior Developer
7 12 (7.79%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 11 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Technician
8 11 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (7.14%) Technical Support
9 9 (5.84%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.19%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
11 7 (4.55%) Professional Services Engineer
12 6 (3.90%) Designer
12 6 (3.90%) IT Manager
12 6 (3.90%) Sales Executive
13 5 (3.25%) Analytics Manager
13 5 (3.25%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.55%) HTML
2 5 (3.25%) CSS
2 5 (3.25%) RESTful
3 4 (2.60%) ADO
3 4 (2.60%) JSON
3 4 (2.60%) XML
4 3 (1.95%) .NET
4 3 (1.95%) EDI
4 3 (1.95%) Laravel
5 2 (1.30%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.30%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (1.30%) Bootstrap
5 2 (1.30%) LAMP
5 2 (1.30%) NgRx
5 2 (1.30%) RxJS
5 2 (1.30%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (1.30%) Web Services
6 1 (0.65%) PySpark
6 1 (0.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.74%) Data Structures
2 14 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 12 (7.79%) FMCG
4 11 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.19%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (4.55%) Self-Driving Car
7 4 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.60%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.60%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.95%) EPoS
8 3 (1.95%) Handset
8 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.30%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.65%) CCTV
10 1 (0.65%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 12 (7.79%) Windows
3 3 (1.95%) Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (25.97%) Customer Service
2 32 (20.78%) Data Management
3 30 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (13.64%) CRM
5 19 (12.34%) Analytics
5 19 (12.34%) Service Delivery
6 18 (11.69%) Coaching
6 18 (11.69%) Customer Experience
6 18 (11.69%) Decision-Making
6 18 (11.69%) Performance Management
7 17 (11.04%) Agile
7 17 (11.04%) Data Analysis
8 16 (10.39%) Commercial Awareness
9 15 (9.74%) Computer Science
9 15 (9.74%) WFM
10 14 (9.09%) DevOps
11 12 (7.79%) B2B
11 12 (7.79%) CI/CD
12 11 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.78%) SQL
2 22 (14.29%) Python
3 17 (11.04%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.39%) VBA
5 14 (9.09%) C#
6 13 (8.44%) R
7 7 (4.55%) C++
7 7 (4.55%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.95%) PHP
9 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (17.53%) Degree
2 9 (5.84%) AWS Certification
3 8 (5.19%) A+ Certification
3 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.90%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.25%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.95%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.95%) PMP
8 3 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.30%) CISM
9 2 (1.30%) CISSP
9 2 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.55%) GDPR
3 6 (3.90%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 62 (40.26%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.74%) Facebook
3 14 (9.09%) VMware
4 7 (4.55%) Google
5 5 (3.25%) Talend
6 4 (2.60%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.95%) IFS
8 2 (1.30%) Databricks
9 1 (0.65%) Adobe
9 1 (0.65%) Twitter