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 advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 41 75
Rank change year-on-year -14 +34 +57
Permanent jobs citing Retail 386 498 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.22% 7.11% 4.11%
As % of the General category 7.82% 11.01% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 256 334 207
10th Percentile £26,625 £30,932 £24,200
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,590 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -17.57% +24.78% +2.94%
75th Percentile £61,250 £69,650 £60,250
90th Percentile £72,466 £86,410 £73,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £58,135
% change year-on-year -20.83% +3.21% +1.10%

All General Skills
South West

Retail is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,934 4,523 4,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 53.94% 64.59% 59.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,370 2,461 2,980
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £29,725
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +4.35%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Bristol -26 119 £42,500 -29.31% 53
Gloucestershire -13 68 £47,500 - 25
Dorset +17 62 £45,000 -18.18% 9
Wiltshire -5 61 £55,000 +20.22% 29
Devon -35 40 £41,250 +27.20% 24
Somerset -7 18 £38,070 -30.78% 26
Cornwall +1 11 £45,000 +50.00% 8
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 9 (2.33%) Apache
2 6 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.30%) Oracle Application Server
4 4 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) WordPress
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.26%) SAP Portal
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 30 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.89%) Simulink
4 8 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.78%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.52%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.52%) Revit
Business Applications
1 13 (3.37%) Magento
2 11 (2.85%) Shopify
3 5 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (14.77%) Azure
2 46 (11.92%) Power Platform
3 27 (6.99%) AWS
4 21 (5.44%) GCP
5 12 (3.11%) Power Automate
5 12 (3.11%) SaaS
6 11 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (2.59%) GitHub
7 10 (2.59%) Snowflake
8 9 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.30%) dbt
10 5 (1.30%) Fivetran
10 5 (1.30%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.30%) Google Data Studio
10 5 (1.30%) Serverless
10 5 (1.30%) Stitch
11 4 (1.04%) Vertex AI
12 3 (0.78%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.40%) Firewall
2 8 (2.07%) WAN
3 7 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.30%) 5G
4 5 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (1.30%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.30%) VSAT
4 5 (1.30%) VXLAN
5 4 (1.04%) Bluetooth
5 4 (1.04%) Wireless
6 3 (0.78%) LAN
7 2 (0.52%) WLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Intranet
8 1 (0.26%) TETRA
8 1 (0.26%) VPN
8 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.33%) MySQL
2 34 (8.81%) Power BI
3 25 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (6.22%) SQL Server
5 23 (5.96%) Tableau
6 13 (3.37%) Big Data
6 13 (3.37%) Oracle BI EE
6 13 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (2.33%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.33%) Looker
8 8 (2.07%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.30%) Airbyte
9 5 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.30%) Redshift Spectrum
9 5 (1.30%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.04%) OLAP
10 4 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (5.96%) Git
2 6 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.30%) GitLab
3 5 (1.30%) IntelliJ
3 5 (1.30%) LabVIEW
4 4 (1.04%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.04%) JIRA
4 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.78%) JUnit
5 3 (0.78%) Maven
6 1 (0.26%) Appium
6 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.26%) JBehave
6 1 (0.26%) JMeter
6 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.26%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.26%) Subversion
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 129 (33.42%) Social Skills
2 98 (25.39%) Finance
3 47 (12.18%) Marketing
4 40 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (7.25%) Banking
5 28 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (4.15%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.89%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.63%) Military
9 11 (2.85%) Legal
9 11 (2.85%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.59%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.33%) French Language
12 8 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.81%) German Language
14 6 (1.55%) Electronics
14 6 (1.55%) Police
15 5 (1.30%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 60 (15.54%) Senior
2 49 (12.69%) Analyst
3 43 (11.14%) Developer
4 36 (9.33%) Consultant
5 31 (8.03%) Software Engineer
6 25 (6.48%) Architect
7 24 (6.22%) Lead
8 22 (5.70%) Product Manager
9 17 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.15%) Data Analyst
10 16 (4.15%) Security Analyst
11 15 (3.89%) Delivery Manager
11 15 (3.89%) Software Developer
12 14 (3.63%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 14 (3.63%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.63%) Senior Manager
12 14 (3.63%) Systems Engineer
13 13 (3.37%) PHP Developer
13 13 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.11%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (13.21%) HTML
2 45 (11.66%) CSS
3 26 (6.74%) React
4 21 (5.44%) REST
5 20 (5.18%) RESTful
6 15 (3.89%) Web Services
7 14 (3.63%) AngularJS
7 14 (3.63%) Laravel
8 11 (2.85%) LAMP
9 10 (2.59%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.33%) Kafka
10 9 (2.33%) Spring
11 8 (2.07%) Symfony
12 7 (1.81%) .NET
12 7 (1.81%) Vue
13 6 (1.55%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.55%) Middleware
13 6 (1.55%) SOAP
14 5 (1.30%) .NET Core
14 5 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.22%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.18%) Driving Licence
4 11 (2.85%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.59%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.07%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.81%) Life Science
9 6 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.55%) iPad
9 6 (1.55%) Replication
9 6 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.30%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.30%) FMCG
10 5 (1.30%) GNSS
10 5 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.30%) Robotics
11 4 (1.04%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.96%) Windows
2 16 (4.15%) Linux
3 10 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.55%) Unix
6 5 (1.30%) Android
6 5 (1.30%) CentOS
7 4 (1.04%) AIX
8 3 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.52%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.52%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (29.53%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (27.46%) Agile
3 77 (19.95%) E-Commerce
4 63 (16.32%) Analytics
5 58 (15.03%) Customer Service
6 49 (12.69%) Roadmaps
7 48 (12.44%) Mentoring
8 43 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
9 41 (10.62%) Software Engineering
10 37 (9.59%) Collaborative Working
11 32 (8.29%) Strategic Thinking
12 31 (8.03%) B2B
12 31 (8.03%) Project Delivery
13 29 (7.51%) Artificial Intelligence
13 29 (7.51%) User Experience
14 28 (7.25%) Information Security
14 28 (7.25%) Visualisation
15 27 (6.99%) Cloud Security
15 27 (6.99%) Decision-Making
16 25 (6.48%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (14.77%) JavaScript
2 51 (13.21%) SQL
3 38 (9.84%) PHP
4 25 (6.48%) Python
5 20 (5.18%) Java
5 20 (5.18%) MATLAB
6 15 (3.89%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.63%) C#
7 14 (3.63%) VBA
8 8 (2.07%) C
8 8 (2.07%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.81%) Ruby
10 4 (1.04%) Embedded C
10 4 (1.04%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.78%) Bicep
12 2 (0.52%) Go
12 2 (0.52%) Groovy
12 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.52%) Rust
13 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (15.80%) Degree
2 39 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.99%) DV Cleared
4 25 (6.48%) CISSP
5 13 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.33%) CCNP
6 9 (2.33%) CompTIA CySA+
6 9 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.07%) CEH
8 7 (1.81%) CCNA
9 6 (1.55%) CCSK
10 5 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.30%) HND
10 5 (1.30%) RHCE
10 5 (1.30%) RHCSA
10 5 (1.30%) SC Cleared
11 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.04%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.04%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.48%) NIST
2 20 (5.18%) PCI DSS
3 19 (4.92%) QA
3 19 (4.92%) SLA
4 10 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.33%) GDPR
6 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
7 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.52%) SEPA
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (3.89%) Docker
2 12 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.78%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.59%) Terraform
3 9 (2.33%) CASB
4 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.81%) SCCM
6 6 (1.55%) Ansible
7 5 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (1.30%) Puppet
8 1 (0.26%) Consul
8 1 (0.26%) Packer
8 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 78 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.99%) Google
3 26 (6.74%) Oracle
4 13 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 12 (3.11%) Twitter
5 12 (3.11%) VMware
6 7 (1.81%) Cisco
6 7 (1.81%) iManage
7 5 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.30%) SAP
8 4 (1.04%) Adobe
8 4 (1.04%) Cognos
8 4 (1.04%) IBM
8 4 (1.04%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.78%) Automation Anywhere
9 3 (0.78%) Blue Prism
9 3 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.78%) Thales
9 3 (0.78%) UiPath