Retail Job Trends in Stockport

Retailing
Manchester > Stockport

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Stockport. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Permanent jobs citing Retail 3 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 4.55% - 1.75%
As % of the General category 5.26% - 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.00%
75th Percentile £33,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -19.23% +18.18%

All General Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 57 64 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 86.36% 60.95% 68.42%
Number of salaries quoted 21 25 31
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,700 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £55,000 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +96.43% -45.37%
75th Percentile £51,250 £63,750 £48,125
90th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £52,500
Manchester median annual salary £48,000 £52,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% -9.48% +5.45%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Retail job vacancy trend in Stockport

Retail
Salary Trend in Stockport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Retail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Retail

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Corporate Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Installations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) Jest
1 2 (66.67%) JPA
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Redux
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Sass
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Signage
2 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (33.33%) Home Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Smart Home
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Solace