Retail Job Trends in Surrey

Retailing
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 67 33
Rank change year-on-year +24 -34 +36
Permanent jobs citing Retail 64 41 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 3.86% 3.33% 6.62%
As % of the General category 6.14% 5.00% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 60 19 28
10th Percentile £24,000 £27,000 £38,850
25th Percentile £30,250 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £50,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -13.42% +21.58%
75th Percentile £58,125 £66,875 £82,813
90th Percentile £66,750 £82,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £37,500 £51,578 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.29% -1.76% +0.96%

All General Skills
Surrey

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 general skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,043 820 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 62.83% 66.50% 61.26%
Number of salaries quoted 521 339 403
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £30,092
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -9.09%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Retail job vacancy trend in Surrey

Retail
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Retail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Retail

Retail
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in Surrey over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail in Surrey

Retail
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Redhill +11 17 £35,000 +34.62% 2
Guildford - 13 £27,500 - 3
Staines - 7 £55,000 -
Godstone -2 6 £36,000 -
Horley - 4 £60,000 -
Camberley +4 3 £65,000 -18.75%
Leatherhead - 2 £24,000 - 2
Epsom +14 1 £37,500 -25.00% 2
Dorking - 1 £77,500 -
Woking - 1 £62,500 - 4
Retail
South East

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.25%) Confluence
1 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.81%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (10.94%) Azure
2 7 (10.94%) SaaS
3 5 (7.81%) GitHub
3 5 (7.81%) Mimecast
3 5 (7.81%) Miro
4 2 (3.13%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (4.69%) Wireless
3 2 (3.13%) LAN
3 2 (3.13%) VPN
3 2 (3.13%) WAN
4 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) FileMaker
1 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Axure RP
1 5 (7.81%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (29.69%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.81%) Electronics
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Law
6 3 (4.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Automotive
7 1 (1.56%) Back Office
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) IT Support
2 9 (14.06%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 9 (14.06%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (10.94%) Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Project Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) 1st Line Support
5 5 (7.81%) Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (7.81%) Help Desk Technician
5 5 (7.81%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Technical Support
6 4 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Administrator
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Senior
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Service Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) CSS
1 5 (7.81%) HTML
1 5 (7.81%) JSON
1 5 (7.81%) REST
1 5 (7.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Driving Licence
2 7 (10.94%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.69%) Digital Media
3 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.56%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.56%) Social Media
5 1 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.06%) Windows
2 8 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (15.63%) Agile
3 8 (12.50%) Logistics
4 7 (10.94%) Customer Service
5 6 (9.38%) Client Onboarding
6 5 (7.81%) API Integration
6 5 (7.81%) B2B
6 5 (7.81%) CRM
6 5 (7.81%) Data Modelling
6 5 (7.81%) E-Commerce
6 5 (7.81%) Front End Development
6 5 (7.81%) MVC
6 5 (7.81%) Prototyping
6 5 (7.81%) User Experience
6 5 (7.81%) UX Research
6 5 (7.81%) Wireframes
7 4 (6.25%) Epics
7 4 (6.25%) ITIL
7 4 (6.25%) Workflow
7 4 (6.25%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.38%) Python
3 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.56%) ABAP
4 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) Degree
2 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.56%) PMP
2 1 (1.56%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (1.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (43.75%) GDPR
2 7 (10.94%) SLA
3 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Ansible
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
1 11 (17.19%) Veeam
2 8 (12.50%) VMware
3 6 (9.38%) Citrix
3 6 (9.38%) NEC
4 4 (6.25%) HubSpot
4 4 (6.25%) Sage
5 1 (1.56%) SAP