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 17 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 47 34
Rank change year-on-year -14 -13 +13
Permanent jobs citing Retail 50 54 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.43% 5.26% 6.56%
As % of the General category 4.84% 7.38% 9.46%
Number of salaries quoted 35 43 34
10th Percentile £25,500 - £25,750
25th Percentile £27,250 £23,731 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £31,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -33.68% -20.83%
75th Percentile £63,750 £33,500 £58,750
90th Percentile - £47,000 £75,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -18.18%

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 1,032 732 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 50.24% 71.35% 69.35%
Number of salaries quoted 603 337 947
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,550 £24,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £63,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.30% -9.52%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 - 14 £35,000 - 1
Guildford - 13 £62,500 - 2
Epsom +24 12 £27,000 -50.91% 2
Sunbury-on-Thames - 3 - -
Leatherhead - 2 £24,000 - 2
Farnham - 1 £55,000 - 1
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 (8.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Mimecast
2 8 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (16.00%) AWS
2 8 (16.00%) GitHub
2 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (14.00%) Google Analytics
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.00%) Miro
5 1 (2.00%) Azure
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Firewall
1 8 (16.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Metadata
2 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Automotive
3 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 11 (22.00%) Marketing
4 8 (16.00%) Law
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Administrator
2 11 (22.00%) Help Desk Technician
3 8 (16.00%) DevOps Administrator
3 8 (16.00%) Senior
3 8 (16.00%) Senior DevOps
3 8 (16.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 8 (16.00%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (8.00%) Development Specialist
4 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) IT Support
4 4 (8.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) SEO Specialist
4 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (6.00%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 3 (6.00%) Customer Service Administrator
5 3 (6.00%) IT Administrator
5 3 (6.00%) Sales Administrator
5 3 (6.00%) Support Technician
6 2 (4.00%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) .NET
1 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (2.00%) Blazor
1 1 (2.00%) Node.js
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.00%) React
1 1 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (16.00%) Private Cloud
2 7 (14.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.00%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) FMCG
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 7 (14.00%) Windows
3 4 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) AI
2 15 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (30.00%) Customer Experience
2 15 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (24.00%) Coaching
4 12 (24.00%) Customer Engagement
5 11 (22.00%) B2B
5 11 (22.00%) B2C
5 11 (22.00%) Customer Journey Map
5 11 (22.00%) Journey Map
5 11 (22.00%) SEO
6 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (16.00%) Cloud Security
6 8 (16.00%) Configuration Management
6 8 (16.00%) DevOps
6 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (16.00%) Observability
7 7 (14.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (16.00%) Bash
3 8 (16.00%) Go
4 1 (2.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Ansible
1 8 (16.00%) Grafana
1 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
1 8 (16.00%) Proxmox
1 8 (16.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Veeam
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) VMware
3 7 (14.00%) Google
4 4 (8.00%) Adobe
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) SAP