Retail Jobs in the UK excluding London

Retailing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +45
Permanent jobs citing Retail 3,144 3,972 3,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.49% 6.43% 5.13%
As % of the General category 7.81% 9.28% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,963 2,002 2,076
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,569 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,586 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £77,515
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,269 42,823 42,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.49% 69.30% 59.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,334 19,314 24,106
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,216
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £82,500 £78,575
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -20 804 £45,000 -18.18% 445
Midlands +43 707 £41,492 -24.56% 332
South East +19 687 £45,000 -18.18% 363
North West +5 480 £45,000 -18.18% 237
South West -14 386 £45,000 -17.57% 178
East of England +43 375 £48,000 -12.73% 175
West Midlands +33 353 £45,000 -16.67% 180
East Midlands +45 349 £37,500 -31.82% 152
Yorkshire -35 239 £45,000 -25.00% 161
Scotland -139 94 £46,250 -22.30% 81
North East -11 85 £40,001 -27.27% 58
Wales -15 60 £38,000 -20.00% 45
Northern Ireland +53 37 £42,500 +6.25% 15
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 128 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (0.92%) CMS
3 29 (0.92%) SAS
4 28 (0.89%) Confluence
5 25 (0.80%) Apache
6 24 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.54%) WordPress
8 9 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 8 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 8 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.16%) Office Communications Server
11 5 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.095%) IIS
13 2 (0.064%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.032%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.032%) Tomcat
Applications
1 339 (10.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 216 (6.87%) Microsoft Office
3 157 (4.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (1.11%) Photoshop
5 29 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 28 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
7 22 (0.70%) Simulink
8 20 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
9 17 (0.54%) Trello
10 15 (0.48%) AutoCAD
10 15 (0.48%) InDesign
11 7 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 7 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.22%) MS Visio
11 7 (0.22%) Stateflow
12 6 (0.19%) SPSS
13 5 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
14 4 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
14 4 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 44 (1.40%) Shopify
2 42 (1.34%) Magento
3 29 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
4 23 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
5 20 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
6 15 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 14 (0.45%) Epicor Tropos
8 10 (0.32%) Misys Midas
9 9 (0.29%) SAP BPC
10 8 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
10 8 (0.25%) SAP MM
11 7 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.22%) SAP FI
11 7 (0.22%) SAP WM
12 6 (0.19%) SAP SD
13 5 (0.16%) NEC Housing
13 5 (0.16%) SAP PP
13 5 (0.16%) SAP Retail
14 4 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 493 (15.68%) Azure
2 283 (9.00%) Power Platform
3 220 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
4 204 (6.49%) AWS
5 99 (3.15%) SaaS
6 81 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (2.51%) GCP
8 64 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (0.99%) Entra ID
9 31 (0.99%) GitHub
9 31 (0.99%) Power Automate
10 24 (0.76%) PowerApps
11 22 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (0.70%) Serverless
11 22 (0.70%) WhatsApp
12 21 (0.67%) dbt
13 19 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 19 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (0.60%) Google Analytics
14 18 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.45%) Firewall
2 70 (2.23%) WAN
3 65 (2.07%) LAN
4 62 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
5 61 (1.94%) Internet
6 59 (1.88%) Intranet
7 52 (1.65%) Broadband
8 36 (1.15%) Wireless
9 23 (0.73%) Network Security
9 23 (0.73%) SD-WAN
9 23 (0.73%) VPN
10 22 (0.70%) TCP/IP
11 21 (0.67%) DNS
12 20 (0.64%) VoIP
13 18 (0.57%) WLAN
14 15 (0.48%) VLAN
15 13 (0.41%) DHCP
16 10 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
17 9 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
17 9 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (8.24%) Power BI
2 242 (7.70%) SQL Server
3 150 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 79 (2.51%) MySQL
6 61 (1.94%) Tableau
7 40 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 40 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 38 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
9 32 (1.02%) Big Data
10 29 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 28 (0.89%) Data Lake
12 26 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 22 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (0.64%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.54%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.48%) Redis
18 13 (0.41%) Looker
18 13 (0.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 110 (3.50%) Git
2 81 (2.58%) JIRA
3 33 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.99%) Visual Studio
5 28 (0.89%) GitLab
6 10 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 10 (0.32%) JBehave
6 10 (0.32%) JMeter
6 10 (0.32%) Selenium
6 10 (0.32%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.25%) webpack
8 7 (0.22%) gulp
8 7 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.19%) JUnit
9 6 (0.19%) Subversion
9 6 (0.19%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.16%) IntelliJ
10 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
General
1 1,244 (39.57%) Social Skills
2 879 (27.96%) Finance
3 679 (21.60%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (7.92%) Marketing
5 168 (5.34%) Manufacturing
6 157 (4.99%) Legal
7 154 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 150 (4.77%) Public Sector
9 141 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
10 123 (3.91%) Banking
11 117 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
12 107 (3.40%) Telecoms
13 95 (3.02%) German Language
14 68 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
15 53 (1.69%) Billing
16 41 (1.30%) Automotive
17 39 (1.24%) Local Government
18 38 (1.21%) Law
19 36 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
20 31 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 547 (17.40%) Analyst
2 359 (11.42%) Developer
3 358 (11.39%) Senior
4 172 (5.47%) Project Manager
5 169 (5.38%) Lead
6 166 (5.28%) Consultant
7 159 (5.06%) Architect
8 145 (4.61%) Business Analyst
9 114 (3.63%) Graduate
10 103 (3.28%) IT Manager
11 94 (2.99%) Administrator
12 87 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
13 80 (2.54%) Business Intelligence Consultant
13 80 (2.54%) Software Engineer
14 79 (2.51%) Senior Developer
15 78 (2.48%) Principal Business Analyst
16 74 (2.35%) .NET Developer
17 68 (2.16%) Data Analyst
18 65 (2.07%) IT Analyst
18 65 (2.07%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (5.88%) .NET
2 161 (5.12%) HTML
3 153 (4.87%) CSS
4 107 (3.40%) React
5 91 (2.89%) .NET Core
6 71 (2.26%) ASP.NET
7 70 (2.23%) Vue
8 64 (2.04%) AngularJS
9 59 (1.88%) Web Services
10 52 (1.65%) .NET Framework
10 52 (1.65%) ASP.NET Web API
10 52 (1.65%) Node.js
11 49 (1.56%) REST
12 44 (1.40%) Entity Framework
13 43 (1.37%) RESTful
14 42 (1.34%) JSON
15 41 (1.30%) XML
16 39 (1.24%) Laravel
17 30 (0.95%) ASP.NET MVC
18 25 (0.80%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 280 (8.91%) Self-Motivation
2 190 (6.04%) Driving Licence
3 115 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 88 (2.80%) FMCG
5 83 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 82 (2.61%) EPoS
7 80 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
8 73 (2.32%) PMI
9 65 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 59 (1.88%) Cloud Native
11 52 (1.65%) Mobile App
12 46 (1.46%) Data Centre
13 41 (1.30%) Social Media
14 34 (1.08%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
16 31 (0.99%) NHS
17 28 (0.89%) Credit Risk
17 28 (0.89%) Smartphone
18 27 (0.86%) CCTV
18 27 (0.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 245 (7.79%) Windows
2 99 (3.15%) Windows Server
3 72 (2.29%) Linux
4 42 (1.34%) Windows 10
5 22 (0.70%) Android
5 22 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (0.48%) Unix
9 13 (0.41%) Windows 7
9 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.35%) Windows 8
11 10 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (0.25%) AIX
13 7 (0.22%) VMS
14 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.16%) CentOS
16 4 (0.13%) Ubuntu
17 3 (0.095%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
2 604 (19.21%) Agile
3 466 (14.82%) Customer Service
4 379 (12.05%) E-Commerce
5 354 (11.26%) Project Management
6 312 (9.92%) Decision-Making
7 296 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
8 283 (9.00%) Roadmaps
9 276 (8.78%) Analytics
10 241 (7.67%) Coaching
11 225 (7.16%) Mentoring
12 213 (6.77%) Change Management
13 212 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 199 (6.33%) ERP
15 180 (5.73%) DevOps
16 173 (5.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 167 (5.31%) Project Delivery
18 159 (5.06%) Logistics
19 151 (4.80%) Time Management
20 150 (4.77%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 490 (15.59%) SQL
2 230 (7.32%) JavaScript
3 190 (6.04%) C#
4 183 (5.82%) Python
5 131 (4.17%) PHP
6 107 (3.40%) TypeScript
7 69 (2.19%) Java
8 52 (1.65%) R
9 41 (1.30%) PowerShell
10 39 (1.24%) VBA
11 37 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 34 (1.08%) C
12 34 (1.08%) MATLAB
13 30 (0.95%) VB.NET
14 24 (0.76%) Ruby
15 22 (0.70%) VB
16 21 (0.67%) Go
17 19 (0.60%) Bash
18 15 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 9 (0.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 526 (16.73%) Degree
2 194 (6.17%) DBS Check
3 92 (2.93%) Security Cleared
4 81 (2.58%) PMI Certification
5 48 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
6 47 (1.49%) ACCA
7 46 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (1.40%) SC Cleared
9 43 (1.37%) HNC
10 41 (1.30%) CCNP
10 41 (1.30%) CIMA
11 37 (1.18%) CISSP
12 33 (1.05%) Master's Degree
13 30 (0.95%) DV Cleared
13 30 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.80%) CCNA
15 24 (0.76%) HND
16 21 (0.67%) AWS Certification
17 19 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (0.57%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (4.45%) QA
2 89 (2.83%) SLA
3 72 (2.29%) GDPR
4 43 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 40 (1.27%) PMO
6 38 (1.21%) NIST
7 32 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.60%) IFRS
9 19 (0.60%) IFRS 9
10 17 (0.54%) CRD IV
10 17 (0.54%) ISO 9001
11 15 (0.48%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 8 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.22%) Automotive SPICE
14 7 (0.22%) ISO 14000
14 7 (0.22%) ISO 14001
14 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 160 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.61%) Docker
3 49 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.73%) Firmware
6 12 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.13%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.095%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.064%) KVM
10 1 (0.032%) IAG
10 1 (0.032%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.032%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (2.51%) Kubernetes
2 61 (1.94%) Terraform
3 39 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (0.70%) Progress Chef
5 20 (0.64%) Ansible
6 18 (0.57%) Puppet
7 17 (0.54%) SCCM
8 13 (0.41%) Grafana
9 11 (0.35%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.29%) CASB
11 8 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (0.25%) SCOM
12 5 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.16%) Kibana
13 4 (0.13%) AirWatch
14 3 (0.095%) Functional Safety
14 3 (0.095%) SELinux
14 3 (0.095%) Sysprep
14 3 (0.095%) WhatsUp Gold
14 3 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 755 (24.01%) Microsoft
2 123 (3.91%) Google
3 99 (3.15%) SAP
4 66 (2.10%) Virgin Media
4 66 (2.10%) VMware
5 59 (1.88%) Oracle
6 58 (1.84%) Adobe
7 53 (1.69%) Cisco
8 46 (1.46%) IBM
8 46 (1.46%) NEC
9 42 (1.34%) Salesforce
10 31 (0.99%) Dell
11 28 (0.89%) Databricks
12 27 (0.86%) Northgate
13 26 (0.83%) HP
14 23 (0.73%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.70%) Citrix
16 18 (0.57%) Epicor
16 18 (0.57%) NetApp
16 18 (0.57%) Openreach