Retailing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 51 44
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 +11
Permanent jobs citing Retail 1,896 4,462 6,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.64% 4.54% 6.26%
As % of the General category 5.39% 7.58% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 2,638 3,317
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £33,813 £45,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -20.83% +3.45%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,144 £83,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.22% -18.18% +10.00%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,192 58,854 71,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.47% 59.84% 68.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,374 39,596 38,382
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the UK

Retail
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail.

Salary trend for Retail in the UK

Retail
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in the UK

Retail
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England -28 1,641 £55,000 +15.79% 3,528
UK excluding London -18 1,304 £46,000 +2.22% 2,285
Work from Home -10 672 £55,250 +10.50% 1,746
London -28 517 £70,000 +12.00% 1,351
South East -11 328 £45,000 - 561
Midlands -26 302 £45,000 +8.45% 620
North of England -74 268 £46,000 +2.22% 730
West Midlands -13 201 £45,000 - 314
North West -85 163 £51,999 +15.55% 394
South West +2 154 £57,500 +27.78% 146
Scotland +134 131 £26,929 -43.31% 96
East Midlands -35 99 £42,500 +13.33% 303
Yorkshire -18 87 £42,000 -6.67% 282
East of England -67 76 £50,000 +4.17% 144
Wales +18 34 £50,000 +31.58% 24
North East -8 17 £45,000 +12.50% 63
Northern Ireland +14 14 £40,000 +13.48% 15

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.32%) CMS
3 25 (1.32%) Confluence
4 18 (0.95%) SAS
5 14 (0.74%) WinCC
6 10 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.42%) IIS
8 7 (0.37%) WordPress
9 6 (0.32%) Apache
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.11%) CoreMedia CMS
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) Strapi
12 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 103 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 96 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 16 (0.84%) Maya
6 14 (0.74%) EPLAN
7 10 (0.53%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.47%) Acrobat
8 9 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.37%) CINEMA 4D
9 7 (0.37%) InDesign
10 6 (0.32%) Blender
11 5 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.26%) Revit
12 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
13 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
14 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (2.06%) Shopify
2 31 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 29 (1.53%) Dynamics AX
4 18 (0.95%) Magento
5 16 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
6 11 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle Retail
8 4 (0.21%) Infor M3
8 4 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.16%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.16%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.16%) SAP CX
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
11 1 (0.053%) NetSuite
11 1 (0.053%) Odoo
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
11 1 (0.053%) SAP CAR
11 1 (0.053%) SAP ERP
11 1 (0.053%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 274 (14.45%) Azure
2 140 (7.38%) AWS
3 129 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 74 (3.90%) GCP
6 69 (3.64%) SaaS
7 63 (3.32%) Google Analytics
8 62 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
10 33 (1.74%) Google Ads
11 32 (1.69%) GitHub
12 31 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
13 30 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 29 (1.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 27 (1.42%) Google Tag Manager
15 27 (1.42%) Serverless
16 25 (1.32%) Google Workspace
17 24 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 24 (1.27%) Power Automate
17 24 (1.27%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.69%) Firewall
2 54 (2.85%) WAN
3 51 (2.69%) DNS
4 50 (2.64%) LAN
5 46 (2.43%) DHCP
6 41 (2.16%) 4G
6 41 (2.16%) 5G
7 36 (1.90%) VLAN
8 31 (1.64%) Network Security
8 31 (1.64%) TCP/IP
9 30 (1.58%) VoIP
10 29 (1.53%) Broadband
11 28 (1.48%) HTTP
12 25 (1.32%) VPN
13 18 (0.95%) BGP
13 18 (0.95%) OSPF
14 16 (0.84%) WLAN
15 14 (0.74%) Ethernet
15 14 (0.74%) Modbus
15 14 (0.74%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 82 (4.32%) Power BI
3 61 (3.22%) Tableau
4 33 (1.74%) Data Mining
4 33 (1.74%) MySQL
5 32 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 25 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (0.90%) Big Data
9 15 (0.79%) NoSQL
9 15 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (0.69%) Power Query
11 12 (0.63%) Metadata
12 11 (0.58%) BigQuery
12 11 (0.58%) MongoDB
13 10 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.53%) QlikView
14 7 (0.37%) Relational Database
14 7 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 125 (6.59%) Git
2 56 (2.95%) JIRA
3 47 (2.48%) Visual Studio
4 33 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
5 25 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 24 (1.27%) MSBuild
7 11 (0.58%) GitLab
7 11 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 10 (0.53%) Jenkins
8 10 (0.53%) Maven
8 10 (0.53%) Postman
9 9 (0.47%) Selenium
9 9 (0.47%) Subversion
10 8 (0.42%) webpack
11 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.32%) gulp
13 5 (0.26%) Gradle
13 5 (0.26%) Grunt
13 5 (0.26%) JMeter
14 4 (0.21%) Bazaar
General
1 646 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 487 (25.69%) Finance
3 346 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (11.76%) Marketing
5 183 (9.65%) Telecoms
6 152 (8.02%) Games
6 152 (8.02%) Manufacturing
7 136 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 96 (5.06%) Law
9 85 (4.48%) Banking
10 71 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
11 68 (3.59%) Legal
12 67 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
13 56 (2.95%) Advertising
14 49 (2.58%) Automotive
15 48 (2.53%) Public Sector
16 26 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 22 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.00%) Back Office
19 15 (0.79%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 396 (20.89%) Senior
2 200 (10.55%) Analyst
3 145 (7.65%) Developer
4 135 (7.12%) Lead
5 107 (5.64%) Architect
6 99 (5.22%) Project Manager
7 78 (4.11%) Software Engineer
8 74 (3.90%) IT Support
9 62 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
9 62 (3.27%) Senior Manager
10 51 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
11 49 (2.58%) Technical Support
12 48 (2.53%) IT Manager
13 46 (2.43%) Data Analyst
14 45 (2.37%) Senior Project Manager
15 44 (2.32%) Senior Developer
15 44 (2.32%) Senior Software Engineer
16 37 (1.95%) Risk Manager
17 35 (1.85%) Consultant
17 35 (1.85%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (6.07%) HTML
2 109 (5.75%) CSS
3 93 (4.91%) .NET
4 52 (2.74%) ASP.NET
5 46 (2.43%) REST
6 44 (2.32%) JSON
6 44 (2.32%) Web Services
6 44 (2.32%) XML
7 43 (2.27%) React
8 40 (2.11%) Bootstrap
9 36 (1.90%) Kafka
10 31 (1.64%) Node.js
11 28 (1.48%) .NET Core
11 28 (1.48%) AngularJS
11 28 (1.48%) RESTful
12 25 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
13 24 (1.27%) gRPC
14 22 (1.16%) .NET Framework
14 22 (1.16%) LAMP
15 19 (1.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 94 (4.96%) Management Information System
2 67 (3.53%) FMCG
3 54 (2.85%) Blockchain
3 54 (2.85%) Robotics
4 52 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 46 (2.43%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.16%) Driving Licence
7 39 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 38 (2.00%) CCTV
9 37 (1.95%) EPoS
10 36 (1.90%) Onboarding
11 34 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 33 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 33 (1.74%) Social Media
13 31 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 31 (1.64%) Mobile App
14 26 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
14 26 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 26 (1.37%) Security Posture
15 23 (1.21%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 141 (7.44%) Windows
2 67 (3.53%) Linux
3 54 (2.85%) Windows 10
4 46 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (1.42%) Mac OS X
7 22 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (0.84%) Ubuntu
9 15 (0.79%) Android
10 11 (0.58%) Unix
11 10 (0.53%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.26%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.053%) AIX
15 1 (0.053%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.053%) Solaris
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE
15 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
2 360 (18.99%) Analytics
3 336 (17.72%) Agile
4 227 (11.97%) Project Management
5 219 (11.55%) Mentoring
6 214 (11.29%) E-Commerce
7 203 (10.71%) Customer Service
8 197 (10.39%) Roadmaps
9 175 (9.23%) DevOps
10 170 (8.97%) Coaching
11 156 (8.23%) Software Engineering
12 155 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
12 155 (8.18%) Customer Experience
13 140 (7.38%) Computer Science
14 139 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 119 (6.28%) Cybersecurity
15 119 (6.28%) ERP
16 117 (6.17%) Project Delivery
17 110 (5.80%) CRM
18 108 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 275 (14.50%) SQL
2 170 (8.97%) Python
3 158 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 119 (6.28%) C#
5 55 (2.90%) Java
6 42 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 28 (1.48%) TypeScript
8 27 (1.42%) PHP
9 26 (1.37%) R
10 24 (1.27%) Scala
11 10 (0.53%) Bash
11 10 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.47%) C-shell
12 9 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.47%) Korn
12 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.37%) Go
14 6 (0.32%) Delphi
14 6 (0.32%) VBA
15 5 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 347 (18.30%) Degree
2 85 (4.48%) DBS Check
3 81 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (2.43%) Security Cleared
5 43 (2.27%) HNC
6 37 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (1.48%) CISSP
7 28 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.42%) CISA
9 26 (1.37%) HND
9 26 (1.37%) SC Cleared
10 22 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 22 (1.16%) ISACA
11 17 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.90%) CISM
12 16 (0.84%) MCSE
12 16 (0.84%) PMI Certification
13 14 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 14 (0.74%) CCNP
13 14 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (4.54%) GDPR
2 80 (4.22%) QA
3 50 (2.64%) ITGC
4 44 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 26 (1.37%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.27%) SLA
8 22 (1.16%) NIST
9 19 (1.00%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.74%) GMP
12 13 (0.69%) PMO
13 9 (0.47%) PERC
14 8 (0.42%) GRC
15 5 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
17 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 3 (0.16%) WCAG
18 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 19770
18 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 107 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 63 (3.32%) Docker
3 23 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.053%) LXC
8 1 (0.053%) Samba
8 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.053%) vSphere
8 1 (0.053%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (1.74%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.79%) Terraform
4 14 (0.74%) Wonderware InTouch
5 10 (0.53%) SCCM
6 8 (0.42%) Grafana
6 8 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.32%) Ansible
8 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.21%) Oozie
9 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.21%) Puppet
10 3 (0.16%) Avamar
10 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.16%) VxRail
11 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.11%) Istio
12 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.053%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 406 (21.41%) Microsoft
2 198 (10.44%) Google
3 123 (6.49%) BT
4 91 (4.80%) Databricks
5 84 (4.43%) SAP
6 83 (4.38%) Oracle
7 70 (3.69%) Adobe
8 58 (3.06%) Cisco
9 46 (2.43%) TikTok
10 43 (2.27%) Salesforce
11 38 (2.00%) Apple
12 37 (1.95%) Dell
13 29 (1.53%) VMware
14 27 (1.42%) Fortinet
15 20 (1.05%) Pinterest
16 17 (0.90%) Facebook
17 16 (0.84%) Ubiquiti
18 15 (0.79%) Instagram
18 15 (0.79%) OpenAI
18 15 (0.79%) Siemens