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 have cited Retail over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 48 45 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +74
Permanent jobs citing Retail 2,960 7,915 8,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.55% 6.32% 6.26%
As % of the General category 8.43% 9.20% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,300 4,124 3,740
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £46,094 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,108 £61,180 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% +6.40% -
75th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,290 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +11.11%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,097 86,059 77,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 65.77% 68.66% 59.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 48,938 48,014
10th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +4.21%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 -12 2,414 £57,500 -4.17% 2,166
UK excluding London +8 1,940 £42,500 -22.73% 1,584
Work from Home -12 1,257 £60,000 -4.00% 1,039
London -20 862 £70,000 +1.71% 750
North of England -6 543 £51,514 -6.34% 476
Midlands +33 358 £34,642 -35.85% 302
Scotland +38 335 £25,000 -59.32% 127
South West +4 297 £47,557 -4.89% 181
Yorkshire -12 279 £51,528 -6.31% 170
South East -25 234 £52,500 +0.96% 327
North West -12 226 £55,000 +4.76% 265
West Midlands +46 217 £32,500 -43.48% 155
East Midlands +12 138 £38,000 -26.21% 146
East of England +10 90 £45,000 -21.74% 136
Wales +22 83 £34,000 -37.61% 51
North East +29 38 £32,313 -53.84% 49
Northern Ireland +37 23 £63,750 +45.71% 29

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 68 (2.30%) Confluence
2 62 (2.09%) SAS
3 47 (1.59%) Apache
4 46 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 42 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.61%) CMS
7 17 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 16 (0.54%) Jetty
9 10 (0.34%) MS Exchange
9 10 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
10 6 (0.20%) WordPress
11 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
12 4 (0.14%) IIS
12 4 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.068%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.068%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.068%) nginx
Applications
1 186 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.20%) InDesign
8 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.14%) SPSS
10 2 (0.068%) EViews
10 2 (0.068%) InfoPath
10 2 (0.068%) Trello
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.034%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.034%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.034%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 53 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (1.08%) SAP ERP
3 21 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
5 16 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
6 15 (0.51%) Endur
6 15 (0.51%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.44%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
8 12 (0.41%) SAP Retail
9 11 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
9 11 (0.37%) Magento
10 10 (0.34%) SAP EWM
11 9 (0.30%) Shopify
12 7 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 6 (0.20%) Epicor Tropos
13 6 (0.20%) SAP SD
14 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
14 5 (0.17%) Sage 200
14 5 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 419 (14.16%) Azure
2 290 (9.80%) Power Platform
3 280 (9.46%) AWS
4 183 (6.18%) GCP
5 142 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
6 95 (3.21%) SaaS
7 88 (2.97%) Serverless
8 84 (2.84%) PaaS
9 77 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 77 (2.60%) GitHub
10 60 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
11 54 (1.82%) IaaS
12 37 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (1.15%) Entra ID
14 32 (1.08%) dbt
15 30 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
16 26 (0.88%) Google Analytics
17 25 (0.84%) Vertex AI
18 23 (0.78%) PowerApps
18 23 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 357 (12.06%) Broadband
2 112 (3.78%) Firewall
3 87 (2.94%) WAN
4 63 (2.13%) Internet
5 54 (1.82%) VPN
6 48 (1.62%) LAN
6 48 (1.62%) SD-WAN
7 41 (1.39%) 5G
8 35 (1.18%) DNS
9 33 (1.11%) TCP/IP
10 28 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 28 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 25 (0.84%) Network Security
12 22 (0.74%) DHCP
13 21 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.47%) SAN
15 10 (0.34%) VoIP
16 9 (0.30%) Wireless
17 8 (0.27%) NGFW
18 7 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (8.38%) Power BI
2 133 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 128 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (3.75%) NoSQL
5 81 (2.74%) MySQL
6 78 (2.64%) Big Data
7 76 (2.57%) Tableau
8 72 (2.43%) Data Lake
9 60 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 54 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
11 51 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 48 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 32 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
14 31 (1.05%) Looker
15 29 (0.98%) BigQuery
16 20 (0.68%) Bigtable
16 20 (0.68%) Hadoop
17 17 (0.57%) RDBMS
18 14 (0.47%) DynamoDB
18 14 (0.47%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 125 (4.22%) Git
2 119 (4.02%) JIRA
3 73 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.18%) Visual Studio
5 23 (0.78%) Selenium
5 23 (0.78%) Spinnaker
6 15 (0.51%) SonarQube
7 14 (0.47%) Maven
8 13 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 13 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
8 13 (0.44%) Postman
9 12 (0.41%) JUnit
9 12 (0.41%) SpecFlow
10 11 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.34%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.30%) git-flow
12 9 (0.30%) GitLab
13 8 (0.27%) LabVIEW
14 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
15 6 (0.20%) JMeter
General
1 1,251 (42.26%) Social Skills
2 912 (30.81%) Finance
3 454 (15.34%) Banking
4 439 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
5 419 (14.16%) Telecoms
6 372 (12.57%) Local Government
7 331 (11.18%) Games
8 266 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 242 (8.18%) Marketing
10 127 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
11 117 (3.95%) Manufacturing
12 111 (3.75%) Legal
13 107 (3.61%) Public Sector
14 87 (2.94%) Automotive
15 73 (2.47%) Aerospace
16 68 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
17 60 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
18 49 (1.66%) Retail Banking
19 36 (1.22%) Retail Finance
20 35 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 472 (15.95%) Senior
2 436 (14.73%) Analyst
3 290 (9.80%) Architect
4 276 (9.32%) Consultant
5 258 (8.72%) Developer
6 235 (7.94%) Development Manager
7 231 (7.80%) Business Manager
8 230 (7.77%) Lead
9 214 (7.23%) Business Development Manager
10 177 (5.98%) Enterprise Consultant
11 153 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
12 117 (3.95%) Project Manager
13 113 (3.82%) IT Manager
14 106 (3.58%) Business Analyst
15 90 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
16 85 (2.87%) Software Engineer
17 72 (2.43%) Support Engineer
18 71 (2.40%) Data Analyst
19 67 (2.26%) Senior Developer
20 65 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (5.17%) .NET
2 124 (4.19%) HTML
3 107 (3.61%) React
4 99 (3.34%) CSS
5 69 (2.33%) Node.js
6 67 (2.26%) Kafka
7 66 (2.23%) Web Services
8 64 (2.16%) RESTful
9 55 (1.86%) OpenID
10 53 (1.79%) REST
11 49 (1.66%) Spring Boot
12 47 (1.59%) Spring
13 40 (1.35%) jQuery
14 37 (1.25%) JSON
14 37 (1.25%) XML
15 34 (1.15%) AngularJS
15 34 (1.15%) EDI
16 30 (1.01%) CSS3
17 28 (0.95%) .NET Core
17 28 (0.95%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 151 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 121 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
3 109 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 84 (2.84%) FMCG
5 69 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 58 (1.96%) EPoS
7 57 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 56 (1.89%) Credit Risk
9 53 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 43 (1.45%) Low-Code
10 43 (1.45%) Mainframe
11 40 (1.35%) Data Structures
12 39 (1.32%) Blockchain
13 38 (1.28%) Onboarding
14 37 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (1.22%) IoT
16 30 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
16 30 (1.01%) Driving Licence
17 29 (0.98%) Mobile App
18 28 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 216 (7.30%) Windows
2 131 (4.43%) Linux
3 83 (2.80%) Unix
4 61 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.93%) Android
6 28 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 26 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.61%) Ubuntu
8 18 (0.61%) VMS
9 13 (0.44%) AIX
9 13 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.24%) Debian
11 7 (0.24%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.14%) Windows XP
13 3 (0.10%) CentOS
13 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.068%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 964 (32.57%) Agile
2 595 (20.10%) Decision-Making
3 515 (17.40%) Customer Experience
4 492 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
5 476 (16.08%) Collaborative Working
6 452 (15.27%) Analytics
7 424 (14.32%) B2B
8 415 (14.02%) B2C
9 315 (10.64%) Roadmaps
10 301 (10.17%) DevOps
11 295 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 282 (9.53%) Business Intelligence
13 277 (9.36%) E-Commerce
14 272 (9.19%) Project Management
15 259 (8.75%) CI/CD
16 250 (8.45%) Business Development
17 243 (8.21%) Microservices
18 238 (8.04%) Customer Service
19 217 (7.33%) Mentoring
20 197 (6.66%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 384 (12.97%) SQL
2 268 (9.05%) Python
3 197 (6.66%) JavaScript
4 164 (5.54%) Java
5 162 (5.47%) C#
6 69 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 67 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.52%) PHP
9 38 (1.28%) Bash
9 38 (1.28%) R
10 34 (1.15%) C++
11 21 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 17 (0.57%) C
12 17 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.54%) VBA
14 15 (0.51%) Groovy
15 14 (0.47%) MATLAB
16 12 (0.41%) Bicep
16 12 (0.41%) Go
17 11 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 376 (12.70%) Degree
2 151 (5.10%) Security Cleared
3 81 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 54 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (1.45%) DBS Check
6 38 (1.28%) PMI Certification
7 32 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 32 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.05%) CISSP
9 24 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
10 22 (0.74%) PMP
11 17 (0.57%) CISMP
11 17 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.51%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.51%) CISA
13 15 (0.51%) HND
14 13 (0.44%) ACCA
14 13 (0.44%) CISM
15 12 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (2.97%) QA
2 55 (1.86%) SLA
3 50 (1.69%) PMO
4 46 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 36 (1.22%) GRC
7 33 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 32 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.95%) GDPR
10 26 (0.88%) NIST
11 25 (0.84%) IFRS
12 23 (0.78%) IFRS 9
13 20 (0.68%) NCSC
14 18 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
15 15 (0.51%) CRD IV
16 11 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
16 11 (0.37%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.20%) GxP
18 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
18 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 146 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 114 (3.85%) Docker
3 43 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.30%) vSphere
7 8 (0.27%) BitLocker
7 8 (0.27%) XenApp
8 4 (0.14%) Firmware
8 4 (0.14%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.10%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.068%) Postfix
10 2 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.034%) KVM
11 1 (0.034%) QEMU
11 1 (0.034%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 175 (5.91%) Terraform
2 154 (5.20%) Kubernetes
3 66 (2.23%) Ansible
4 40 (1.35%) SCCM
5 35 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (0.88%) Istio
7 14 (0.47%) SCOM
8 12 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.20%) CSIRT
12 5 (0.17%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.14%) Argo
13 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Clustering
14 2 (0.068%) AirWatch
14 2 (0.068%) cPanel
14 2 (0.068%) Grafana
14 2 (0.068%) Puppet
14 2 (0.068%) SysTrack
14 2 (0.068%) WSUS
Vendors
1 493 (16.66%) Microsoft
2 354 (11.96%) BT
3 159 (5.37%) SAP
4 123 (4.16%) Google
5 91 (3.07%) Oracle
6 67 (2.26%) Cisco
7 61 (2.06%) ServiceNow
8 60 (2.03%) VMware
9 53 (1.79%) Salesforce
10 32 (1.08%) IBM
11 31 (1.05%) Adobe
12 30 (1.01%) Teradata
13 29 (0.98%) Fortinet
14 28 (0.95%) CheckPoint
14 28 (0.95%) F5
15 27 (0.91%) Citrix
16 24 (0.81%) HP
17 22 (0.74%) Databricks
18 18 (0.61%) Dell
18 18 (0.61%) MuleSoft