Retail Job Trends in West End of London

Retailing
Central London > West End of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in West End of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Retail 1 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs in West End of London 3.23% 11.83% 2.67%
As % of the General category 4.35% 14.29% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £50,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £39,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £41,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.55% -24.55% -35.29%
75th Percentile £58,750 £43,250 £59,375
90th Percentile - - £61,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +3.70%

All General Skills
West End of London

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 in West End of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 23 77 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West End of London 74.19% 82.80% 46.67%
Number of salaries quoted 17 28 35
10th Percentile £41,304 £36,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £49,200 £45,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,813 £69,966
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £89,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Retail job vacancy trend in West End of London

Retail
Salary Trend in West End of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Retail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Retail

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware