Retail Jobs in the West Midlands

Retailing
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 37 70 52
Rank change year-on-year +33 -18 +17
Permanent jobs citing Retail 353 289 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.88% 4.30% 4.94%
As % of the General category 8.41% 5.63% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 249 150 255
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £28,550 £42,500 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.85% +14.44%
75th Percentile £61,123 £67,500 £66,875
90th Percentile £69,840 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £58,135
% change year-on-year -20.83% +3.21% +1.10%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,197 5,136 4,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 58.07% 76.36% 61.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,017 2,283 2,817
10th Percentile £25,650 £29,550 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.95% +3.80%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,970 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +4.35%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +19 101 £55,000 - 74
Staffordshire +20 75 £47,500 -9.52% 27
Solihull +26 35 £47,500 -2.56% 11
Warwickshire +30 31 £26,500 -47.00% 6
Worcestershire -5 21 £40,072 -12.45% 11
Coventry +41 19 £26,500 -51.82% 8
Shropshire -9 17 £37,500 -17.13% 12
Walsall +26 8 £26,000 -16.13% 2
Herefordshire +6 8 £27,500 -40.54% 2
Wolverhampton +2 5 £53,528 -2.68% 3
Smethwick - 2 £28,000 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 - - 1
Tipton - 1 £14,000 -
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 15 (4.25%) Confluence
2 13 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.13%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (0.85%) CMS
6 2 (0.57%) WordPress
7 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 31 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.98%) Trello
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.57%) InDesign
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) Sketch
6 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.13%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.85%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.85%) Shopify
4 2 (0.57%) Magento
4 2 (0.57%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 70 (19.83%) Azure
2 44 (12.46%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (8.50%) AWS
4 29 (8.22%) Power Platform
5 19 (5.38%) SaaS
6 11 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (2.83%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.27%) GCP
9 6 (1.70%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.70%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.13%) Figma
10 4 (1.13%) WhatsApp
11 3 (0.85%) dbt
11 3 (0.85%) PaaS
12 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.57%) Asana
12 2 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.57%) ClickUp
12 2 (0.57%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.57%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
2 25 (7.08%) WAN
3 21 (5.95%) LAN
4 19 (5.38%) Wireless
5 18 (5.10%) SD-WAN
6 14 (3.97%) Firewall
7 13 (3.68%) VPN
8 10 (2.83%) VLAN
9 9 (2.55%) WLAN
10 8 (2.27%) BGP
10 8 (2.27%) MPLS
10 8 (2.27%) OSPF
10 8 (2.27%) VoIP
11 7 (1.98%) EIGRP
11 7 (1.98%) HSRP
11 7 (1.98%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (1.98%) VRRP
11 7 (1.98%) Wireshark
12 5 (1.42%) Internet
13 4 (1.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 29 (8.22%) Power BI
3 21 (5.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (1.70%) Power Query
7 5 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.42%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.13%) Tableau
9 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.57%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.57%) Looker
10 2 (0.57%) MySQL
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (4.53%) JIRA
2 6 (1.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.42%) GitLab
4 4 (1.13%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.57%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.28%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.28%) fastlane
6 1 (0.28%) Git
6 1 (0.28%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.28%) sqlmap
General
1 161 (45.61%) Finance
2 144 (40.79%) Social Skills
3 61 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (6.23%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.10%) Legal
6 18 (5.10%) Manufacturing
7 16 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.12%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.83%) Social Housing
11 8 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.98%) Local Government
12 7 (1.98%) Marketing
13 6 (1.70%) Banking
13 6 (1.70%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.42%) Automotive
14 5 (1.42%) Back Office
15 4 (1.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 78 (22.10%) Analyst
2 33 (9.35%) Project Manager
3 32 (9.07%) Senior
4 31 (8.78%) Developer
5 25 (7.08%) IT Manager
6 23 (6.52%) Help Desk Analyst
7 14 (3.97%) Consultant
7 14 (3.97%) Operations Analyst
8 13 (3.68%) Architect
8 13 (3.68%) Infrastructure Manager
9 10 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 9 (2.55%) Lead
10 9 (2.55%) Network Engineer
11 8 (2.27%) .NET Developer
11 8 (2.27%) 1st Line Support
11 8 (2.27%) Security Analyst
11 8 (2.27%) Security Operations Analyst
11 8 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (2.27%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (2.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.65%) .NET
2 14 (3.97%) HTML
3 13 (3.68%) CSS
4 12 (3.40%) .NET Core
4 12 (3.40%) AngularJS
5 11 (3.12%) .NET Framework
5 11 (3.12%) Vue
6 10 (2.83%) React
7 6 (1.70%) ASP.NET
7 6 (1.70%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (1.70%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (1.70%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.70%) REST
8 5 (1.42%) Node.js
9 4 (1.13%) JSON
9 4 (1.13%) WCF
9 4 (1.13%) Web Services
9 4 (1.13%) XML
10 3 (0.85%) Laravel
11 1 (0.28%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.95%) Driving Licence
2 19 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.40%) FMCG
5 11 (3.12%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.12%) PMI
5 11 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.83%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
8 6 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.42%) EPoS
9 5 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.13%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.13%) Replication
11 3 (0.85%) Clustering
11 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.03%) Windows
2 21 (5.95%) Windows Server
3 14 (3.97%) Windows 10
4 13 (3.68%) Linux
4 13 (3.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (3.12%) Windows 7
5 11 (3.12%) Windows 8
6 4 (1.13%) Android
6 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.85%) Unix
7 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (26.06%) Agile
3 72 (20.40%) Customer Service
4 59 (16.71%) Project Delivery
5 50 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (11.05%) ERP
7 39 (11.05%) Project Management
8 37 (10.48%) Roadmaps
9 36 (10.20%) Mentoring
10 35 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (9.63%) ITIL
12 27 (7.65%) Asset Management
13 26 (7.37%) Change Management
14 25 (7.08%) Logistics
15 24 (6.80%) Analytics
16 23 (6.52%) Data Analysis
16 23 (6.52%) E-Commerce
17 22 (6.23%) Risk Management
18 19 (5.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 64 (18.13%) SQL
2 28 (7.93%) JavaScript
3 17 (4.82%) C#
4 16 (4.53%) Python
4 16 (4.53%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.42%) PHP
7 4 (1.13%) Go
7 4 (1.13%) Java
8 2 (0.57%) R
8 2 (0.57%) Swift
9 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (14.73%) Degree
2 19 (5.38%) CCNP
2 19 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (4.53%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.53%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.40%) PMI Certification
5 11 (3.12%) CCNA
6 10 (2.83%) CCIE
6 10 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.55%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.27%) CCSA
8 8 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.98%) CCDP
9 7 (1.98%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 6 (1.70%) MCSE
10 6 (1.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (1.13%) A+ Certification
11 4 (1.13%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.38%) QA
2 14 (3.97%) SLA
3 9 (2.55%) NIST
4 8 (2.27%) GDPR
4 8 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.70%) PMO
6 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.55%) Firmware
4 5 (1.42%) Docker
5 4 (1.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (1.42%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.42%) Terraform
2 4 (1.13%) AirWatch
3 3 (0.85%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (0.85%) SCCM
3 3 (0.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 111 (31.44%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.95%) Cisco
3 12 (3.40%) VMware
4 9 (2.55%) Google
5 8 (2.27%) CheckPoint
5 8 (2.27%) Ekahau
5 8 (2.27%) SAP
6 7 (1.98%) Meraki
6 7 (1.98%) YouTube
7 5 (1.42%) Apple
7 5 (1.42%) Dell
7 5 (1.42%) Genesys
7 5 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.13%) HP
8 4 (1.13%) Remedy
9 3 (0.85%) Adobe
9 3 (0.85%) Citrix
9 3 (0.85%) NEC
9 3 (0.85%) NetApp
9 3 (0.85%) Openreach