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 in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 82
Rank change year-on-year -3 +60 -23
Permanent jobs citing Retail 285 583 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.09% 6.66% 4.07%
As % of the General category 11.99% 12.17% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 88 272 129
10th Percentile £31,335 £25,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +3.15%
75th Percentile £61,563 £62,374 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £51,058 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.49% -17.39% -2.54%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,377 4,791 4,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 59.17% 54.71% 75.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 3,097 2,253
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,650 £29,800
25th Percentile £32,656 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,400 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 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
Staffordshire +9 120 £45,000 - 130
Birmingham +23 93 £60,000 +9.09% 264
Coventry -1 23 £34,572 +30.46% 92
Warwickshire -58 17 £31,335 +18.25% 58
Worcestershire -2 6 £56,905 +42.01% 55
Herefordshire +5 3 £52,500 +90.91% 10
Willenhall +4 3 £45,000 - 2
Solihull -20 3 £56,250 +18.42% 4
Wolverhampton +17 2 £95,000 +100.00% 37
West Bromwich -1 2 - - 5
Walsall -6 1 £59,000 +85.83% 6
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 11 (3.86%) CMS
2 3 (1.05%) WordPress
3 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 20 (7.02%) Dynamics AX
2 7 (2.46%) Shopify
3 2 (0.70%) Magento
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 50 (17.54%) Azure
2 25 (8.77%) AWS
3 20 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.91%) Serverless
5 8 (2.81%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.46%) Google Analytics
7 6 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.75%) GCP
8 5 (1.75%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.40%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (1.40%) Google App Engine
9 4 (1.40%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.05%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.70%) Algolia
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.70%) Figma
11 2 (0.70%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.02%) WAN
2 18 (6.32%) LAN
3 17 (5.96%) VoIP
4 10 (3.51%) Firewall
4 10 (3.51%) VLAN
5 8 (2.81%) BGP
5 8 (2.81%) DHCP
5 8 (2.81%) DNS
5 8 (2.81%) OSPF
5 8 (2.81%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.81%) WLAN
6 5 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.35%) Broadband
8 1 (0.35%) Network Security
8 1 (0.35%) SAN
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
8 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.75%) Power BI
3 4 (1.40%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.40%) Cloud Spanner
3 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.05%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.70%) MySQL
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.35%) Metadata
6 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (4.91%) JIRA
2 12 (4.21%) Maven
3 11 (3.86%) Bitbucket
3 11 (3.86%) Cucumber
3 11 (3.86%) GitLab
3 11 (3.86%) Selenium
3 11 (3.86%) SonarQube
3 11 (3.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.05%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 126 (44.21%) Manufacturing
2 84 (29.47%) Finance
3 53 (18.60%) Social Skills
4 39 (13.68%) Telecoms
5 29 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (9.82%) Dutch Language
6 28 (9.82%) Finnish Language
6 28 (9.82%) Marketing
6 28 (9.82%) Norwegian Language
7 20 (7.02%) Games
8 15 (5.26%) Banking
9 14 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (4.21%) Automotive
11 11 (3.86%) Corporate Banking
11 11 (3.86%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.46%) Catalan Language
13 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.40%) Police
15 3 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 105 (36.84%) Trainer
2 28 (9.82%) Senior
3 20 (7.02%) IT Support
4 19 (6.67%) Risk Manager
4 19 (6.67%) Technology Risk Manager
5 17 (5.96%) IT Support Specialist
5 17 (5.96%) Support Specialist
6 16 (5.61%) Technical Support
7 15 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 9 (3.16%) Analyst
9 8 (2.81%) IT Engineer
9 8 (2.81%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (2.11%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (2.11%) Applications Support
10 6 (2.11%) Applications Support Engineer
10 6 (2.11%) Developer
10 6 (2.11%) Software Applications Engineer
10 6 (2.11%) Software Support Engineer
10 6 (2.11%) Support Engineer
11 5 (1.75%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.67%) CSS
1 19 (6.67%) HTML
2 18 (6.32%) React
3 13 (4.56%) Kafka
4 12 (4.21%) REST
4 12 (4.21%) Spring
4 12 (4.21%) Spring Boot
5 11 (3.86%) CSS3
5 11 (3.86%) HTML5
5 11 (3.86%) Jest
5 11 (3.86%) JPA
5 11 (3.86%) Redux
5 11 (3.86%) RESTful
5 11 (3.86%) Sass
6 10 (3.51%) .NET
7 6 (2.11%) Node.js
8 4 (1.40%) Express.js
8 4 (1.40%) React Native
9 3 (1.05%) PySpark
10 1 (0.35%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 144 (50.53%) Robotics
2 39 (13.68%) Blockchain
3 28 (9.82%) Management Information System
4 17 (5.96%) CCTV
5 16 (5.61%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.16%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.81%) Smartphone
9 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.05%) Social Media
10 2 (0.70%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.70%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.35%) EPoS
11 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.12%) Windows
2 25 (8.77%) Windows 10
3 9 (3.16%) Linux
3 9 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.81%) Mac OS X
4 8 (2.81%) Ubuntu
4 8 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (2.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (53.68%) Artificial Intelligence
2 126 (44.21%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (37.19%) Machine Learning
4 105 (36.84%) Generative AI
4 105 (36.84%) LLM
4 105 (36.84%) Red Team
5 77 (27.02%) Data Privacy
6 75 (26.32%) Agile
7 59 (20.70%) Analytics
7 59 (20.70%) Mentoring
8 43 (15.09%) Coaching
9 39 (13.68%) Data Analytics
9 39 (13.68%) Robotic Process Automation
10 37 (12.98%) Creative Thinking
11 26 (9.12%) Risk Management
12 23 (8.07%) Change Management
12 23 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (8.07%) Information Security
13 22 (7.72%) DevOps
13 22 (7.72%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.63%) SQL
2 24 (8.42%) Java
3 20 (7.02%) JavaScript
4 13 (4.56%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.21%) Python
6 9 (3.16%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.11%) C#
8 1 (0.35%) Delphi
8 1 (0.35%) Ruby
8 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 143 (50.18%) Degree
2 20 (7.02%) CISA
2 20 (7.02%) ISACA
3 12 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.16%) HNC
4 9 (3.16%) HND
5 8 (2.81%) MCSE
5 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.75%) CISM
6 5 (1.75%) CISSP
6 5 (1.75%) SANS
7 2 (0.70%) IISP
7 2 (0.70%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.35%) ACCA
8 1 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) CIMA
8 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.35%) PMP
8 1 (0.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.68%) ITGC
2 16 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.56%) QA
4 8 (2.81%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.70%) PMO
8 1 (0.35%) COSHH
8 1 (0.35%) GDPR
8 1 (0.35%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 125 (43.86%) Google
2 113 (39.65%) Databricks
3 107 (37.54%) Adobe
4 45 (15.79%) Microsoft
5 23 (8.07%) Oracle
6 20 (7.02%) SAP
7 11 (3.86%) Cisco
7 11 (3.86%) Solace
8 9 (3.16%) Fortinet
9 8 (2.81%) Apple
9 8 (2.81%) Dell
9 8 (2.81%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (1.05%) Facebook
10 3 (1.05%) Instagram
10 3 (1.05%) Twitter
10 3 (1.05%) YouTube
11 2 (0.70%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.70%) Avaya
11 2 (0.70%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.70%) SolarWinds