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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 36 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 +47 -26
Permanent jobs citing Retail 300 415 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.17% 5.26% 3.98%
As % of the General category 12.53% 9.40% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 87 260 129
10th Percentile £31,335 £25,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,550 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £60,125 £60,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £51,500 £47,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +8.42% -20.20% +3.52%

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 2,395 4,416 4,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 57.27% 55.95% 75.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 3,045 2,211
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 £73,980 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +11 125 £42,500 -10.53% 72
Birmingham +26 106 £60,000 +9.09% 56
Coventry -8 21 £34,572 +30.46% 24
Warwickshire -37 17 £31,335 +18.25% 29
Worcestershire +9 6 £89,500 +123.35% 10
Herefordshire +3 3 £52,500 +90.91% 2
Willenhall - 3 £45,000 -
Wolverhampton +18 2 £95,000 +100.00% 3
West Bromwich - 2 - -
Walsall -5 1 £59,000 +85.83% 2
Solihull -24 1 £55,000 +15.79% 15
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 10 (3.33%) CMS
2 3 (1.00%) WordPress
3 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 22 (7.33%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (2.00%) Shopify
3 2 (0.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 59 (19.67%) Azure
2 32 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (7.67%) AWS
4 12 (4.00%) Serverless
5 11 (3.67%) Google Workspace
6 7 (2.33%) Google Analytics
7 5 (1.67%) GCP
8 4 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.33%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (1.33%) Google App Engine
8 4 (1.33%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.00%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.00%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.67%) Algolia
10 2 (0.67%) Firebase
10 2 (0.67%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (0.67%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.00%) WAN
2 31 (10.33%) LAN
3 30 (10.00%) VoIP
4 13 (4.33%) Firewall
4 13 (4.33%) VLAN
5 11 (3.67%) BGP
5 11 (3.67%) DHCP
5 11 (3.67%) DNS
5 11 (3.67%) OSPF
5 11 (3.67%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.67%) WLAN
6 5 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.33%) Network Security
8 1 (0.33%) SAN
8 1 (0.33%) VPN
8 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.33%) BigQuery
2 4 (1.33%) Cloud Spanner
2 4 (1.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.00%) Power BI
4 2 (0.67%) MySQL
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.33%) JIRA
2 12 (4.00%) Maven
3 11 (3.67%) Bitbucket
3 11 (3.67%) Cucumber
3 11 (3.67%) GitLab
3 11 (3.67%) Selenium
3 11 (3.67%) SonarQube
3 11 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.67%) Git
5 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (42.33%) Manufacturing
2 82 (27.33%) Finance
3 67 (22.33%) Social Skills
4 45 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 30 (10.00%) Marketing
6 28 (9.33%) Dutch Language
6 28 (9.33%) Finnish Language
6 28 (9.33%) Norwegian Language
7 27 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (7.33%) Games
9 15 (5.00%) Banking
10 14 (4.67%) Automotive
10 14 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (3.67%) Corporate Banking
11 11 (3.67%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.33%) Catalan Language
13 5 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.67%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.33%) Police
15 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (35.00%) Trainer
2 32 (10.67%) IT Support
3 31 (10.33%) Senior
4 30 (10.00%) IT Support Specialist
4 30 (10.00%) Support Specialist
5 23 (7.67%) Risk Manager
5 23 (7.67%) Technology Risk Manager
6 16 (5.33%) Software Engineer
6 16 (5.33%) Technical Support
7 11 (3.67%) IT Engineer
7 11 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.00%) Analyst
9 5 (1.67%) Architect
9 5 (1.67%) Developer
9 5 (1.67%) Head of Operations
9 5 (1.67%) Head of Security
9 5 (1.67%) Lead
9 5 (1.67%) Product Manager
9 5 (1.67%) Project Manager
10 4 (1.33%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.33%) CSS
1 19 (6.33%) HTML
1 19 (6.33%) React
2 13 (4.33%) Kafka
3 12 (4.00%) REST
3 12 (4.00%) Spring
3 12 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 11 (3.67%) CSS3
4 11 (3.67%) HTML5
4 11 (3.67%) Jest
4 11 (3.67%) JPA
4 11 (3.67%) Redux
4 11 (3.67%) RESTful
4 11 (3.67%) Sass
5 8 (2.67%) Node.js
6 6 (2.00%) .NET
7 4 (1.33%) Express.js
7 4 (1.33%) React Native
8 3 (1.00%) PySpark
8 3 (1.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 150 (50.00%) Robotics
2 45 (15.00%) Blockchain
3 33 (11.00%) Management Information System
4 30 (10.00%) CCTV
5 17 (5.67%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.67%) Smartphone
7 9 (3.00%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.00%) Social Media
9 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.67%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.67%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.67%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.33%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.33%) EPoS
10 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.00%) Windows
2 41 (13.67%) Windows 10
3 12 (4.00%) Linux
3 12 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.67%) Mac OS X
4 11 (3.67%) Ubuntu
4 11 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (3.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (52.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 125 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (35.33%) Machine Learning
4 105 (35.00%) Generative AI
4 105 (35.00%) LLM
4 105 (35.00%) Red Team
5 81 (27.00%) Agile
6 77 (25.67%) Data Privacy
7 65 (21.67%) Analytics
8 61 (20.33%) Mentoring
9 47 (15.67%) Coaching
10 45 (15.00%) Data Analytics
10 45 (15.00%) Robotic Process Automation
11 43 (14.33%) Creative Thinking
12 38 (12.67%) Cybersecurity
13 31 (10.33%) Risk Management
14 25 (8.33%) Information Security
15 24 (8.00%) Change Management
15 24 (8.00%) Project Delivery
16 23 (7.67%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 36 (12.00%) SQL
2 22 (7.33%) Java
2 22 (7.33%) JavaScript
3 12 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.00%) TypeScript
4 10 (3.33%) Python
5 4 (1.33%) C#
6 3 (1.00%) Ruby
7 1 (0.33%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 158 (52.67%) Degree
2 22 (7.33%) CISA
2 22 (7.33%) ISACA
3 15 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (4.33%) HNC
5 12 (4.00%) HND
6 11 (3.67%) MCSE
6 11 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.67%) CISM
7 5 (1.67%) CISSP
7 5 (1.67%) SANS
8 2 (0.67%) IISP
8 2 (0.67%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.33%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.33%) PhD
9 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMP
9 1 (0.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.00%) ITGC
2 16 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.33%) QA
4 8 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.67%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) GDPR
8 1 (0.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 41 (13.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (3.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 128 (42.67%) Google
2 112 (37.33%) Databricks
3 107 (35.67%) Adobe
4 57 (19.00%) Microsoft
5 23 (7.67%) Oracle
6 22 (7.33%) SAP
7 14 (4.67%) Cisco
8 12 (4.00%) Fortinet
9 11 (3.67%) Apple
9 11 (3.67%) Dell
9 11 (3.67%) Solace
9 11 (3.67%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (1.00%) Facebook
10 3 (1.00%) Instagram
10 3 (1.00%) Twitter
10 3 (1.00%) YouTube
11 2 (0.67%) Avaya
11 2 (0.67%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.67%) WooCommerce
11 2 (0.67%) Zscaler