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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 38 80
Rank change year-on-year +4 +42 -27
Permanent jobs citing Retail 254 366 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.78% 4.96% 3.86%
As % of the General category 10.24% 8.59% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 103 253 140
10th Percentile £31,468 £25,750 £32,225
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year - -14.37% +2.04%
75th Percentile £61,375 £61,123 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +3.45%

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 2,481 4,263 4,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.49% 57.79% 76.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,104 3,031 2,212
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,500 £29,775
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,428 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 11 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 11 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
Birmingham +30 109 £57,500 +4.55% 67
Staffordshire +12 84 £42,500 -10.53% 53
Warwickshire -21 21 £33,000 +24.53% 23
Coventry -9 13 £47,500 +79.25% 21
Worcestershire +8 6 £89,500 +123.35% 12
Herefordshire +4 3 £33,000 +20.00% 3
Walsall -3 3 £72,500 +178.85% 3
Willenhall - 3 £45,000 -
Wolverhampton +11 2 £95,000 +100.00% 4
West Bromwich - 2 - -
Shropshire +2 1 - - 7
Solihull -22 1 £55,000 +15.79% 16
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 8 (3.15%) CMS
2 3 (1.18%) WordPress
3 2 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 22 (8.66%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (1.57%) Shopify
3 2 (0.79%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 59 (23.23%) Azure
2 33 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (8.66%) AWS
4 14 (5.51%) Google Workspace
5 10 (3.94%) Serverless
6 7 (2.76%) Google Analytics
7 6 (2.36%) GCP
7 6 (2.36%) SaaS
8 4 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.57%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (1.57%) Google App Engine
8 4 (1.57%) Google Compute Engine
8 4 (1.57%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.18%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.79%) Figma
10 2 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.99%) WAN
2 31 (12.20%) LAN
3 30 (11.81%) VoIP
4 16 (6.30%) VLAN
5 15 (5.91%) DNS
5 15 (5.91%) Firewall
6 14 (5.51%) BGP
6 14 (5.51%) DHCP
6 14 (5.51%) OSPF
6 14 (5.51%) TCP/IP
6 14 (5.51%) WLAN
7 2 (0.79%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.39%) Network Security
8 1 (0.39%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.57%) BigQuery
2 4 (1.57%) Cloud Spanner
2 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.18%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.18%) Power BI
4 2 (0.79%) MySQL
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (6.30%) JIRA
2 12 (4.72%) Maven
3 11 (4.33%) Bitbucket
3 11 (4.33%) Cucumber
3 11 (4.33%) GitLab
3 11 (4.33%) Selenium
3 11 (4.33%) SonarQube
3 11 (4.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.79%) Git
5 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (33.07%) Finance
2 73 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 65 (25.59%) Manufacturing
4 45 (17.72%) Telecoms
5 29 (11.42%) Marketing
6 22 (8.66%) Games
7 19 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (6.69%) Automotive
9 15 (5.91%) Banking
10 14 (5.51%) Dutch Language
10 14 (5.51%) Finnish Language
10 14 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (5.51%) Norwegian Language
11 11 (4.33%) Corporate Banking
11 11 (4.33%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.36%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.97%) Advertising
13 5 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.57%) Police
15 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (16.54%) Trainer
2 33 (12.99%) Senior
3 32 (12.60%) IT Support
4 30 (11.81%) IT Support Specialist
4 30 (11.81%) Support Specialist
5 23 (9.06%) Risk Manager
5 23 (9.06%) Technology Risk Manager
6 16 (6.30%) Software Engineer
6 16 (6.30%) Technical Support
7 14 (5.51%) IT Engineer
7 14 (5.51%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (4.72%) Analyst
9 9 (3.54%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.15%) IT Manager
11 6 (2.36%) Architect
11 6 (2.36%) Developer
12 5 (1.97%) Lead
12 5 (1.97%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.97%) Vendor Manager
13 4 (1.57%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.48%) CSS
1 19 (7.48%) HTML
2 18 (7.09%) React
3 13 (5.12%) Kafka
4 12 (4.72%) REST
4 12 (4.72%) Spring
4 12 (4.72%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.33%) CSS3
5 11 (4.33%) HTML5
5 11 (4.33%) Jest
5 11 (4.33%) JPA
5 11 (4.33%) Redux
5 11 (4.33%) RESTful
5 11 (4.33%) Sass
6 8 (3.15%) Node.js
7 4 (1.57%) Express.js
7 4 (1.57%) React Native
8 3 (1.18%) .NET
8 3 (1.18%) PySpark
8 3 (1.18%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 87 (34.25%) Robotics
2 45 (17.72%) Blockchain
3 36 (14.17%) Management Information System
4 30 (11.81%) CCTV
5 17 (6.69%) Product Ownership
6 14 (5.51%) Smartphone
7 12 (4.72%) Mobile App
8 11 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.57%) FMCG
10 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.18%) Social Media
11 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.79%) EPoS
11 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.39%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.32%) Windows
1 44 (17.32%) Windows 10
2 14 (5.51%) Linux
2 14 (5.51%) Mac OS X
2 14 (5.51%) Ubuntu
2 14 (5.51%) Windows Server
2 14 (5.51%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (5.51%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.39%) Android
3 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (36.61%) Artificial Intelligence
2 77 (30.31%) Agile
3 67 (26.38%) Analytics
4 63 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (24.02%) Mentoring
6 48 (18.90%) Coaching
7 45 (17.72%) Data Analytics
7 45 (17.72%) Robotic Process Automation
8 43 (16.93%) Creative Thinking
8 43 (16.93%) Machine Learning
9 42 (16.54%) Generative AI
9 42 (16.54%) LLM
9 42 (16.54%) Red Team
10 36 (14.17%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (11.02%) Data Privacy
11 28 (11.02%) Risk Management
12 25 (9.84%) Information Security
13 24 (9.45%) Change Management
13 24 (9.45%) ERP
14 23 (9.06%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.96%) SQL
2 22 (8.66%) JavaScript
3 20 (7.87%) Java
4 15 (5.91%) PowerShell
5 12 (4.72%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.76%) Python
7 3 (1.18%) C#
7 3 (1.18%) Ruby
8 1 (0.39%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 98 (38.58%) Degree
2 22 (8.66%) CISA
2 22 (8.66%) ISACA
3 20 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (6.69%) HNC
5 14 (5.51%) HND
5 14 (5.51%) MCSE
5 14 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.79%) CISM
6 2 (0.79%) CISSP
6 2 (0.79%) IISP
6 2 (0.79%) SANS
6 2 (0.79%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.39%) PMP
7 1 (0.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.72%) ITGC
2 16 (6.30%) Accessibility
3 13 (5.12%) QA
4 8 (3.15%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.18%) GDPR
6 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.39%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (17.72%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 68 (26.77%) Google
2 57 (22.44%) Microsoft
3 50 (19.69%) Databricks
4 44 (17.32%) Adobe
5 23 (9.06%) Oracle
6 22 (8.66%) SAP
7 16 (6.30%) Cisco
8 15 (5.91%) Fortinet
9 14 (5.51%) Apple
9 14 (5.51%) Dell
9 14 (5.51%) Ubiquiti
10 11 (4.33%) Solace
11 3 (1.18%) Facebook
11 3 (1.18%) Instagram
11 3 (1.18%) Twitter
11 3 (1.18%) YouTube
12 2 (0.79%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.79%) WooCommerce
12 2 (0.79%) Zscaler