Hybrid/Remote Retail Job Trends

Retailing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 51 39
Rank change year-on-year +22 -12 +12
Permanent jobs citing Retail 1,204 1,103 1,661
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.41% 4.73% 6.69%
As % of the General category 10.31% 7.55% 10.25%
Number of salaries quoted 384 504 1,215
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,225 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £62,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +3.74% +0.42%
75th Percentile £73,784 £87,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £92,644 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.16% -8.26%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Retail falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,676 14,608 16,197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 71.89% 62.59% 65.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,358 8,447 12,952
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £55,655 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.97% -7.24% -

Retail
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Retail trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Retail
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Retail.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Retail

Retail
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Retail over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Retail salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (1.25%) Confluence
3 14 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.58%) CMS
5 5 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.33%) WordPress
7 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.17%) Apache
8 2 (0.17%) ColdFusion
8 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.083%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.083%) IIS
9 1 (0.083%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.74%) Chatbot
4 17 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.58%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.50%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.083%) Blender
10 1 (0.083%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.083%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.083%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 32 (2.66%) Shopify
2 16 (1.33%) Magento
3 13 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle EBS R12
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.33%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.33%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.083%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.083%) FastStats
10 1 (0.083%) FastStats PeopleStage
Cloud Services
1 216 (17.94%) Azure
2 133 (11.05%) AWS
3 82 (6.81%) Power Platform
4 62 (5.15%) SaaS
5 40 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 19 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
9 18 (1.50%) GitHub
9 18 (1.50%) Google Analytics
10 16 (1.33%) GCP
10 16 (1.33%) Power Automate
11 14 (1.16%) SonarCloud
12 13 (1.08%) BigCommerce
13 11 (0.91%) OneDrive
14 9 (0.75%) Google Ads
15 8 (0.66%) dbt
15 8 (0.66%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
2 13 (1.08%) SD-WAN
3 7 (0.58%) 5G
3 7 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.58%) WAN
4 6 (0.50%) HSRP
4 6 (0.50%) LAN
4 6 (0.50%) VoIP
4 6 (0.50%) VRRP
5 4 (0.33%) Firewall
6 3 (0.25%) Internet
6 3 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.17%) DNS
7 2 (0.17%) SAN
7 2 (0.17%) VPN
7 2 (0.17%) Wireless
8 1 (0.083%) HTTP
8 1 (0.083%) Intranet
8 1 (0.083%) SSL
8 1 (0.083%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (9.80%) SQL Server
2 68 (5.65%) Power BI
3 24 (1.99%) Data Mining
4 21 (1.74%) Tableau
5 18 (1.50%) BusinessObjects
6 14 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.66%) Power Query
11 7 (0.58%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.50%) Looker
12 6 (0.50%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.50%) MySQL
13 5 (0.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.25%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 110 (9.14%) JIRA
2 93 (7.72%) GitLab
2 93 (7.72%) Selenium
3 91 (7.56%) Bitbucket
4 90 (7.48%) Cucumber
4 90 (7.48%) Maven
4 90 (7.48%) SonarQube
4 90 (7.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 29 (2.41%) Git
6 19 (1.58%) Visual Studio
7 16 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
8 14 (1.16%) MSBuild
8 14 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.42%) Bazaar
11 3 (0.25%) JMeter
11 3 (0.25%) Postman
12 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.083%) MSI
13 1 (0.083%) Subversion
General
1 591 (49.09%) Manufacturing
2 253 (21.01%) Finance
3 199 (16.53%) Dutch Language
4 197 (16.36%) Social Skills
5 196 (16.28%) Finnish Language
6 191 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
7 157 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 112 (9.30%) Marketing
9 95 (7.89%) Banking
10 90 (7.48%) Corporate Banking
10 90 (7.48%) Investment Banking
11 49 (4.07%) Catalan Language
12 37 (3.07%) Legal
13 35 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (1.25%) Advertising
15 15 (1.25%) Back Office
16 13 (1.08%) Automotive
17 12 (1.00%) Public Sector
18 11 (0.91%) Games
Job Titles
1 560 (46.51%) Trainer
2 99 (8.22%) Software Engineer
3 70 (5.81%) Senior
4 69 (5.73%) Analyst
5 52 (4.32%) Developer
6 42 (3.49%) Architect
7 32 (2.66%) Junior
8 26 (2.16%) Lead
9 24 (1.99%) 2nd Line Support
10 22 (1.83%) Senior Manager
10 22 (1.83%) Systems Manager
11 21 (1.74%) Consultant
11 21 (1.74%) IT Manager
11 21 (1.74%) Junior Developer
12 20 (1.66%) 2nd Line Support Technician
12 20 (1.66%) Account Manager
12 20 (1.66%) Support Technician
13 19 (1.58%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (1.50%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (1.41%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (10.47%) HTML
2 116 (9.63%) CSS
3 114 (9.47%) REST
4 112 (9.30%) React
5 99 (8.22%) RESTful
6 92 (7.64%) HTML5
6 92 (7.64%) Sass
7 91 (7.56%) CSS3
7 91 (7.56%) Kafka
7 91 (7.56%) Redux
7 91 (7.56%) Spring
7 91 (7.56%) Spring Boot
8 90 (7.48%) Jest
8 90 (7.48%) JPA
9 42 (3.49%) .NET
10 22 (1.83%) JSON
10 22 (1.83%) XML
11 19 (1.58%) .NET Core
12 16 (1.33%) ASP.NET
13 15 (1.25%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 543 (45.10%) Robotics
2 94 (7.81%) Product Ownership
3 90 (7.48%) Enterprise Software
4 59 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 23 (1.91%) Management Information System
6 21 (1.74%) Driving Licence
6 21 (1.74%) EPoS
7 19 (1.58%) FMCG
8 18 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.50%) Social Media
9 12 (1.00%) Mobile App
10 11 (0.91%) Digital Signage
10 11 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (0.75%) Cloud Native
11 9 (0.75%) Digital Media
12 8 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.58%) Self-Driving Car
14 6 (0.50%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.91%) Mac OS
2 10 (0.83%) Linux
2 10 (0.83%) Windows
3 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.083%) Android
4 1 (0.083%) Unix
4 1 (0.083%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (54.15%) Problem-Solving
2 593 (49.25%) Artificial Intelligence
3 581 (48.26%) Data Privacy
4 558 (46.35%) Machine Learning
5 546 (45.35%) Generative AI
6 539 (44.77%) LLM
6 539 (44.77%) Red Team
7 195 (16.20%) Agile
8 161 (13.37%) DevOps
9 143 (11.88%) Mentoring
10 123 (10.22%) Microservices
11 120 (9.97%) CI/CD
12 113 (9.39%) Software Engineering
13 112 (9.30%) User Experience
14 111 (9.22%) Performance Optimisation
14 111 (9.22%) SDLC
14 111 (9.22%) Strategic Thinking
15 107 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
16 106 (8.80%) Migration
17 100 (8.31%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 220 (18.27%) SQL
2 124 (10.30%) JavaScript
3 96 (7.97%) TypeScript
4 95 (7.89%) Java
5 59 (4.90%) C#
6 58 (4.82%) Python
7 21 (1.74%) R
8 18 (1.50%) VBA
9 9 (0.75%) C++
10 8 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.58%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.42%) Delphi
12 5 (0.42%) PHP
13 3 (0.25%) C
13 3 (0.25%) C-shell
13 3 (0.25%) Korn
13 3 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.25%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.25%) Scala
13 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 656 (54.49%) Degree
2 26 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (1.25%) AWS Certification
4 12 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 11 (0.91%) Master's Degree
6 10 (0.83%) SC Cleared
6 10 (0.83%) Security Cleared
7 9 (0.75%) CISSP
8 8 (0.66%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.58%) CISM
9 7 (0.58%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.42%) PhD
11 5 (0.42%) PMP
11 5 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.33%) SANS
12 4 (0.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (10.63%) QA
2 101 (8.39%) Accessibility
3 29 (2.41%) GDPR
4 15 (1.25%) PMO
5 9 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.50%) SLA
7 5 (0.42%) WCAG
8 2 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.083%) GRC
9 1 (0.083%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.083%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 115 (9.55%) Docker
2 17 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
5 1 (0.083%) HDFS
5 1 (0.083%) Varnish
5 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.33%) Terraform
4 1 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 591 (49.09%) Google
2 584 (48.50%) Adobe
3 546 (45.35%) Databricks
4 126 (10.47%) Microsoft
5 90 (7.48%) Solace
6 32 (2.66%) TikTok
7 29 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.91%) Facebook
9 22 (1.83%) PayPal
10 18 (1.50%) Oracle
11 14 (1.16%) HubSpot
11 14 (1.16%) SAP
12 13 (1.08%) VMware
13 10 (0.83%) Ahrefs
13 10 (0.83%) Instagram
14 9 (0.75%) Cisco
15 8 (0.66%) Alteryx
16 6 (0.50%) Avaya
16 6 (0.50%) Extreme Networks
16 6 (0.50%) Pinterest