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 28 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 70 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 -21 -18
Permanent jobs citing Retail 678 719 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.32% 4.41% 5.54%
As % of the General category 7.24% 6.39% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 370 409 1,044
10th Percentile £27,707 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.18% -17.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,250 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -20.83%

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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,361 11,260 16,044
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.61% 69.10% 62.34%
Number of salaries quoted 5,895 6,361 12,695
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.69%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Retail
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retail

Retail
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retail over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Retail salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Retail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (1.62%) Confluence
2 7 (1.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.74%) SAS
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.29%) CMS
4 2 (0.29%) IIS
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 62 (9.14%) Chatbot
2 27 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (2.21%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.18%) AutoCAD
5 8 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.59%) 3ds Max
7 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.44%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.15%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 12 (1.77%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.18%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (1.18%) Oracle Cash Management
2 8 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
2 8 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.88%) Shopify
4 3 (0.44%) Magento
4 3 (0.44%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.44%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.44%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 198 (29.20%) SaaS
2 131 (19.32%) AWS
3 86 (12.68%) Azure
4 81 (11.95%) GCP
5 41 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (5.31%) Power Platform
7 26 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (2.51%) GitHub
9 14 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.18%) dbt
11 8 (1.18%) Snowflake
12 7 (1.03%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.88%) Serverless
14 5 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
14 5 (0.74%) Figma
14 5 (0.74%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.16%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (2.06%) SD-WAN
3 13 (1.92%) Firewall
4 11 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.62%) WAN
5 10 (1.47%) BGP
5 10 (1.47%) Network Security
6 9 (1.33%) LAN
6 9 (1.33%) Wireless
7 7 (1.03%) VPN
8 6 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
8 6 (0.88%) Internet
8 6 (0.88%) VLAN
9 4 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.59%) HSRP
9 4 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.59%) VoIP
9 4 (0.59%) VRRP
9 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.44%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.57%) Power BI
2 27 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (3.39%) Tableau
4 18 (2.65%) Data Lake
4 18 (2.65%) SQL Server
5 14 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.77%) BigQuery
7 11 (1.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.33%) Data Mining
8 9 (1.33%) Metadata
9 8 (1.18%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.74%) Looker
12 4 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.59%) DataStage
12 4 (0.59%) QlikView
13 3 (0.44%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (5.60%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.21%) JIRA
3 12 (1.77%) Git
4 7 (1.03%) Burp Suite
4 7 (1.03%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.59%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.59%) ERwin
5 4 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.29%) JMeter
6 2 (0.29%) Postman
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.15%) GitLab
7 1 (0.15%) Pivotal Tracker
General
1 240 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 229 (33.78%) Finance
3 149 (21.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 125 (18.44%) Banking
5 112 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
6 110 (16.22%) Law
7 91 (13.42%) Marketing
8 85 (12.54%) Financial Institution
9 84 (12.39%) Back Office
10 40 (5.90%) Legal
11 38 (5.60%) Manufacturing
12 31 (4.57%) Public Sector
13 19 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (2.36%) Automotive
15 13 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.92%) Publishing
15 13 (1.92%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.47%) Advertising
16 10 (1.47%) Polish Language
17 9 (1.33%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 113 (16.67%) Senior
2 83 (12.24%) Analyst
3 73 (10.77%) Account Manager
4 62 (9.14%) Trainer
5 48 (7.08%) Senior Manager
6 47 (6.93%) Architect
7 42 (6.19%) Senior Account Manager
8 41 (6.05%) Software Engineer
9 39 (5.75%) Sales Account Manager
9 39 (5.75%) Sales Manager
9 39 (5.75%) Senior Sales Manager
10 36 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
11 35 (5.16%) Lead
12 28 (4.13%) 1st/2nd Line Support
13 24 (3.54%) Data Analyst
14 22 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (3.10%) Developer
16 20 (2.95%) Data Manager
16 20 (2.95%) Support Analyst
17 18 (2.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.65%) React
2 16 (2.36%) .NET
2 16 (2.36%) RESTful
3 14 (2.06%) HTML
4 12 (1.77%) Node.js
5 10 (1.47%) CSS
5 10 (1.47%) REST
6 9 (1.33%) JSON
6 9 (1.33%) React Native
7 7 (1.03%) .NET Core
7 7 (1.03%) EDI
8 6 (0.88%) OpenAPI
8 6 (0.88%) Swagger
9 5 (0.74%) Kafka
9 5 (0.74%) Pandas
9 5 (0.74%) Sass
9 5 (0.74%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.74%) Web Services
10 4 (0.59%) SOAP
10 4 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (14.75%) Onboarding
2 63 (9.29%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.31%) Blog
4 29 (4.28%) Security Posture
5 28 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.10%) FMCG
6 21 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (2.51%) EPoS
8 17 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.21%) Enterprise Cloud
10 14 (2.06%) Driving Licence
11 13 (1.92%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.77%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.62%) Insider Threat
14 10 (1.47%) Social Media
15 8 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.65%) Windows
2 17 (2.51%) Linux
3 7 (1.03%) Android
3 7 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.44%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (27.73%) Customer Service
2 119 (17.55%) AI
3 104 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (13.42%) Roadmaps
6 84 (12.39%) CRM
7 82 (12.09%) Mentoring
8 80 (11.80%) B2B
9 76 (11.21%) CI/CD
9 76 (11.21%) ERP
10 71 (10.47%) E-Commerce
11 67 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 66 (9.73%) Logistics
13 64 (9.44%) Agile
14 62 (9.14%) Conversational UI
15 61 (9.00%) Software Engineering
16 54 (7.96%) Fintech
17 53 (7.82%) Data Privacy
18 50 (7.37%) DevOps
19 49 (7.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (14.90%) SQL
2 76 (11.21%) Java
3 48 (7.08%) Python
4 44 (6.49%) C#
5 19 (2.80%) Go
5 19 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.33%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.18%) Bash
8 7 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.88%) R
10 5 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.74%) VBA
11 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.44%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.44%) C
12 3 (0.44%) C++
13 2 (0.29%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) Groovy
14 1 (0.15%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 130 (19.17%) Degree
2 23 (3.39%) CISSP
3 21 (3.10%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.95%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.65%) CompTIA Security+
5 18 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.21%) CREST Certified
6 15 (2.21%) OSCP
7 13 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.47%) ACCA
9 10 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.47%) CIMA
10 9 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.18%) CCNA
11 8 (1.18%) CISM
11 8 (1.18%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.18%) MCSE
12 7 (1.03%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.93%) QA
2 36 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.83%) PCI DSS
4 24 (3.54%) SOC 2
5 21 (3.10%) GDPR
6 18 (2.65%) SLA
7 17 (2.51%) NIST
8 13 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (1.62%) Data Quality
10 10 (1.47%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.47%) GRC
10 10 (1.47%) PMO
11 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.59%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.44%) PSD2
14 2 (0.29%) PERC
14 2 (0.29%) WCAG
15 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (2.51%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.62%) Docker
2 11 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (9.88%) Terraform
2 65 (9.59%) Kubernetes
3 36 (5.31%) Grafana
4 7 (1.03%) Nmap
5 6 (0.88%) Ansible
6 4 (0.59%) Autotask
6 4 (0.59%) Cilium
7 3 (0.44%) SCCM
8 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.29%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 77 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.14%) PayPal
3 47 (6.93%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.39%) Cisco
5 22 (3.24%) Google
5 22 (3.24%) HubSpot
6 21 (3.10%) Adobe
6 21 (3.10%) Databricks
7 20 (2.95%) SAP
8 17 (2.51%) Oracle
9 13 (1.92%) VMware
10 5 (0.74%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.59%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.59%) Avaya
11 4 (0.59%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.59%) Extreme Networks
11 4 (0.59%) IBM
11 4 (0.59%) Informatica
11 4 (0.59%) Talend
11 4 (0.59%) Zoho