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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 70 54
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 -22
Permanent jobs citing Retail 634 730 1,183
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.15% 4.45% 5.44%
As % of the General category 6.89% 6.46% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 367 416 887
10th Percentile £27,707 £27,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,643
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.09% -7.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,150 £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 9,207 11,302 13,554
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.20% 68.87% 62.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5,847 6,378 10,553
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,175 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.51% -6.64%

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 16 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 12 (1.89%) Confluence
2 7 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.79%) SAS
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.32%) IIS
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 62 (9.78%) Chatbot
2 25 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.52%) MS Visio
4 15 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.42%) AutoCAD
6 7 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.63%) 3ds Max
8 4 (0.63%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.16%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 10 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.58%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.26%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (1.26%) Oracle Cash Management
2 8 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (1.26%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
2 8 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.95%) Shopify
4 3 (0.47%) Magento
4 3 (0.47%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.47%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.47%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.32%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 177 (27.92%) SaaS
2 108 (17.03%) AWS
3 90 (14.20%) Azure
4 63 (9.94%) GCP
5 35 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 25 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (2.52%) GitHub
9 12 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.26%) Google Analytics
11 8 (1.26%) Serverless
11 8 (1.26%) Snowflake
12 6 (0.95%) dbt
13 5 (0.79%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.79%) Google Data Studio
13 5 (0.79%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.63%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.84%) Remote Desktop
2 15 (2.37%) SD-WAN
3 11 (1.74%) Firewall
4 10 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.58%) WAN
5 9 (1.42%) LAN
5 9 (1.42%) Network Security
5 9 (1.42%) Wireless
6 7 (1.10%) BGP
7 6 (0.95%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (0.95%) Internet
8 5 (0.79%) HSRP
8 5 (0.79%) VoIP
8 5 (0.79%) VRRP
9 4 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.47%) DNS
10 3 (0.47%) VLAN
10 3 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.73%) Power BI
2 28 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (3.31%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.31%) Tableau
4 18 (2.84%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (1.58%) BigQuery
7 9 (1.42%) Data Mining
8 8 (1.26%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.10%) Metadata
9 7 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.79%) Looker
12 4 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.63%) DataStage
12 4 (0.63%) QlikView
12 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.47%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 25 (3.94%) TeamCity
2 15 (2.37%) JIRA
3 12 (1.89%) Git
4 7 (1.10%) Burp Suite
4 7 (1.10%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.63%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.63%) ERwin
5 4 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.47%) JMeter
6 3 (0.47%) Postman
6 3 (0.47%) Selenium
6 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.16%) Pivotal Tracker
General
1 224 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 196 (30.91%) Finance
3 116 (18.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 109 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (14.35%) Banking
6 85 (13.41%) Marketing
7 77 (12.15%) Law
8 61 (9.62%) Financial Institution
9 59 (9.31%) Back Office
10 39 (6.15%) Manufacturing
11 36 (5.68%) Legal
12 28 (4.42%) Public Sector
13 15 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (2.21%) Automotive
15 13 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (1.74%) Advertising
16 11 (1.74%) Publishing
16 11 (1.74%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.42%) Games
18 8 (1.26%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 108 (17.03%) Senior
2 78 (12.30%) Analyst
3 72 (11.36%) Account Manager
4 62 (9.78%) Trainer
5 49 (7.73%) Senior Manager
6 45 (7.10%) Architect
7 42 (6.62%) Senior Account Manager
8 39 (6.15%) Sales Account Manager
8 39 (6.15%) Sales Manager
8 39 (6.15%) Senior Sales Manager
9 38 (5.99%) 2nd Line Support
10 30 (4.73%) Lead
10 30 (4.73%) Software Engineer
11 28 (4.42%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 22 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (3.31%) Developer
14 20 (3.15%) Data Analyst
15 19 (3.00%) Support Analyst
16 18 (2.84%) Data Manager
16 18 (2.84%) ERP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.15%) React
2 19 (3.00%) .NET
3 17 (2.68%) HTML
4 15 (2.37%) Node.js
5 13 (2.05%) CSS
5 13 (2.05%) RESTful
6 11 (1.74%) React Native
7 10 (1.58%) REST
8 9 (1.42%) JSON
9 8 (1.26%) .NET Core
9 8 (1.26%) EDI
10 7 (1.10%) Web Services
11 5 (0.79%) OpenAPI
11 5 (0.79%) Pandas
11 5 (0.79%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.79%) Swagger
11 5 (0.79%) XML
12 4 (0.63%) GraphQL
12 4 (0.63%) Hugging Face
12 4 (0.63%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 97 (15.30%) Onboarding
2 46 (7.26%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.42%) Security Posture
4 22 (3.47%) Blog
5 21 (3.31%) FMCG
6 20 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 19 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.68%) Management Information System
9 16 (2.52%) EPoS
9 16 (2.52%) Mobile App
10 15 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
10 15 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (2.21%) Driving Licence
12 11 (1.74%) Insider Threat
13 10 (1.58%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.58%) Social Media
14 9 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.84%) Windows
2 12 (1.89%) Linux
3 6 (0.95%) Android
3 6 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.32%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.32%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (29.02%) Customer Service
2 117 (18.45%) AI
3 97 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 97 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (13.41%) Roadmaps
5 83 (13.09%) CRM
6 80 (12.62%) Mentoring
7 76 (11.99%) ERP
8 73 (11.51%) B2B
9 68 (10.73%) Logistics
10 67 (10.57%) Agile
11 66 (10.41%) E-Commerce
12 65 (10.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 62 (9.78%) Conversational UI
14 60 (9.46%) CI/CD
15 57 (8.99%) Data Privacy
16 49 (7.73%) Root Cause Analysis
17 48 (7.57%) Project Management
17 48 (7.57%) Software Engineering
18 46 (7.26%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 99 (15.62%) SQL
2 52 (8.20%) Java
3 48 (7.57%) C#
4 41 (6.47%) Python
5 18 (2.84%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.21%) Go
7 8 (1.26%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.10%) R
9 6 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.95%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.79%) Bash
10 5 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.79%) VBA
11 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.47%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.47%) C
12 3 (0.47%) C++
13 2 (0.32%) Scala
14 1 (0.16%) Groovy
14 1 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 124 (19.56%) Degree
2 21 (3.31%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.15%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.00%) CISSP
5 17 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.21%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (2.21%) CREST Certified
6 14 (2.21%) OSCP
7 13 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.74%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.58%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.42%) ACCA
11 9 (1.42%) CIMA
12 8 (1.26%) CCNA
12 8 (1.26%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.26%) MCSE
13 7 (1.10%) GIAC
13 7 (1.10%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.57%) QA
2 30 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.31%) GDPR
4 20 (3.15%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.52%) SLA
5 16 (2.52%) SOC 2
6 15 (2.37%) NIST
7 11 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (1.58%) PMO
9 9 (1.42%) Data Quality
10 8 (1.26%) GRC
11 4 (0.63%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.47%) WCAG
13 2 (0.32%) PERC
14 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.74%) Docker
2 11 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.16%) HDFS
5 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 46 (7.26%) Terraform
3 21 (3.31%) Grafana
4 7 (1.10%) Nmap
5 4 (0.63%) Ansible
5 4 (0.63%) Autotask
5 4 (0.63%) Cilium
6 3 (0.47%) SCCM
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 77 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.78%) PayPal
3 45 (7.10%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.63%) Cisco
4 23 (3.63%) Google
5 22 (3.47%) HubSpot
6 21 (3.31%) Adobe
6 21 (3.31%) Databricks
7 20 (3.15%) SAP
8 16 (2.52%) Oracle
9 11 (1.74%) VMware
10 5 (0.79%) Avaya
10 5 (0.79%) Extreme Networks
11 4 (0.63%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.63%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.63%) IBM
11 4 (0.63%) Informatica
11 4 (0.63%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.63%) Talend