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 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 61 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 -13 -17
Permanent jobs citing Retail 762 726 1,656
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.16% 5.14% 5.10%
As % of the General category 7.48% 6.99% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 442 464 999
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £26,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £39,747
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,250 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% +13.92% -22.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £99,625 £83,750 £85,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +12.63% -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 10,182 10,382 20,111
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.56% 73.49% 61.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,777 6,511 15,101
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,913 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 6 May 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 9 (1.18%) CMS
1 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.66%) Confluence
4 4 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.52%) Drupal
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 40 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.66%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.39%) 3ds Max
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.26%) Civil 3D
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.13%) Productboard
7 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (1.97%) Oracle Assets
1 15 (1.97%) Oracle Cash Management
1 15 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (1.97%) Oracle EBS R12
1 15 (1.97%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (1.97%) Oracle Receivables
2 14 (1.84%) Shopify
3 12 (1.57%) NetSuite
4 9 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.39%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.39%) Magento
8 1 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.13%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.13%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 220 (28.87%) SaaS
2 134 (17.59%) AWS
3 86 (11.29%) GCP
4 67 (8.79%) Azure
5 61 (8.01%) Amazon EKS
6 41 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 29 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.31%) Google Analytics
10 9 (1.18%) GitHub
10 9 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (0.92%) dbt
12 7 (0.92%) Entra ID
12 7 (0.92%) Figma
13 6 (0.79%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.15%) Firewall
2 17 (2.23%) WAN
3 14 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (1.84%) VLAN
4 12 (1.57%) LAN
5 11 (1.44%) VPN
6 10 (1.31%) BGP
7 9 (1.18%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (1.05%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.05%) Unified Communications
8 8 (1.05%) WebEx
9 7 (0.92%) Network Security
9 7 (0.92%) Wireless
10 6 (0.79%) Cisco Wireless
10 6 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.52%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.39%) Ethernet
12 3 (0.39%) IP Telephony
12 3 (0.39%) SCCP
13 2 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.20%) Power BI
2 24 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.62%) Tableau
4 14 (1.84%) Metadata
5 12 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.44%) Looker
7 10 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.79%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.66%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.52%) MySQL
12 2 (0.26%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.13%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 48 (6.30%) TeamCity
2 9 (1.18%) JIRA
3 4 (0.52%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.52%) Git
3 4 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.52%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.26%) Postman
5 1 (0.13%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) JUnit
General
1 290 (38.06%) Finance
2 246 (32.28%) Social Skills
3 182 (23.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 181 (23.75%) Banking
5 176 (23.10%) Law
6 140 (18.37%) Marketing
7 123 (16.14%) Back Office
8 104 (13.65%) Financial Institution
9 78 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
10 52 (6.82%) Manufacturing
11 42 (5.51%) Legal
12 38 (4.99%) Public Sector
13 37 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (3.54%) Automotive
16 25 (3.28%) Telecoms
17 23 (3.02%) Aviation
18 19 (2.49%) General Ledger
19 16 (2.10%) Polish Language
20 15 (1.97%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 92 (12.07%) Senior
2 84 (11.02%) Analyst
3 65 (8.53%) Lead
4 49 (6.43%) Software Engineer
5 44 (5.77%) Account Manager
6 39 (5.12%) Developer
7 38 (4.99%) Architect
8 33 (4.33%) Security Analyst
9 30 (3.94%) Consultant
10 27 (3.54%) Data Analyst
11 26 (3.41%) Systems Manager
12 24 (3.15%) Business Manager
13 23 (3.02%) Designer
14 20 (2.62%) ERP Manager
14 20 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (2.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 19 (2.49%) Enterprise Architect
16 18 (2.36%) Business Consultant
16 18 (2.36%) Data Manager
16 18 (2.36%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.49%) .NET
2 15 (1.97%) React
3 14 (1.84%) RESTful
4 11 (1.44%) REST
5 8 (1.05%) Node.js
5 8 (1.05%) XMPP
6 7 (0.92%) EDI
6 7 (0.92%) Kafka
6 7 (0.92%) Sass
7 6 (0.79%) OpenAPI
7 6 (0.79%) Redux
7 6 (0.79%) Regular Expression
7 6 (0.79%) Swagger
8 5 (0.66%) HTML
8 5 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.52%) JSON
9 4 (0.52%) Middleware
9 4 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.39%) Classic ASP
10 3 (0.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 101 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 69 (9.06%) Onboarding
3 41 (5.38%) Blog
3 41 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.99%) Management Information System
5 31 (4.07%) Security Posture
6 28 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 25 (3.28%) Cyber Defence
8 22 (2.89%) FMCG
9 21 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (2.49%) Data Centre
10 19 (2.49%) EPoS
10 19 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (2.10%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
13 14 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.84%) Marketing Technology
14 12 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.18%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.18%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.15%) Windows
2 22 (2.89%) Linux
3 15 (1.97%) Android
3 15 (1.97%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.39%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.39%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Solaris
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (14.30%) Agile
2 106 (13.91%) Roadmaps
3 105 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 89 (11.68%) Fintech
4 89 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (11.42%) ERP
6 82 (10.76%) CRM
7 81 (10.63%) CI/CD
8 78 (10.24%) Project Management
9 74 (9.71%) Test Automation
10 71 (9.32%) Customer Service
11 68 (8.92%) Analytics
11 68 (8.92%) Cybersecurity
12 67 (8.79%) AI
12 67 (8.79%) Software Engineering
13 65 (8.53%) B2B
14 64 (8.40%) Mentoring
15 60 (7.87%) Business Development
16 59 (7.74%) Customer Experience
17 57 (7.48%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 87 (11.42%) Java
2 69 (9.06%) SQL
3 61 (8.01%) Python
4 29 (3.81%) Go
5 19 (2.49%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.84%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.57%) Bash
7 12 (1.57%) C#
8 10 (1.31%) PowerShell
9 6 (0.79%) Clojure
9 6 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.79%) R
10 5 (0.66%) PHP
10 5 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.39%) C
11 3 (0.39%) C++
12 2 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.13%) Scala
13 1 (0.13%) SHACL
13 1 (0.13%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 85 (11.15%) Degree
2 28 (3.67%) CISSP
3 22 (2.89%) ACCA
3 22 (2.89%) CIMA
3 22 (2.89%) Security Cleared
4 19 (2.49%) SC Cleared
5 17 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (1.84%) CISM
6 14 (1.84%) CREST Certified
6 14 (1.84%) OSCP
7 13 (1.71%) CISA
7 13 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.18%) CRISC
8 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.79%) CCNA
10 6 (0.79%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.66%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (3.54%) NIST
2 27 (3.54%) PCI DSS
3 24 (3.15%) SOC 2
4 16 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.10%) GDPR
5 15 (1.97%) GRC
6 14 (1.84%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 12 (1.57%) SLA
8 10 (1.31%) TickIT
9 8 (1.05%) QA
10 4 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 4 (0.52%) NCSC
10 4 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.39%) COBIT
11 3 (0.39%) PSD2
12 2 (0.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (1.97%) Active Directory
1 15 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.31%) Docker
3 6 (0.79%) vSphere
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (10.89%) Kubernetes
1 83 (10.89%) Terraform
2 64 (8.40%) Grafana
3 22 (2.89%) Ansible
4 8 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.92%) Proxmox
6 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.52%) Nmap
7 3 (0.39%) SCCM
8 2 (0.26%) Autotask
8 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.13%) Cilium
9 1 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.13%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 111 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.33%) Oracle
3 29 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 27 (3.54%) Cisco
5 24 (3.15%) SAP
6 23 (3.02%) Google
7 22 (2.89%) VMware
8 9 (1.18%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.18%) HubSpot
8 9 (1.18%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.05%) Splunk
10 7 (0.92%) Adobe
11 6 (0.79%) CheckPoint
11 6 (0.79%) Databricks
11 6 (0.79%) IFS
12 5 (0.66%) NetApp
12 5 (0.66%) Xero
13 4 (0.52%) Ubiquiti
13 4 (0.52%) Workday
14 3 (0.39%) Sage