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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 27 47
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 -14
Permanent jobs citing Retail 807 1,225 1,719
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.23% 8.44% 5.23%
As % of the General category 7.48% 11.25% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 464 404 994
10th Percentile £31,475 £30,150 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -24.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £98,875 £83,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £54,633 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.02% - -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 10,788 10,890 20,264
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.61% 75.02% 61.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,174 5,954 15,094
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,325 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,703 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 27 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 10 (1.24%) CMS
2 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.74%) Confluence
4 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.50%) Drupal
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.37%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.37%) Productboard
4 3 (0.37%) Sketch
5 2 (0.25%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.12%) 3ds Max
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (1.86%) Oracle Assets
1 15 (1.86%) Oracle Cash Management
1 15 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (1.86%) Oracle EBS R12
1 15 (1.86%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (1.86%) Oracle Receivables
2 13 (1.61%) Shopify
3 10 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.12%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.37%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.37%) Magento
8 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.12%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.12%) SAP CAR
Cloud Services
1 240 (29.74%) SaaS
2 136 (16.85%) AWS
3 94 (11.65%) GCP
4 70 (8.67%) Azure
5 68 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (5.58%) Power Platform
7 26 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.24%) dbt
9 10 (1.24%) Figma
10 9 (1.12%) GitHub
10 9 (1.12%) Google Analytics
11 8 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.74%) Entra ID
14 5 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.97%) Firewall
2 18 (2.23%) WAN
3 15 (1.86%) Cisco ASA
3 15 (1.86%) LAN
4 14 (1.73%) VLAN
5 10 (1.24%) Cisco Firepower
5 10 (1.24%) VPN
6 9 (1.12%) BGP
6 9 (1.12%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.12%) WebEx
7 6 (0.74%) Network Security
7 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.62%) Wireless
9 4 (0.50%) Cisco Wireless
10 3 (0.37%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.37%) IP Telephony
10 3 (0.37%) SCCP
10 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.37%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.46%) Power BI
2 28 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (2.23%) Tableau
4 16 (1.98%) Metadata
5 13 (1.61%) Looker
5 13 (1.61%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.24%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (0.87%) Oracle Database
9 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.62%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.50%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.50%) MySQL
11 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.25%) Delta Lake
13 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.12%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 55 (6.82%) TeamCity
2 13 (1.61%) JIRA
3 4 (0.50%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.50%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.37%) JUnit
5 2 (0.25%) Git
5 2 (0.25%) Postman
6 1 (0.12%) GitLab
6 1 (0.12%) Zephyr
General
1 323 (40.02%) Finance
2 237 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 200 (24.78%) Banking
4 196 (24.29%) Law
5 194 (24.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 135 (16.73%) Marketing
7 134 (16.60%) Back Office
8 114 (14.13%) Financial Institution
9 80 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
10 50 (6.20%) Manufacturing
11 42 (5.20%) Legal
12 40 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (4.96%) Public Sector
13 31 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (3.35%) Automotive
15 25 (3.10%) Telecoms
16 23 (2.85%) Aviation
17 19 (2.35%) General Ledger
17 19 (2.35%) Polish Language
18 15 (1.86%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 90 (11.15%) Senior
2 79 (9.79%) Analyst
3 72 (8.92%) Lead
4 56 (6.94%) Software Engineer
5 49 (6.07%) Developer
6 40 (4.96%) Architect
7 36 (4.46%) Account Manager
8 33 (4.09%) Security Analyst
9 30 (3.72%) Business Manager
10 29 (3.59%) Consultant
11 28 (3.47%) Development Manager
12 27 (3.35%) Designer
13 24 (2.97%) Account Executive
13 24 (2.97%) Data Analyst
13 24 (2.97%) Systems Manager
14 22 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (2.48%) Software Manager
16 19 (2.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 19 (2.35%) ERP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.35%) .NET
2 26 (3.22%) React
3 19 (2.35%) Node.js
4 15 (1.86%) RESTful
5 13 (1.61%) REST
6 9 (1.12%) .NET Core
6 9 (1.12%) Kafka
6 9 (1.12%) XMPP
7 7 (0.87%) ASP.NET
7 7 (0.87%) OpenAPI
7 7 (0.87%) Redux
7 7 (0.87%) Sass
7 7 (0.87%) Swagger
8 6 (0.74%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (0.74%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (0.74%) Blazor
8 6 (0.74%) Regular Expression
9 5 (0.62%) HTML
9 5 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 111 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.56%) Onboarding
3 55 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 44 (5.45%) Blog
5 40 (4.96%) Management Information System
6 31 (3.84%) Security Posture
7 29 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 25 (3.10%) Cyber Defence
8 25 (3.10%) FMCG
9 24 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (2.73%) EPoS
11 20 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (2.35%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
13 15 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.73%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
15 13 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.12%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.73%) Linux
1 22 (2.73%) Windows
2 18 (2.23%) Android
2 18 (2.23%) Apple iOS
3 9 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.50%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.37%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.37%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.12%) AIX
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Solaris
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (16.60%) Agile
2 119 (14.75%) Roadmaps
3 115 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 105 (13.01%) Fintech
5 101 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (11.52%) CI/CD
7 90 (11.15%) ERP
8 86 (10.66%) Test Automation
9 81 (10.04%) Project Management
10 80 (9.91%) CRM
11 77 (9.54%) Software Engineering
12 76 (9.42%) AI
12 76 (9.42%) Analytics
13 73 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
14 71 (8.80%) Mentoring
15 68 (8.43%) Business Development
15 68 (8.43%) Disruptive Innovation
16 62 (7.68%) Clean Code
16 62 (7.68%) Customer Experience
16 62 (7.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 91 (11.28%) Java
2 74 (9.17%) SQL
3 61 (7.56%) Python
4 28 (3.47%) Go
5 26 (3.22%) JavaScript
6 19 (2.35%) C#
7 17 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.36%) Bash
9 10 (1.24%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.87%) Clojure
11 5 (0.62%) PHP
11 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.50%) R
13 1 (0.12%) C++
13 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.12%) RPG
13 1 (0.12%) SHACL
13 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (10.04%) Degree
2 29 (3.59%) CISSP
3 22 (2.73%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.48%) ACCA
4 20 (2.48%) CIMA
5 19 (2.35%) SC Cleared
6 17 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
7 15 (1.86%) CISM
7 15 (1.86%) CREST Certified
7 15 (1.86%) OSCP
8 14 (1.73%) CISA
9 11 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.24%) CRISC
11 9 (1.12%) ICAEW
12 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.87%) CCNA
13 7 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.87%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (3.72%) NIST
3 28 (3.47%) PCI DSS
4 23 (2.85%) SOC 2
5 18 (2.23%) Data Quality
6 17 (2.11%) GDPR
7 15 (1.86%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (1.73%) GRC
9 12 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (1.24%) SLA
10 10 (1.24%) TickIT
11 9 (1.12%) QA
12 6 (0.74%) COBIT
13 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 4 (0.50%) NCSC
13 4 (0.50%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.37%) PSD2
14 3 (0.37%) SOC 1
System Software
1 16 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.24%) Docker
4 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (0.74%) vSphere
5 5 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 92 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 91 (11.28%) Terraform
3 73 (9.05%) Grafana
4 23 (2.85%) Ansible
5 9 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
6 7 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.87%) Proxmox
7 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.50%) Nmap
8 3 (0.37%) SCCM
9 2 (0.25%) Autotask
9 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 110 (13.63%) Microsoft
2 32 (3.97%) Oracle
3 28 (3.47%) Salesforce
3 28 (3.47%) SAP
4 25 (3.10%) Cisco
5 23 (2.85%) Google
5 23 (2.85%) VMware
6 10 (1.24%) Fortinet
6 10 (1.24%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.12%) Adobe
7 9 (1.12%) Databricks
7 9 (1.12%) Splunk
8 8 (0.99%) HubSpot
9 7 (0.87%) IFS
10 6 (0.74%) CheckPoint
10 6 (0.74%) NetApp
11 5 (0.62%) Xero
12 4 (0.50%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (0.50%) Workday
13 3 (0.37%) Sage