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 25 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 58 40
Rank change year-on-year +31 -18 +8
Permanent jobs citing Retail 1,260 903 1,499
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.80% 4.48% 6.55%
As % of the General category 11.11% 7.20% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 372 430 1,132
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,375
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +7.66% +0.62%
75th Percentile £76,250 £90,000 £80,627
90th Percentile £100,000 - £93,625
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year -20.00% -8.41% -9.02%

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 11,342 12,540 15,107
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 70.19% 62.25% 65.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,169 7,198 11,874
10th Percentile £28,548 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,233 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,000 £59,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.61% -0.83% -

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 25 October 2025.

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 19 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.27%) Confluence
3 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.40%) CMS
4 5 (0.40%) SAS
5 2 (0.16%) IIS
5 2 (0.16%) WordPress
6 1 (0.079%) Apache
6 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.079%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 65 (5.16%) Chatbot
2 46 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.56%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.079%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.079%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 29 (2.30%) Shopify
2 15 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.03%) Magento
4 11 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
4 11 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
4 11 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
4 11 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.32%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.16%) ResourceLink
9 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
10 1 (0.079%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.079%) FastStats
10 1 (0.079%) FastStats PeopleStage
Cloud Services
1 220 (17.46%) Azure
2 163 (12.94%) AWS
3 113 (8.97%) SaaS
4 84 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 43 (3.41%) GCP
6 39 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (1.75%) GitHub
10 20 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (1.35%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.19%) Google Analytics
13 13 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (0.95%) BigCommerce
15 9 (0.71%) Snowflake
15 9 (0.71%) SonarCloud
16 8 (0.63%) dbt
16 8 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.54%) Remote Desktop
2 15 (1.19%) SD-WAN
3 10 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.71%) WAN
5 8 (0.63%) 5G
5 8 (0.63%) Internet
5 8 (0.63%) LAN
6 6 (0.48%) Firewall
6 6 (0.48%) HSRP
6 6 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (0.48%) VoIP
6 6 (0.48%) VRRP
7 4 (0.32%) DNS
7 4 (0.32%) VPN
8 3 (0.24%) DHCP
8 3 (0.24%) Network Security
8 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.24%) Wireless
9 2 (0.16%) NAS
9 2 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 70 (5.56%) Power BI
3 26 (2.06%) Data Mining
4 22 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.75%) Tableau
5 18 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
6 17 (1.35%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (0.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 12 (0.95%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.63%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.56%) QlikView
12 6 (0.48%) Looker
12 6 (0.48%) MySQL
13 5 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.32%) DataStage
14 4 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 111 (8.81%) JIRA
2 93 (7.38%) GitLab
2 93 (7.38%) Selenium
3 91 (7.22%) Bitbucket
4 90 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 90 (7.14%) Maven
4 90 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 90 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 22 (1.75%) Git
6 15 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 12 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 11 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (0.71%) MSBuild
9 9 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.32%) ERwin
11 4 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.24%) JMeter
12 3 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 580 (46.03%) Manufacturing
2 275 (21.83%) Finance
3 221 (17.54%) Social Skills
4 201 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
5 199 (15.79%) Dutch Language
6 197 (15.63%) Finnish Language
7 173 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 129 (10.24%) Banking
9 105 (8.33%) Marketing
10 90 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
10 90 (7.14%) Investment Banking
11 49 (3.89%) Catalan Language
12 35 (2.78%) Back Office
13 32 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (2.14%) Financial Institution
15 26 (2.06%) Law
16 24 (1.90%) Legal
17 20 (1.59%) Automotive
18 19 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
19 13 (1.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 604 (47.94%) Trainer
2 110 (8.73%) Software Engineer
3 96 (7.62%) Senior
4 76 (6.03%) Analyst
5 49 (3.89%) Architect
6 47 (3.73%) Developer
7 37 (2.94%) Account Manager
8 36 (2.86%) 2nd Line Support
8 36 (2.86%) Senior Manager
9 33 (2.62%) Lead
10 31 (2.46%) Junior
11 29 (2.30%) Sales Account Manager
11 29 (2.30%) Sales Manager
11 29 (2.30%) Senior Account Manager
11 29 (2.30%) Senior Sales Manager
12 25 (1.98%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (1.75%) Consultant
14 21 (1.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 21 (1.67%) Junior Developer
15 20 (1.59%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (9.44%) HTML
2 114 (9.05%) React
3 112 (8.89%) CSS
3 112 (8.89%) REST
4 106 (8.41%) RESTful
5 92 (7.30%) Spring
5 92 (7.30%) Spring Boot
6 91 (7.22%) HTML5
6 91 (7.22%) Kafka
6 91 (7.22%) Redux
6 91 (7.22%) Sass
7 90 (7.14%) CSS3
7 90 (7.14%) Jest
7 90 (7.14%) JPA
8 33 (2.62%) .NET
9 17 (1.35%) JSON
9 17 (1.35%) Node.js
10 16 (1.27%) XML
11 14 (1.11%) .NET Core
11 14 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 543 (43.10%) Robotics
2 98 (7.78%) Product Ownership
3 90 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 84 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 27 (2.14%) Management Information System
6 22 (1.75%) Driving Licence
7 20 (1.59%) FMCG
8 19 (1.51%) EPoS
9 18 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.11%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.79%) Social Media
14 9 (0.71%) Digital Signage
15 8 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.63%) Blog
16 7 (0.56%) IoT
16 7 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.03%) Windows
2 12 (0.95%) Mac OS
3 10 (0.79%) Linux
4 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.079%) Unix
5 1 (0.079%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (51.83%) Problem-Solving
2 648 (51.43%) AI
3 593 (47.06%) Data Privacy
4 559 (44.37%) Machine Learning
5 547 (43.41%) Generative AI
6 545 (43.25%) Red Team
7 543 (43.10%) LLM
8 188 (14.92%) Agile
9 165 (13.10%) Mentoring
10 160 (12.70%) Customer Service
11 156 (12.38%) DevOps
12 143 (11.35%) CI/CD
13 128 (10.16%) Software Engineering
14 122 (9.68%) Microservices
15 113 (8.97%) Migration
16 112 (8.89%) Test Automation
17 111 (8.81%) SDLC
18 110 (8.73%) User Experience
19 104 (8.25%) Performance Optimisation
19 104 (8.25%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 235 (18.65%) SQL
2 117 (9.29%) JavaScript
3 116 (9.21%) Java
4 96 (7.62%) TypeScript
5 63 (5.00%) C#
6 56 (4.44%) Python
7 21 (1.67%) VBA
8 16 (1.27%) R
9 9 (0.71%) C++
10 8 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.56%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.40%) Go
12 5 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.40%) PHP
13 4 (0.32%) Bash
13 4 (0.32%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.24%) C
14 3 (0.24%) Delphi
15 1 (0.079%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.079%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 682 (54.13%) Degree
2 21 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.11%) Azure Certification
4 12 (0.95%) AWS Certification
4 12 (0.95%) Master's Degree
5 11 (0.87%) DBS Check
6 10 (0.79%) CISSP
6 10 (0.79%) SC Cleared
6 10 (0.79%) Security Cleared
7 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.48%) CISM
8 6 (0.48%) CREST Certified
8 6 (0.48%) OSCP
9 5 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.32%) CEH
10 4 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.32%) OSCE
10 4 (0.32%) SANS
10 4 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (11.35%) QA
2 100 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 29 (2.30%) GDPR
4 15 (1.19%) PMO
5 14 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.03%) SLA
7 11 (0.87%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.40%) NIST
11 4 (0.32%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.32%) WCAG
12 3 (0.24%) GRC
13 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.079%) ISO 19650
14 1 (0.079%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 108 (8.57%) Docker
2 18 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) Firmware
4 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.079%) HDFS
5 1 (0.079%) Varnish
5 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.98%) Terraform
3 10 (0.79%) Grafana
4 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.24%) Cilium
6 2 (0.16%) Autotask
6 2 (0.16%) Nmap
7 1 (0.079%) Ansible
7 1 (0.079%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.079%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 572 (45.40%) Adobe
1 572 (45.40%) Google
2 561 (44.52%) Databricks
3 128 (10.16%) Microsoft
4 90 (7.14%) Solace
5 66 (5.24%) PayPal
6 37 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.51%) Facebook
7 19 (1.51%) HubSpot
7 19 (1.51%) SAP
8 15 (1.19%) Oracle
9 11 (0.87%) TikTok
10 10 (0.79%) Cisco
10 10 (0.79%) VMware
11 8 (0.63%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.48%) Avaya
12 6 (0.48%) Extreme Networks
13 5 (0.40%) Ariba
14 4 (0.32%) Informatica
14 4 (0.32%) Sage