Retail Jobs with Work from Home Options

Retailing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 34 56
Rank change year-on-year -19 +22 +29
Permanent jobs citing Retail 1,658 3,217 3,904
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.91% 7.46% 5.85%
As % of the General category 8.01% 11.24% 9.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 1,717 1,982
10th Percentile £26,480 £35,103 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,454 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £97,397 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

Retail is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 20,699 28,610 41,637
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.34% 66.31% 62.37%
Number of salaries quoted 15,087 18,942 24,253
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Retail
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Retail trend for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Retail.

Retail salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Retail over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Retail salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.15%) CMS
2 19 (1.15%) SAS
3 18 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.03%) Apache
5 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.60%) WordPress
7 9 (0.54%) Confluence
8 6 (0.36%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Drupal
12 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.060%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.060%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.060%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.060%) JBoss
13 1 (0.060%) Jupyter
Applications
1 81 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 12 (0.72%) Photoshop
5 12 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.48%) Adobe XD
7 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
8 7 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
8 7 (0.42%) InDesign
8 7 (0.42%) Trello
9 6 (0.36%) Sketch
9 6 (0.36%) SPSS
10 4 (0.24%) Simulink
11 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.12%) EViews
12 2 (0.12%) Final Cut Pro
12 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
13 1 (0.060%) Revit
Business Applications
1 30 (1.81%) Shopify
2 26 (1.57%) Endur
2 26 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
3 20 (1.21%) Magento
4 16 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
6 9 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (0.48%) Misys Midas
8 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.18%) Raiser’s Edge
9 3 (0.18%) SAP SCM
9 3 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.12%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.12%) SAP PP
10 2 (0.12%) SAP Retail
10 2 (0.12%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 366 (22.07%) Azure
2 263 (15.86%) AWS
3 200 (12.06%) Power Platform
4 89 (5.37%) GCP
5 73 (4.40%) SaaS
6 71 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
7 66 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (1.57%) Serverless
10 21 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (1.21%) dbt
11 20 (1.21%) Figma
11 20 (1.21%) PowerApps
12 18 (1.09%) GitHub
13 16 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (0.97%) Snowflake
14 15 (0.90%) WhatsApp
15 14 (0.84%) Power Automate
16 13 (0.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 69 (4.16%) WAN
2 61 (3.68%) LAN
3 56 (3.38%) Firewall
4 39 (2.35%) Internet
4 39 (2.35%) VPN
5 36 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (1.09%) Wireless
7 15 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.48%) HTTP
9 7 (0.42%) Extranet
9 7 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (0.30%) DNS
10 5 (0.30%) Network Security
10 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.24%) 5G
11 4 (0.24%) FTP
11 4 (0.24%) VLAN
12 3 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.18%) SAN
12 3 (0.18%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 189 (11.40%) Power BI
3 147 (8.87%) Data Warehouse
4 113 (6.82%) Tableau
5 98 (5.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 59 (3.56%) MySQL
7 42 (2.53%) MongoDB
8 37 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
9 34 (2.05%) Big Data
9 34 (2.05%) Relational Database
10 32 (1.93%) BigQuery
11 29 (1.75%) Data Lake
11 29 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (1.45%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.97%) Redis
14 14 (0.84%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (0.72%) GIS
17 11 (0.66%) Looker
17 11 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 159 (9.59%) Git
2 49 (2.96%) JIRA
3 32 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 21 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 19 (1.15%) GitLab
7 12 (0.72%) JUnit
8 11 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.60%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.60%) JBehave
9 10 (0.60%) SpecFlow
10 9 (0.54%) JMeter
11 7 (0.42%) gulp
11 7 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
11 7 (0.42%) webpack
12 6 (0.36%) Selenium
12 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 673 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 630 (38.00%) Finance
3 341 (20.57%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (10.07%) Marketing
5 163 (9.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 146 (8.81%) Presentation Skills
7 127 (7.66%) Banking
8 122 (7.36%) Public Sector
9 96 (5.79%) Legal
10 68 (4.10%) Manufacturing
11 67 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
12 60 (3.62%) Law
13 27 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 26 (1.57%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.39%) Back Office
16 22 (1.33%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.27%) Aerospace
18 19 (1.15%) Police
19 18 (1.09%) Automotive
20 15 (0.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 297 (17.91%) Analyst
2 285 (17.19%) Senior
3 210 (12.67%) Developer
4 148 (8.93%) Architect
5 134 (8.08%) Lead
6 130 (7.84%) Consultant
7 106 (6.39%) Data Analyst
8 85 (5.13%) Project Manager
9 83 (5.01%) Senior Analyst
10 82 (4.95%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 69 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
12 65 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 62 (3.74%) .NET Developer
14 53 (3.20%) Senior Data Analyst
15 46 (2.77%) Software Engineer
16 45 (2.71%) Data Engineer
17 41 (2.47%) Designer
18 40 (2.41%) Product Manager
19 37 (2.23%) Full Stack Developer
20 33 (1.99%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (7.42%) .NET
2 107 (6.45%) CSS
3 101 (6.09%) HTML
4 94 (5.67%) React
5 69 (4.16%) .NET Core
6 56 (3.38%) AngularJS
6 56 (3.38%) Node.js
7 51 (3.08%) .NET Framework
8 49 (2.96%) Vue
9 46 (2.77%) ASP.NET
10 44 (2.65%) ASP.NET Web API
11 40 (2.41%) Entity Framework
12 38 (2.29%) Web Services
13 34 (2.05%) Kafka
13 34 (2.05%) XML
14 28 (1.69%) REST
15 27 (1.63%) ASP.NET MVC
15 27 (1.63%) JSON
16 25 (1.51%) Laravel
16 25 (1.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
2 81 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 72 (4.34%) Cloud Native
3 72 (4.34%) PMI
4 68 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
5 50 (3.02%) Management Information System
6 43 (2.59%) Blog
7 35 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 32 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 32 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 26 (1.57%) Life Science
9 26 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 25 (1.51%) FMCG
11 24 (1.45%) NHS
12 21 (1.27%) Driving Licence
12 21 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (1.09%) Credit Risk
14 16 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (0.90%) Low-Code
15 15 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 96 (5.79%) Windows
2 62 (3.74%) Linux
3 36 (2.17%) Ubuntu
3 36 (2.17%) VMS
4 22 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.27%) Android
6 19 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (0.66%) Windows 7
9 11 (0.66%) Windows 8
10 8 (0.48%) Unix
11 4 (0.24%) AIX
11 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Vista
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (25.69%) Agile
2 415 (25.03%) Problem-Solving
3 246 (14.84%) Analytics
4 244 (14.72%) Roadmaps
5 230 (13.87%) Business Intelligence
5 230 (13.87%) E-Commerce
6 172 (10.37%) Machine Learning
7 159 (9.59%) Data Science
8 155 (9.35%) Artificial Intelligence
9 147 (8.87%) DevOps
10 143 (8.62%) Data Analysis
11 140 (8.44%) Decision-Making
11 140 (8.44%) Project Management
12 138 (8.32%) Visualisation
13 134 (8.08%) Actionable Insight
13 134 (8.08%) Mathematics
14 127 (7.66%) ETL
15 123 (7.42%) Customer Service
16 119 (7.18%) Statistics
17 112 (6.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 371 (22.38%) SQL
2 240 (14.48%) Python
3 173 (10.43%) JavaScript
4 129 (7.78%) C#
5 81 (4.89%) Java
5 81 (4.89%) TypeScript
6 70 (4.22%) PHP
7 28 (1.69%) R
8 23 (1.39%) Go
8 23 (1.39%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.21%) Ruby
10 16 (0.97%) Bash
10 16 (0.97%) PowerShell
11 15 (0.90%) VB.NET
12 11 (0.66%) Groovy
12 11 (0.66%) MATLAB
13 9 (0.54%) C
13 9 (0.54%) VBA
14 8 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.42%) C++
Qualifications
1 294 (17.73%) Degree
2 121 (7.30%) DBS Check
3 83 (5.01%) Security Cleared
4 74 (4.46%) PMI Certification
5 37 (2.23%) SC Cleared
6 33 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.33%) CISSP
10 20 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.97%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.84%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.78%) CCNP
14 12 (0.72%) CEH
15 11 (0.66%) CCNA
16 10 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.54%) CREST Certified
18 8 (0.48%) CCSA
19 7 (0.42%) PhD
19 7 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (5.13%) QA
2 32 (1.93%) GDPR
2 32 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.27%) PMO
6 20 (1.21%) NIST
7 19 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.78%) ISO 9001
9 12 (0.72%) IFRS
9 12 (0.72%) IFRS 9
10 9 (0.54%) CRD IV
11 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.48%) SLA
12 7 (0.42%) ISO 14001
12 7 (0.42%) ISO 22301
12 7 (0.42%) NEBOSH
13 5 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 73 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 62 (3.74%) Docker
3 8 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.060%) Firmware
6 1 (0.060%) KVM
Systems Management
1 104 (6.27%) Terraform
2 70 (4.22%) Kubernetes
3 48 (2.90%) Ansible
4 25 (1.51%) Grafana
5 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.66%) Puppet
7 10 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.30%) Kibana
8 5 (0.30%) logstash
8 5 (0.30%) SCCM
9 3 (0.18%) Consul
9 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.18%) Packer
9 3 (0.18%) SCOM
10 2 (0.12%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.060%) MIIS
11 1 (0.060%) Salt
11 1 (0.060%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 352 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.15%) Databricks
3 82 (4.95%) Google
4 30 (1.81%) Adobe
5 25 (1.51%) SAP
6 24 (1.45%) Cisco
7 20 (1.21%) Northgate
8 15 (0.90%) Twitter
9 14 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 11 (0.66%) Oracle
10 11 (0.66%) Thales
11 10 (0.60%) IBM
11 10 (0.60%) New Relic
11 10 (0.60%) VMware
12 9 (0.54%) Apple
12 9 (0.54%) Meraki
13 8 (0.48%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.48%) Cognos
13 8 (0.48%) WooCommerce
14 7 (0.42%) SaltStack