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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 69 50
Rank change year-on-year +13 -19 -18
Permanent jobs citing Retail 631 742 1,289
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.12% 4.51% 5.63%
As % of the General category 6.88% 6.54% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 364 426 976
10th Percentile £27,707 £27,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,301 £72,500
90th Percentile £94,950 £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 9,173 11,343 14,257
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.90% 69.01% 62.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,814 6,415 11,185
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,860 £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 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -7.85%

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 18 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 (1.90%) Confluence
2 7 (1.11%) 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 (9.83%) Chatbot
2 25 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.54%) MS Visio
4 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.43%) AutoCAD
6 7 (1.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.63%) 3ds Max
7 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.63%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.16%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 10 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.58%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.11%) Oracle Assets
3 7 (1.11%) Oracle Cash Management
3 7 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (1.11%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.95%) Shopify
5 3 (0.48%) Magento
5 3 (0.48%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.48%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.48%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 176 (27.89%) SaaS
2 109 (17.27%) AWS
3 89 (14.10%) Azure
4 63 (9.98%) GCP
5 34 (5.39%) Power Platform
6 25 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (2.69%) GitHub
8 12 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (1.27%) Google Analytics
10 8 (1.27%) Serverless
10 8 (1.27%) Snowflake
11 6 (0.95%) dbt
12 5 (0.79%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.79%) Google Data Studio
12 5 (0.79%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.63%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.71%) Remote Desktop
2 15 (2.38%) SD-WAN
3 12 (1.90%) Firewall
4 10 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.58%) WAN
5 9 (1.43%) LAN
5 9 (1.43%) Network Security
5 9 (1.43%) Wireless
6 7 (1.11%) 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%) VPN
9 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.48%) SCCP
10 3 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.60%) Power BI
2 27 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.33%) Tableau
4 18 (2.85%) Data Lake
5 12 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (1.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.58%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.43%) Data Mining
9 8 (1.27%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.11%) Metadata
10 7 (1.11%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.79%) Looker
13 4 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.63%) DataStage
13 4 (0.63%) QlikView
13 4 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.48%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 25 (3.96%) TeamCity
2 16 (2.54%) JIRA
3 13 (2.06%) Git
4 7 (1.11%) Burp Suite
4 7 (1.11%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.63%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.63%) ERwin
5 4 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.48%) JMeter
6 3 (0.48%) Postman
6 3 (0.48%) Selenium
6 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.16%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) Pivotal Tracker
General
1 222 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 192 (30.43%) Finance
3 116 (18.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (17.12%) Analytical Skills
5 91 (14.42%) Banking
6 85 (13.47%) Marketing
7 77 (12.20%) Law
8 61 (9.67%) Financial Institution
9 59 (9.35%) Back Office
10 38 (6.02%) Manufacturing
11 34 (5.39%) Legal
12 29 (4.60%) Public Sector
13 14 (2.22%) Automotive
13 14 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (1.74%) Advertising
15 11 (1.74%) Publishing
15 11 (1.74%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.43%) Games
17 7 (1.11%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 108 (17.12%) Senior
2 76 (12.04%) Analyst
3 72 (11.41%) Account Manager
4 62 (9.83%) Trainer
5 49 (7.77%) Senior Manager
6 46 (7.29%) Architect
7 42 (6.66%) Senior Account Manager
8 39 (6.18%) Sales Account Manager
8 39 (6.18%) Sales Manager
8 39 (6.18%) Senior Sales Manager
9 37 (5.86%) 2nd Line Support
10 31 (4.91%) Software Engineer
11 30 (4.75%) Lead
12 28 (4.44%) 1st/2nd Line Support
13 21 (3.33%) Developer
13 21 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (3.17%) Data Analyst
15 19 (3.01%) Data Manager
15 19 (3.01%) Support Analyst
16 18 (2.85%) ERP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.01%) .NET
1 19 (3.01%) React
2 17 (2.69%) HTML
3 14 (2.22%) Node.js
4 13 (2.06%) CSS
4 13 (2.06%) RESTful
5 10 (1.58%) React Native
5 10 (1.58%) REST
6 9 (1.43%) JSON
7 8 (1.27%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.11%) EDI
8 7 (1.11%) Web Services
9 5 (0.79%) OpenAPI
9 5 (0.79%) Pandas
9 5 (0.79%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.79%) Swagger
9 5 (0.79%) XML
10 4 (0.63%) GraphQL
10 4 (0.63%) Hugging Face
10 4 (0.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 96 (15.21%) Onboarding
2 46 (7.29%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 22 (3.49%) Blog
5 20 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.01%) FMCG
7 17 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.54%) EPoS
9 15 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 15 (2.38%) Mobile App
9 15 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (2.22%) Driving Licence
11 11 (1.74%) Insider Threat
12 10 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.58%) Social Media
13 8 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.69%) Windows
2 13 (2.06%) 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
1 183 (29.00%) Customer Service
2 118 (18.70%) AI
3 96 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 96 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (13.47%) Roadmaps
5 80 (12.68%) CRM
6 79 (12.52%) Mentoring
7 73 (11.57%) B2B
7 73 (11.57%) ERP
8 68 (10.78%) Logistics
9 67 (10.62%) Agile
10 66 (10.46%) E-Commerce
11 64 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 62 (9.83%) Conversational UI
13 61 (9.67%) CI/CD
14 56 (8.87%) Data Privacy
15 48 (7.61%) Root Cause Analysis
15 48 (7.61%) Software Engineering
16 46 (7.29%) DevOps
17 45 (7.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 96 (15.21%) SQL
2 53 (8.40%) Java
3 47 (7.45%) C#
4 40 (6.34%) Python
5 18 (2.85%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.38%) Go
7 8 (1.27%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.95%) Bash
8 6 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.95%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.95%) R
9 5 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.79%) VBA
10 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.48%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.48%) C
11 3 (0.48%) C++
12 2 (0.32%) Scala
13 1 (0.16%) SHACL
13 1 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 124 (19.65%) Degree
2 22 (3.49%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.01%) CISSP
5 17 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
6 14 (2.22%) CREST Certified
6 14 (2.22%) OSCP
7 13 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.74%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.58%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.43%) ACCA
11 9 (1.43%) CIMA
12 8 (1.27%) CCNA
12 8 (1.27%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.27%) MCSE
13 7 (1.11%) CEH
13 7 (1.11%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.61%) QA
2 30 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (3.33%) GDPR
4 20 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.54%) SLA
5 16 (2.54%) SOC 2
6 15 (2.38%) NIST
7 11 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (1.58%) PMO
9 9 (1.43%) Data Quality
10 8 (1.27%) GRC
11 4 (0.63%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.48%) WCAG
13 2 (0.32%) PERC
14 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 16 (2.54%) 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 48 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 47 (7.45%) Terraform
3 22 (3.49%) Grafana
4 7 (1.11%) Nmap
5 5 (0.79%) Ansible
6 4 (0.63%) Autotask
6 4 (0.63%) Cilium
7 3 (0.48%) SCCM
8 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 76 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.83%) PayPal
3 45 (7.13%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.65%) Cisco
4 23 (3.65%) Google
5 22 (3.49%) HubSpot
6 21 (3.33%) Adobe
6 21 (3.33%) Databricks
7 20 (3.17%) SAP
8 15 (2.38%) Oracle
9 12 (1.90%) 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%) Talend
11 4 (0.63%) Zoho