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 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 70 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 -21 -16
Permanent jobs citing Retail 686 714 1,488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.31% 4.49% 5.43%
As % of the General category 7.28% 6.49% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 368 407 1,088
10th Percentile £27,707 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 9,425 11,009 17,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.19% 69.21% 62.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,940 6,258 13,547
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,600 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +12.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,063
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.29%

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 4 February 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 11 (1.60%) Confluence
2 8 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.73%) SAS
4 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.29%) CMS
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Drupal
5 1 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 62 (9.04%) Chatbot
2 34 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (2.04%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (1.02%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.58%) 3ds Max
8 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.44%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.15%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.90%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.17%) Oracle Assets
3 8 (1.17%) Oracle Cash Management
3 8 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.17%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (1.02%) Shopify
5 3 (0.44%) Magento
5 3 (0.44%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.44%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.44%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 197 (28.72%) SaaS
2 129 (18.80%) AWS
3 79 (11.52%) Azure
4 78 (11.37%) GCP
5 44 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
6 33 (4.81%) Power Platform
7 25 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (1.90%) GitHub
9 12 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (1.31%) Google Analytics
12 8 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.87%) Amazon S3
14 6 (0.87%) AWS Direct Connect
14 6 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.87%) Route 53
14 6 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (0.73%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.96%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (2.04%) Firewall
3 13 (1.90%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.60%) BGP
4 11 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.60%) WAN
5 10 (1.46%) Network Security
6 9 (1.31%) VPN
6 9 (1.31%) Wireless
7 8 (1.17%) LAN
8 7 (1.02%) VLAN
9 6 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
9 6 (0.87%) Internet
10 4 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.44%) DNS
11 3 (0.44%) SCCP
11 3 (0.44%) VoIP
11 3 (0.44%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.08%) Power BI
2 23 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (2.77%) Tableau
4 18 (2.62%) Data Lake
5 14 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.04%) SQL Server
6 12 (1.75%) Metadata
7 11 (1.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.31%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.17%) Data Vault
11 7 (1.02%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.58%) DataStage
13 4 (0.58%) QlikView
14 3 (0.44%) SAP BW
14 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.29%) Delta Lake
15 2 (0.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 39 (5.69%) TeamCity
2 12 (1.75%) JIRA
3 7 (1.02%) Burp Suite
3 7 (1.02%) Git
3 7 (1.02%) Metasploit
4 4 (0.58%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.58%) ERwin
4 4 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.15%) GitLab
5 1 (0.15%) JMeter
5 1 (0.15%) Pivotal Tracker
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 244 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 234 (34.11%) Finance
3 151 (22.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 128 (18.66%) Banking
5 115 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
6 113 (16.47%) Law
7 91 (13.27%) Marketing
8 88 (12.83%) Financial Institution
9 87 (12.68%) Back Office
10 41 (5.98%) Legal
11 38 (5.54%) Manufacturing
12 31 (4.52%) Public Sector
13 21 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
14 20 (2.92%) Automotive
15 14 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (2.04%) Publishing
16 13 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.60%) Polish Language
18 10 (1.46%) Advertising
18 10 (1.46%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 115 (16.76%) Senior
2 80 (11.66%) Analyst
3 74 (10.79%) Account Manager
4 62 (9.04%) Trainer
5 48 (7.00%) Senior Manager
6 47 (6.85%) Architect
7 42 (6.12%) Senior Account Manager
7 42 (6.12%) Software Engineer
8 39 (5.69%) Sales Account Manager
8 39 (5.69%) Sales Manager
8 39 (5.69%) Senior Sales Manager
9 35 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support
9 35 (5.10%) Lead
10 28 (4.08%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 25 (3.64%) Data Analyst
12 21 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
12 21 (3.06%) Support Analyst
13 20 (2.92%) Data Manager
14 19 (2.77%) Developer
14 19 (2.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.33%) React
1 16 (2.33%) RESTful
2 13 (1.90%) .NET
2 13 (1.90%) HTML
3 10 (1.46%) Node.js
3 10 (1.46%) REST
4 9 (1.31%) CSS
4 9 (1.31%) JSON
5 8 (1.17%) React Native
6 7 (1.02%) EDI
7 5 (0.73%) Kafka
7 5 (0.73%) OpenAPI
7 5 (0.73%) Sass
7 5 (0.73%) Swagger
8 4 (0.58%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.58%) Spring
8 4 (0.58%) Web Services
8 4 (0.58%) XML
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 103 (15.01%) Onboarding
2 64 (9.33%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.25%) Blog
4 29 (4.23%) Security Posture
5 28 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.35%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.21%) FMCG
8 20 (2.92%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (2.33%) EPoS
11 15 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
12 14 (2.04%) Driving Licence
13 13 (1.90%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.60%) Insider Threat
14 11 (1.60%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.31%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.62%) Linux
1 18 (2.62%) Windows
2 7 (1.02%) Android
2 7 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.44%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.44%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (27.84%) Customer Service
2 118 (17.20%) AI
3 107 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 98 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (13.56%) Roadmaps
6 85 (12.39%) B2B
7 84 (12.24%) CRM
8 82 (11.95%) Mentoring
9 78 (11.37%) CI/CD
10 77 (11.22%) ERP
11 71 (10.35%) E-Commerce
12 69 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 64 (9.33%) Agile
14 63 (9.18%) Logistics
15 62 (9.04%) Conversational UI
15 62 (9.04%) Software Engineering
16 56 (8.16%) Fintech
17 54 (7.87%) Data Privacy
18 52 (7.58%) Project Management
19 50 (7.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 94 (13.70%) SQL
2 78 (11.37%) Java
3 46 (6.71%) Python
4 41 (5.98%) C#
5 21 (3.06%) Go
6 18 (2.62%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.31%) Bash
8 8 (1.17%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.87%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.87%) R
11 5 (0.73%) VBA
12 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.44%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.44%) C
13 3 (0.44%) C++
14 2 (0.29%) Scala
15 1 (0.15%) ABAP
15 1 (0.15%) Groovy
15 1 (0.15%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 132 (19.24%) Degree
2 23 (3.35%) CISSP
3 21 (3.06%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.92%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.62%) CompTIA Security+
5 18 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.19%) CREST Certified
6 15 (2.19%) OSCP
7 13 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.60%) ACCA
8 11 (1.60%) CIMA
9 10 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.17%) CCNA
10 8 (1.17%) CISM
10 8 (1.17%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.17%) MCSE
11 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.71%) QA
2 37 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.94%) PCI DSS
4 25 (3.64%) SOC 2
5 21 (3.06%) GDPR
6 18 (2.62%) SLA
7 17 (2.48%) NIST
8 15 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (1.75%) Data Quality
10 10 (1.46%) GRC
10 10 (1.46%) PMO
11 9 (1.31%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.58%) EU AI Act
14 3 (0.44%) PSD2
15 2 (0.29%) PERC
16 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
16 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.46%) Docker
4 5 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) HDFS
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (10.20%) Terraform
2 67 (9.77%) Kubernetes
3 38 (5.54%) Grafana
4 7 (1.02%) Ansible
4 7 (1.02%) Nmap
5 4 (0.58%) Autotask
5 4 (0.58%) Cilium
6 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.44%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.44%) SCCM
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 80 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.04%) PayPal
3 44 (6.41%) Salesforce
4 22 (3.21%) Cisco
5 21 (3.06%) Databricks
5 21 (3.06%) Google
6 20 (2.92%) Adobe
6 20 (2.92%) SAP
7 18 (2.62%) HubSpot
8 16 (2.33%) Oracle
9 14 (2.04%) VMware
10 4 (0.58%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.58%) IBM
10 4 (0.58%) Informatica
11 3 (0.44%) Avaya
11 3 (0.44%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (0.29%) Instagram
12 2 (0.29%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.29%) TikTok
12 2 (0.29%) YouTube