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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 70 50
Rank change year-on-year +16 -20 -17
Permanent jobs citing Retail 685 720 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.29% 4.53% 5.43%
As % of the General category 7.29% 6.53% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 364 415 1,095
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 £70,000 £70,375
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 9,401 11,023 17,246
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.94% 69.41% 62.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,918 6,278 13,699
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,177 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +11.61% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,234 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.28% +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 7 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 9 (1.31%) Confluence
1 9 (1.31%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.73%) SAS
3 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.29%) CMS
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.15%) Drupal
4 1 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 62 (9.05%) Chatbot
2 38 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.88%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.73%) 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 (28.76%) SaaS
2 129 (18.83%) AWS
3 79 (11.53%) Azure
4 78 (11.39%) GCP
5 45 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
6 35 (5.11%) Power Platform
7 25 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (2.04%) GitHub
9 10 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 9 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (1.31%) Google Analytics
11 7 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (0.88%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.88%) AWS Direct Connect
12 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.88%) Route 53
12 6 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (0.73%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.82%) Remote Desktop
2 15 (2.19%) Firewall
3 12 (1.75%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.61%) BGP
4 11 (1.61%) WAN
5 10 (1.46%) Network Security
5 10 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.46%) VPN
5 10 (1.46%) Wireless
6 8 (1.17%) LAN
6 8 (1.17%) VLAN
7 6 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
7 6 (0.88%) Internet
8 4 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.44%) DHCP
9 3 (0.44%) DNS
9 3 (0.44%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.44%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.38%) Power BI
2 23 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (2.77%) Tableau
4 18 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 14 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (1.75%) Metadata
6 12 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 11 (1.61%) 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 6 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.73%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.58%) DataStage
13 4 (0.58%) QlikView
14 3 (0.44%) SAP BW
15 2 (0.29%) Delta Lake
15 2 (0.29%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (5.69%) TeamCity
2 9 (1.31%) 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
1 243 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 232 (33.87%) Finance
3 152 (22.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 128 (18.69%) Banking
5 113 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (16.50%) Law
6 89 (12.99%) Marketing
7 88 (12.85%) Financial Institution
8 86 (12.55%) Back Office
9 43 (6.28%) Legal
10 39 (5.69%) Manufacturing
11 31 (4.53%) Public Sector
12 22 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.92%) Automotive
14 14 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (2.04%) Publishing
15 13 (1.90%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.61%) General Ledger
16 11 (1.61%) Polish Language
17 10 (1.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 113 (16.50%) Senior
2 76 (11.09%) Analyst
3 74 (10.80%) Account Manager
4 62 (9.05%) Trainer
5 48 (7.01%) Senior Manager
6 46 (6.72%) Architect
7 42 (6.13%) Senior Account Manager
7 42 (6.13%) Software Engineer
8 39 (5.69%) Sales Account Manager
8 39 (5.69%) Sales Manager
8 39 (5.69%) Senior Sales Manager
9 35 (5.11%) Lead
10 34 (4.96%) 2nd Line Support
11 28 (4.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 25 (3.65%) Data Analyst
13 22 (3.21%) Support Analyst
14 20 (2.92%) Data Manager
14 20 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.77%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (2.63%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.34%) RESTful
2 15 (2.19%) React
3 13 (1.90%) HTML
4 12 (1.75%) .NET
5 10 (1.46%) REST
6 9 (1.31%) CSS
6 9 (1.31%) Node.js
7 7 (1.02%) EDI
7 7 (1.02%) JSON
7 7 (1.02%) React Native
8 5 (0.73%) Kafka
8 5 (0.73%) OpenAPI
8 5 (0.73%) Sass
8 5 (0.73%) Swagger
9 4 (0.58%) Spring
10 3 (0.44%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.44%) FastAPI
10 3 (0.44%) IDoc
10 3 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 103 (15.04%) Onboarding
2 64 (9.34%) Cloud Native
3 35 (5.11%) Blog
4 29 (4.23%) Security Posture
5 28 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 24 (3.50%) Management Information System
7 21 (3.07%) FMCG
8 20 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.77%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (2.34%) EPoS
12 15 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
13 14 (2.04%) Driving Licence
13 14 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.90%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (1.61%) Insider Threat
16 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.46%) Mobile App
17 8 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.77%) Linux
2 18 (2.63%) Windows
3 7 (1.02%) Android
3 7 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.44%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (27.88%) Customer Service
2 119 (17.37%) AI
3 106 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (13.28%) Roadmaps
6 86 (12.55%) CRM
7 84 (12.26%) B2B
8 83 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 79 (11.53%) CI/CD
10 78 (11.39%) ERP
11 70 (10.22%) E-Commerce
12 68 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 62 (9.05%) Conversational UI
13 62 (9.05%) Software Engineering
14 61 (8.91%) Logistics
15 58 (8.47%) Agile
16 56 (8.18%) Fintech
17 54 (7.88%) Data Privacy
18 53 (7.74%) Project Management
19 51 (7.45%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 95 (13.87%) SQL
2 78 (11.39%) Java
3 47 (6.86%) Python
4 39 (5.69%) C#
5 22 (3.21%) Go
6 18 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.46%) Bash
8 8 (1.17%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.88%) 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%) Groovy
15 1 (0.15%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (19.27%) Degree
2 23 (3.36%) CISSP
3 21 (3.07%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.92%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
6 17 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.19%) CREST Certified
7 15 (2.19%) OSCP
8 14 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.61%) ACCA
10 11 (1.61%) CIMA
11 10 (1.46%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.31%) CCNA
13 8 (1.17%) CISM
13 8 (1.17%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.17%) MCSE
14 7 (1.02%) GPEN
14 7 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.72%) QA
2 38 (5.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.94%) PCI DSS
4 25 (3.65%) SOC 2
5 21 (3.07%) GDPR
6 18 (2.63%) SLA
7 17 (2.48%) NIST
8 16 (2.34%) 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%) ISO 14001
15 2 (0.29%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.29%) PERC
16 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.61%) 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 71 (10.36%) Terraform
2 68 (9.93%) Kubernetes
3 39 (5.69%) Grafana
4 8 (1.17%) Ansible
5 7 (1.02%) Nmap
6 4 (0.58%) Autotask
6 4 (0.58%) Cilium
6 4 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.58%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.44%) SCCM
8 1 (0.15%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 85 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.05%) PayPal
3 43 (6.28%) Salesforce
4 22 (3.21%) Cisco
5 21 (3.07%) Databricks
5 21 (3.07%) Google
6 20 (2.92%) SAP
7 19 (2.77%) Adobe
7 19 (2.77%) HubSpot
8 16 (2.34%) Oracle
9 15 (2.19%) VMware
10 4 (0.58%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.58%) IBM
10 4 (0.58%) Informatica
11 2 (0.29%) Ariba
11 2 (0.29%) Avaya
11 2 (0.29%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (0.29%) Instagram
11 2 (0.29%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.29%) Veeam