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 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 67 50
Rank change year-on-year +12 -17 -9
Permanent jobs citing Retail 647 783 1,106
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.24% 4.54% 5.62%
As % of the General category 6.88% 6.69% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 391 463 837
10th Percentile £27,707 £27,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £42,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 - £97,163
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,702
% change year-on-year -18.18% +8.48% -15.50%

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 9,410 11,709 12,702
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.69% 67.87% 64.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,014 6,779 9,901
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 22 December 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 14 (2.16%) Confluence
2 8 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.77%) SAS
4 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.31%) IIS
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 62 (9.58%) Chatbot
2 30 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (2.47%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 10 (1.55%) AutoCAD
6 8 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.93%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.62%) 3ds Max
9 4 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.15%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 15 (2.32%) Shopify
2 11 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.39%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (1.39%) Oracle Cash Management
4 9 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (1.39%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (1.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.93%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.77%) Magento
7 4 (0.62%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.46%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.46%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.46%) SAP HCM
9 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 177 (27.36%) SaaS
2 103 (15.92%) Azure
3 98 (15.15%) AWS
4 56 (8.66%) GCP
5 53 (8.19%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (3.25%) GitHub
10 20 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.85%) Google Analytics
14 10 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.39%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.24%) Serverless
17 6 (0.93%) dbt
17 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
18 5 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
18 5 (0.77%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.03%) Remote Desktop
2 14 (2.16%) SD-WAN
3 11 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.39%) Wireless
5 8 (1.24%) LAN
5 8 (1.24%) WAN
6 6 (0.93%) Cisco Wireless
6 6 (0.93%) Firewall
6 6 (0.93%) HSRP
6 6 (0.93%) Internet
6 6 (0.93%) Network Security
6 6 (0.93%) VoIP
6 6 (0.93%) VRRP
7 5 (0.77%) BGP
8 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.46%) DHCP
9 3 (0.46%) DNS
9 3 (0.46%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.46%) VLAN
9 3 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.03%) Power BI
2 27 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.86%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.25%) Data Lake
5 19 (2.94%) Tableau
6 16 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.70%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.39%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.24%) Data Vault
11 7 (1.08%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.93%) Metadata
13 5 (0.77%) Looker
13 5 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.62%) DataStage
14 4 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.62%) QlikView
15 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.46%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 23 (3.55%) TeamCity
2 17 (2.63%) JIRA
3 15 (2.32%) Git
4 6 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.77%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.62%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.62%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.62%) ERwin
6 4 (0.62%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.46%) GitLab
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
7 3 (0.46%) Postman
7 3 (0.46%) Selenium
8 2 (0.31%) MSBuild
8 2 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.15%) Pivotal Tracker
9 1 (0.15%) Sourcetree
General
1 221 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 209 (32.30%) Finance
3 120 (18.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (17.77%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (16.54%) Marketing
6 79 (12.21%) Banking
7 68 (10.51%) Law
8 59 (9.12%) Back Office
9 56 (8.66%) Financial Institution
10 52 (8.04%) Manufacturing
11 34 (5.26%) Legal
12 29 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (4.48%) Public Sector
13 18 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (2.63%) Automotive
15 12 (1.85%) Advertising
16 11 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.55%) Games
17 10 (1.55%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.39%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 112 (17.31%) Senior
2 75 (11.59%) Analyst
3 62 (9.58%) Account Manager
3 62 (9.58%) Trainer
4 51 (7.88%) Architect
4 51 (7.88%) Senior Manager
5 42 (6.49%) Senior Account Manager
6 40 (6.18%) 2nd Line Support
7 39 (6.03%) Sales Account Manager
7 39 (6.03%) Sales Manager
7 39 (6.03%) Senior Sales Manager
8 33 (5.10%) Lead
9 28 (4.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 28 (4.33%) Software Engineer
10 25 (3.86%) Developer
10 25 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (3.40%) Consultant
12 21 (3.25%) Data Analyst
13 19 (2.94%) Support Analyst
14 18 (2.78%) ERP Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.86%) .NET
2 24 (3.71%) React
3 20 (3.09%) HTML
4 16 (2.47%) CSS
4 16 (2.47%) Node.js
5 14 (2.16%) REST
5 14 (2.16%) RESTful
6 12 (1.85%) .NET Core
6 12 (1.85%) React Native
6 12 (1.85%) Web Services
7 10 (1.55%) EDI
7 10 (1.55%) JSON
8 8 (1.24%) Pandas
8 8 (1.24%) XML
9 6 (0.93%) Blazor
10 5 (0.77%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.77%) scikit-learn
10 5 (0.77%) Swagger
11 4 (0.62%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 98 (15.15%) Onboarding
2 39 (6.03%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.33%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.94%) FMCG
5 18 (2.78%) Blog
6 17 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.63%) Driving Licence
6 17 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.47%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 15 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.39%) Social Media
11 8 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.24%) Digital Signage
11 8 (1.24%) EPoS
11 8 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.24%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.32%) Windows
2 11 (1.70%) Linux
3 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.77%) Android
4 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.15%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (28.13%) Customer Service
2 124 (19.17%) AI
3 99 (15.30%) ERP
4 98 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (13.91%) CRM
6 87 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 87 (13.45%) Mentoring
7 84 (12.98%) Agile
7 84 (12.98%) E-Commerce
8 79 (12.21%) Logistics
9 78 (12.06%) Roadmaps
10 76 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 74 (11.44%) B2B
12 65 (10.05%) CI/CD
13 64 (9.89%) Conversational UI
13 64 (9.89%) Data Privacy
14 61 (9.43%) Analytics
14 61 (9.43%) DevOps
15 56 (8.66%) Business Intelligence
16 53 (8.19%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (16.54%) SQL
2 57 (8.81%) C#
3 46 (7.11%) Python
4 44 (6.80%) Java
5 18 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.01%) Go
7 9 (1.39%) R
7 9 (1.39%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.77%) Bash
8 5 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
8 5 (0.77%) VBA
9 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.46%) C
10 3 (0.46%) C++
10 3 (0.46%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.31%) Scala
12 1 (0.15%) Groovy
12 1 (0.15%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 117 (18.08%) Degree
2 22 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 16 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.01%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.85%) CISSP
7 11 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (1.55%) CREST Certified
8 10 (1.55%) OSCP
9 7 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (0.77%) CCNA
10 5 (0.77%) CISM
10 5 (0.77%) MCSE
10 5 (0.77%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.81%) QA
2 26 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.40%) GDPR
4 16 (2.47%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.32%) SOC 2
6 14 (2.16%) SLA
7 12 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.55%) PMO
9 9 (1.39%) Data Quality
10 8 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (1.24%) GRC
10 8 (1.24%) NIST
11 4 (0.62%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.46%) WCAG
13 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.31%) PERC
14 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.01%) Docker
3 6 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.87%) Terraform
3 17 (2.63%) Grafana
4 4 (0.62%) Cilium
4 4 (0.62%) Nmap
5 2 (0.31%) Autotask
6 1 (0.15%) Ansible
6 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 94 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.58%) PayPal
3 40 (6.18%) Salesforce
4 25 (3.86%) Adobe
4 25 (3.86%) Google
5 24 (3.71%) Databricks
6 23 (3.55%) HubSpot
7 22 (3.40%) SAP
8 19 (2.94%) Cisco
9 15 (2.32%) Oracle
10 6 (0.93%) Alteryx
10 6 (0.93%) Avaya
10 6 (0.93%) Extreme Networks
10 6 (0.93%) VMware
11 5 (0.77%) Ariba
12 4 (0.62%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.62%) IBM
12 4 (0.62%) Informatica
12 4 (0.62%) Sage
12 4 (0.62%) Zoho
702 hybrid/remote Retail jobs