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 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 30 49
Rank change year-on-year -31 +19 -10
Permanent jobs citing Retail 994 1,192 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.04% 7.38% 4.81%
As % of the General category 6.60% 10.26% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 582 372 494
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -18.31% +3.74%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £87,875
90th Percentile £103,500 £96,238 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -9.09%

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 15,061 11,613 14,117
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.23% 71.87% 62.61%
Number of salaries quoted 9,215 6,269 8,136
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,377 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £56,988
% change year-on-year +1.85% -5.24% -5.02%

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 23 September 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 17 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.11%) Apache
2 11 (1.11%) nginx
3 9 (0.91%) CMS
3 9 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.80%) Confluence
5 2 (0.20%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.10%) IIS
6 1 (0.10%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.91%) AutoCAD
5 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.70%) Civil 3D
7 6 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.50%) Revit
9 4 (0.40%) InDesign
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.30%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.30%) Productboard
10 3 (0.30%) Sketch
11 2 (0.20%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.20%) Simulink
11 2 (0.20%) Trello
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Blender
Business Applications
1 29 (2.92%) Shopify
2 7 (0.70%) SAP CO
2 7 (0.70%) SAP FI
2 7 (0.70%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.40%) Academy Housing
4 4 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.30%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.10%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.10%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 242 (24.35%) SaaS
2 149 (14.99%) AWS
3 127 (12.78%) GCP
4 103 (10.36%) Azure
5 74 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
6 44 (4.43%) Power Platform
7 36 (3.62%) Google Analytics
8 30 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (2.41%) Google Ads
10 20 (2.01%) Google Tag Manager
11 18 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (1.11%) dbt
13 10 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
13 10 (1.01%) Meta Ads
14 9 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.80%) Entra ID
15 8 (0.80%) GitHub
15 8 (0.80%) Google Workspace
16 6 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 6 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.92%) Firewall
2 22 (2.21%) WAN
3 21 (2.11%) LAN
4 18 (1.81%) VLAN
5 17 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.31%) DNS
7 12 (1.21%) BGP
8 11 (1.11%) VPN
9 10 (1.01%) OSPF
9 10 (1.01%) Structured Cabling
10 9 (0.91%) Network Security
11 7 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (0.70%) DHCP
11 7 (0.70%) SMS
12 6 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.60%) MPLS
12 6 (0.60%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.60%) WebEx
12 6 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.82%) Power BI
2 27 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (2.01%) MongoDB
4 19 (1.91%) Metadata
5 15 (1.51%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 14 (1.41%) Looker
7 11 (1.11%) Tableau
8 10 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.91%) Data Lake
9 9 (0.91%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.80%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.20%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
14 2 (0.20%) Star Schema
15 1 (0.10%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 76 (7.65%) TeamCity
2 16 (1.61%) JIRA
3 12 (1.21%) Git
4 7 (0.70%) JUnit
5 4 (0.40%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.40%) Metasploit
5 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.30%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.20%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.10%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.10%) MLflow
8 1 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 373 (37.53%) Finance
2 337 (33.90%) Social Skills
3 219 (22.03%) Banking
4 218 (21.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 204 (20.52%) Law
6 184 (18.51%) Analytical Skills
7 169 (17.00%) Marketing
8 122 (12.27%) Back Office
9 110 (11.07%) Financial Institution
10 67 (6.74%) Manufacturing
11 57 (5.73%) Influencing Skills
12 47 (4.73%) Public Sector
13 42 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
14 41 (4.12%) Legal
15 33 (3.32%) Telecoms
16 29 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
17 28 (2.82%) Automotive
18 18 (1.81%) Advertising
19 17 (1.71%) Aviation
19 17 (1.71%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 112 (11.27%) Analyst
2 101 (10.16%) Senior
3 87 (8.75%) Lead
4 70 (7.04%) Software Engineer
5 63 (6.34%) Developer
6 48 (4.83%) Development Manager
7 44 (4.43%) Architect
8 39 (3.92%) Account Executive
9 34 (3.42%) Business Manager
10 30 (3.02%) Software Manager
11 29 (2.92%) Data Analyst
12 27 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
12 27 (2.72%) Project Manager
12 27 (2.72%) Security Analyst
13 26 (2.62%) .NET Developer
13 26 (2.62%) Service Manager
13 26 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
13 26 (2.62%) Team Leader
14 25 (2.52%) Business Development Manager
15 24 (2.41%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (10.26%) Terraform
2 53 (5.33%) React
3 49 (4.93%) .NET
4 44 (4.43%) Node.js
5 26 (2.62%) .NET Core
6 25 (2.52%) Blazor
7 23 (2.31%) ASP.NET
7 23 (2.31%) RESTful
8 22 (2.21%) ASP.NET Core
9 21 (2.11%) ASP.NET Web API
10 15 (1.51%) OpenAPI
10 15 (1.51%) Swagger
11 14 (1.41%) React Native
12 12 (1.21%) Middleware
13 9 (0.91%) REST
14 7 (0.70%) Dagger
14 7 (0.70%) Kafka
14 7 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
14 7 (0.70%) RxJava
15 6 (0.60%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 111 (11.17%) Cloud Native
2 87 (8.75%) Product Ownership
3 68 (6.84%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (4.63%) Management Information System
5 42 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 35 (3.52%) Blog
7 27 (2.72%) FMCG
7 27 (2.72%) Virtual Team
8 25 (2.52%) Driving Licence
8 25 (2.52%) Social Media
9 23 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.81%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
13 16 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.41%) EPoS
15 13 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
16 10 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.53%) Windows
2 34 (3.42%) Linux
3 24 (2.41%) Android
4 21 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 17 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.10%) AIX
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
2 182 (18.31%) Agile
3 162 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 155 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 134 (13.48%) Decision-Making
6 127 (12.78%) CI/CD
7 126 (12.68%) Roadmaps
8 122 (12.27%) Fintech
9 117 (11.77%) Analytics
10 116 (11.67%) AI
11 114 (11.47%) Software Engineering
12 112 (11.27%) E-Commerce
13 101 (10.16%) Disruptive Innovation
14 98 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
14 98 (9.86%) Mentoring
15 96 (9.66%) Microservices
16 94 (9.46%) Business Development
16 94 (9.46%) Test Automation
17 92 (9.26%) Customer Experience
18 90 (9.05%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 102 (10.26%) Java
1 102 (10.26%) SQL
2 81 (8.15%) Python
3 37 (3.72%) C#
4 35 (3.52%) JavaScript
5 25 (2.52%) Go
6 13 (1.31%) Bash
6 13 (1.31%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 8 (0.80%) Clojure
9 5 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.30%) PHP
10 3 (0.30%) R
10 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.20%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.10%) C
12 1 (0.10%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.10%) Groovy
12 1 (0.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (5.23%) Degree
2 50 (5.03%) Security Cleared
3 49 (4.93%) SC Cleared
4 18 (1.81%) CISSP
5 16 (1.61%) CISM
5 16 (1.61%) ICAEW
6 15 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.41%) ACCA
7 14 (1.41%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.31%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.31%) CISA
9 12 (1.21%) CIMA
10 11 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 10 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.01%) CRISC
12 8 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.70%) CREST Certified
13 7 (0.70%) ISACA
13 7 (0.70%) OSCP
13 7 (0.70%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (2.72%) NIST
3 23 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.31%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.31%) GDPR
3 23 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 15 (1.51%) GRC
4 15 (1.51%) QA
5 13 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (1.31%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.01%) COBIT
6 10 (1.01%) TickIT
7 8 (0.80%) SOC 1
8 7 (0.70%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 4 (0.40%) NCSC
11 4 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (0.80%) Docker
5 6 (0.60%) Squid
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.30%) vSphere
7 2 (0.20%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 104 (10.46%) Kubernetes
2 85 (8.55%) Grafana
3 14 (1.41%) Ansible
4 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (0.50%) HAProxy
7 4 (0.40%) Nmap
8 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.10%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.10%) Nessus
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.10%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 183 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 72 (7.24%) Google
3 42 (4.23%) SAP
4 26 (2.62%) Cisco
5 25 (2.52%) Oracle
6 22 (2.21%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.11%) VMware
8 18 (1.81%) IFS
9 14 (1.41%) Databricks
10 12 (1.21%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.21%) HubSpot
11 11 (1.11%) Adobe
11 11 (1.11%) Veeam
12 10 (1.01%) TikTok
12 10 (1.01%) YouTube
13 9 (0.91%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.91%) Splunk
13 9 (0.91%) Thales
14 8 (0.80%) Workday
15 7 (0.70%) Xero