Retail Jobs in the West Midlands

Retailing
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 81 55
Rank change year-on-year +45 -26 +12
Permanent jobs citing Retail 378 244 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.12% 3.88% 4.86%
As % of the General category 8.87% 5.10% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 257 138 261
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £28,550 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,300 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +3.50% +14.44%
75th Percentile £61,123 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -0.86%

All General Skills
West Midlands

Retail is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,260 4,788 4,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 57.71% 76.13% 62.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,017 2,195 2,859
10th Percentile £25,500 £29,750 £30,312
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,662
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.95% +0.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in the West Midlands

Retail
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +10 100 £55,000 - 66
Staffordshire +18 81 £47,500 -9.52% 24
Warwickshire +33 42 £26,500 -47.00% 8
Solihull +26 36 £47,500 -2.56% 8
Worcestershire -9 22 £40,072 -12.45% 9
Coventry +41 21 £26,500 -51.82% 11
Shropshire +6 16 £33,750 -25.41% 10
Walsall +22 11 £26,000 -16.13% 8
Herefordshire +3 8 £27,500 -40.54% 4
Wolverhampton +8 6 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Smethwick - 2 £28,000 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 - -
Tipton - 1 £14,000 -
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.97%) Confluence
2 14 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.06%) Office Communications Server
5 2 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.53%) CMS
5 2 (0.53%) WordPress
6 1 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 40 (10.58%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.85%) Trello
4 6 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.53%) InDesign
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.26%) Sketch
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.32%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.79%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.79%) Shopify
4 2 (0.53%) Magento
4 2 (0.53%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.53%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (18.78%) Azure
2 44 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (8.20%) AWS
4 28 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.29%) SaaS
6 11 (2.91%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (2.91%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.12%) GCP
8 6 (1.59%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.59%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.06%) Figma
9 4 (1.06%) WhatsApp
10 3 (0.79%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.79%) PaaS
11 2 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.53%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.53%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
2 26 (6.88%) WAN
3 22 (5.82%) LAN
4 20 (5.29%) Wireless
5 18 (4.76%) SD-WAN
6 14 (3.70%) Firewall
7 13 (3.44%) VPN
8 10 (2.65%) VLAN
9 9 (2.38%) WLAN
10 8 (2.12%) BGP
10 8 (2.12%) MPLS
10 8 (2.12%) OSPF
10 8 (2.12%) VoIP
11 7 (1.85%) EIGRP
11 7 (1.85%) HSRP
11 7 (1.85%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (1.85%) VRRP
11 7 (1.85%) Wireshark
12 5 (1.32%) Internet
13 4 (1.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.99%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.41%) Power BI
3 22 (5.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 15 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (1.59%) Power Query
7 5 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.06%) Tableau
9 3 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.53%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.53%) Looker
10 2 (0.53%) MySQL
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.26%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 16 (4.23%) JIRA
2 6 (1.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.32%) GitLab
4 4 (1.06%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.53%) sqlmap
6 1 (0.26%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.26%) fastlane
6 1 (0.26%) Git
General
1 171 (45.24%) Finance
2 151 (39.95%) Social Skills
3 66 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.47%) Legal
5 25 (6.61%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 17 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.91%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.65%) Social Housing
11 9 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.38%) Marketing
12 7 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.85%) Local Government
13 6 (1.59%) Banking
13 6 (1.59%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.32%) Automotive
14 5 (1.32%) Back Office
15 4 (1.06%) Police
Job Titles
1 87 (23.02%) Analyst
2 35 (9.26%) Senior
3 34 (8.99%) Project Manager
4 31 (8.20%) Developer
5 25 (6.61%) IT Manager
6 23 (6.08%) Help Desk Analyst
7 16 (4.23%) Business Analyst
8 14 (3.70%) Architect
8 14 (3.70%) Consultant
8 14 (3.70%) Operations Analyst
9 13 (3.44%) Infrastructure Manager
10 11 (2.91%) Development Manager
10 11 (2.91%) Lead
11 10 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 9 (2.38%) Network Engineer
12 9 (2.38%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.12%) Security Analyst
13 8 (2.12%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (2.12%) Senior Network Engineer
13 8 (2.12%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.88%) .NET
2 14 (3.70%) HTML
3 13 (3.44%) CSS
4 12 (3.17%) .NET Core
4 12 (3.17%) AngularJS
5 11 (2.91%) .NET Framework
5 11 (2.91%) Vue
6 10 (2.65%) React
7 6 (1.59%) ASP.NET
7 6 (1.59%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (1.59%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (1.59%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.59%) REST
8 5 (1.32%) Node.js
9 4 (1.06%) JSON
9 4 (1.06%) WCF
9 4 (1.06%) Web Services
9 4 (1.06%) XML
10 3 (0.79%) Laravel
11 1 (0.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.61%) Driving Licence
2 21 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.17%) FMCG
5 11 (2.91%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.91%) PMI
6 10 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (1.85%) EPoS
10 6 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.59%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.06%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.06%) Replication
13 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.53%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.43%) Windows
2 21 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 14 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 13 (3.44%) Linux
4 13 (3.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (2.91%) Windows 7
5 11 (2.91%) Windows 8
6 4 (1.06%) Android
7 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.53%) Unix
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (25.13%) Agile
1 95 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (19.84%) Customer Service
3 58 (15.34%) Project Delivery
4 51 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (12.43%) ITIL
6 43 (11.38%) Logistics
7 42 (11.11%) Project Management
8 41 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 39 (10.32%) ERP
10 38 (10.05%) Roadmaps
11 36 (9.52%) Mentoring
12 35 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (7.14%) SDLC
14 26 (6.88%) Asset Management
14 26 (6.88%) Change Management
15 24 (6.35%) Analytics
15 24 (6.35%) Coaching
16 23 (6.08%) Data Analysis
17 22 (5.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.14%) SQL
2 29 (7.67%) JavaScript
3 18 (4.76%) Python
4 16 (4.23%) C#
4 16 (4.23%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.12%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.32%) PHP
7 4 (1.06%) Go
8 3 (0.79%) Java
9 2 (0.53%) R
10 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 61 (16.14%) Degree
2 20 (5.29%) CCNP
2 20 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.17%) CCNA
5 12 (3.17%) PMI Certification
6 11 (2.91%) CCIE
7 10 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.12%) CCSA
10 7 (1.85%) CCDP
10 7 (1.85%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 6 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (1.32%) MCSE
13 4 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.06%) CREST Certified
13 4 (1.06%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.14%) QA
2 15 (3.97%) SLA
3 10 (2.65%) NIST
4 8 (2.12%) GDPR
4 8 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.85%) PMO
6 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.79%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (7.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.91%) Firmware
3 9 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.32%) Docker
5 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (1.32%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.32%) Terraform
2 4 (1.06%) AirWatch
3 2 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.53%) SCCM
3 2 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 119 (31.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.82%) Cisco
3 11 (2.91%) VMware
4 10 (2.65%) Google
5 8 (2.12%) CheckPoint
5 8 (2.12%) Ekahau
5 8 (2.12%) SAP
6 7 (1.85%) Meraki
6 7 (1.85%) YouTube
7 6 (1.59%) Dell
8 5 (1.32%) Apple
8 5 (1.32%) Citrix
8 5 (1.32%) Genesys
8 5 (1.32%) HP
8 5 (1.32%) NetApp
8 5 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.06%) IBM
9 4 (1.06%) Remedy
10 3 (0.79%) Adobe
10 3 (0.79%) NEC