Retail Jobs in England

Retailing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 44 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +31
Permanent jobs citing Retail 4,243 5,690 7,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.94% 6.33% 5.74%
As % of the General category 8.34% 9.28% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,454 2,892 3,644
10th Percentile £26,000 £34,224 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,077 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +3.45% +0.87%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,450 £95,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,872 61,304 85,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.24% 68.15% 64.17%
Number of salaries quoted 35,678 33,330 44,894
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,275 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in England

Retail
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail in England.

Salary trend for Retail in England

Retail
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in England

Retail
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London -1 1,173 £62,500 -7.41% 576
North of England -18 843 £45,000 -18.18% 503
Midlands +53 738 £41,000 -25.45% 337
South East +15 707 £45,000 -18.18% 364
North West +7 521 £45,000 -18.18% 287
East of England +47 379 £47,750 -13.18% 166
South West -17 379 £47,500 -13.45% 183
East Midlands +52 367 £37,500 -31.82% 162
West Midlands +41 366 £45,000 -14.37% 175
Yorkshire -36 235 £47,000 -21.67% 176
North East -10 87 £41,600 -24.36% 49
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 157 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 42 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (0.82%) CMS
4 31 (0.73%) Confluence
5 26 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 24 (0.57%) SAS
7 18 (0.42%) WordPress
8 16 (0.38%) Apache
9 12 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 8 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 8 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.14%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
13 4 (0.094%) Office Communications Server
14 3 (0.071%) Drupal
14 3 (0.071%) IIS
14 3 (0.071%) Smallworld
Applications
1 551 (12.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 337 (7.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 261 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
5 36 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 36 (0.85%) Photoshop
6 31 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
7 29 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
8 24 (0.57%) Trello
9 22 (0.52%) Simulink
10 18 (0.42%) InDesign
11 14 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
11 14 (0.33%) AutoCAD
12 9 (0.21%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.16%) Stateflow
14 6 (0.14%) MS Visio
14 6 (0.14%) Sketch
15 5 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
15 5 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
15 5 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 62 (1.46%) Shopify
2 48 (1.13%) Magento
3 32 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 32 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 30 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
5 26 (0.61%) Endur
6 24 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
7 23 (0.54%) NetSuite
8 14 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
8 14 (0.33%) Epicor Tropos
9 12 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
10 11 (0.26%) SAP PP
11 10 (0.24%) Misys Midas
11 10 (0.24%) ResourceLink
12 9 (0.21%) SAP BPC
12 9 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
13 7 (0.16%) SAP IBP
13 7 (0.16%) SAP PLM
13 7 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 580 (13.67%) Azure
2 368 (8.67%) AWS
3 359 (8.46%) Power Platform
4 250 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
5 142 (3.35%) SaaS
6 136 (3.21%) GCP
7 89 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
9 41 (0.97%) Serverless
10 37 (0.87%) GitHub
11 35 (0.82%) WhatsApp
12 33 (0.78%) Entra ID
13 31 (0.73%) Google Analytics
14 30 (0.71%) PowerApps
15 29 (0.68%) Power Automate
16 28 (0.66%) Figma
17 26 (0.61%) Snowflake
18 25 (0.59%) Google Sheets
19 22 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
20 21 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 121 (2.85%) Firewall
2 113 (2.66%) WAN
3 108 (2.55%) LAN
4 100 (2.36%) Internet
5 76 (1.79%) Intranet
6 74 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
7 65 (1.53%) VPN
8 50 (1.18%) Broadband
9 35 (0.82%) Wireless
10 28 (0.66%) Network Security
11 25 (0.59%) SD-WAN
11 25 (0.59%) TCP/IP
12 24 (0.57%) DNS
13 20 (0.47%) VoIP
14 18 (0.42%) DHCP
14 18 (0.42%) WLAN
15 15 (0.35%) VLAN
16 11 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
17 10 (0.24%) MPLS
17 10 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (7.61%) Power BI
2 264 (6.22%) SQL Server
3 168 (3.96%) Tableau
4 166 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
5 110 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 81 (1.91%) MySQL
7 56 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 49 (1.15%) MongoDB
9 43 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 36 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 35 (0.82%) Big Data
13 32 (0.75%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (0.61%) GIS
16 19 (0.45%) DynamoDB
17 18 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
18 17 (0.40%) Redis
19 16 (0.38%) NoSQL
20 15 (0.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 228 (5.37%) Git
2 90 (2.12%) JIRA
3 36 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 33 (0.78%) GitLab
4 33 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 27 (0.64%) TeamCity
6 11 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.24%) JBehave
7 10 (0.24%) JMeter
7 10 (0.24%) Selenium
7 10 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 10 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 8 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.16%) gulp
9 7 (0.16%) JUnit
9 7 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 1,734 (40.87%) Social Skills
2 1,158 (27.29%) Finance
3 1,045 (24.63%) Analytical Skills
4 460 (10.84%) Marketing
5 264 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
6 260 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 259 (6.10%) German Language
8 236 (5.56%) Legal
9 199 (4.69%) Manufacturing
10 173 (4.08%) Public Sector
11 164 (3.87%) Banking
12 141 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
13 126 (2.97%) Telecoms
14 89 (2.10%) Advertising
15 84 (1.98%) Law
16 71 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
17 65 (1.53%) Automotive
17 65 (1.53%) Billing
18 52 (1.23%) Back Office
19 48 (1.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 753 (17.75%) Analyst
2 596 (14.05%) Senior
3 391 (9.22%) Developer
4 271 (6.39%) Graduate
5 256 (6.03%) Architect
6 240 (5.66%) Lead
7 230 (5.42%) Project Manager
8 215 (5.07%) Consultant
9 182 (4.29%) Business Analyst
10 180 (4.24%) Data Analyst
11 160 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
12 135 (3.18%) IT Manager
13 124 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
14 117 (2.76%) Administrator
15 95 (2.24%) Senior Developer
16 94 (2.22%) Software Engineer
17 88 (2.07%) Senior Data Analyst
18 82 (1.93%) Senior Manager
19 80 (1.89%) Business Intelligence Consultant
19 80 (1.89%) Principal Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (4.97%) .NET
2 190 (4.48%) HTML
3 160 (3.77%) CSS
4 139 (3.28%) React
5 98 (2.31%) .NET Core
6 77 (1.81%) ASP.NET
7 74 (1.74%) Web Services
8 71 (1.67%) Vue
9 68 (1.60%) .NET Framework
9 68 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 64 (1.51%) Node.js
11 57 (1.34%) REST
12 56 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
12 56 (1.32%) XML
13 48 (1.13%) RESTful
14 46 (1.08%) JSON
15 44 (1.04%) Entity Framework
16 39 (0.92%) Laravel
17 30 (0.71%) ASP.NET MVC
17 30 (0.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 446 (10.51%) Self-Motivation
2 323 (7.61%) Driving Licence
3 151 (3.56%) Management Information System
4 128 (3.02%) FMCG
5 125 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 95 (2.24%) PMI
7 92 (2.17%) Social Media
8 91 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 87 (2.05%) EPoS
10 82 (1.93%) Cloud Native
11 79 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
12 75 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
13 68 (1.60%) Photography
14 66 (1.56%) Mobile App
15 62 (1.46%) Data Centre
16 49 (1.15%) Algorithms
17 40 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 39 (0.92%) Blog
19 37 (0.87%) NHS
20 31 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 294 (6.93%) Windows
2 106 (2.50%) Linux
3 99 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 50 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.11%) VMS
6 39 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 22 (0.52%) Android
7 22 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.35%) Unix
12 13 (0.31%) Windows 7
13 11 (0.26%) Windows 8
14 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
15 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.19%) AIX
17 5 (0.12%) CentOS
18 3 (0.071%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,021 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
2 764 (18.01%) Agile
3 541 (12.75%) Customer Service
4 489 (11.52%) E-Commerce
5 473 (11.15%) Analytics
6 454 (10.70%) Project Management
7 377 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
7 377 (8.89%) Decision-Making
8 370 (8.72%) Roadmaps
9 274 (6.46%) Logistics
10 273 (6.43%) Data Analysis
11 269 (6.34%) Mentoring
12 266 (6.27%) Coaching
13 248 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 237 (5.59%) Mathematics
15 236 (5.56%) Visualisation
16 233 (5.49%) Change Management
17 229 (5.40%) Stakeholder Management
18 222 (5.23%) ERP
19 221 (5.21%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 689 (16.24%) SQL
2 353 (8.32%) Python
3 261 (6.15%) JavaScript
4 210 (4.95%) C#
5 128 (3.02%) PHP
6 122 (2.88%) TypeScript
7 94 (2.22%) Java
8 59 (1.39%) R
9 45 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 40 (0.94%) T-SQL
10 40 (0.94%) VBA
11 34 (0.80%) Go
12 33 (0.78%) C
13 31 (0.73%) MATLAB
13 31 (0.73%) VB.NET
14 23 (0.54%) Bash
15 22 (0.52%) VB
16 20 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 20 (0.47%) Ruby
17 11 (0.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 932 (21.97%) Degree
2 468 (11.03%) DBS Check
3 126 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 109 (2.57%) PMI Certification
5 66 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.25%) HNC
7 53 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 51 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.18%) ACCA
10 49 (1.15%) CIMA
11 46 (1.08%) SC Cleared
12 42 (0.99%) CCNP
12 42 (0.99%) CISSP
13 35 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (0.59%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.59%) CCNA
15 22 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (0.47%) HND
17 19 (0.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (4.22%) QA
2 98 (2.31%) SLA
3 83 (1.96%) GDPR
4 59 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 52 (1.23%) PMO
6 50 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 45 (1.06%) NIST
8 36 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 28 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 25 (0.59%) ISO 9001
11 16 (0.38%) IFRS
12 14 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.31%) IFRS 9
14 11 (0.26%) CRD IV
14 11 (0.26%) ISO 14000
15 8 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.16%) ISO 14001
16 7 (0.16%) ISO 22301
16 7 (0.16%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 207 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 99 (2.33%) Docker
3 50 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 23 (0.54%) Firmware
6 13 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.094%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.071%) KVM
10 3 (0.071%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.024%) IAG
11 1 (0.024%) LXC
11 1 (0.024%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.024%) vSphere
11 1 (0.024%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 119 (2.80%) Terraform
2 110 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 55 (1.30%) Ansible
4 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.59%) Grafana
6 16 (0.38%) Puppet
6 16 (0.38%) SCCM
7 14 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.21%) CASB
10 8 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.19%) SCOM
11 5 (0.12%) AirWatch
11 5 (0.12%) Kibana
11 5 (0.12%) logstash
12 4 (0.094%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 4 (0.094%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.094%) WSUS
13 3 (0.071%) Consul
13 3 (0.071%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 905 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.87%) Google
3 136 (3.21%) SAP
4 134 (3.16%) Databricks
5 93 (2.19%) Adobe
6 70 (1.65%) Oracle
7 68 (1.60%) VMware
8 66 (1.56%) Virgin Media
9 65 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 60 (1.41%) Cisco
11 46 (1.08%) NEC
12 40 (0.94%) IBM
13 31 (0.73%) Dell
14 29 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 27 (0.64%) HP
15 27 (0.64%) Northgate
16 25 (0.59%) Apple
17 23 (0.54%) Citrix
18 18 (0.42%) Epicor
18 18 (0.42%) ServiceNow