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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 44 54
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 +23
Permanent jobs citing Retail 4,317 5,462 7,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.99% 6.17% 5.77%
As % of the General category 8.44% 9.05% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,455 2,856 3,685
10th Percentile £26,000 £34,428 £32,287
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,775 £90,350 £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 51,144 60,335 88,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.14% 68.19% 64.57%
Number of salaries quoted 35,727 32,893 45,490
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 £105,000 £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 20 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 20 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 1,206 £62,500 -7.41% 722
North of England -16 855 £45,000 -18.18% 508
Midlands +54 768 £41,492 -24.56% 370
South East +18 711 £45,000 -18.18% 432
North West +15 537 £45,000 -18.18% 286
West Midlands +47 382 £45,000 -15.49% 201
East Midlands +52 381 £37,500 -31.82% 169
East of England +50 380 £47,750 -13.18% 162
South West -23 375 £47,500 -13.45% 202
Yorkshire -34 231 £47,000 -20.34% 183
North East -5 87 £43,200 -21.45% 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
1 158 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 41 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (0.76%) CMS
4 32 (0.74%) Confluence
5 26 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.53%) SAS
7 18 (0.42%) WordPress
8 15 (0.35%) Apache
9 12 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
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 7 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.093%) Office Communications Server
13 4 (0.093%) Oracle Application Server
14 3 (0.069%) Drupal
14 3 (0.069%) IIS
14 3 (0.069%) Smallworld
Applications
1 570 (13.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 352 (8.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 278 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
5 36 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 36 (0.83%) Photoshop
6 31 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 29 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
8 24 (0.56%) Trello
9 22 (0.51%) Simulink
10 18 (0.42%) InDesign
11 14 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
11 14 (0.32%) 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 63 (1.46%) Shopify
2 49 (1.14%) Magento
3 34 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 29 (0.67%) Endur
5 29 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
6 26 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
7 23 (0.53%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.35%) ResourceLink
9 14 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
10 12 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
10 12 (0.28%) Epicor Tropos
11 11 (0.25%) SAP PP
12 10 (0.23%) Misys Midas
13 9 (0.21%) SAP BPC
13 9 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
14 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
14 7 (0.16%) SAP IBP
14 7 (0.16%) SAP PLM
14 7 (0.16%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 573 (13.27%) Azure
2 391 (9.06%) AWS
3 357 (8.27%) Power Platform
4 245 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
5 141 (3.27%) SaaS
6 136 (3.15%) GCP
7 86 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
9 37 (0.86%) GitHub
9 37 (0.86%) Serverless
10 35 (0.81%) WhatsApp
11 32 (0.74%) Entra ID
12 31 (0.72%) Google Analytics
12 31 (0.72%) PowerApps
13 30 (0.69%) Power Automate
14 28 (0.65%) Figma
15 26 (0.60%) Snowflake
16 25 (0.58%) Google Sheets
17 23 (0.53%) SuccessFactors
18 22 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 122 (2.83%) Firewall
2 111 (2.57%) WAN
3 108 (2.50%) LAN
4 101 (2.34%) Internet
5 76 (1.76%) Intranet
6 73 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
7 67 (1.55%) VPN
8 50 (1.16%) Broadband
9 36 (0.83%) Wireless
10 30 (0.69%) Network Security
11 25 (0.58%) TCP/IP
12 24 (0.56%) DNS
13 23 (0.53%) SD-WAN
14 20 (0.46%) VoIP
15 18 (0.42%) DHCP
15 18 (0.42%) WLAN
16 15 (0.35%) VLAN
17 11 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
18 10 (0.23%) MPLS
18 10 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (7.46%) Power BI
2 263 (6.09%) SQL Server
3 188 (4.35%) Tableau
4 163 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
5 111 (2.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 81 (1.88%) MySQL
7 58 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 49 (1.14%) MongoDB
9 44 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
10 38 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 36 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 34 (0.79%) Big Data
13 30 (0.69%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (0.60%) GIS
16 19 (0.44%) DynamoDB
17 17 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (0.39%) NoSQL
17 17 (0.39%) Redis
18 16 (0.37%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 243 (5.63%) Git
2 92 (2.13%) JIRA
3 35 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 32 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 31 (0.72%) GitLab
6 26 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 11 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.23%) JBehave
8 10 (0.23%) JMeter
8 10 (0.23%) SpecFlow
8 10 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.16%) gulp
9 7 (0.16%) JUnit
9 7 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.16%) Selenium
9 7 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 1,767 (40.93%) Social Skills
2 1,190 (27.57%) Finance
3 1,060 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
4 471 (10.91%) Marketing
5 290 (6.72%) Presentation Skills
6 273 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 259 (6.00%) German Language
8 254 (5.88%) Legal
9 211 (4.89%) Manufacturing
10 176 (4.08%) Banking
11 172 (3.98%) Public Sector
12 142 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
13 124 (2.87%) Telecoms
14 89 (2.06%) Advertising
15 82 (1.90%) Law
16 71 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
17 67 (1.55%) Billing
18 66 (1.53%) Automotive
19 51 (1.18%) Back Office
20 48 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 778 (18.02%) Analyst
2 629 (14.57%) Senior
3 394 (9.13%) Developer
4 274 (6.35%) Graduate
5 264 (6.12%) Architect
6 241 (5.58%) Lead
7 231 (5.35%) Project Manager
8 212 (4.91%) Consultant
9 206 (4.77%) Data Analyst
10 190 (4.40%) Business Analyst
11 179 (4.15%) Senior Analyst
12 133 (3.08%) IT Manager
13 128 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
14 119 (2.76%) Administrator
15 110 (2.55%) Senior Data Analyst
16 99 (2.29%) Software Engineer
17 96 (2.22%) Senior Developer
18 91 (2.11%) Senior Manager
19 80 (1.85%) Business Intelligence Consultant
19 80 (1.85%) Principal Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (4.91%) .NET
2 192 (4.45%) HTML
3 163 (3.78%) CSS
4 140 (3.24%) React
5 98 (2.27%) .NET Core
6 79 (1.83%) ASP.NET
7 72 (1.67%) Vue
7 72 (1.67%) Web Services
8 69 (1.60%) .NET Framework
9 68 (1.58%) AngularJS
10 66 (1.53%) Node.js
11 59 (1.37%) REST
12 58 (1.34%) XML
13 55 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
14 49 (1.14%) RESTful
15 48 (1.11%) JSON
16 44 (1.02%) Entity Framework
17 39 (0.90%) Laravel
18 32 (0.74%) ASP.NET MVC
19 28 (0.65%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 444 (10.28%) Self-Motivation
2 329 (7.62%) Driving Licence
3 150 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 128 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 125 (2.90%) FMCG
6 95 (2.20%) PMI
7 92 (2.13%) Social Media
8 91 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 85 (1.97%) EPoS
10 80 (1.85%) Cloud Native
11 78 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 75 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 67 (1.55%) Photography
14 66 (1.53%) Mobile App
15 61 (1.41%) Data Centre
16 49 (1.14%) Algorithms
17 47 (1.09%) Data Structures
18 38 (0.88%) Blog
19 37 (0.86%) NHS
20 31 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 287 (6.65%) Windows
2 106 (2.46%) Linux
3 95 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 48 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.09%) VMS
6 40 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 22 (0.51%) Android
8 21 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (0.30%) Windows 7
12 11 (0.25%) Unix
12 11 (0.25%) Windows 8
13 10 (0.23%) Mac OS
13 10 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 8 (0.19%) AIX
14 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.12%) CentOS
16 3 (0.069%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,046 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
2 779 (18.04%) Agile
3 544 (12.60%) Customer Service
4 493 (11.42%) Analytics
5 486 (11.26%) E-Commerce
6 453 (10.49%) Project Management
7 392 (9.08%) Decision-Making
8 377 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
9 371 (8.59%) Roadmaps
10 305 (7.07%) Logistics
11 288 (6.67%) Data Analysis
12 282 (6.53%) Mentoring
13 274 (6.35%) Coaching
14 257 (5.95%) Mathematics
15 256 (5.93%) Visualisation
16 248 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 241 (5.58%) Stakeholder Management
18 237 (5.49%) Business Strategy
19 236 (5.47%) Change Management
20 224 (5.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 701 (16.24%) SQL
2 372 (8.62%) Python
3 264 (6.12%) JavaScript
4 207 (4.79%) C#
5 127 (2.94%) PHP
6 124 (2.87%) TypeScript
7 95 (2.20%) Java
8 58 (1.34%) R
9 43 (1.00%) PowerShell
9 43 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 38 (0.88%) VBA
11 34 (0.79%) Go
12 33 (0.76%) C
13 32 (0.74%) VB.NET
14 30 (0.69%) MATLAB
15 22 (0.51%) VB
16 21 (0.49%) Bash
17 20 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 19 (0.44%) Ruby
19 11 (0.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 968 (22.42%) Degree
2 492 (11.40%) DBS Check
3 127 (2.94%) Security Cleared
4 111 (2.57%) PMI Certification
5 69 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 53 (1.23%) HNC
8 52 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 52 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.16%) ACCA
10 49 (1.14%) CIMA
11 46 (1.07%) SC Cleared
12 43 (1.00%) CCNP
13 41 (0.95%) CISSP
14 34 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (0.63%) CCNA
16 25 (0.58%) AWS Certification
16 25 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
17 20 (0.46%) Azure Certification
18 19 (0.44%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (4.56%) QA
2 96 (2.22%) SLA
3 83 (1.92%) GDPR
4 57 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 51 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (1.18%) PMO
6 46 (1.07%) NIST
7 35 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.67%) Accessibility
9 26 (0.60%) ISO 9001
10 15 (0.35%) IFRS
11 14 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.28%) IFRS 9
13 11 (0.25%) ISO 14000
14 10 (0.23%) CRD IV
15 9 (0.21%) GMP
16 8 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.16%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.16%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 206 (4.77%) Active Directory
2 93 (2.15%) Docker
3 49 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 27 (0.63%) Firmware
6 13 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.093%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.069%) KVM
10 3 (0.069%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.023%) IAG
11 1 (0.023%) LXC
11 1 (0.023%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.023%) vSphere
11 1 (0.023%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 116 (2.69%) Terraform
2 105 (2.43%) Kubernetes
3 55 (1.27%) Ansible
4 34 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.58%) Grafana
6 15 (0.35%) Puppet
7 14 (0.32%) Progress Chef
8 12 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.25%) SCCM
10 9 (0.21%) CASB
11 7 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.14%) SCOM
13 5 (0.12%) AirWatch
13 5 (0.12%) Kibana
13 5 (0.12%) logstash
14 4 (0.093%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 4 (0.093%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.093%) WSUS
15 3 (0.069%) Packer
15 3 (0.069%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 919 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 169 (3.91%) Google
3 156 (3.61%) Databricks
4 141 (3.27%) SAP
5 92 (2.13%) Adobe
6 72 (1.67%) Oracle
6 72 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 67 (1.55%) VMware
8 66 (1.53%) Virgin Media
9 61 (1.41%) Cisco
10 46 (1.07%) NEC
11 40 (0.93%) IBM
12 30 (0.69%) Dell
12 30 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 27 (0.63%) Northgate
14 25 (0.58%) Apple
14 25 (0.58%) HP
15 24 (0.56%) Citrix
16 20 (0.46%) NetApp
17 18 (0.42%) Openreach