Retailing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 44 56
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +27
Permanent jobs citing Retail 4,617 6,055 9,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.62% 6.08% 5.65%
As % of the General category 7.75% 8.92% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,637 3,199 4,084
10th Percentile £26,000 £34,000 £32,500
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 £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,000 £94,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,604 67,868 104,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.20% 64.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,720 36,787 51,225
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,100 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the UK

Retail
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Retail in the UK

Retail
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in the UK

Retail
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +6 4,324 £47,500 -20.83% 2,355
UK excluding London -5 3,265 £45,000 -18.18% 1,734
Work from Home -15 1,739 £48,500 -22.40% 883
London 0 1,207 £62,500 -7.41% 726
North of England -14 859 £45,000 -18.18% 505
Midlands +57 769 £41,492 -24.56% 366
South East +16 711 £45,000 -18.18% 432
North West +13 538 £45,000 -18.18% 283
East Midlands +53 382 £37,500 -31.82% 165
West Midlands +46 382 £45,000 -15.49% 201
East of England +47 380 £47,750 -13.18% 155
South West -19 376 £47,500 -13.45% 197
Yorkshire -35 234 £45,000 -23.73% 184
North East -8 87 £43,200 -21.45% 48
Scotland -147 86 £47,500 -22.71% 84
Wales -24 58 £37,000 -17.78% 39
Northern Ireland +48 35 £28,000 -30.00% 10

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 159 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 41 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (0.78%) CMS
4 33 (0.71%) Confluence
5 31 (0.67%) SAS
6 30 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 22 (0.48%) Apache
8 21 (0.45%) WordPress
9 14 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 8 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
15 4 (0.087%) Oracle Application Server
16 3 (0.065%) Drupal
16 3 (0.065%) IIS
16 3 (0.065%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 594 (12.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 369 (7.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 303 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
4 55 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
5 42 (0.91%) Photoshop
6 38 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 35 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
8 33 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
9 24 (0.52%) Trello
10 22 (0.48%) Simulink
11 18 (0.39%) AutoCAD
11 18 (0.39%) InDesign
12 14 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
13 11 (0.24%) Adobe XD
14 8 (0.17%) MS Visio
15 7 (0.15%) Stateflow
16 6 (0.13%) Sketch
16 6 (0.13%) SPSS
17 5 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
17 5 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 63 (1.36%) Shopify
2 49 (1.06%) Magento
3 42 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 33 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 29 (0.63%) Endur
5 29 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
6 26 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
7 23 (0.50%) NetSuite
8 15 (0.32%) ResourceLink
9 14 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
10 13 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
11 12 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
11 12 (0.26%) SAP PP
12 11 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 10 (0.22%) Misys Midas
14 9 (0.19%) SAP BPC
14 9 (0.19%) SAP Retail
15 8 (0.17%) SAP WM
16 7 (0.15%) SAP MM
16 7 (0.15%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 614 (13.30%) Azure
2 417 (9.03%) AWS
3 371 (8.04%) Power Platform
4 258 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
5 155 (3.36%) SaaS
6 149 (3.23%) GCP
7 100 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 91 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (1.02%) GitHub
9 47 (1.02%) Serverless
10 36 (0.78%) Google Analytics
11 35 (0.76%) Entra ID
11 35 (0.76%) WhatsApp
12 33 (0.71%) PowerApps
13 32 (0.69%) Power Automate
14 30 (0.65%) Figma
15 29 (0.63%) Snowflake
16 25 (0.54%) Google Sheets
17 23 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 23 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 125 (2.71%) Firewall
2 116 (2.51%) WAN
3 112 (2.43%) LAN
4 102 (2.21%) Internet
5 76 (1.65%) Intranet
6 74 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
7 67 (1.45%) VPN
8 52 (1.13%) Broadband
9 39 (0.84%) Wireless
10 33 (0.71%) Network Security
11 27 (0.58%) TCP/IP
12 25 (0.54%) DNS
13 24 (0.52%) SD-WAN
14 22 (0.48%) VoIP
15 19 (0.41%) DHCP
16 18 (0.39%) VLAN
16 18 (0.39%) WLAN
17 11 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
18 10 (0.22%) Cisco IOS
18 10 (0.22%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (7.21%) Power BI
2 276 (5.98%) SQL Server
3 191 (4.14%) Tableau
4 173 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
5 115 (2.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 82 (1.78%) MySQL
7 58 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 49 (1.06%) MongoDB
9 44 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
10 40 (0.87%) Big Data
11 38 (0.82%) BigQuery
12 37 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 36 (0.78%) Data Lake
14 29 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (0.56%) GIS
16 23 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
17 19 (0.41%) DynamoDB
17 19 (0.41%) NoSQL
18 17 (0.37%) Redis
19 16 (0.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 246 (5.33%) Git
2 99 (2.14%) JIRA
3 42 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 34 (0.74%) GitLab
5 33 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 27 (0.58%) TeamCity
7 12 (0.26%) JUnit
8 11 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.22%) JBehave
9 10 (0.22%) JMeter
9 10 (0.22%) SpecFlow
9 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (0.22%) webpack
10 8 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (0.15%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.15%) gulp
11 7 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
11 7 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,893 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 1,267 (27.44%) Finance
3 1,111 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
4 516 (11.18%) Marketing
5 319 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 296 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
7 282 (6.11%) Legal
8 264 (5.72%) Manufacturing
9 259 (5.61%) German Language
10 199 (4.31%) Banking
11 190 (4.12%) Public Sector
12 160 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
13 126 (2.73%) Telecoms
14 98 (2.12%) Law
15 89 (1.93%) Advertising
16 78 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
17 71 (1.54%) Automotive
18 67 (1.45%) Billing
19 63 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
20 54 (1.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 811 (17.57%) Analyst
2 656 (14.21%) Senior
3 431 (9.34%) Developer
4 282 (6.11%) Architect
5 274 (5.93%) Graduate
6 263 (5.70%) Lead
7 241 (5.22%) Project Manager
8 223 (4.83%) Consultant
9 205 (4.44%) Data Analyst
10 190 (4.12%) Business Analyst
11 183 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
12 148 (3.21%) IT Manager
13 138 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
14 122 (2.64%) Administrator
15 109 (2.36%) Software Engineer
16 108 (2.34%) Senior Data Analyst
17 99 (2.14%) Senior Developer
18 93 (2.01%) Senior Manager
19 86 (1.86%) Development Manager
20 82 (1.78%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (4.85%) .NET
2 200 (4.33%) HTML
3 172 (3.73%) CSS
4 149 (3.23%) React
5 107 (2.32%) .NET Core
6 83 (1.80%) ASP.NET
7 81 (1.75%) Web Services
8 76 (1.65%) Vue
9 68 (1.47%) .NET Framework
9 68 (1.47%) AngularJS
10 66 (1.43%) Node.js
11 65 (1.41%) XML
12 64 (1.39%) REST
13 57 (1.23%) ASP.NET Web API
14 49 (1.06%) RESTful
15 48 (1.04%) JSON
16 44 (0.95%) Entity Framework
17 39 (0.84%) Laravel
18 32 (0.69%) ASP.NET MVC
19 30 (0.65%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 477 (10.33%) Self-Motivation
2 337 (7.30%) Driving Licence
3 162 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 135 (2.92%) FMCG
5 129 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 102 (2.21%) Social Media
7 98 (2.12%) EPoS
8 97 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 97 (2.10%) PMI
9 89 (1.93%) Cloud Native
10 83 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 73 (1.58%) Mobile App
13 68 (1.47%) Photography
14 67 (1.45%) Data Centre
15 49 (1.06%) Algorithms
15 49 (1.06%) Data Structures
16 44 (0.95%) Blog
17 39 (0.84%) NHS
18 34 (0.74%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 308 (6.67%) Windows
2 117 (2.53%) Linux
3 97 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 51 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 48 (1.04%) VMS
6 40 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 37 (0.80%) Android
8 35 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 21 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.28%) Unix
12 13 (0.28%) Windows 7
13 12 (0.26%) Mac OS
14 11 (0.24%) Windows 8
15 10 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 8 (0.17%) AIX
16 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.11%) CentOS
18 3 (0.065%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,118 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
2 833 (18.04%) Agile
3 567 (12.28%) Customer Service
4 522 (11.31%) Analytics
4 522 (11.31%) E-Commerce
5 488 (10.57%) Project Management
6 413 (8.95%) Decision-Making
7 393 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
8 382 (8.27%) Roadmaps
9 310 (6.71%) Logistics
10 295 (6.39%) Mentoring
11 293 (6.35%) Data Analysis
12 284 (6.15%) Coaching
13 273 (5.91%) Mathematics
14 262 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 260 (5.63%) Visualisation
16 253 (5.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 241 (5.22%) Business Strategy
17 241 (5.22%) Change Management
18 230 (4.98%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 733 (15.88%) SQL
2 396 (8.58%) Python
3 281 (6.09%) JavaScript
4 218 (4.72%) C#
5 134 (2.90%) TypeScript
6 131 (2.84%) PHP
7 108 (2.34%) Java
8 65 (1.41%) R
9 49 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 44 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 39 (0.84%) C
11 39 (0.84%) Go
12 38 (0.82%) VBA
13 32 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 31 (0.67%) MATLAB
15 25 (0.54%) Bash
15 25 (0.54%) Ruby
16 22 (0.48%) VB
17 20 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 1,021 (22.11%) Degree
2 496 (10.74%) DBS Check
3 132 (2.86%) Security Cleared
4 114 (2.47%) PMI Certification
5 78 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 64 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 55 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
7 55 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 54 (1.17%) HNC
9 50 (1.08%) ACCA
9 50 (1.08%) SC Cleared
10 49 (1.06%) CIMA
11 46 (1.00%) CCNP
12 42 (0.91%) CISSP
13 36 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 30 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
14 30 (0.65%) CCNA
15 25 (0.54%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.48%) CREST Certified
16 22 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (4.79%) QA
2 102 (2.21%) SLA
3 91 (1.97%) GDPR
4 63 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 53 (1.15%) PMO
6 51 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (1.00%) NIST
8 37 (0.80%) Accessibility
9 35 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 26 (0.56%) ISO 9001
11 21 (0.45%) IFRS
12 18 (0.39%) IFRS 9
13 15 (0.32%) CRD IV
14 14 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.24%) ISO 14000
16 9 (0.19%) GMP
17 8 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.15%) ISO 14001
18 7 (0.15%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 215 (4.66%) Active Directory
2 105 (2.27%) Docker
3 50 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 32 (0.69%) Firmware
6 13 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.087%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.065%) KVM
10 3 (0.065%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.043%) vSphere
12 1 (0.022%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.022%) IAG
12 1 (0.022%) LXC
12 1 (0.022%) Shibboleth
12 1 (0.022%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.022%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 126 (2.73%) Terraform
2 118 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.23%) Ansible
4 36 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.54%) Grafana
6 24 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 17 (0.37%) Puppet
8 14 (0.30%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.24%) SCCM
10 9 (0.19%) CASB
11 7 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.13%) SCOM
13 5 (0.11%) AirWatch
13 5 (0.11%) Kibana
13 5 (0.11%) logstash
14 4 (0.087%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 4 (0.087%) WSUS
15 3 (0.065%) Consul
15 3 (0.065%) Packer
Vendors
1 969 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 197 (4.27%) Google
3 160 (3.47%) SAP
4 155 (3.36%) Databricks
5 97 (2.10%) Adobe
6 76 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 72 (1.56%) Oracle
8 70 (1.52%) Cisco
8 70 (1.52%) VMware
9 66 (1.43%) Virgin Media
10 47 (1.02%) IBM
11 46 (1.00%) NEC
12 35 (0.76%) Dell
13 30 (0.65%) HP
13 30 (0.65%) MuleSoft
14 29 (0.63%) Apple
15 27 (0.58%) NetApp
15 27 (0.58%) Northgate
16 26 (0.56%) Citrix
17 18 (0.39%) Meraki