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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 80 59
Rank change year-on-year +58 -21 0
Permanent jobs citing Retail 554 235 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.56% 4.06% 4.68%
As % of the General category 11.88% 5.38% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 266 128 263
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,375 £33,850
25th Percentile £29,125 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £52,200
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £61,775 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £59,526 £58,135
% change year-on-year -20.20% +2.39% +1.10%

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 4,663 4,371 4,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 55.22% 75.56% 63.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,065 2,215 3,026
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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
Warwickshire +59 139 £26,500 -47.00% 21
Birmingham +15 114 £55,000 -4.35% 68
Staffordshire +16 104 £47,250 +11.18% 22
Solihull +27 37 £47,500 -5.00% 15
Worcestershire -7 31 £40,072 -11.95% 12
Coventry +41 28 £26,500 -51.82% 13
Shropshire +4 16 £33,750 -25.41% 9
Walsall +20 15 £31,750 -33.16% 6
Herefordshire +5 8 £27,500 -38.89% 1
Wolverhampton -2 4 £47,500 -13.64% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 4 - -
Smethwick - 3 £28,000 -
Tipton - 2 £14,000 -
Stourbridge - 1 - -
Wednesbury - 1 - -
West Bromwich - 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 - -
Bilston - 1 - -
Brierley Hill - 1 - -
Dudley - 1 - - 2
Halesowen - 1 - - 2
Kingswinford - 1 - - 1
Rowley Regis - 1 - - 1
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 (2.71%) Confluence
2 14 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.72%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.36%) CMS
5 2 (0.36%) WordPress
6 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 108 (19.49%) Microsoft Office
2 96 (17.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.26%) Trello
5 2 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.36%) InDesign
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.54%) Shopify
4 2 (0.36%) Magento
4 2 (0.36%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.36%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 71 (12.82%) Azure
2 42 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (5.96%) AWS
4 29 (5.23%) Power Platform
5 23 (4.15%) SaaS
6 11 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (1.81%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.62%) GCP
9 6 (1.08%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.08%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.72%) Figma
10 4 (0.72%) WhatsApp
11 3 (0.54%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.54%) PaaS
12 2 (0.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.36%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.36%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (0.36%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.50%) Wi-Fi
2 26 (4.69%) WAN
3 22 (3.97%) LAN
4 20 (3.61%) Wireless
5 18 (3.25%) SD-WAN
6 14 (2.53%) Firewall
7 13 (2.35%) VPN
8 10 (1.81%) VLAN
8 10 (1.81%) VoIP
9 9 (1.62%) WLAN
10 8 (1.44%) BGP
10 8 (1.44%) MPLS
10 8 (1.44%) OSPF
11 7 (1.26%) EIGRP
11 7 (1.26%) HSRP
11 7 (1.26%) Spanning Tree
11 7 (1.26%) VRRP
11 7 (1.26%) Wireshark
12 5 (0.90%) Internet
13 4 (0.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.68%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.23%) Power BI
3 24 (4.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 6 (1.08%) Power Query
7 5 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.90%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.90%) Tableau
8 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.36%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.36%) Looker
9 2 (0.36%) MySQL
10 1 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (2.89%) JIRA
2 6 (1.08%) GitLab
2 6 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.36%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.36%) sqlmap
5 1 (0.18%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.18%) fastlane
5 1 (0.18%) Git
General
1 249 (44.95%) Social Skills
2 237 (42.78%) Finance
3 114 (20.58%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (16.97%) Presentation Skills
5 65 (11.73%) Marketing
6 55 (9.93%) Legal
7 25 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.61%) Public Sector
10 18 (3.25%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.44%) Automotive
13 8 (1.44%) Social Housing
14 7 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.26%) Local Government
15 5 (0.90%) Back Office
16 4 (0.72%) Police
17 3 (0.54%) Billing
18 2 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (17.69%) Analyst
2 65 (11.73%) Development Manager
3 38 (6.86%) Developer
3 38 (6.86%) Senior
4 34 (6.14%) Project Manager
5 26 (4.69%) Business Manager
5 26 (4.69%) IT Manager
6 24 (4.33%) Business Analyst
7 23 (4.15%) Help Desk Analyst
8 20 (3.61%) Architect
9 19 (3.43%) Business Development Manager
10 18 (3.25%) Lead
11 14 (2.53%) Consultant
11 14 (2.53%) Operations Analyst
12 13 (2.35%) Infrastructure Manager
12 13 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.35%) Team Leader
13 11 (1.99%) .NET Developer
13 11 (1.99%) Network Engineer
14 10 (1.81%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.42%) .NET
2 16 (2.89%) HTML
3 15 (2.71%) CSS
4 14 (2.53%) .NET Core
4 14 (2.53%) .NET Framework
5 12 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 12 (2.17%) Vue
6 10 (1.81%) React
7 7 (1.26%) ASP.NET
7 7 (1.26%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (1.08%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (1.08%) Entity Framework
8 6 (1.08%) REST
9 5 (0.90%) JSON
9 5 (0.90%) Node.js
9 5 (0.90%) XML
10 4 (0.72%) Laravel
10 4 (0.72%) WCF
10 4 (0.72%) Web Services
11 2 (0.36%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 86 (15.52%) Onboarding
2 26 (4.69%) Driving Licence
3 22 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.17%) FMCG
7 11 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.44%) EPoS
9 8 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.90%) PMI
13 4 (0.72%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.72%) Replication
14 2 (0.36%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 47 (8.48%) Windows
2 19 (3.43%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.53%) Windows 10
4 13 (2.35%) Linux
4 13 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (1.99%) Windows 7
5 11 (1.99%) Windows 8
6 4 (0.72%) Android
7 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (32.67%) Problem-Solving
2 160 (28.88%) Customer Service
3 142 (25.63%) Agile
4 120 (21.66%) Mentoring
5 118 (21.30%) Logistics
6 101 (18.23%) Data Analysis
7 93 (16.79%) Mathematics
8 86 (15.52%) Mechatronics
9 80 (14.44%) Business Development
10 71 (12.82%) Commercial Awareness
11 66 (11.91%) Facilities Management
12 63 (11.37%) Data Management
13 62 (11.19%) Customer Requirements
14 58 (10.47%) Project Delivery
15 57 (10.29%) CAD
16 56 (10.11%) Financial Modelling
16 56 (10.11%) ITIL
17 51 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 43 (7.76%) Project Management
18 43 (7.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (11.37%) SQL
2 31 (5.60%) JavaScript
3 20 (3.61%) C#
4 19 (3.43%) Python
5 16 (2.89%) TypeScript
6 11 (1.99%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.08%) PHP
8 4 (0.72%) Go
9 3 (0.54%) Java
10 2 (0.36%) Bicep
10 2 (0.36%) R
11 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.18%) Swift
11 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 147 (26.53%) Degree
2 87 (15.70%) HNC
3 20 (3.61%) CCNP
3 20 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.53%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.17%) CCNA
7 11 (1.99%) CCIE
8 10 (1.81%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.44%) CCSA
9 8 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.26%) CCDP
10 7 (1.26%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.08%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.72%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.72%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.32%) QA
2 18 (3.25%) SLA
3 10 (1.81%) NIST
4 8 (1.44%) GDPR
4 8 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.26%) PMO
6 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.54%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.17%) Firmware
3 7 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.08%) Docker
5 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (1.08%) Kubernetes
1 6 (1.08%) Terraform
2 4 (0.72%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 186 (33.57%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.97%) Cisco
3 11 (1.99%) Google
4 9 (1.62%) VMware
5 8 (1.44%) CheckPoint
5 8 (1.44%) Ekahau
5 8 (1.44%) SAP
6 7 (1.26%) Dell
6 7 (1.26%) Meraki
6 7 (1.26%) YouTube
7 6 (1.08%) Citrix
7 6 (1.08%) HP
7 6 (1.08%) NetApp
8 5 (0.90%) Apple
8 5 (0.90%) Genesys
8 5 (0.90%) IBM
8 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.54%) Adobe
9 3 (0.54%) NEC
9 3 (0.54%) Remedy