Retail Jobs in the UK excluding London

Retailing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Retail over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +18
Permanent jobs citing Retail 3,528 3,539 3,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.64% 6.26% 4.90%
As % of the General category 8.35% 9.21% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,032 1,871 2,102
10th Percentile £24,960 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,548 £69,650 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,530
UK median annual salary £47,500 £59,526 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.20% +3.52% +4.55%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42,255 38,446 45,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.62% 68.00% 61.04%
Number of salaries quoted 27,055 18,057 24,502
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,400 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,200 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Retail in the UK excluding London

Retail
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England -13 921 £45,000 -18.18% 488
Midlands +54 895 £41,492 -24.56% 354
South East +23 766 £45,000 -18.18% 391
North West +8 558 £45,000 -18.18% 269
East Midlands +43 460 £37,500 -31.82% 190
West Midlands +43 430 £45,000 -16.67% 164
East of England +49 387 £47,500 -13.64% 158
South West -17 384 £47,500 -13.45% 258
Yorkshire -32 236 £45,000 -18.18% 177
North East 0 127 £30,000 -45.45% 53
Scotland -121 92 £48,000 -19.06% 131
Wales -19 58 £37,000 -17.78% 45
Northern Ireland +46 33 £28,000 -30.00% 5
Retail
UK

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 128 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 35 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (0.85%) Confluence
4 28 (0.79%) CMS
5 17 (0.48%) WordPress
6 13 (0.37%) SAS
7 9 (0.26%) Apache
7 9 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 8 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.14%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (0.085%) IIS
12 3 (0.085%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.057%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.028%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.028%) Tomcat
Applications
1 529 (14.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 403 (11.42%) Microsoft Office
3 231 (6.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (0.96%) Photoshop
5 29 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
7 27 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 22 (0.62%) Simulink
9 21 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
10 16 (0.45%) Trello
11 15 (0.43%) AutoCAD
12 14 (0.40%) InDesign
13 7 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
13 7 (0.20%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.20%) MS Visio
13 7 (0.20%) Stateflow
14 5 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
15 4 (0.11%) CINEMA 4D
15 4 (0.11%) Sketch
15 4 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 48 (1.36%) Magento
2 47 (1.33%) Shopify
3 27 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
4 26 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
5 25 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 17 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
7 15 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.43%) ResourceLink
8 10 (0.28%) Misys Midas
9 9 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
10 8 (0.23%) SAP BPC
11 7 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
11 7 (0.20%) SAP WM
12 6 (0.17%) SAP ERP
13 5 (0.14%) NEC Housing
13 5 (0.14%) SAP MDG
13 5 (0.14%) SAP MM
13 5 (0.14%) SAP PP
13 5 (0.14%) SAP SD
14 4 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 485 (13.75%) Azure
2 263 (7.45%) Power Platform
3 211 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
4 206 (5.84%) AWS
5 99 (2.81%) SaaS
6 71 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
7 67 (1.90%) GCP
8 31 (0.88%) Power Automate
9 30 (0.85%) Entra ID
10 24 (0.68%) GitHub
10 24 (0.68%) PowerApps
11 22 (0.62%) Serverless
11 22 (0.62%) WhatsApp
12 19 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (0.54%) Google Analytics
13 18 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (0.48%) OneDrive
15 16 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.32%) Firewall
2 63 (1.79%) Internet
2 63 (1.79%) LAN
2 63 (1.79%) WAN
3 62 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
4 59 (1.67%) Intranet
5 53 (1.50%) Broadband
6 39 (1.11%) Wireless
7 29 (0.82%) Network Security
8 25 (0.71%) VPN
9 21 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.60%) VoIP
10 20 (0.57%) DNS
11 18 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.51%) WLAN
12 15 (0.43%) VLAN
13 13 (0.37%) DHCP
14 11 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
15 10 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
16 9 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (6.77%) Power BI
2 236 (6.69%) SQL Server
3 145 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
4 107 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 73 (2.07%) MySQL
6 60 (1.70%) Tableau
7 40 (1.13%) MongoDB
7 40 (1.13%) Relational Database
8 35 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
9 26 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 22 (0.62%) Data Lake
11 21 (0.60%) Big Data
12 19 (0.54%) BigQuery
13 18 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (0.48%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.45%) Redis
16 13 (0.37%) Power Query
17 11 (0.31%) MS Access
17 11 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 111 (3.15%) Git
2 83 (2.35%) JIRA
3 30 (0.85%) Visual Studio
4 28 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.77%) GitLab
6 10 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 10 (0.28%) JBehave
6 10 (0.28%) JMeter
6 10 (0.28%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.23%) webpack
8 7 (0.20%) gulp
8 7 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.20%) Selenium
8 7 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.17%) JUnit
9 6 (0.17%) Subversion
9 6 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.14%) IntelliJ
10 5 (0.14%) SonarQube
General
1 1,339 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 1,030 (29.20%) Finance
3 766 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
4 396 (11.22%) Marketing
5 266 (7.54%) Legal
6 181 (5.13%) Manufacturing
7 159 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 138 (3.91%) Public Sector
9 124 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
10 117 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
11 107 (3.03%) Telecoms
12 95 (2.69%) German Language
13 90 (2.55%) Banking
14 70 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
15 63 (1.79%) Billing
16 43 (1.22%) Automotive
17 42 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
18 40 (1.13%) Local Government
19 37 (1.05%) Games
19 37 (1.05%) Law
Job Titles
1 611 (17.32%) Analyst
2 361 (10.23%) Developer
3 357 (10.12%) Senior
4 196 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 192 (5.44%) Lead
6 187 (5.30%) Project Manager
7 181 (5.13%) Architect
8 164 (4.65%) Consultant
9 149 (4.22%) Development Manager
10 111 (3.15%) Graduate
11 105 (2.98%) IT Manager
11 105 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
12 102 (2.89%) Administrator
13 97 (2.75%) Data Analyst
14 90 (2.55%) Software Engineer
15 80 (2.27%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 80 (2.27%) Senior Developer
16 78 (2.21%) Principal Business Analyst
17 76 (2.15%) Business Manager
18 68 (1.93%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (5.24%) .NET
2 156 (4.42%) HTML
3 150 (4.25%) CSS
4 102 (2.89%) React
5 94 (2.66%) .NET Core
6 73 (2.07%) ASP.NET
7 72 (2.04%) Vue
8 62 (1.76%) Node.js
9 61 (1.73%) AngularJS
10 57 (1.62%) REST
11 56 (1.59%) Web Services
12 55 (1.56%) .NET Framework
13 51 (1.45%) ASP.NET Web API
14 47 (1.33%) JSON
15 44 (1.25%) Entity Framework
15 44 (1.25%) XML
16 42 (1.19%) RESTful
17 36 (1.02%) Laravel
18 32 (0.91%) ASP.NET MVC
19 24 (0.68%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 271 (7.68%) Self-Motivation
2 205 (5.81%) Driving Licence
3 114 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 88 (2.49%) FMCG
5 87 (2.47%) EPoS
6 81 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 78 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 68 (1.93%) Onboarding
9 61 (1.73%) PMI
10 58 (1.64%) Mobile App
11 54 (1.53%) Data Centre
12 53 (1.50%) Cloud Native
13 45 (1.28%) Social Media
14 34 (0.96%) Algorithms
15 30 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
15 30 (0.85%) NHS
16 28 (0.79%) CCTV
16 28 (0.79%) Smartphone
17 26 (0.74%) Data Structures
18 25 (0.71%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 232 (6.58%) Windows
2 89 (2.52%) Windows Server
3 71 (2.01%) Linux
4 39 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.60%) Android
6 20 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 19 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (0.43%) Windows 7
8 15 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.31%) Windows 8
10 10 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (0.26%) Unix
12 8 (0.23%) AIX
13 7 (0.20%) VMS
13 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.14%) CentOS
14 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.11%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.085%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
2 713 (20.21%) Agile
3 500 (14.17%) Customer Service
4 432 (12.24%) Logistics
5 380 (10.77%) E-Commerce
6 374 (10.60%) Project Management
7 352 (9.98%) Decision-Making
8 308 (8.73%) Coaching
9 291 (8.25%) Roadmaps
10 287 (8.13%) Analytics
11 283 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
12 271 (7.68%) Business Development
13 234 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 233 (6.60%) Mentoring
15 231 (6.55%) Data Management
16 218 (6.18%) Change Management
17 200 (5.67%) Business Analysis
18 193 (5.47%) ERP
19 177 (5.02%) ITIL
20 172 (4.88%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 466 (13.21%) SQL
2 219 (6.21%) JavaScript
3 181 (5.13%) C#
4 168 (4.76%) Python
5 126 (3.57%) PHP
6 111 (3.15%) TypeScript
7 57 (1.62%) Java
8 38 (1.08%) R
9 37 (1.05%) T-SQL
10 35 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 35 (0.99%) VBA
11 34 (0.96%) C
12 30 (0.85%) VB.NET
13 27 (0.77%) MATLAB
14 22 (0.62%) VB
15 21 (0.60%) Go
16 19 (0.54%) Ruby
17 17 (0.48%) Bash
18 15 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 9 (0.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 584 (16.55%) Degree
2 226 (6.41%) DBS Check
3 89 (2.52%) Security Cleared
4 69 (1.96%) PMI Certification
5 51 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
6 49 (1.39%) CIMA
6 49 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.39%) HNC
7 47 (1.33%) ACCA
8 44 (1.25%) CCNP
9 40 (1.13%) SC Cleared
10 37 (1.05%) CISSP
11 34 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 30 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (0.85%) DV Cleared
13 28 (0.79%) CCNA
14 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.62%) AWS Certification
16 19 (0.54%) CCIE
16 19 (0.54%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (5.47%) QA
2 129 (3.66%) SLA
3 71 (2.01%) GDPR
4 51 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 46 (1.30%) PMO
6 42 (1.19%) NIST
7 34 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 15 (0.43%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 8 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.20%) Automotive SPICE
13 7 (0.20%) IFRS
13 7 (0.20%) IFRS 9
13 7 (0.20%) ISO 14000
13 7 (0.20%) ISO 14001
13 7 (0.20%) ISO 22301
13 7 (0.20%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 152 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 74 (2.10%) Docker
3 44 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.99%) Firmware
5 33 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.11%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.085%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.057%) KVM
10 2 (0.057%) vSphere
11 1 (0.028%) IAG
11 1 (0.028%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (1.84%) Kubernetes
2 50 (1.42%) Terraform
3 30 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (0.62%) Progress Chef
5 19 (0.54%) Ansible
6 16 (0.45%) Puppet
7 13 (0.37%) Grafana
8 11 (0.31%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.26%) CASB
10 6 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.14%) Kibana
11 5 (0.14%) SCOM
12 4 (0.11%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.11%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.11%) SCCM
13 3 (0.085%) Functional Safety
13 3 (0.085%) SELinux
13 3 (0.085%) Sysprep
13 3 (0.085%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 934 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 123 (3.49%) Google
3 105 (2.98%) SAP
4 66 (1.87%) Virgin Media
5 63 (1.79%) VMware
6 61 (1.73%) Cisco
7 57 (1.62%) Adobe
8 56 (1.59%) Oracle
9 48 (1.36%) IBM
10 46 (1.30%) NEC
11 37 (1.05%) Salesforce
12 35 (0.99%) Dell
13 33 (0.94%) Databricks
14 30 (0.85%) HP
15 29 (0.82%) NetApp
16 27 (0.77%) Northgate
17 24 (0.68%) Citrix
18 23 (0.65%) MuleSoft
19 18 (0.51%) Openreach
20 16 (0.45%) Apple