Retail Jobs with Work from Home Options

Retailing
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 49 35 57
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 +17
Permanent jobs citing Retail 1,761 2,686 4,563
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.07% 6.98% 6.14%
As % of the General category 8.36% 10.62% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 983 1,522 2,017
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £33,200
25th Percentile £38,625 £46,350 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £59,526 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.20% +3.52% +4.55%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,072 25,291 47,771
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.66% 65.76% 64.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,129 17,155 25,018
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,570 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,548 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Retail
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Retail trend for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Retail.

Retail salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Retail over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Retail salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 36 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.91%) CMS
3 10 (0.57%) Confluence
3 10 (0.57%) WordPress
4 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.45%) SAS
6 6 (0.34%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.28%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 4 (0.23%) Apache
9 3 (0.17%) Drupal
9 3 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.057%) JBoss
11 1 (0.057%) Jupyter
Applications
1 77 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 13 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.68%) Photoshop
7 11 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.45%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
9 7 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
9 7 (0.40%) InDesign
9 7 (0.40%) Trello
10 6 (0.34%) Sketch
11 4 (0.23%) Simulink
11 4 (0.23%) SPSS
12 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.11%) CapCut
13 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
14 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 30 (1.70%) Shopify
2 27 (1.53%) Endur
3 25 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
4 21 (1.19%) Magento
5 18 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
6 16 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
7 10 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
8 8 (0.45%) Misys Midas
9 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.17%) Raiser’s Edge
10 3 (0.17%) SAP SCM
10 3 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
11 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
11 2 (0.11%) SAP PP
11 2 (0.11%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.11%) SAP WM
12 1 (0.057%) Dynamics AX
12 1 (0.057%) Dynamics GP
12 1 (0.057%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 378 (21.47%) Azure
2 309 (17.55%) AWS
3 190 (10.79%) Power Platform
4 83 (4.71%) SaaS
5 71 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
6 70 (3.98%) GCP
7 68 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (1.59%) Serverless
10 23 (1.31%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (1.14%) Figma
13 19 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (0.97%) Power Automate
15 16 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 16 (0.91%) Snowflake
15 16 (0.91%) WhatsApp
16 11 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (0.62%) Entra ID
16 11 (0.62%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.63%) WAN
2 61 (3.46%) LAN
3 55 (3.12%) Firewall
4 44 (2.50%) Internet
5 42 (2.39%) VPN
6 36 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (1.02%) Wireless
8 10 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.45%) HTTP
10 7 (0.40%) Extranet
10 7 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (0.34%) Network Security
12 5 (0.28%) DNS
12 5 (0.28%) TCP/IP
13 4 (0.23%) FTP
13 4 (0.23%) VLAN
14 3 (0.17%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.17%) VoIP
15 2 (0.11%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (10.62%) SQL Server
2 178 (10.11%) Power BI
3 155 (8.80%) Tableau
4 142 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (5.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 52 (2.95%) MySQL
7 42 (2.39%) MongoDB
8 31 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 29 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (1.36%) BigQuery
11 20 (1.14%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.02%) Big Data
13 17 (0.97%) Redis
14 14 (0.80%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.74%) GIS
16 12 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 11 (0.62%) NoSQL
18 8 (0.45%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 202 (11.47%) Git
2 48 (2.73%) JIRA
3 22 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 22 (1.25%) Visual Studio
4 21 (1.19%) TeamCity
5 19 (1.08%) GitLab
6 12 (0.68%) JUnit
6 12 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.57%) JBehave
7 10 (0.57%) SpecFlow
8 9 (0.51%) JMeter
9 7 (0.40%) gulp
9 7 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.40%) webpack
10 6 (0.34%) Selenium
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.28%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 738 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 599 (34.01%) Finance
3 352 (19.99%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.51%) Marketing
5 173 (9.82%) Presentation Skills
6 164 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 146 (8.29%) Legal
8 112 (6.36%) Public Sector
9 90 (5.11%) Banking
10 76 (4.32%) Manufacturing
11 61 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
12 57 (3.24%) Law
13 25 (1.42%) Back Office
13 25 (1.42%) Games
13 25 (1.42%) Telecoms
14 23 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (1.19%) Police
16 19 (1.08%) Billing
17 17 (0.97%) Aerospace
18 14 (0.80%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 382 (21.69%) Analyst
2 328 (18.63%) Senior
3 205 (11.64%) Developer
4 155 (8.80%) Data Analyst
5 148 (8.40%) Architect
5 148 (8.40%) Lead
6 122 (6.93%) Senior Analyst
7 121 (6.87%) Consultant
8 105 (5.96%) Senior Data Analyst
9 96 (5.45%) Project Manager
10 82 (4.66%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 80 (4.54%) Business Analyst
12 66 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
13 62 (3.52%) .NET Developer
14 61 (3.46%) Senior Developer
15 51 (2.90%) Software Engineer
16 44 (2.50%) Data Engineer
17 43 (2.44%) Product Manager
18 38 (2.16%) Team Leader
19 34 (1.93%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (7.38%) .NET
2 109 (6.19%) CSS
3 102 (5.79%) HTML
4 92 (5.22%) React
5 75 (4.26%) .NET Core
6 62 (3.52%) Node.js
7 55 (3.12%) AngularJS
8 54 (3.07%) .NET Framework
8 54 (3.07%) Vue
9 46 (2.61%) ASP.NET
10 43 (2.44%) ASP.NET Web API
11 40 (2.27%) Entity Framework
12 39 (2.21%) Web Services
13 35 (1.99%) REST
13 35 (1.99%) XML
14 29 (1.65%) JSON
15 27 (1.53%) ASP.NET MVC
16 26 (1.48%) RESTful
17 23 (1.31%) Laravel
18 21 (1.19%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.54%) Product Ownership
2 77 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
3 69 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 65 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
5 60 (3.41%) PMI
6 48 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.44%) Blog
8 35 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 32 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 30 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 27 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.48%) Life Science
13 24 (1.36%) FMCG
13 24 (1.36%) NHS
14 21 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.14%) Driving Licence
15 20 (1.14%) Social Media
16 16 (0.91%) Low-Code
17 15 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
18 14 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 94 (5.34%) Windows
2 60 (3.41%) Linux
3 39 (2.21%) Ubuntu
3 39 (2.21%) VMS
4 20 (1.14%) Android
4 20 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (0.62%) Windows 7
7 11 (0.62%) Windows 8
8 6 (0.34%) Unix
9 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.23%) AIX
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Vista
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.057%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
2 422 (23.96%) Agile
3 304 (17.26%) Analytics
4 250 (14.20%) Roadmaps
5 230 (13.06%) E-Commerce
6 217 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
7 182 (10.34%) Visualisation
8 180 (10.22%) Actionable Insight
9 176 (9.99%) Mathematics
10 175 (9.94%) Data Analysis
11 162 (9.20%) Statistics
12 159 (9.03%) Machine Learning
13 158 (8.97%) Data Science
14 154 (8.75%) DevOps
15 152 (8.63%) Business Strategy
16 147 (8.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 146 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
18 144 (8.18%) Project Management
19 143 (8.12%) Artificial Intelligence
20 137 (7.78%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 411 (23.34%) SQL
2 276 (15.67%) Python
3 167 (9.48%) JavaScript
4 142 (8.06%) C#
5 88 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 72 (4.09%) Java
7 69 (3.92%) PHP
8 25 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.31%) Go
10 20 (1.14%) R
10 20 (1.14%) Ruby
11 15 (0.85%) PowerShell
12 13 (0.74%) VB.NET
13 11 (0.62%) Groovy
14 10 (0.57%) Bash
15 9 (0.51%) C
15 9 (0.51%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.51%) VBA
16 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (0.34%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 390 (22.15%) Degree
2 186 (10.56%) DBS Check
3 78 (4.43%) Security Cleared
4 67 (3.80%) PMI Certification
5 37 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 31 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.53%) SC Cleared
8 23 (1.31%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.25%) CISSP
10 20 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.80%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.74%) CCNP
14 12 (0.68%) CCNA
14 12 (0.68%) CEH
14 12 (0.68%) PMP
15 9 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.51%) CREST Certified
16 8 (0.45%) CCSA
17 7 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (8.01%) QA
2 35 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (1.87%) GDPR
4 30 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.19%) NIST
6 21 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 17 (0.97%) PMO
8 14 (0.80%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 8 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.40%) ISO 14001
10 7 (0.40%) ISO 22301
10 7 (0.40%) NEBOSH
11 6 (0.34%) IFRS
11 6 (0.34%) IFRS 9
11 6 (0.34%) SLA
12 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.23%) ISO 14000
13 4 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 69 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.18%) Docker
3 8 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.057%) Firmware
7 1 (0.057%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.057%) KVM
7 1 (0.057%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 96 (5.45%) Terraform
2 61 (3.46%) Kubernetes
3 50 (2.84%) Ansible
4 25 (1.42%) Grafana
5 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.51%) Puppet
8 5 (0.28%) Kibana
8 5 (0.28%) logstash
9 3 (0.17%) Consul
9 3 (0.17%) Packer
10 2 (0.11%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.11%) SCCM
11 1 (0.057%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.057%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.057%) MIIS
11 1 (0.057%) SCOM
11 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 354 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 152 (8.63%) Databricks
3 80 (4.54%) Google
4 32 (1.82%) Adobe
5 30 (1.70%) SAP
6 24 (1.36%) Cisco
7 20 (1.14%) Northgate
8 15 (0.85%) Twitter
9 14 (0.80%) Oracle
9 14 (0.80%) Salesforce
10 11 (0.62%) BT
10 11 (0.62%) Thales
11 10 (0.57%) New Relic
12 9 (0.51%) Apple
12 9 (0.51%) Meraki
13 8 (0.45%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.45%) Cognos
13 8 (0.45%) WooCommerce
14 7 (0.40%) SaltStack
14 7 (0.40%) VMware