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 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 52 47 59
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +32
Permanent jobs citing Retail 3,260 3,677 3,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.55% 6.22% 4.98%
As % of the General category 7.96% 9.06% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,975 1,934 2,111
10th Percentile £25,250 £31,569 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,233 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,063 £77,530
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -

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 40,938 40,588 44,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.15% 68.63% 60.68%
Number of salaries quoted 26,499 18,514 24,456
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,462 £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 £62,500 £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 20 May 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 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
North of England -16 855 £45,000 -18.18% 511
Midlands +54 768 £41,492 -24.56% 377
South East +18 711 £45,000 -18.18% 438
North West +15 537 £45,000 -18.18% 288
West Midlands +47 382 £45,000 -15.49% 203
East Midlands +52 381 £37,500 -31.82% 174
East of England +50 380 £47,750 -13.18% 164
South West -23 375 £47,500 -13.45% 200
Yorkshire -34 231 £47,000 -20.34% 184
North East -5 87 £43,200 -21.45% 49
Scotland -138 86 £47,500 -22.71% 92
Wales -22 58 £37,000 -17.78% 38
Northern Ireland +57 35 £28,000 -30.00% 7
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 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (0.89%) Confluence
4 27 (0.83%) CMS
5 26 (0.80%) SAS
6 18 (0.55%) Apache
7 17 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.52%) WordPress
8 9 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 8 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 8 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
12 4 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.092%) IIS
14 2 (0.061%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.061%) NetWeaver
15 1 (0.031%) Tomcat
Applications
1 394 (12.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 260 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
3 201 (6.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.04%) Photoshop
5 29 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
7 27 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 22 (0.67%) Simulink
9 21 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
10 17 (0.52%) Trello
11 15 (0.46%) AutoCAD
12 14 (0.43%) InDesign
13 7 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
13 7 (0.21%) Adobe XD
13 7 (0.21%) MS Visio
13 7 (0.21%) Stateflow
14 6 (0.18%) SPSS
15 5 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
16 4 (0.12%) CINEMA 4D
16 4 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 45 (1.38%) Shopify
2 44 (1.35%) Magento
3 26 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
4 25 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
5 24 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
6 18 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
7 15 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 15 (0.46%) ResourceLink
8 12 (0.37%) Epicor Tropos
9 10 (0.31%) Misys Midas
10 9 (0.28%) SAP BPC
11 8 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
12 7 (0.21%) SAP ERP
12 7 (0.21%) SAP WM
13 6 (0.18%) SAP MM
14 5 (0.15%) NEC Housing
14 5 (0.15%) SAP FI
14 5 (0.15%) SAP PP
14 5 (0.15%) SAP SD
15 4 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 485 (14.88%) Azure
2 270 (8.28%) Power Platform
3 214 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
4 206 (6.32%) AWS
5 96 (2.94%) SaaS
6 75 (2.30%) GCP
7 73 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (0.95%) Entra ID
9 31 (0.95%) Power Automate
10 26 (0.80%) GitHub
11 24 (0.74%) PowerApps
12 22 (0.67%) WhatsApp
13 21 (0.64%) Serverless
14 19 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (0.55%) Google Analytics
16 17 (0.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 80 (2.45%) Firewall
2 67 (2.06%) WAN
3 65 (1.99%) LAN
4 62 (1.90%) Internet
4 62 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
5 59 (1.81%) Intranet
6 52 (1.60%) Broadband
7 39 (1.20%) Wireless
8 27 (0.83%) Network Security
9 25 (0.77%) VPN
10 22 (0.67%) TCP/IP
11 21 (0.64%) DNS
12 20 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 20 (0.61%) VoIP
13 18 (0.55%) WLAN
14 15 (0.46%) VLAN
15 14 (0.43%) DHCP
16 11 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
17 10 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
18 9 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (7.55%) Power BI
2 236 (7.24%) SQL Server
3 148 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
4 106 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 75 (2.30%) MySQL
6 61 (1.87%) Tableau
7 40 (1.23%) MongoDB
8 38 (1.17%) Relational Database
9 34 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 27 (0.83%) Big Data
12 26 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 19 (0.58%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (0.52%) DynamoDB
17 16 (0.49%) NoSQL
18 15 (0.46%) Redis
19 13 (0.40%) Power Query
20 11 (0.34%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 115 (3.53%) Git
2 82 (2.52%) JIRA
3 30 (0.92%) Visual Studio
4 29 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.83%) GitLab
6 10 (0.31%) Cucumber
6 10 (0.31%) JBehave
6 10 (0.31%) JMeter
6 10 (0.31%) SpecFlow
7 8 (0.25%) webpack
8 7 (0.21%) gulp
8 7 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.21%) Selenium
8 7 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.18%) JUnit
9 6 (0.18%) Subversion
9 6 (0.18%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.15%) IntelliJ
General
1 1,273 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 915 (28.07%) Finance
3 685 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (8.71%) Marketing
5 207 (6.35%) Legal
6 172 (5.28%) Manufacturing
7 151 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 143 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
9 140 (4.29%) Public Sector
10 122 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
11 117 (3.59%) Banking
12 107 (3.28%) Telecoms
13 95 (2.91%) German Language
14 70 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
15 63 (1.93%) Billing
16 42 (1.29%) Automotive
17 39 (1.20%) Law
17 39 (1.20%) Local Government
18 37 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
19 36 (1.10%) Games
Job Titles
1 573 (17.58%) Analyst
2 358 (10.98%) Senior
3 354 (10.86%) Developer
4 181 (5.55%) Project Manager
5 169 (5.18%) Lead
6 163 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 163 (5.00%) Consultant
7 157 (4.82%) Architect
8 113 (3.47%) Graduate
9 103 (3.16%) IT Manager
10 93 (2.85%) Administrator
11 86 (2.64%) Software Engineer
12 81 (2.48%) Data Analyst
12 81 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
13 80 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 78 (2.39%) Principal Business Analyst
15 76 (2.33%) Senior Developer
16 68 (2.09%) .NET Developer
17 64 (1.96%) Development Manager
18 62 (1.90%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (5.58%) .NET
2 161 (4.94%) HTML
3 154 (4.72%) CSS
4 106 (3.25%) React
5 91 (2.79%) .NET Core
6 73 (2.24%) ASP.NET
7 71 (2.18%) Vue
8 63 (1.93%) AngularJS
9 57 (1.75%) Web Services
10 54 (1.66%) Node.js
11 53 (1.63%) .NET Framework
12 51 (1.56%) ASP.NET Web API
13 50 (1.53%) REST
14 45 (1.38%) JSON
15 44 (1.35%) Entity Framework
15 44 (1.35%) RESTful
16 43 (1.32%) XML
17 39 (1.20%) Laravel
18 32 (0.98%) ASP.NET MVC
19 25 (0.77%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 276 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
2 205 (6.29%) Driving Licence
3 115 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 90 (2.76%) FMCG
5 83 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 82 (2.52%) EPoS
7 78 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
8 73 (2.24%) PMI
9 68 (2.09%) Onboarding
10 58 (1.78%) Cloud Native
11 56 (1.72%) Mobile App
12 49 (1.50%) Data Centre
13 42 (1.29%) Social Media
14 34 (1.04%) Algorithms
15 30 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
15 30 (0.92%) NHS
16 28 (0.86%) CCTV
16 28 (0.86%) Smartphone
17 26 (0.80%) Data Structures
18 25 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 234 (7.18%) Windows
2 90 (2.76%) Windows Server
3 71 (2.18%) Linux
4 39 (1.20%) Windows 10
5 23 (0.71%) Android
6 21 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (0.40%) Windows 7
9 13 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.34%) Unix
10 11 (0.34%) Windows 8
11 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (0.25%) AIX
12 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.21%) VMS
14 6 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.15%) CentOS
16 4 (0.12%) Ubuntu
17 3 (0.092%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
2 626 (19.20%) Agile
3 487 (14.94%) Customer Service
4 372 (11.41%) E-Commerce
5 370 (11.35%) Project Management
6 330 (10.12%) Decision-Making
7 295 (9.05%) Analytics
8 290 (8.90%) Roadmaps
9 287 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
10 265 (8.13%) Coaching
11 244 (7.48%) Logistics
12 233 (7.15%) Mentoring
13 218 (6.69%) Change Management
14 216 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 194 (5.95%) ERP
16 170 (5.21%) DevOps
17 167 (5.12%) Business Analysis
17 167 (5.12%) Project Delivery
18 161 (4.94%) Stakeholder Management
19 157 (4.82%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 475 (14.57%) SQL
2 231 (7.09%) JavaScript
3 182 (5.58%) C#
3 182 (5.58%) Python
4 129 (3.96%) PHP
5 107 (3.28%) TypeScript
6 63 (1.93%) Java
7 49 (1.50%) R
8 37 (1.13%) PowerShell
8 37 (1.13%) VBA
9 36 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 34 (1.04%) C
11 31 (0.95%) MATLAB
11 31 (0.95%) VB.NET
12 22 (0.67%) VB
13 21 (0.64%) Go
14 20 (0.61%) Ruby
15 17 (0.52%) Bash
16 15 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.31%) C++
Qualifications
1 555 (17.02%) Degree
2 212 (6.50%) DBS Check
3 87 (2.67%) Security Cleared
4 81 (2.48%) PMI Certification
5 51 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 49 (1.50%) CIMA
6 49 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.50%) HNC
7 47 (1.44%) ACCA
8 44 (1.35%) CCNP
9 39 (1.20%) SC Cleared
10 37 (1.13%) CISSP
11 33 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 30 (0.92%) DV Cleared
13 29 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 28 (0.86%) CCNA
15 26 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
16 22 (0.67%) AWS Certification
17 21 (0.64%) HND
18 19 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (4.85%) QA
2 90 (2.76%) SLA
3 72 (2.21%) GDPR
4 44 (1.35%) PMO
5 43 (1.32%) Data Quality
6 42 (1.29%) NIST
7 33 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.52%) ISO 9001
10 16 (0.49%) IFRS
10 16 (0.49%) IFRS 9
11 15 (0.46%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.43%) CRD IV
13 12 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 8 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.21%) ISO 14000
15 7 (0.21%) ISO 14001
15 7 (0.21%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.21%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 156 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 76 (2.33%) Docker
3 48 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 31 (0.95%) Firmware
6 13 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.12%) VMware Server
9 3 (0.092%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.061%) KVM
10 2 (0.061%) vSphere
11 1 (0.031%) IAG
11 1 (0.031%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 52 (1.60%) Terraform
3 31 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (0.67%) Progress Chef
5 19 (0.58%) Ansible
6 16 (0.49%) Puppet
7 13 (0.40%) Grafana
8 11 (0.34%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.28%) CASB
10 7 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (0.18%) SCCM
11 6 (0.18%) SCOM
12 5 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.15%) Kibana
13 4 (0.12%) AirWatch
14 3 (0.092%) Functional Safety
14 3 (0.092%) SELinux
14 3 (0.092%) Sysprep
14 3 (0.092%) WhatsUp Gold
14 3 (0.092%) WSUS
Vendors
1 796 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.74%) Google
3 105 (3.22%) SAP
4 66 (2.02%) Virgin Media
4 66 (2.02%) VMware
5 59 (1.81%) Cisco
6 57 (1.75%) Oracle
7 56 (1.72%) Adobe
8 46 (1.41%) NEC
9 45 (1.38%) IBM
10 37 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.01%) Databricks
11 33 (1.01%) Dell
12 28 (0.86%) HP
13 27 (0.83%) Northgate
14 25 (0.77%) Citrix
14 25 (0.77%) NetApp
15 23 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 18 (0.55%) Openreach
17 16 (0.49%) Epicor