Retail Jobs in the South West

Retailing
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 54 43
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +29
Permanent jobs citing Retail 177 415 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.92% 3.85% 6.86%
As % of the General category 7.64% 7.62% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 125 263 327
10th Percentile £28,800 £27,000 £30,932
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,313 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -12.99% +29.98%
75th Percentile £68,568 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,627
England median annual salary £51,058 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.49% -17.39% -2.54%

All General Skills
South West

Retail falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,316 5,448 3,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 64.44% 50.51% 61.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,329 3,604 2,291
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +4.66%
75th Percentile £64,000 £61,250 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Retail
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Retail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Retail in the South West

Retail
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Retail in the South West

Retail
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail in the South West over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail in the South West

Retail
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the South West region over the 6 months to 22 June 2025. 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
Wiltshire +29 65 £64,627 +17.50% 91
Somerset +9 39 £57,500 +51.04% 114
Bristol +11 31 £46,484 +6.86% 227
Devon +15 17 £28,500 -30.91% 111
Dorset -1 17 £30,000 -33.33% 61
Gloucestershire -1 8 £41,200 -8.44% 140
Retail
England

Retail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.13%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 27 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (10.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (7.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.69%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.56%) Magento
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.07%) Azure
2 31 (17.51%) Power Platform
3 26 (14.69%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (10.73%) AWS
5 17 (9.60%) Power Automate
6 14 (7.91%) OneDrive
7 13 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.08%) GitHub
9 6 (3.39%) SaaS
10 5 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.82%) Figma
10 5 (2.82%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (2.26%) GCP
11 4 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.95%) 5G
1 7 (3.95%) SD-WAN
1 7 (3.95%) WAN
2 4 (2.26%) VPN
3 3 (1.69%) Broadband
4 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.73%) Power BI
2 18 (10.17%) Data Mining
3 15 (8.47%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (3.95%) Metadata
5 4 (2.26%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (1.69%) Ataccama
6 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.69%) MySQL
6 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.13%) Tableau
8 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.56%) Power Query
8 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.95%) Git
2 4 (2.26%) JIRA
2 4 (2.26%) Postman
2 4 (2.26%) Selenium
2 4 (2.26%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.26%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.56%) RStudio
General
1 51 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (19.21%) Finance
4 15 (8.47%) Legal
5 14 (7.91%) Banking
6 12 (6.78%) Marketing
7 10 (5.65%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.95%) Military
9 7 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.82%) Brand Awareness
11 3 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.13%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.13%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.56%) Back Office
13 1 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 32 (18.08%) Senior
2 31 (17.51%) Developer
3 20 (11.30%) Lead
4 19 (10.73%) Junior
4 19 (10.73%) Support Technician
5 15 (8.47%) Junior Developer
6 13 (7.34%) IT Manager
7 12 (6.78%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 12 (6.78%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.21%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (6.21%) 2nd Line Support Technician
8 11 (6.21%) Analyst
8 11 (6.21%) Technical Support
9 8 (4.52%) Change and Release Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Change Manager
9 8 (4.52%) IT Change Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Release Manager
9 8 (4.52%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
9 8 (4.52%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Professional Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.08%) HTML
2 7 (3.95%) CSS
2 7 (3.95%) RESTful
3 6 (3.39%) JSON
3 6 (3.39%) XML
4 4 (2.26%) .NET
4 4 (2.26%) .NET Framework
4 4 (2.26%) ADO
4 4 (2.26%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.26%) ASP.NET Web API
4 4 (2.26%) Bootstrap
4 4 (2.26%) NgRx
4 4 (2.26%) RxJS
4 4 (2.26%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (1.69%) EDI
5 3 (1.69%) Laravel
6 2 (1.13%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.13%) Kafka
6 2 (1.13%) LAMP
6 2 (1.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.47%) Data Structures
2 12 (6.78%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.21%) Onboarding
4 9 (5.08%) FMCG
5 8 (4.52%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (3.95%) Self-Driving Car
7 6 (3.39%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.26%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.69%) EPoS
9 3 (1.69%) Handset
10 2 (1.13%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
10 2 (1.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.56%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.91%) Mac OS
2 12 (6.78%) Windows
3 6 (3.39%) Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.73%) Data Management
2 38 (21.47%) Customer Service
3 31 (17.51%) Agile
3 31 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (15.25%) Service Delivery
5 25 (14.12%) DevOps
6 23 (12.99%) Coaching
7 20 (11.30%) Analytics
7 20 (11.30%) CRM
8 19 (10.73%) Computer Science
9 18 (10.17%) Performance Management
10 17 (9.60%) Customer Experience
11 16 (9.04%) Service Management
11 16 (9.04%) Software Engineering
12 15 (8.47%) Commercial Awareness
12 15 (8.47%) Data Analysis
12 15 (8.47%) WFM
13 14 (7.91%) Mathematics
14 13 (7.34%) Business Development
14 13 (7.34%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.95%) SQL
2 24 (13.56%) Python
3 22 (12.43%) JavaScript
4 18 (10.17%) C#
5 16 (9.04%) VBA
6 9 (5.08%) R
7 7 (3.95%) C++
7 7 (3.95%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.82%) Java
9 4 (2.26%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.69%) Clojure
10 3 (1.69%) PHP
11 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (17.51%) Degree
2 22 (12.43%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.21%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.52%) A+ Certification
5 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.95%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.69%) CISM
9 3 (1.69%) CISSP
9 3 (1.69%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.69%) PMP
9 3 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.34%) QA
2 10 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.39%) GDPR
4 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) GRC
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (12.43%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.13%) Grafana
2 2 (1.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (38.42%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.47%) Facebook
3 14 (7.91%) VMware
4 6 (3.39%) Google
5 5 (2.82%) Talend
6 4 (2.26%) Databricks
7 3 (1.69%) IFS
8 2 (1.13%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.56%) Adobe
9 1 (0.56%) Informatica
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle
9 1 (0.56%) Twitter
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