Retail employment map
The Retail Human Resources retail employment map of Britain showing where the key centres of retail employment are in the UK.
The retail industry is the largest employer in the United Kingdom employing roughly one in nine of the total workforce. Working in retail is often looked down upon as being low paid and lacking in status. Yet without our retail industry the unemployment figures would look awful. Retail jobs can be low paid and low skilled. However they are often very well paid and highly skilled. For example, a retail manager may well be earning a six figure salary. He or she will of course earn it. A large Tesco or Sainsbury's supermarket may employ up to 1,000 people and have a turnover alone of much more than most UK companies. Professionals working in retail buying or retail merchandising are amongst some of the most skilled in the world.
Napoleon once called us a nation of shopkeepers. Perhaps he was right.
This survey plots where this employment actually takes place. One of the great advantages of retail employment is that it is national. At any one time there will be retail vacancies right across the country. Obviously much of the employment is concentrated in the cities and London in particular. Nevertheless our retail industry provides flexible and local jobs in a way that no other industry can offer.
The full map of UK retail employment is still being compiled but we start with London and will ultimately have the whole country mapped with retail employment centres marked out.
We start however with the Retail Employment Map of Greater London.
For actual live retail vacancies please use the search panel to the right (or our advanced retail job search page) and conduct your search for some of the best retail jobs our vibrant retail industry has to offer.
