Of all the years I’ve been working in HR and recruitment, I’ve never seen anything that enables you to get the information you need for salary benchmarking that quickly.

Today, the average UK retail salary sits at £29,260 based on over 30 million live job ads. But that doesn’t mean you should be paying the average! Retail salaries can vary a lot by role, region and experience level. So, high-level averages can sometimes be misleading when you're trying to set fair, competitive salaries.
Use our interactive tool to explore average retail salaries by role and location.





















“Our pay planning survey shows that retail salaries are projected to rise by 3.0% in 2026. This is on par with the cross-industry median of 3.0%.”

Make confident salary decisions with live market data from 30M+ UK job postings. No surveys. No guesswork. Just real-time pay insights in an instant. And all without you sending us any of your own data.
That’s why so many HR, Recruitment and Rewards leaders choose HR DataHub to set fair salaries for hiring and retaining their top retail talent.







Set competitive rewards using real-time pay data. Put your business ahead of the pack by recruiting, motivating and retaining your top retail talent.
Stop second-guessing your retail salary offers. With live market data at your fingertips, you'll know you're making the right call every time — whether setting budgets, reviewing pay, or negotiating offers.
Stop manually researching job boards or waiting months for survey data. Automated benchmarking gives you instant market data, giving you the time and headspace to tackle higher value, strategic projects.

Stop relying on 6-month-old survey data while salaries change weekly. Our live feed from 30M+ job postings means you'll spot market movements before your competitors do.

See exactly how retail salaries have moved over months and years. Spot emerging trends early so you can avoid being caught off-guard by sudden market jumps.

Need data for a store manager role or sales-assistant position? Our precision filters dig deep to find comparable salaries, even for those "impossible to benchmark" positions that keep you up at night.

London retail salaries vs. Manchester? Get hyper-local data that reflects your actual talent pool. Stop overpaying based on national averages or underpaying and losing candidates to local competitors.


No, we’ll never ask you to share your own salary data with us. With over 30 million datapoints, we have all the data you need without ever having to get infosec involved in the process. Most other salary benchmarking tools require you to send in your data, but with HR DataHub, you will be up and running immediately, saving you the time and hassle of submitting company data.
Yes, with HR DataHub, it’s easy to see how much your competitors are paying their employees simply by filtering results by your companies of interest and comparing with market rates for equivalent roles in your company. Having the inside track on competitor salaries helps you keep your own pay rates competitive, retain top talent and attract gifted employees to your business without overpaying.
HR DataHub pulls its salary data from over +30M live and historical job listings nationwide, updating weekly with data from all the major UK job boards. That keeps our pay insights right up to date and in line with today’s advertised salaries. HR DataHub’s pay dataset is the most comprehensive in the UK, and you can search salaries by job title, industry, competitors and location. You can also drill down into more niche skills with advanced keyword filtering.
HR DataHub is very different from conventional salary surveys, which often take a long time to create and can be months out of date by the time they are published. Salary surveys usually focus on large enterprises but miss out researching the pay rates of smaller or mid-sized companies. And, despite being relatively expensive, surveys can eat up valuable time with painstaking cross-checking of company pay rates against survey like-for-likes.
In contrast, HR DataHub gives you a real-time market view of today’s average salaries in an instant for all business sizes, types, and UK locations. With HR DataHub, you get access to up-to-date data. It’s easy to search and compare salaries for individual roles, spot salary trends, and ensure you’re offering fair and equitable pay with real-time data, all in a single platform. And all for a fraction of the cost of a salary survey!
We’ve covered the pros and cons of salary surveys here in detail if you would like to explore this topic in more depth.
HR DataHub is a salary benchmarking tool that gives you reliable, real-time salary insights in just a few clicks. It collects live pay data daily from job listings across the UK for easy salary benchmarking by job title, location or industry – including keyword filtering for niche skills and roles. HR and Reward leaders use HR DataHub insights to discover live market trends, set market-competitive salaries and make confident decisions about pay. It’s the ideal tool for helping you build compensation packages with fair and competitive pay.
It really is easy. HR DataHub is a dream to use and gives you amazing results in no time. Here’s how it works in 4 simple steps…
Right now, HR DataHub is hard at work keeping its salary data up to date. Every day we do all the heavy lifting by taking millions of data points from sites like LinkedIn, Glassdoor and Indeed. So, you don’t have the sweat and tears of scraping websites or sending us data of your own.
Simply enter a job role and click search to find out what the rest of the UK pays. It’s as easy as that. If you want to go deeper, feel free to sharpen your search by business type, location, salary type or skill set.
Does an individual salary size up to the market average? HR DataHub tells you the marketplace median, upper and lower quartiles in just a few clicks. That way you can keep all your salaries fair and square, and your pay strategy in perfect shape.
Need to back-up your decision making to the business? With HR DataHub it’s easy to report to leadership teams or hiring managers. And your data is shareable as downloadable charts or tables.
