Department of Employment 2020, Employment Projections, available from the Labour Market Information Portal
- by ANZSIC 1 digit Retail Trade Industry and Wholesale Trade Industry, employment projections to May 2024.
- by ANZSCO, selected occupations, employment projections to May 2024
- 1311 Advertising, Public Relations and Sales Managers
- 1333 Importers, Exporters and Wholesalers
- 1421 Retail Managers
- 2254 Technical Sales Representatives
- 5911 Purchasing and Supply Logistics Clerks
- 6113 Sales Representatives
- 6211 Sales Assistants (General)
- 6214 Pharmacy Sales Assistants
- 6311 Checkout Operators and Office Cashiers
- 7411 Storepersons
- 8912 Shelf Fillers.
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2020, Employed persons by Occupation unit group of main job (ANZSCO), Sex, State and Territory, August 1986 onwards, 6291.0.55.003 - EQ08, viewed 1 August 2020 https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/6291.0.55.003May%202020?OpenDocument
Employed total by ANZSIC 1 digit Retail Trade Industry and Wholesale Trade Industry, 2000 to 2020, May Quarter.
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2017, 2016 Census – employment, income and unpaid work, TableBuilder. Findings based on use of ABS TableBuilder data.
Employment level by 1 digit Retail Trade Industry and Wholesale Trade Industry, and 4 digit level occupations to identify the relevant VET-related occupations in the industry as a proportion of the total workforce.
Training data has been extracted from the National VET Provider Collection, Total VET Students and Courses from the following training packages or qualifications:
- SIR and WRR Training Packages
- SIR10107 - Certificate I in Retail Services
- SIR10116 - Certificate I in Retail Services
- SIR10112 - Certificate I in Retail Services
- SIR20207 - Certificate II in Retail
- SIR20212 - Certificate II in Retail Services
- SIR20216 - Certificate II in Retail Services
- SIR20312 - Certificate II in Retail Fast Food
- WRR20102 - Certificate II in Retail Operations
- SIR30316 - Certificate III in Business to Business Sales
- SIR30412 - Certificate III in Business to Business Sales
- SIR30207 - Certificate III in Retail
- SIR30212 - Certificate III in Retail Operations
- SIR30216 - Certificate III in Retail
- SIR30312 - Certificate III in Retail Supervision
- WRR30202 - Certificate III in Retail Operations
- SIR40207 - Certificate IV in Retail Management
- SIR40212 - Certificate IV in Retail Management
- SIR40316 - Certificate IV in Retail Management
- SIR50112 - Diploma of Retail Management
- SIR50116 - Diploma of Retail Leadership
- SIR50107 - Diploma of Retail Management
- SIR50207 - Diploma of Visual Merchandising
- SIR50212 - Diploma of Visual Merchandising
- SIR80112 - Graduate Certificate in Retail Leadership.
This includes superseded qualifications and training packages.
Data covers a range of selected student and training characteristics in the following categories and years:
- 2015 to 2019 program enrolments
- 2015 to 2019 subject enrolments
- 2015 to 2019 program completions.
Total VET students and courses data is reported for the calendar year. Program enrolments are the qualifications, courses and skill-sets in which students are enrolled in a given period. For students enrolled in multiple programs, all programs are counted. Program completion indicates that a student has completed a structured and integrated program of education or training. Location data uses student residence. Subject enrolment is registration of a student at a training delivery location for the purpose of undertaking a module, unit of competency or subject. For more information on the terms and definitions, please refer to the Total VET students and courses: terms and definitions document.
Low counts (less than 5) are not reported to protect client confidentiality.
Percentages are rounded to one decimal place. This can lead to situations where the total sum of proportions in a chart may not add up to exactly 100%.
SIR and WRR Training Packages apprentice and trainee data has been extracted from the National Apprentice and Trainee Collection, including:
- 2010 to 2019 commencements
- 2010 to 2019 completions
- 2019 apprentices and trainees in-training October to December 2019 collection, by qualification and state and territory.
Priority skills data have been extracted from the Wholesale and Retail IRC’s 2019 Skills Forecast.
Job vacancy data have been extracted from Burning Glass Technologies 2020, Labour Insight Real-time Labour Market Information Tool, Burning Glass Technologies, Boston, viewed July 2020, https://www.burning-glass.com.
Data shown represent most requested generic skills, occupations and employers according to internet job postings in Australia between July 2017 and June 2020 filtered by ANZSIC and ANZSCO classification levels listed below.
Retail
- Generic skills/Occupations
- Employers
- 621111 Sales Assistant (General)
- 142111 Retail Manager (General)
- 611399 Sales Representatives nec
- 541211 Information Officer
- 621511 Retail Supervisor
- Retail Trade.
Wholesale
- Generic skills/Occupations
- Employers
- 611399 Sales Representatives nec
- 131112 Sales and Marketing Manager
- 225412 Sales Representative (Medical and Pharmaceutical Products)
- 541211 Information Officer
- 621411 Pharmacy Sales Assistant
- Wholesale Trade.