The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 38 26 20
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -6
Contract jobs citing Retail 2 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 0.985% 1.081% 4.839%
As % of the General category 2.564% 2.899% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
Average daily rate £490 £475 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.15% +31.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £455 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £578 £495 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +73.91%
All of the General Category
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
78 69 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 38.42% 37.30% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 26 42
Average daily rate £390 £420 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +6.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £130 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 6
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Retail
Hampshire

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Basingstoke Retail Jobs Demand Trend

Retail
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Retail across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Retail Daily Rate Trend

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Basingstoke Retail Daily Rate Histogram

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Retail also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Retail.

1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Retail also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Retail. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree