Blackburn Retail Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in contract IT jobs within the Blackburn region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Retailing
Location Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Crewe Crowthorne Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rochester Rugby Scotland Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	6	5
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	10.00 %	14.29 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£210	£270
Average daily rate	£210	£305
% change on same period last year	-31.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£210	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£399
% change on same period last year	-3.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.87	£15.89
% change on same period last year	+6.20 %
General Blackburn
Matching contract IT job ads	10	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.009 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£270
Average daily rate	£293	£305
% change on same period last year	-4.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£382
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.82	£26.53
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Retail Lancashire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Retail
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the Blackburn region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Retail
Daily Rate Trend

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

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Retail
Top 1 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn 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 1 (100.00 %) Crystal Reports

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) Crystal Reports

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Crystal Reports Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Report Developer