The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Brighton 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 22 32 20
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -12
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 6 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 4.138% 2.317% 2.174%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.505% 3.279% 3.191%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
Average daily rate £325 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -50.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
109 183 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 75.17% 70.66% 68.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 93 52
Average daily rate £363 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.37% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £525 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -51.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
E-Commerce
East Sussex

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Brighton E-Commerce Jobs Demand Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton E-Commerce Daily Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Brighton E-Commerce Hourly Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce.

1 5 (50.00%) LAMP
1 5 (50.00%) Drupal
2 4 (40.00%) PHP5
2 4 (40.00%) PHP
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) XHTML
4 2 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) Subversion
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) iDTV
4 2 (20.00%) OmniGraffle
4 2 (20.00%) Axure RP
4 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Varnish
5 1 (10.00%) BDD
5 1 (10.00%) soapUI
5 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
5 1 (10.00%) ATDD
5 1 (10.00%) User Stories
5 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (10.00%) Open Source
5 1 (10.00%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (10.00%) StyleCop

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) LAMP
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) XHTML
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) soapUI
4 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (10.00%) Mason
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) XSLT
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Drupal
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) OmniGraffle
1 2 (20.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQLite
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (10.00%) StyleCop
2 1 (10.00%) MSTest
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (10.00%) NUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Fiddler
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (10.00%) Billing
1 1 (10.00%) Music
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Publishing
1 1 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Perl Developer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) iDTV
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Open Source
2 1 (10.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (10.00%) Social Media
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Online Games
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (10.00%) BDD
2 1 (10.00%) ATDD
2 1 (10.00%) User Stories
2 1 (10.00%) Use Case
2 1 (10.00%) TDD
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Content Management
2 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Web Development
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PHP5
1 4 (40.00%) PHP
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) XQuery
4 1 (10.00%) XPath
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Varnish
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle