Bristol E-Commerce Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Amersham Andover Avon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lichfield Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Woking Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	40
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	22	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	4.835 %	4.928 %
Daily rates quoted	13	18
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£351
Average daily rate	£286	£366
% change on same period last year	-21.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£373
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£45.00
Average hourly rate	-	£46.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£48.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.21	£32.83
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Processes & Methodologies Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	455	629
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.617 %	0.623 %
Daily rates quoted	152	264
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£354
Average daily rate	£360	£373
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	79
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.12	£29.61
Average hourly rate	£30.62	£32.09
% change on same period last year	-4.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.13	£34.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.40	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
E-Commerce South West

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.

E-Commerce
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

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

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

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

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 17 (34.69 %) Internet 2 16 (32.65 %) .NET 3 13 (26.53 %) Retail 4 12 (24.49 %) Finance 5 11 (22.45 %) SQL Server 6 10 (20.41 %) XML 6 10 (20.41 %) ASP.NET 6 10 (20.41 %) Insurance 6 10 (20.41 %) Microsoft 6 10 (20.41 %) Music 7 8 (16.33 %) Pensions 7 8 (16.33 %) XHTML 7 8 (16.33 %) SQL 8 7 (14.29 %) ATG 8 7 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development

9 6 (12.24 %) CSS 9 6 (12.24 %) AJAX 9 6 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 9 6 (12.24 %) Web 2.0 10 5 (10.20 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 5 (10.20 %) XPath 10 5 (10.20 %) WAI 10 5 (10.20 %) DOM 10 5 (10.20 %) XSL 10 5 (10.20 %) WAP 10 5 (10.20 %) Transact-SQL 10 5 (10.20 %) JavaScript 10 5 (10.20 %) C# 10 5 (10.20 %) DHTML 10 5 (10.20 %) HTML

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 16 (32.65 %) .NET 2 10 (20.41 %) XML 2 10 (20.41 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (16.33 %) XHTML 4 6 (12.24 %) CSS 4 6 (12.24 %) AJAX 5 5 (10.20 %) WAP 5 5 (10.20 %) DOM 5 5 (10.20 %) XSL 5 5 (10.20 %) HTML 6 2 (4.082 %) ASP 7 1 (2.041 %) J2EE 7 1 (2.041 %) XSLT 7 1 (2.041 %) Series 60 7 1 (2.041 %) JSP 7 1 (2.041 %) WebSphere 7 1 (2.041 %) WCF 7 1 (2.041 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 5 (10.20 %) WebLogic 2 3 (6.122 %) ATG Dynamo 3 2 (4.082 %) IIS 4 1 (2.041 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (2.041 %) ArcGIS 4 1 (2.041 %) ArcIMS 4 1 (2.041 %) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 17 (34.69 %) Internet 2 2 (4.082 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (22.45 %) SQL Server 2 6 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (10.20 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 5 (10.20 %) VLDB 4 4 (8.163 %) OLTP 5 2 (4.082 %) OLAP 5 2 (4.082 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (2.041 %) MySQL 6 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (2.041 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 3 (6.122 %) Flash 2 1 (2.041 %) JUnit 2 1 (2.041 %) Visual Studio	General 1 13 (26.53 %) Retail 2 12 (24.49 %) Finance 3 10 (20.41 %) Music 3 10 (20.41 %) Insurance 4 8 (16.33 %) Pensions 5 3 (6.122 %) Telecoms 6 2 (4.082 %) Marketing 7 1 (2.041 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 14 (28.57 %) Developer 2 9 (18.37 %) Analyst 3 7 (14.29 %) Web Developer 4 6 (12.24 %) Copywriter 5 5 (10.20 %) SQL DBA 5 5 (10.20 %) DBA 5 5 (10.20 %) Test Analyst 5 5 (10.20 %) SQL Server DBA 6 4 (8.163 %) .NET Developer 6 4 (8.163 %) C# Developer 6 4 (8.163 %) Business Analyst 7 3 (6.122 %) Project Manager 7 3 (6.122 %) Applications Developer 7 3 (6.122 %) Support Engineer 7 3 (6.122 %) SQL Server Developer 7 3 (6.122 %) Web Applications Developer 7 3 (6.122 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (6.122 %) SQL Developer 7 3 (6.122 %) Product Manager 7 3 (6.122 %) .NET Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (12.24 %) Web 2.0 2 5 (10.20 %) W3C 2 5 (10.20 %) Replication 3 2 (4.082 %) Mainframe 4 1 (2.041 %) Tandem 4 1 (2.041 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 3 (6.122 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (6.122 %) Content Management 2 3 (6.122 %) Wealth Management 2 3 (6.122 %) RAD 2 3 (6.122 %) Change Management 3 2 (4.082 %) B2B 3 2 (4.082 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (4.082 %) Performance Management 4 1 (2.041 %) Test Management 4 1 (2.041 %) Usability Testing 4 1 (2.041 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (2.041 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.041 %) SEO 4 1 (2.041 %) Web Design 4 1 (2.041 %) CRM 4 1 (2.041 %) EAI 4 1 (2.041 %) UML 4 1 (2.041 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 8 (16.33 %) SQL 2 5 (10.20 %) Transact-SQL 2 5 (10.20 %) XPath 2 5 (10.20 %) C# 2 5 (10.20 %) DHTML 2 5 (10.20 %) JavaScript 3 4 (8.163 %) PHP 4 3 (6.122 %) Java 5 2 (4.082 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 1 (2.041 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (10.20 %) WAI	Vendors 1 10 (20.41 %) Microsoft 2 7 (14.29 %) ATG 3 1 (2.041 %) Sybase 3 1 (2.041 %) Siebel 3 1 (2.041 %) IBM 3 1 (2.041 %) Adobe 3 1 (2.041 %) BEA 3 1 (2.041 %) webMethods 3 1 (2.041 %) ESRI