The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Bristol 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 15 14 13
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -1
Contract jobs citing Retail 37 80 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 7.505% 9.132% 7.359%
As % of the General category 18.78% 17.20% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 70 36
Average daily rate £388 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.00% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £280 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £42.50 - £9.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +56.52%
All of the General Category
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
197 465 311
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 39.96% 53.08% 44.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 341 197
Average daily rate £350 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £510 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 14
Average hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £13.09
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.88% +71.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £15.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £23.00 £25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Retail
South West

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 65 (68.42%) Banking
2 57 (60.00%) Finance
3 46 (48.42%) Retail Banking
4 28 (29.47%) Business Analysis
5 21 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (13.68%) ETL
7 13 (13.68%) Corporate Banking
8 12 (12.63%) Marketing
9 11 (11.58%) Zachman Framework
9 11 (11.58%) TOGAF
9 11 (11.58%) Data Modelling
9 11 (11.58%) MS Project
9 11 (11.58%) ERwin
9 11 (11.58%) Waterfall
9 11 (11.58%) Data Quality
9 11 (11.58%) Kimball Methodology
9 11 (11.58%) Inmon Methodology
9 11 (11.58%) Metadata Management
10 10 (10.53%) Project Management
10 10 (10.53%) Change Management
11 9 (9.474%) SC Cleared
11 9 (9.474%) Security Cleared
12 8 (8.421%) MS PowerPoint
12 8 (8.421%) MS Office
12 8 (8.421%) E-Commerce
13 7 (7.368%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (6.316%) UML
14 6 (6.316%) MS Excel
14 6 (6.316%) SQL

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (2.105%) jQuery
1 2 (2.105%) CSS
1 2 (2.105%) Web Services
2 1 (1.053%) Spring
2 1 (1.053%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (1.053%) SAP Smart Forms
2 1 (1.053%) EDI
2 1 (1.053%) DOM
2 1 (1.053%) HTML
2 1 (1.053%) .NET
2 1 (1.053%) J2EE
2 1 (1.053%) RESTful
2 1 (1.053%) Backbone.js
2 1 (1.053%) Node.js
2 1 (1.053%) CSS3
2 1 (1.053%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.263%) SAS
2 2 (2.105%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.053%) TeamSite
3 1 (1.053%) Drupal
3 1 (1.053%) Magento
3 1 (1.053%) Shopify
Applications
1 11 (11.58%) MS Project
2 8 (8.421%) MS PowerPoint
2 8 (8.421%) MS Office
3 6 (6.316%) MS Excel
4 1 (1.053%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.053%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.105%) SAP FI-GL
2 1 (1.053%) BASE24
2 1 (1.053%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.105%) ATM
2 1 (1.053%) DVB
2 1 (1.053%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.368%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.263%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.158%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (3.158%) MS Access
4 2 (2.105%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (2.105%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.053%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.053%) DB2
5 1 (1.053%) MySQL
5 1 (1.053%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.053%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) ERwin
2 1 (1.053%) ChangeMan
2 1 (1.053%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 65 (68.42%) Banking
2 57 (60.00%) Finance
3 46 (48.42%) Retail Banking
4 13 (13.68%) Corporate Banking
5 12 (12.63%) Marketing
6 6 (6.316%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.105%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (2.105%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.053%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 35 (36.84%) Analyst
2 20 (21.05%) Business Analyst
3 18 (18.95%) Project Manager
4 11 (11.58%) Consultant
5 10 (10.53%) Architect
6 7 (7.368%) PMO Analyst
7 6 (6.316%) Senior Manager
8 5 (5.263%) Developer
8 5 (5.263%) Test Manager
9 4 (4.211%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (4.211%) Financial Analyst
10 3 (3.158%) Data Consultant
10 3 (3.158%) Senior Project Manager
10 3 (3.158%) Senior Test Manager
10 3 (3.158%) Test Analyst
11 2 (2.105%) Test Leader
11 2 (2.105%) SQL Server Architect
11 2 (2.105%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
11 2 (2.105%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Architect
11 2 (2.105%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.263%) IPTV
1 5 (5.263%) NHS
1 5 (5.263%) FMCG
1 5 (5.263%) Digital Media
2 3 (3.158%) Online Banking
3 2 (2.105%) Reference Data
3 2 (2.105%) Visualisation
3 2 (2.105%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.105%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.053%) Animation
4 1 (1.053%) Statistics
4 1 (1.053%) STB
4 1 (1.053%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.053%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.47%) Business Analysis
2 21 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (13.68%) ETL
5 11 (11.58%) Zachman Framework
5 11 (11.58%) TOGAF
5 11 (11.58%) Data Modelling
5 11 (11.58%) Waterfall
5 11 (11.58%) Kimball Methodology
5 11 (11.58%) Inmon Methodology
5 11 (11.58%) Metadata Management
6 10 (10.53%) Project Management
6 10 (10.53%) Change Management
7 8 (8.421%) E-Commerce
8 6 (6.316%) UML
9 5 (5.263%) Project Planning
10 4 (4.211%) Change Control
10 4 (4.211%) Test Management
10 4 (4.211%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (4.211%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.316%) SQL
2 3 (3.158%) Java
3 2 (2.105%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.053%) PHP
4 1 (1.053%) ABAP
4 1 (1.053%) SAPscript
4 1 (1.053%) JCL
4 1 (1.053%) PL/1
4 1 (1.053%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 9 (9.474%) SC Cleared
1 9 (9.474%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.316%) ISEB
3 4 (4.211%) Degree
4 2 (2.105%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 1 (1.053%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.053%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.211%) QA
3 2 (2.105%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 3 (3.158%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (5.263%) ATG
1 5 (5.263%) Ab Initio
1 5 (5.263%) Informatica
1 5 (5.263%) IBM
1 5 (5.263%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.263%) SAP
1 5 (5.263%) DataFlux
2 3 (3.158%) Business Objects
2 3 (3.158%) HP
3 2 (2.105%) Oracle
4 1 (1.053%) KXEN
4 1 (1.053%) Teradata
4 1 (1.053%) Zend
4 1 (1.053%) Pega
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