The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridge 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 31 39 34
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -5
Contract jobs citing Retail 1 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.312% 1.361% 2.048%
As % of the General category 1.053% 4.918% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
Average daily rate £313 £385 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.83% +5.47%
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 £18.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +56.52%
All of the General Category
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
95 122 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 29.60% 27.66% 22.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 67 32
Average daily rate £375 £350 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +4.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £288 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 11
Average hourly rate £37.50 £33.50 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.94% -1.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.10 £12.30 £31.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.00 £50.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Retail
Cambridgeshire

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Retail Daily Rate Trend

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat