Retail Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our General category for the Cheshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 17 42 54
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +12
Contract jobs citing Retail 51 25 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 7.064% 3.094% 1.910%
As % of the General category 16.67% 7.310% 3.711%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 17 13
Average daily rate £400 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £315 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £444 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £11.58
% change year-on-year
+18.42% +64.14%
All of the General Category
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 306 342 512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 42.38% 42.33% 51.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 226 362
Average daily rate £370 £374 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.06% +15.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £293 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 13
Average hourly rate £40.29 £26.15 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+54.05% -12.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.11 £10.11 £9.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £31.00 £70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Retail
North West

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Knutsford +4 17 £375 +7.14%
Crewe - 8 £300 -
Chester 0 3 £425 +17.24%
Retail
North West

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 49 (56.98%) Banking
2 40 (46.51%) Retail Banking
3 34 (39.53%) Finance
4 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (18.60%) E-Commerce
6 14 (16.28%) CMS
7 13 (15.12%) ITIL
8 12 (13.95%) IBM
8 12 (13.95%) Migration
9 10 (11.63%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (9.302%) Project Management
10 8 (9.302%) Mainframe
10 8 (9.302%) Change Management
10 8 (9.302%) SOAP
10 8 (9.302%) MySQL
11 7 (8.140%) SharePoint
11 7 (8.140%) Middleware
11 7 (8.140%) DameWare
11 7 (8.140%) WebSphere
11 7 (8.140%) JIRA
11 7 (8.140%) WSUS
12 6 (6.977%) Subversion
12 6 (6.977%) Magento
12 6 (6.977%) RESTful
12 6 (6.977%) PHP5
12 6 (6.977%) Problem Management
12 6 (6.977%) Telecoms
12 6 (6.977%) Service Management
12 6 (6.977%) OO
12 6 (6.977%) Web Services

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 8 (9.302%) SOAP
2 7 (8.140%) Middleware
2 7 (8.140%) WebSphere
3 6 (6.977%) RESTful
3 6 (6.977%) Web Services
4 4 (4.651%) HTML
4 4 (4.651%) .NET
4 4 (4.651%) Ajax
4 4 (4.651%) jQuery
5 3 (3.488%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (3.488%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.488%) JSON
5 3 (3.488%) WCF
5 3 (3.488%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.488%) XML
5 3 (3.488%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (3.488%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (3.488%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1 (1.163%) CSS3
6 1 (1.163%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 14 (16.28%) CMS
2 7 (8.140%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.977%) Magento
4 4 (4.651%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.163%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (1.163%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.163%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.651%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.163%) Fireworks
2 1 (1.163%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.326%) CSG Singleview
2 1 (1.163%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.163%) BASE24
2 1 (1.163%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.163%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.326%) HTTP
1 2 (2.326%) Firewall
2 1 (1.163%) VLAN
2 1 (1.163%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.163%) DNS
2 1 (1.163%) SSL
2 1 (1.163%) Internet
2 1 (1.163%) TACACS
2 1 (1.163%) LDAP
2 1 (1.163%) LAN
2 1 (1.163%) WAN
2 1 (1.163%) SMTP
2 1 (1.163%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.302%) MySQL
2 5 (5.814%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.814%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (5.814%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (3.488%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.326%) OLTP
4 2 (2.326%) VLDB
4 2 (2.326%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (2.326%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.326%) IDMS
4 2 (2.326%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.326%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (2.326%) DB2
5 1 (1.163%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 10 (11.63%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (8.140%) JIRA
3 6 (6.977%) Subversion
4 3 (3.488%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (56.98%) Banking
2 40 (46.51%) Retail Banking
3 34 (39.53%) Finance
4 6 (6.977%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.488%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.488%) Billing
6 2 (2.326%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.163%) Back Office
7 1 (1.163%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Project Manager
2 10 (11.63%) Developer
3 9 (10.47%) Analyst
3 9 (10.47%) Technical Manager
4 8 (9.302%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (6.977%) Service Manager
5 6 (6.977%) Applications Support
5 6 (6.977%) Implementation Manager
6 5 (5.814%) Technical Project Manager
6 5 (5.814%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.651%) Architect
7 4 (4.651%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.651%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.651%) Designer
7 4 (4.651%) Technical Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.488%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 2 (2.326%) 3rd Line Server Support
9 2 (2.326%) Infrastructure Designer
9 2 (2.326%) Server Support
9 2 (2.326%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.302%) Mainframe
2 4 (4.651%) Replication
3 3 (3.488%) EPoS
3 3 (3.488%) Smartcard
3 3 (3.488%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.326%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.326%) Data Integration
4 2 (2.326%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.163%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.163%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.814%) UNIX
2 3 (3.488%) Linux
3 1 (1.163%) Windows
3 1 (1.163%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (18.60%) E-Commerce
3 13 (15.12%) ITIL
4 12 (13.95%) Migration
5 8 (9.302%) Project Management
5 8 (9.302%) Change Management
6 6 (6.977%) Service Management
6 6 (6.977%) OO
6 6 (6.977%) Problem Management
7 5 (5.814%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (5.814%) Content Management
8 4 (4.651%) TDD
8 4 (4.651%) Technical Architecture
8 4 (4.651%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (3.488%) MVC
9 3 (3.488%) Risk Management
9 3 (3.488%) Workflow
9 3 (3.488%) Data Modelling
9 3 (3.488%) SOA
9 3 (3.488%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.977%) PHP
1 6 (6.977%) PHP5
2 5 (5.814%) Java
3 3 (3.488%) C
3 3 (3.488%) C#
3 3 (3.488%) SQL
4 2 (2.326%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.326%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.163%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (2.326%) ISEB
1 2 (2.326%) Degree
2 1 (1.163%) CCNP
2 1 (1.163%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.163%) PMP
2 1 (1.163%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.326%) SLA
2 1 (1.163%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 7 (8.140%) DameWare
1 7 (8.140%) WSUS
2 1 (1.163%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (1.163%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) IBM
2 4 (4.651%) Oracle
3 3 (3.488%) Siebel
3 3 (3.488%) FatWire
4 2 (2.326%) Razor Risk
4 2 (2.326%) Cisco
4 2 (2.326%) SAP
4 2 (2.326%) Citrix
4 2 (2.326%) Avaya
5 1 (1.163%) Genesys
5 1 (1.163%) Informatica
5 1 (1.163%) Lotus
5 1 (1.163%) F5
5 1 (1.163%) Verint
5 1 (1.163%) Open Text
5 1 (1.163%) HP
5 1 (1.163%) Nortel
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