Chester E-Commerce Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the Chester 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	10	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	7.092 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£325	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£325	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£381
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.35	£33.46
% change on same period last year	-18.25 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	141	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.230 %	0.113 %
Daily rates quoted	17	13
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£286
Average daily rate	£306	£300
% change on same period last year	+2.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.09	£31.21
Average hourly rate	£26.26	£31.21
% change on same period last year	-15.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.42	£31.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.25	£29.44
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
E-Commerce Cheshire

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 Chester 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 Chester region.

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 Chester region.

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 16 (72.73 %) Finance 2 9 (40.91 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 8 (36.36 %) Test Scripting 3 8 (36.36 %) Banking 4 7 (31.82 %) Marketing 5 6 (27.27 %) Incident Management 6 5 (22.73 %) HTML 7 4 (18.18 %) Project Management 7 4 (18.18 %) ISEB 7 4 (18.18 %) Internet 7 4 (18.18 %) Internet Marketing 8 3 (13.64 %) XML 8 3 (13.64 %) Flash 8 3 (13.64 %) Use Case 9 2 (9.091 %) TestDirector

9 2 (9.091 %) CSS 9 2 (9.091 %) PHP 9 2 (9.091 %) MySQL 9 2 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 9 2 (9.091 %) CMS 9 2 (9.091 %) Six Sigma 9 2 (9.091 %) Mainframe 9 2 (9.091 %) Web Design 9 2 (9.091 %) Content Management 9 2 (9.091 %) Google 10 1 (4.545 %) Retail 10 1 (4.545 %) VisionPLUS 10 1 (4.545 %) Advertising 10 1 (4.545 %) Display Advertising 10 1 (4.545 %) Digital Marketing

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (22.73 %) HTML 2 3 (13.64 %) XML 3 2 (9.091 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) Photoshop 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Visio 1 1 (4.545 %) FreeHand 1 1 (4.545 %) Fireworks 1 1 (4.545 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking 1 4 (18.18 %) Internet 2 1 (4.545 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.091 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (13.64 %) Flash 2 2 (9.091 %) TestDirector 3 1 (4.545 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 16 (72.73 %) Finance 2 8 (36.36 %) Banking 3 7 (31.82 %) Marketing 4 1 (4.545 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (4.545 %) Advertising 4 1 (4.545 %) Retail 4 1 (4.545 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (4.545 %) International Banking 4 1 (4.545 %) Online Banking
Job Titles 1 7 (31.82 %) Project Manager 2 6 (27.27 %) Tester 3 4 (18.18 %) E-Commerce Project Manager 3 4 (18.18 %) E-Commerce Manager 3 4 (18.18 %) Analyst 3 4 (18.18 %) Test Analyst 4 2 (9.091 %) Web Developer 4 2 (9.091 %) Senior Analyst 4 2 (9.091 %) Senior Test Analyst 4 2 (9.091 %) Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) Senior Tester 5 1 (4.545 %) Junior Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) Technical Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Consultant 5 1 (4.545 %) Technical Project Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Marketing Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) UAT Tester 5 1 (4.545 %) Marketing Consultant 5 1 (4.545 %) Junior Web Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.091 %) Mainframe 2 1 (4.545 %) Human Factors 2 1 (4.545 %) Italian Language 2 1 (4.545 %) Spanish Language 2 1 (4.545 %) PMI 2 1 (4.545 %) W3C
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (40.91 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 8 (36.36 %) Test Scripting 3 6 (27.27 %) Incident Management 4 4 (18.18 %) Project Management 4 4 (18.18 %) Internet Marketing 5 3 (13.64 %) Use Case 6 2 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (9.091 %) Web Design 6 2 (9.091 %) Content Management 6 2 (9.091 %) Six Sigma 7 1 (4.545 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (4.545 %) Regression Testing 7 1 (4.545 %) Display Advertising 7 1 (4.545 %) Digital Marketing 7 1 (4.545 %) Web Testing 7 1 (4.545 %) V-Model	Programming Languages 1 2 (9.091 %) PHP 2 1 (4.545 %) C 2 1 (4.545 %) Java 2 1 (4.545 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 4 (18.18 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 2 (9.091 %) Google