Chester Retail Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in contract IT jobs within the Chester region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Retailing
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Rank	23	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.471 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£412	£383
% change on same period last year	+7.47 %
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	£27.57	£19.41
% change on same period last year	+42.03 %
General Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	68	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.050 %
Daily rates quoted	19	9
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£277
Average daily rate	£346	£287
% change on same period last year	+20.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.69	£14.67
Average hourly rate	£26.69	£15.44
% change on same period last year	+72.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.70	£16.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Retail 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.

Retail
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Retail
Daily Rate Trend

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

Retail
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 2 (100.00 %) Finance 1 2 (100.00 %) Banking 1 2 (100.00 %) Retail Banking 2 1 (50.00 %) Ab Initio 2 1 (50.00 %) Service Management

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

General 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance 1 2 (100.00 %) Banking 1 2 (100.00 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Leader
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) Service Management	Vendors 1 1 (50.00 %) Ab Initio