City of London E-Commerce Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the City of London 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Amersham Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	73
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	155	152
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.207 %	0.154 %
As % of the category below	3.188 %	4.357 %
Daily rates quoted	107	106
Average minimum daily rate	£409	£493
Average daily rate	£440	£531
% change on same period last year	-17.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£570
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.33	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£20.17	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-10.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.86	£34.47
% change on same period last year	-10.49 %
Processes & Methodologies City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	4862	3489
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.481 %	3.530 %
Daily rates quoted	2731	1590
Average minimum daily rate	£426	£449
Average daily rate	£468	£485
% change on same period last year	-3.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£509	£521
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	103	76
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.96	£25.60
Average hourly rate	£29.14	£27.96
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.32	£30.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
E-Commerce London

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 City of London 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 City of London region.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 City of London region.

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 114 (32.48 %) Java 2 109 (31.05 %) Banking 3 81 (23.08 %) Investment Banking 4 79 (22.51 %) C# 5 78 (22.22 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 66 (18.80 %) .NET 7 58 (16.52 %) Finance 8 57 (16.24 %) Internet 9 55 (15.67 %) Retail 10 53 (15.10 %) XML 11 46 (13.11 %) SQL 12 42 (11.97 %) HTML 12 42 (11.97 %) ASP.NET 13 40 (11.40 %) Front Office 14 38 (10.83 %) UNIX

15 37 (10.54 %) JavaScript 16 35 (9.972 %) Windows 17 34 (9.687 %) SQL Server 18 32 (9.117 %) Project Management 19 31 (8.832 %) Apache 20 30 (8.547 %) CSS 21 28 (7.977 %) Insurance 22 27 (7.692 %) Linux 22 27 (7.692 %) Microsoft 23 26 (7.407 %) Intranet 24 25 (7.123 %) WebLogic 24 25 (7.123 %) J2EE 24 25 (7.123 %) AJAX 25 24 (6.838 %) Oracle 25 24 (6.838 %) JBoss

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 66 (18.80 %) .NET 2 53 (15.10 %) XML 3 42 (11.97 %) HTML 3 42 (11.97 %) ASP.NET 4 30 (8.547 %) CSS 5 25 (7.123 %) J2EE 5 25 (7.123 %) AJAX 6 21 (5.983 %) WebServices 7 20 (5.698 %) COM+ 8 19 (5.413 %) XSLT 9 17 (4.843 %) Hibernate 10 16 (4.558 %) Spring 11 15 (4.274 %) WinForms 12 14 (3.989 %) J2SE 13 12 (3.419 %) JSP 14 10 (2.849 %) SOAP 14 10 (2.849 %) XHTML 15 8 (2.279 %) MVC 16 7 (1.994 %) WebSphere 16 7 (1.994 %) JSTL	Application Platforms 1 31 (8.832 %) Apache 2 25 (7.123 %) WebLogic 3 24 (6.838 %) JBoss 4 16 (4.558 %) IIS 5 14 (3.989 %) CMS 6 11 (3.134 %) SharePoint 7 5 (1.425 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 4 (1.140 %) Commerce Server 9 3 (0.855 %) BizTalk Server 9 3 (0.855 %) ATG Dynamo 10 2 (0.570 %) ESB 10 2 (0.570 %) ColdFusion 10 2 (0.570 %) MTS 10 2 (0.570 %) Tomcat 11 1 (0.285 %) TeamSite 11 1 (0.285 %) ColdFusion MX 11 1 (0.285 %) Commerce Server 2007 11 1 (0.285 %) WebSphere Message Broker 11 1 (0.285 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 1 (0.285 %) iPlanet
Applications 1 14 (3.989 %) MS Office 2 6 (1.709 %) MS Visio 3 4 (1.140 %) MS Excel 4 3 (0.855 %) Photoshop 5 2 (0.570 %) Fireworks 6 1 (0.285 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 1 (0.285 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.285 %) SPSS 6 1 (0.285 %) Acrobat 6 1 (0.285 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (0.285 %) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 57 (16.24 %) Internet 2 26 (7.407 %) Intranet 3 11 (3.134 %) Firewall 4 3 (0.855 %) OSPF 4 3 (0.855 %) BGP 4 3 (0.855 %) RIP 4 3 (0.855 %) SSL 5 2 (0.570 %) SAN 5 2 (0.570 %) DNS 5 2 (0.570 %) Extranet 5 2 (0.570 %) Network Security 6 1 (0.285 %) Reverse Proxy 6 1 (0.285 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (0.285 %) LDAP 6 1 (0.285 %) LAN 6 1 (0.285 %) WAN 6 1 (0.285 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 34 (9.687 %) SQL Server 2 12 (3.419 %) MySQL 3 9 (2.564 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (1.140 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (0.855 %) SQL Server 7 5 3 (0.855 %) DTS 6 1 (0.285 %) TOAD 6 1 (0.285 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.285 %) Informix 6 1 (0.285 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 9 (2.564 %) Flash 2 7 (1.994 %) JUnit 2 7 (1.994 %) NUnit 3 4 (1.140 %) Visual Studio 4 2 (0.570 %) TestDirector 4 2 (0.570 %) Eclipse 4 2 (0.570 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (0.285 %) WinRunner 5 1 (0.285 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (0.285 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 109 (31.05 %) Banking 2 81 (23.08 %) Investment Banking 3 58 (16.52 %) Finance 4 55 (15.67 %) Retail 5 40 (11.40 %) Front Office 6 28 (7.977 %) Insurance 7 8 (2.279 %) Games 7 8 (2.279 %) Marketing 8 6 (1.709 %) Publishing 9 5 (1.425 %) Back Office 10 4 (1.140 %) Billing 10 4 (1.140 %) Retail Banking 11 3 (0.855 %) Online Banking 11 3 (0.855 %) Construction 12 2 (0.570 %) Education 12 2 (0.570 %) Telecoms 12 2 (0.570 %) Financial Institution 12 2 (0.570 %) Music 12 2 (0.570 %) Online Games 12 2 (0.570 %) Private Banking
Job Titles 1 137 (39.03 %) Developer 2 112 (31.91 %) Analyst 3 52 (14.81 %) Business Analyst 4 43 (12.25 %) C# Developer 5 40 (11.40 %) Support Analyst 6 37 (10.54 %) Project Manager 7 35 (9.972 %) Java Developer 8 26 (7.407 %) .NET Developer 9 22 (6.268 %) E-Commerce Support Analyst 10 16 (4.558 %) Senior Developer 11 15 (4.274 %) Web Developer 11 15 (4.274 %) ASP.NET Developer 12 13 (3.704 %) Consultant 13 12 (3.419 %) E-Commerce Manager 14 9 (2.564 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 14 9 (2.564 %) Technical Analyst 14 9 (2.564 %) J2EE Developer 15 8 (2.279 %) 1st Line Support 15 8 (2.279 %) Senior Analyst 15 8 (2.279 %) E-Commerce Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 78 (22.22 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 14 (3.989 %) Fixed Income 3 12 (3.419 %) N-Tier 4 7 (1.994 %) Multithreading 5 6 (1.709 %) Equities 6 3 (0.855 %) Mathematics 6 3 (0.855 %) PKI 6 3 (0.855 %) Web 2.0 6 3 (0.855 %) Management Information System 7 2 (0.570 %) Clustering 7 2 (0.570 %) Derivative 7 2 (0.570 %) Social Network 8 1 (0.285 %) Fat Client 8 1 (0.285 %) Taxonomies 8 1 (0.285 %) Computer Science 8 1 (0.285 %) Credit Derivative 8 1 (0.285 %) E-Learning 8 1 (0.285 %) BBC 8 1 (0.285 %) Client/Server 8 1 (0.285 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 38 (10.83 %) UNIX 2 35 (9.972 %) Windows 3 27 (7.692 %) Linux 4 2 (0.570 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (0.570 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (0.285 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (9.117 %) Project Management 2 21 (5.983 %) UML 3 20 (5.698 %) Business Analysis 3 20 (5.698 %) Electronic Trading 4 18 (5.128 %) OO 5 17 (4.843 %) Web Development 6 15 (4.274 %) E-business 7 13 (3.704 %) Risk Management 7 13 (3.704 %) Agile Software Development 8 12 (3.419 %) PRINCE2 9 11 (3.134 %) SOA 10 8 (2.279 %) Content Management 10 8 (2.279 %) Scrum 10 8 (2.279 %) Web Design 11 7 (1.994 %) Use Case 11 7 (1.994 %) TDD 12 6 (1.709 %) SEO 13 5 (1.425 %) RAD 13 5 (1.425 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 4 (1.140 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 114 (32.48 %) Java 2 79 (22.51 %) C# 3 46 (13.11 %) SQL 4 37 (10.54 %) JavaScript 5 15 (4.274 %) C++ 6 11 (3.134 %) PHP 7 6 (1.709 %) Perl 7 6 (1.709 %) VB.NET 8 5 (1.425 %) Ruby 9 4 (1.140 %) VB 9 4 (1.140 %) C 10 3 (0.855 %) DHTML 10 3 (0.855 %) PL/SQL 11 2 (0.570 %) VBScript 11 2 (0.570 %) Shell Script 11 2 (0.570 %) VB6 11 2 (0.570 %) PHP5 12 1 (0.285 %) PHP4 12 1 (0.285 %) JCL 12 1 (0.285 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 7 (1.994 %) Degree 2 3 (0.855 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (0.570 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.285 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (0.285 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.285 %) CNE 4 1 (0.285 %) Novell Certification 4 1 (0.285 %) IBM Certification 4 1 (0.285 %) MCSE 4 1 (0.285 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (1.994 %) QA 2 1 (0.285 %) RosettaNet	System Software 1 2 (0.570 %) VMware ESX 1 2 (0.570 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 27 (7.692 %) Microsoft 2 24 (6.838 %) Oracle 3 18 (5.128 %) Bloomberg 4 14 (3.989 %) Red Hat 5 9 (2.564 %) Sybase 5 9 (2.564 %) Siebel 6 8 (2.279 %) Sun 7 7 (1.994 %) Adobe 7 7 (1.994 %) Reuters 7 7 (1.994 %) Blue Coat 8 6 (1.709 %) Cisco 9 4 (1.140 %) CheckPoint 9 4 (1.140 %) VMware 10 3 (0.855 %) Yantra 10 3 (0.855 %) ATG 10 3 (0.855 %) Nokia 10 3 (0.855 %) IBM 10 3 (0.855 %) SAP 11 2 (0.570 %) HP 11 2 (0.570 %) Macromedia