City of London Retail Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in contract IT jobs within the City of London 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
Location Amersham Andover Ascot Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Pudsey Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	99
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	168	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.224 %	0.104 %
As % of the category below	2.818 %	1.925 %
Daily rates quoted	99	42
Average minimum daily rate	£414	£436
Average daily rate	£442	£471
% change on same period last year	-6.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£469	£506
UK excluding London average daily rate	£412	£383
% change on same period last year	+7.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£27.75	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+58.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.57	£19.41
% change on same period last year	+42.03 %
General City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	5962	5352
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	7.947 %	5.415 %
Daily rates quoted	3300	2296
Average minimum daily rate	£439	£453
Average daily rate	£479	£487
% change on same period last year	-1.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£519	£522
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	184	152
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.80	£21.79
Average hourly rate	£27.69	£23.13
% change on same period last year	+19.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.58	£24.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Retail 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the City of London 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 City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 128 (39.51 %) Banking 2 86 (26.54 %) Retail Banking 3 83 (25.62 %) Finance 4 55 (16.98 %) E-Commerce 5 42 (12.96 %) Insurance 6 37 (11.42 %) SQL 7 35 (10.80 %) Project Management 8 33 (10.19 %) Oracle 8 33 (10.19 %) Java 9 32 (9.877 %) Business Analysis 10 29 (8.951 %) XML 10 29 (8.951 %) Windows 11 25 (7.716 %) .NET 12 23 (7.099 %) Internet 13 22 (6.790 %) SQL Server

14 21 (6.481 %) J2EE 15 20 (6.173 %) UML 16 19 (5.864 %) PRINCE2 16 19 (5.864 %) User Acceptance Testing 17 18 (5.556 %) Online Banking 17 18 (5.556 %) Back Office 17 18 (5.556 %) UNIX 18 17 (5.247 %) ASP.NET 19 16 (4.938 %) C# 19 16 (4.938 %) EPoS 20 15 (4.630 %) MS Excel 20 15 (4.630 %) Asset Management 21 14 (4.321 %) Investment Banking 22 13 (4.012 %) Stakeholder Management 22 13 (4.012 %) Basel II

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 29 (8.951 %) XML 2 25 (7.716 %) .NET 3 21 (6.481 %) J2EE 4 17 (5.247 %) ASP.NET 5 11 (3.395 %) WebServices 6 9 (2.778 %) WebSphere 7 8 (2.469 %) MFC 7 8 (2.469 %) JSP 8 7 (2.160 %) CSS 8 7 (2.160 %) Struts 9 6 (1.852 %) HTML 9 6 (1.852 %) EJB 10 5 (1.543 %) Servlets 11 4 (1.235 %) AJAX 12 3 (0.926 %) Spring 12 3 (0.926 %) EDI 12 3 (0.926 %) STL 13 2 (0.617 %) XSD 13 2 (0.617 %) XSL 13 2 (0.617 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 9 (2.778 %) SharePoint 2 3 (0.926 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (0.926 %) Commerce Server 3 2 (0.617 %) Commerce Server 2007 4 1 (0.309 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (0.309 %) WebLogic 4 1 (0.309 %) Apache 4 1 (0.309 %) MQSeries 4 1 (0.309 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (0.309 %) Oracle Workflow 4 1 (0.309 %) Oracle Application Server 4 1 (0.309 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (0.309 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (0.309 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 15 (4.630 %) MS Excel 2 10 (3.086 %) MS Visio 3 4 (1.235 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.309 %) MS Project 4 1 (0.309 %) Fireworks 4 1 (0.309 %) MATLAB 4 1 (0.309 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.309 %) InfoPath 4 1 (0.309 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 3 (0.926 %) Oracle Applications 1 3 (0.926 %) SAP CRM 2 2 (0.617 %) Misys Midas 3 1 (0.309 %) Retail-J 3 1 (0.309 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 1 (0.309 %) INSURE/90 3 1 (0.309 %) Loan IQ
Communications & Networking 1 23 (7.099 %) Internet 2 3 (0.926 %) SAN 2 3 (0.926 %) Firewall 3 2 (0.617 %) Network Security 3 2 (0.617 %) NetScreen 3 2 (0.617 %) ATM 3 2 (0.617 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (0.617 %) VPN 4 1 (0.309 %) FTP 4 1 (0.309 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (6.790 %) SQL Server 2 8 (2.469 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (2.160 %) Datawarehouse 4 6 (1.852 %) Oracle 10g 5 5 (1.543 %) SQL Server 2000 6 4 (1.235 %) BusinessObjects 6 4 (1.235 %) Crystal Reports 7 3 (0.926 %) Informix 7 3 (0.926 %) Oracle Reports 7 3 (0.926 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (0.617 %) MS Access 8 2 (0.617 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 1 (0.309 %) Oracle OWB 9 1 (0.309 %) MySQL 9 1 (0.309 %) DB2 9 1 (0.309 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (0.309 %) Ingres 9 1 (0.309 %) ETL 9 1 (0.309 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 1 (0.309 %) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications 1 9 (2.778 %) TestDirector 2 3 (0.926 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (0.617 %) Flash 3 2 (0.617 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (0.309 %) Synon 4 1 (0.309 %) NUnit 4 1 (0.309 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (0.309 %) Ant 4 1 (0.309 %) JUnit	General 1 128 (39.51 %) Banking 2 86 (26.54 %) Retail Banking 3 83 (25.62 %) Finance 4 42 (12.96 %) Insurance 5 18 (5.556 %) Back Office 5 18 (5.556 %) Online Banking 6 14 (4.321 %) Investment Banking 7 6 (1.852 %) Government 8 5 (1.543 %) Billing 9 4 (1.235 %) Front Office 9 4 (1.235 %) Education 9 4 (1.235 %) Marketing 9 4 (1.235 %) Wholesale Banking 10 3 (0.926 %) Telecoms 11 2 (0.617 %) Construction 11 2 (0.617 %) Music 11 2 (0.617 %) FMCG 12 1 (0.309 %) Private Banking 12 1 (0.309 %) Pensions 12 1 (0.309 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 114 (35.19 %) Analyst 2 74 (22.84 %) Business Analyst 3 64 (19.75 %) Project Manager 4 59 (18.21 %) Developer 5 27 (8.333 %) Consultant 6 19 (5.864 %) Test Analyst 7 17 (5.247 %) Java Developer 7 17 (5.247 %) Banking Business Analyst 8 15 (4.630 %) .NET Developer 9 13 (4.012 %) Test Manager 10 12 (3.704 %) J2EE Developer 10 12 (3.704 %) Java/J2EE Developer 11 10 (3.086 %) ASP.NET Developer 11 10 (3.086 %) Senior Analyst 11 10 (3.086 %) Insurance Business Analyst 12 9 (2.778 %) Systems Analyst 12 9 (2.778 %) Architect 13 8 (2.469 %) Senior Business Analyst 13 8 (2.469 %) C++ Developer 14 6 (1.852 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 16 (4.938 %) EPoS 2 12 (3.704 %) Credit Risk 3 10 (3.086 %) Equities 4 9 (2.778 %) Fixed Income 5 5 (1.543 %) Derivative 5 5 (1.543 %) Chip and PIN 5 5 (1.543 %) EFT 5 5 (1.543 %) Multithreading 6 4 (1.235 %) EMV 7 3 (0.926 %) Management Information System 7 3 (0.926 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 2 (0.617 %) Web 2.0 8 2 (0.617 %) Equity Derivative 9 1 (0.309 %) French Language 9 1 (0.309 %) Italian Language 9 1 (0.309 %) Portuguese Language 9 1 (0.309 %) Spanish Language 9 1 (0.309 %) E-Learning 9 1 (0.309 %) AS400 9 1 (0.309 %) BBC
Operating Systems 1 29 (8.951 %) Windows 2 18 (5.556 %) UNIX 3 6 (1.852 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (1.852 %) Windows XP 4 4 (1.235 %) Linux 5 3 (0.926 %) Solaris 6 2 (0.617 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.309 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 55 (16.98 %) E-Commerce 2 35 (10.80 %) Project Management 3 32 (9.877 %) Business Analysis 4 20 (6.173 %) UML 5 19 (5.864 %) PRINCE2 5 19 (5.864 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 15 (4.630 %) Asset Management 7 13 (4.012 %) Stakeholder Management 8 9 (2.778 %) E-business 8 9 (2.778 %) Test Scripting 9 8 (2.469 %) SSADM 9 8 (2.469 %) OOD 9 8 (2.469 %) SOA 10 7 (2.160 %) Migration 10 7 (2.160 %) Investment Management 11 6 (1.852 %) Supplier Management 11 6 (1.852 %) Software Testing 11 6 (1.852 %) PRINCE 11 6 (1.852 %) CRM 12 5 (1.543 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 37 (11.42 %) SQL 2 33 (10.19 %) Java 3 16 (4.938 %) C# 4 11 (3.395 %) C++ 5 6 (1.852 %) JavaScript 6 5 (1.543 %) VB 7 3 (0.926 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (0.926 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (0.617 %) VB.NET 8 2 (0.617 %) ActionScript 9 1 (0.309 %) VBA 9 1 (0.309 %) VC++ 9 1 (0.309 %) Euclid 9 1 (0.309 %) VB6 9 1 (0.309 %) PHP5 9 1 (0.309 %) RPG 9 1 (0.309 %) PHP 9 1 (0.309 %) DHTML 9 1 (0.309 %) C	Qualifications 1 9 (2.778 %) ISEB 2 5 (1.543 %) Degree 3 3 (0.926 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (0.309 %) PMP 4 1 (0.309 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (0.309 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (4.012 %) Basel II 2 4 (1.235 %) QA 2 4 (1.235 %) SLA 3 1 (0.309 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 3 (0.926 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.617 %) ISA Server 2 2 (0.617 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (0.309 %) Oracle RAC 3 1 (0.309 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 2 (0.617 %) MIMEsweeper 2 1 (0.309 %) RepliStor 2 1 (0.309 %) EMC NetWorker 2 1 (0.309 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 2 1 (0.309 %) Legato 2 1 (0.309 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (0.309 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 33 (10.19 %) Oracle 2 13 (4.012 %) Citrix 3 11 (3.395 %) Cisco 4 10 (3.086 %) Microsoft 5 8 (2.469 %) JDA 6 7 (2.160 %) IBM 6 7 (2.160 %) Retalix 7 5 (1.543 %) CheckPoint 7 5 (1.543 %) SAP 8 4 (1.235 %) Business Objects 9 3 (0.926 %) Sun 9 3 (0.926 %) EMC 9 3 (0.926 %) Red Hat 9 3 (0.926 %) Yantra 10 2 (0.617 %) Websense 10 2 (0.617 %) Fundtech 10 2 (0.617 %) Brocade 10 2 (0.617 %) Finjan 10 2 (0.617 %) Nokia 10 2 (0.617 %) Retek