The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley 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 Crawley 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 23 25 23
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Contract jobs citing Retail 1 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 0.667% 3.802% 1.695%
As % of the General category 3.226% 11.76% 7.407%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 2
Average daily rate - £500 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +29.03%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
31 85 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 20.67% 32.32% 22.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 60 10
Average daily rate £425 £425 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £307 £146
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £500 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 6
Average hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.46% -13.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Retail
West Sussex

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Retail Daily Rate Trend

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the Crawley region.

Crawley Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Smart Meter
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Database Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Governance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality