Devon E-Commerce Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the Devon region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Abingdon Amersham Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Lichfield Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	31
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.149 %	0.781 %
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	£374	£367
% change on same period last year	+2.13 %
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	£28.14	£35.31
% change on same period last year	-20.30 %
Processes & Methodologies Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	87	128
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.136 %
Daily rates quoted	33	37
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£374
Average daily rate	£349	£389
% change on same period last year	-10.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.06	£19.68
Average hourly rate	£28.09	£22.02
% change on same period last year	+27.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.12	£24.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
E-Commerce South West

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 Devon 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 Devon 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 Devon region.

E-Commerce
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing E-Commerce within the Devon region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Exeter	+5	1	-	-

E-Commerce South West

E-Commerce
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 6 (85.71 %) J2EE 1 6 (85.71 %) Struts 1 6 (85.71 %) Java 1 6 (85.71 %) Eclipse 1 6 (85.71 %) Hibernate 1 6 (85.71 %) Spring 2 5 (71.43 %) JSF 2 5 (71.43 %) Unit Testing 2 5 (71.43 %) Continuous Integration 2 5 (71.43 %) SQL 2 5 (71.43 %) Unix 2 5 (71.43 %) Linux 2 5 (71.43 %) OO 2 5 (71.43 %) Oracle 2 5 (71.43 %) Ant

2 5 (71.43 %) JUnit 3 1 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 6 (85.71 %) J2EE 1 6 (85.71 %) Struts 1 6 (85.71 %) Hibernate 1 6 (85.71 %) Spring 2 5 (71.43 %) JSF	Development Applications 1 6 (85.71 %) Eclipse 2 5 (71.43 %) Ant 2 5 (71.43 %) JUnit
Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Developer 2 5 (71.43 %) Senior Developer 2 5 (71.43 %) J2EE Developer 2 5 (71.43 %) Senior J2EE Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Java Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Project Manager	Operating Systems 1 5 (71.43 %) Unix 1 5 (71.43 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (71.43 %) OO 1 5 (71.43 %) Unit Testing 1 5 (71.43 %) Continuous Integration 2 1 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 6 (85.71 %) Java 2 5 (71.43 %) SQL
Vendors 1 5 (71.43 %) Oracle