Docklands, London Retail Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in contract IT jobs within the Docklands, London region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Retailing
Location Amersham Andover Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kegworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire 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 St Albans Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	53
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	19	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	2.575 %	3.559 %
Daily rates quoted	11	28
Average minimum daily rate	£482	£472
Average daily rate	£527	£498
% change on same period last year	+5.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£573	£523
UK excluding London average daily rate	£402	£379
% change on same period last year	+6.32 %
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	£26.11	£21.42
% change on same period last year	+21.88 %
General Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	738	1180
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.973 %	1.252 %
Daily rates quoted	468	533
Average minimum daily rate	£498	£457
Average daily rate	£535	£489
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£572	£521
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.75	£18.94
Average hourly rate	£24.43	£19.48
% change on same period last year	+25.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.10	£20.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.47	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
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.

Retail
Demand Trend

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

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 23 (67.65 %) Banking 2 20 (58.82 %) Finance 3 13 (38.24 %) Retail Banking 4 6 (17.65 %) Project Management 5 5 (14.71 %) Stakeholder Management 6 4 (11.76 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (11.76 %) Windows 6 4 (11.76 %) SAP 6 4 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (11.76 %) Siebel 7 3 (8.824 %) SQL 7 3 (8.824 %) Microsoft 8 2 (5.882 %) Quality Management 8 2 (5.882 %) Back Office 8 2 (5.882 %) BusinessObjects

8 2 (5.882 %) SAP HR 8 2 (5.882 %) Java 8 2 (5.882 %) Oracle 8 2 (5.882 %) Business Objects 8 2 (5.882 %) MS Office 8 2 (5.882 %) ERP 8 2 (5.882 %) Unix 8 2 (5.882 %) MS Excel 8 2 (5.882 %) CRM 8 2 (5.882 %) SAP ERP 8 2 (5.882 %) Risk Analysis 8 2 (5.882 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (5.882 %) Government 9 1 (2.941 %) Tandem 9 1 (2.941 %) Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 1 (2.941 %) J2EE 1 1 (2.941 %) Struts 1 1 (2.941 %) XML 1 1 (2.941 %) XSLT 1 1 (2.941 %) J2SE 1 1 (2.941 %) Cocoon 1 1 (2.941 %) Hibernate 1 1 (2.941 %) Xalan 1 1 (2.941 %) Spring 1 1 (2.941 %) JSF 1 1 (2.941 %) Tapestry 1 1 (2.941 %) Velocity	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.941 %) SAS 1 1 (2.941 %) OpenROAD 1 1 (2.941 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 2 (5.882 %) MS Office 1 2 (5.882 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.941 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 2 (5.882 %) SAP HR 1 2 (5.882 %) SAP ERP 2 1 (2.941 %) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.941 %) SAN 1 1 (2.941 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.882 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (2.941 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (2.941 %) Ingres 2 1 (2.941 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) Rational Rose	General 1 23 (67.65 %) Banking 2 20 (58.82 %) Finance 3 13 (38.24 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (5.882 %) Government 4 2 (5.882 %) Back Office 5 1 (2.941 %) Telecoms 5 1 (2.941 %) International Banking 5 1 (2.941 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (2.941 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 12 (35.29 %) Project Manager 2 11 (32.35 %) Analyst 3 6 (17.65 %) Business Analyst 4 3 (8.824 %) Developer 5 2 (5.882 %) Architect 5 2 (5.882 %) Development Manager 5 2 (5.882 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (5.882 %) Development Project Manager 6 1 (2.941 %) SAP Business Analyst 6 1 (2.941 %) SAS Analyst 6 1 (2.941 %) Programme Office Analyst 6 1 (2.941 %) Senior DBA 6 1 (2.941 %) Portfolio Manager 6 1 (2.941 %) UAT Tester 6 1 (2.941 %) Applications Development Manager 6 1 (2.941 %) Applications Manager 6 1 (2.941 %) Chordiant Consultant 6 1 (2.941 %) Banking Business Analyst 6 1 (2.941 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 1 (2.941 %) SAP HR Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.941 %) PMI 1 1 (2.941 %) Tandem 1 1 (2.941 %) French Language 1 1 (2.941 %) Italian Language 1 1 (2.941 %) Portuguese Language 1 1 (2.941 %) Spanish Language 1 1 (2.941 %) Credit Risk
Operating Systems 1 4 (11.76 %) Windows 2 2 (5.882 %) Unix 3 1 (2.941 %) AIX 3 1 (2.941 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (17.65 %) Project Management 2 5 (14.71 %) Stakeholder Management 3 4 (11.76 %) Business Analysis 3 4 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (5.882 %) CRM 4 2 (5.882 %) ERP 4 2 (5.882 %) Quality Management 4 2 (5.882 %) Risk Analysis 4 2 (5.882 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (2.941 %) Data Migration 5 1 (2.941 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (2.941 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (2.941 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (2.941 %) Integration Testing 5 1 (2.941 %) Requirements Analysis 5 1 (2.941 %) Project Planning 5 1 (2.941 %) Network Load Balancing 5 1 (2.941 %) Programme Management 5 1 (2.941 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (2.941 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 3 (8.824 %) SQL 2 2 (5.882 %) Java 3 1 (2.941 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (2.941 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (2.941 %) Basel II	System Software 1 1 (2.941 %) Active Directory 1 1 (2.941 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 4 (11.76 %) SAP 1 4 (11.76 %) Siebel 2 3 (8.824 %) Microsoft 3 2 (5.882 %) Oracle 3 2 (5.882 %) Business Objects 4 1 (2.941 %) PeopleSoft 4 1 (2.941 %) Chordiant 4 1 (2.941 %) Sun 4 1 (2.941 %) Hyperion 4 1 (2.941 %) Apple