East Midlands E-Commerce Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the East Midlands 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	77	83
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	13	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.429 %	1.393 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£188
Average daily rate	£398	£211
% change on same period last year	+88.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£235
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.81 %
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	£30.86	£34.47
% change on same period last year	-10.49 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	910	933
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.213 %	0.944 %
Daily rates quoted	300	241
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£354
Average daily rate	£404	£373
% change on same period last year	+8.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	51	96
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.76	£25.68
Average hourly rate	£25.07	£26.97
% change on same period last year	-7.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.38	£28.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
E-Commerce England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

E-Commerce
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 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
Derbyshire	-	2	£438	-
Leicestershire	+9	2	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-10	2	-	-
Northamptonshire	-6	2	-	-

E-Commerce England

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 9 (31.03 %) .NET 2 7 (24.14 %) ASP.NET 2 7 (24.14 %) XML 2 7 (24.14 %) Finance 2 7 (24.14 %) Banking 2 7 (24.14 %) Insurance 3 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server 3 6 (20.69 %) HTML 3 6 (20.69 %) Java 4 5 (17.24 %) Pharmaceutical 4 5 (17.24 %) C# 4 5 (17.24 %) Telecoms 4 5 (17.24 %) Health 5 4 (13.79 %) WebSphere 5 4 (13.79 %) SQL

5 4 (13.79 %) CSS 6 3 (10.34 %) AS400 6 3 (10.34 %) Microsoft 6 3 (10.34 %) Commerce Server 6 3 (10.34 %) WebServices 6 3 (10.34 %) Windows 6 3 (10.34 %) Linux 6 3 (10.34 %) PHP 6 3 (10.34 %) VB.NET 6 3 (10.34 %) J2EE 6 3 (10.34 %) Web Development 6 3 (10.34 %) Hibernate 6 3 (10.34 %) Spring 7 2 (6.897 %) CMS 7 2 (6.897 %) SEO

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 9 (31.03 %) .NET 2 7 (24.14 %) ASP.NET 2 7 (24.14 %) XML 3 6 (20.69 %) HTML 4 4 (13.79 %) CSS 4 4 (13.79 %) WebSphere 5 3 (10.34 %) Hibernate 5 3 (10.34 %) Spring 5 3 (10.34 %) J2EE 5 3 (10.34 %) WebServices 6 2 (6.897 %) JSP 6 2 (6.897 %) Java EE 6 2 (6.897 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 2 (6.897 %) XSLT 6 2 (6.897 %) Cocoon 7 1 (3.448 %) XHTML 7 1 (3.448 %) Middleware 7 1 (3.448 %) JSF 7 1 (3.448 %) AJAX 7 1 (3.448 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 3 (10.34 %) Commerce Server 2 2 (6.897 %) CMS 2 2 (6.897 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (3.448 %) BizTalk Server
Business Applications 1 2 (6.897 %) Navision	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.897 %) LAN 1 2 (6.897 %) WAN 1 2 (6.897 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (20.69 %) SQL Server 2 2 (6.897 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (3.448 %) DB2 3 1 (3.448 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) Ant 1 1 (3.448 %) JUnit
General 1 7 (24.14 %) Finance 1 7 (24.14 %) Banking 1 7 (24.14 %) Insurance 2 5 (17.24 %) Telecoms 2 5 (17.24 %) Health 2 5 (17.24 %) Pharmaceutical 3 2 (6.897 %) Back Office 3 2 (6.897 %) Marketing 4 1 (3.448 %) Pensions 4 1 (3.448 %) Construction 4 1 (3.448 %) Games 4 1 (3.448 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 12 (41.38 %) Analyst 2 11 (37.93 %) Developer 3 6 (20.69 %) Web Developer 3 6 (20.69 %) Senior Analyst 4 5 (17.24 %) Java Developer 5 4 (13.79 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 5 4 (13.79 %) Analyst Programmer 5 4 (13.79 %) Programmer 5 4 (13.79 %) Business Analyst 5 4 (13.79 %) Senior Programmer 6 3 (10.34 %) .NET Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) C# Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 2 (6.897 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) SQL Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) PHP Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) .NET Web Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) Project Manager 7 2 (6.897 %) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.34 %) AS400 2 1 (3.448 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 3 (10.34 %) Windows 1 3 (10.34 %) Linux 2 2 (6.897 %) Windows XP 3 1 (3.448 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.34 %) Web Development 2 2 (6.897 %) Content Management 2 2 (6.897 %) ERP 2 2 (6.897 %) SEO 3 1 (3.448 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Web Design 3 1 (3.448 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (3.448 %) OOD 3 1 (3.448 %) B2B 3 1 (3.448 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.448 %) E-business 3 1 (3.448 %) Information Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Logistics 3 1 (3.448 %) Pay per click 3 1 (3.448 %) Matrix Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (3.448 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 6 (20.69 %) Java 2 5 (17.24 %) C# 3 4 (13.79 %) SQL 4 3 (10.34 %) VB.NET 4 3 (10.34 %) PHP 5 2 (6.897 %) JavaScript 5 2 (6.897 %) Perl 6 1 (3.448 %) RPG 6 1 (3.448 %) Transact-SQL
Vendors 1 3 (10.34 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.897 %) Citrix 2 2 (6.897 %) Cisco 2 2 (6.897 %) IBM