The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the East of England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 17 17 30
Rank change year-on-year
0 +13
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 167 216 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 7.671% 7.246% 5.590%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.53% 11.21% 8.583%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 99 77
Average daily rate £350 £290 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.68% -27.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £272 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
Average hourly rate £38.75 £111.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-65.16% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -50.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1449 1926 1701
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.56% 64.61% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 932 771
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 160 183
Average hourly rate £35.14 £30.50 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.19% -4.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £12.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East of England E-Commerce Jobs Demand Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing E-Commerce across the East of England region.

East of England E-Commerce Daily Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England E-Commerce Daily Rate Histogram

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the East of England region.

East of England E-Commerce Hourly Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire -1 64 £400 -5.88%
Essex +18 29 £406 +108.33%
Bedfordshire +15 28 £356 -20.83%
Norfolk +3 25 £275 -4.34%
Cambridgeshire -12 21 £320 +11.30%
Suffolk +1 8 £275 -2.22%
East Anglia +7 1 £275 -
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 109 (37.33%) Retail
2 77 (26.37%) Finance
3 67 (22.95%) C#
3 67 (22.95%) .NET
4 61 (20.89%) Project Management
5 57 (19.52%) JavaScript
6 53 (18.15%) Java
7 48 (16.44%) HTML
8 46 (15.75%) Agile Software Development
9 43 (14.73%) ASP.NET
10 42 (14.38%) SQL
11 40 (13.70%) CSS
11 40 (13.70%) MVC
12 36 (12.33%) Scrum
13 32 (10.96%) Time Management
14 31 (10.62%) XHTML
15 29 (9.932%) Games
15 29 (9.932%) XML
16 28 (9.589%) SQL Server
16 28 (9.589%) IBM
17 27 (9.247%) J2EE
17 27 (9.247%) WebSphere
18 25 (8.562%) Microsoft
18 25 (8.562%) Stakeholder Management
19 24 (8.219%) TDD
20 23 (7.877%) OO
20 23 (7.877%) Waterfall
21 21 (7.192%) CMS
22 20 (6.849%) Linux
23 18 (6.164%) PRINCE2

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 67 (22.95%) .NET
2 48 (16.44%) HTML
3 43 (14.73%) ASP.NET
4 40 (13.70%) CSS
5 31 (10.62%) XHTML
6 29 (9.932%) XML
7 27 (9.247%) J2EE
7 27 (9.247%) WebSphere
8 17 (5.822%) ASP.NET MVC
8 17 (5.822%) Ajax
9 16 (5.479%) JSP
9 16 (5.479%) Web Services
10 15 (5.137%) XSLT
11 14 (4.795%) JSTL
11 14 (4.795%) HTML5
12 13 (4.452%) jQuery
13 12 (4.110%) CSS3
14 11 (3.767%) Sass
15 10 (3.425%) WCF
15 10 (3.425%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 21 (7.192%) CMS
2 9 (3.082%) MQSeries
3 6 (2.055%) WebSphere Application Server
3 6 (2.055%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.712%) Magento
5 4 (1.370%) Drupal
5 4 (1.370%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (1.370%) IIS
6 3 (1.027%) Windows Azure
6 3 (1.027%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.685%) Adobe CQ
7 2 (0.685%) Apache
8 1 (0.342%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.342%) DotNetNuke
8 1 (0.342%) ESB
8 1 (0.342%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.342%) osCommerce
8 1 (0.342%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.342%) LiveSite
8 1 (0.342%) Kentico
Applications
1 15 (5.137%) Photoshop
2 14 (4.795%) MS Excel
3 8 (2.740%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.712%) Fireworks
4 5 (1.712%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (1.370%) OmniGraffle
5 4 (1.370%) MS Project
6 3 (1.027%) MS Office
6 3 (1.027%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (1.027%) Mingle
7 1 (0.342%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.342%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.055%) MFGPRO
1 6 (2.055%) Tridion
2 3 (1.027%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.685%) Taleo
3 2 (0.685%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.342%) Agresso
4 1 (0.342%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.342%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.342%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.767%) Internet
1 11 (3.767%) Cisco IOS
2 9 (3.082%) DNS
2 9 (3.082%) BIG-IP
2 9 (3.082%) Network Security
3 8 (2.740%) OSPF
4 7 (2.397%) NetScreen
4 7 (2.397%) DHCP
4 7 (2.397%) Firewall
4 7 (2.397%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.055%) VoIP
6 5 (1.712%) DMVPN
7 3 (1.027%) SNMP
7 3 (1.027%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.027%) IPsec
7 3 (1.027%) VLAN
7 3 (1.027%) HSRP
8 2 (0.685%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.685%) FWSM
8 2 (0.685%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.589%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.110%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (3.767%) MySQL
4 10 (3.425%) DB2
5 9 (3.082%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (2.055%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.370%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.027%) GIS
8 3 (1.027%) DbVisualizer
9 1 (0.342%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.342%) DTS
9 1 (0.342%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.342%) OLAP
9 1 (0.342%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (0.342%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.082%) Axure RP
2 8 (2.740%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.397%) Selenium
3 7 (2.397%) Git (software)
4 6 (2.055%) SpecFlow
4 6 (2.055%) Log4j
4 6 (2.055%) Subversion
4 6 (2.055%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 6 (2.055%) Eclipse
4 6 (2.055%) Ant
4 6 (2.055%) JUnit
5 5 (1.712%) QuickTest Pro
5 5 (1.712%) ERwin
6 3 (1.027%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.027%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.027%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.027%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.685%) WATIR
8 1 (0.342%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.342%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 109 (37.33%) Retail
2 77 (26.37%) Finance
3 29 (9.932%) Games
4 16 (5.479%) Manufacturing
5 15 (5.137%) Marketing
6 7 (2.397%) Banking
6 7 (2.397%) Publishing
7 6 (2.055%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.370%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.685%) Front Office
9 2 (0.685%) Legal
9 2 (0.685%) Advertising
9 2 (0.685%) Billing
Job Titles
1 105 (35.96%) Developer
2 54 (18.49%) Analyst
3 51 (17.47%) Project Manager
4 42 (14.38%) Business Analyst
5 30 (10.27%) C# Developer
6 29 (9.932%) .NET Developer
7 19 (6.507%) E-Commerce Manager
7 19 (6.507%) E-Commerce Project Manager
8 18 (6.164%) C# .NET Developer
9 16 (5.479%) Web Developer
10 14 (4.795%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 14 (4.795%) Front-End Developer
10 14 (4.795%) ASP.NET Developer
11 13 (4.452%) Java Developer
12 12 (4.110%) Designer
12 12 (4.110%) Architect
13 9 (3.082%) Software Developer
14 8 (2.740%) Agile Project Manager
15 7 (2.397%) Insurance Business Analyst
15 7 (2.397%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.767%) Open Source
2 10 (3.425%) W3C
3 9 (3.082%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.397%) Web 2.0
4 7 (2.397%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.712%) Thin Client
5 5 (1.712%) Fat Client
6 4 (1.370%) Clustering
6 4 (1.370%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.027%) Tandem
7 3 (1.027%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.685%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.685%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.342%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.342%) Social Network
9 1 (0.342%) Statistics
9 1 (0.342%) FMCG
9 1 (0.342%) iPhone
9 1 (0.342%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.342%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.849%) Linux
2 12 (4.110%) UNIX
3 10 (3.425%) Windows
4 6 (2.055%) HPUX
4 6 (2.055%) Solaris
5 4 (1.370%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.370%) Android
6 1 (0.342%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.342%) Debian
6 1 (0.342%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.342%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (20.89%) Project Management
2 46 (15.75%) Agile Software Development
3 40 (13.70%) MVC
4 36 (12.33%) Scrum
5 32 (10.96%) Time Management
6 25 (8.562%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (8.219%) TDD
8 23 (7.877%) OO
8 23 (7.877%) Waterfall
9 18 (6.164%) PRINCE2
10 15 (5.137%) Content Management
11 14 (4.795%) SOA
12 13 (4.452%) Web Development
12 13 (4.452%) Business Analysis
13 12 (4.110%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (4.110%) Change Control
13 12 (4.110%) Change Management
13 12 (4.110%) ITIL
14 11 (3.767%) Automated Testing
14 11 (3.767%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 67 (22.95%) C#
2 57 (19.52%) JavaScript
3 53 (18.15%) Java
4 42 (14.38%) SQL
5 13 (4.452%) XPath
6 12 (4.110%) PHP
7 6 (2.055%) Bash shell
7 6 (2.055%) Perl
8 5 (1.712%) C
9 4 (1.370%) Ruby
10 3 (1.027%) Groovy
11 2 (0.685%) PHP5
11 2 (0.685%) VB
11 2 (0.685%) Python
12 1 (0.342%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.342%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.342%) XQuery
12 1 (0.342%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (2.740%) CCSE
1 8 (2.740%) CCNP
1 8 (2.740%) ISEB
1 8 (2.740%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (2.397%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 6 (2.055%) Degree
3 6 (2.055%) CCIE
4 3 (1.027%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (1.027%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.685%) CCNA
6 1 (0.342%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.342%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.740%) QA
2 6 (2.055%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.370%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.342%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.397%) ProxySG
2 6 (2.055%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.370%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.342%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.342%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.055%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (1.712%) Cisco UCCX
3 3 (1.027%) Splunk
4 1 (0.342%) Nagios
4 1 (0.342%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (0.342%) Cacti
Vendors
1 28 (9.589%) IBM
2 25 (8.562%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.110%) ATG
3 12 (4.110%) Cisco
4 11 (3.767%) Adobe
4 11 (3.767%) CheckPoint
5 9 (3.082%) F5
6 8 (2.740%) Elastic Path
6 8 (2.740%) HP
7 7 (2.397%) Blue Coat
8 6 (2.055%) Blue Martini
8 6 (2.055%) QAD
8 6 (2.055%) VMware
8 6 (2.055%) Citrix
8 6 (2.055%) Interwoven
8 6 (2.055%) Oracle
9 5 (1.712%) Juniper
9 5 (1.712%) Infoblox
9 5 (1.712%) Imperva
10 4 (1.370%) EPiServer
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