The first table below looks at the demand for Commerce Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Commerce Server 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 of the Application Platforms category for the 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Commerce Server
Rank 494 533 551
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +18
Contract jobs citing Commerce Server 16 25 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.038% 0.047% 0.037%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.210% 0.285% 0.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 14
Average daily rate £400 £413 £364
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +13.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £306 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £600 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £348 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.10% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7610 8762 9528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 18.31% 16.42% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4375 4958 5146
Average daily rate £360 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 395 531
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Commerce Server
UK

Commerce Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Commerce Server across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

England Commerce Server Jobs Demand Trend

Commerce Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Commerce Server Daily Rate Trend

Commerce Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Commerce Server across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Commerce Server Daily Rate Histogram

Commerce Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Commerce Server Hourly Rate Trend

Commerce Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Commerce Server within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +15 6 £468 -22.08%
South West - 4 £350 -
South East +26 3 £400 +10.34%
Yorkshire - 3 - -
Commerce Server
UK

Commerce Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Commerce Server 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 Commerce Server.

1 35 (83.33%) E-Commerce
2 32 (76.19%) WebSphere
3 22 (52.38%) IBM
4 21 (50.00%) J2EE
5 19 (45.24%) Java
6 11 (26.19%) SOA
7 10 (23.81%) SQL
8 9 (21.43%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (21.43%) JSP
8 9 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (19.05%) Retail
9 8 (19.05%) Ajax
9 8 (19.05%) EJB
9 8 (19.05%) CSS
9 8 (19.05%) XML
9 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
9 8 (19.05%) HTML
10 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
10 7 (16.67%) JUnit
11 6 (14.29%) Automated Testing
11 6 (14.29%) Software Testing
11 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
11 6 (14.29%) JSTL
11 6 (14.29%) Performance Testing
11 6 (14.29%) JMS
11 6 (14.29%) Adobe
11 6 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
12 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
12 5 (11.90%) C#
12 5 (11.90%) .NET

Commerce Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Commerce Server 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 Commerce Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (76.19%) WebSphere
2 21 (50.00%) J2EE
3 9 (21.43%) JSP
4 8 (19.05%) XML
4 8 (19.05%) HTML
4 8 (19.05%) EJB
4 8 (19.05%) CSS
4 8 (19.05%) Ajax
5 6 (14.29%) JSTL
5 6 (14.29%) JMS
6 5 (11.90%) .NET
7 4 (9.524%) ASP.NET
8 3 (7.143%) Servlets
8 3 (7.143%) Hibernate
8 3 (7.143%) Spring
9 2 (4.762%) Struts
9 2 (4.762%) Web Services
10 1 (2.381%) XSL
10 1 (2.381%) Flash
10 1 (2.381%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 9 (21.43%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (4.762%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.381%) IIS
4 1 (2.381%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.381%) Joomla!
4 1 (2.381%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (2.381%) MS Office
1 1 (2.381%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.381%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (2.381%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.143%) Intranet
1 3 (7.143%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.762%) DB2
3 1 (2.381%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.381%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (2.381%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 1 (2.381%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.381%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (2.381%) FrontPage
2 1 (2.381%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (19.05%) Retail
2 5 (11.90%) Marketing
3 1 (2.381%) Electronics
3 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.381%) Finance
3 1 (2.381%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Architect
2 17 (40.48%) WebSphere Architect
3 9 (21.43%) Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Consultant
5 6 (14.29%) WebSphere Consultant
6 5 (11.90%) WebSphere Developer
7 4 (9.524%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (7.143%) Integration Architect
8 3 (7.143%) Project Manager
8 3 (7.143%) E-Commerce Project Manager
8 3 (7.143%) E-Commerce Manager
9 2 (4.762%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (4.762%) Administrator
9 2 (4.762%) Java Developer
9 2 (4.762%) Delivery Project Manager
9 2 (4.762%) Server Support
10 1 (2.381%) Senior Developer
10 1 (2.381%) Business Analyst
10 1 (2.381%) WebSphere Administrator
10 1 (2.381%) IT Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.762%) Clustering
1 2 (4.762%) Web 2.0
2 1 (2.381%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.381%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.381%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.524%) UNIX
2 3 (7.143%) Windows
3 1 (2.381%) AIX
3 1 (2.381%) Solaris
3 1 (2.381%) Linux
3 1 (2.381%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) E-Commerce
2 11 (26.19%) SOA
3 9 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (14.29%) Automated Testing
4 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 6 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 5 (11.90%) Content Management
5 5 (11.90%) MVC
5 5 (11.90%) Migration
6 3 (7.143%) B2C
6 3 (7.143%) UML
7 2 (4.762%) OOA/OOD
7 2 (4.762%) OO
7 2 (4.762%) RAD
7 2 (4.762%) B2B
7 2 (4.762%) SEO
7 2 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (4.762%) Business Development
7 2 (4.762%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.90%) C#
5 2 (4.762%) Groovy
6 1 (2.381%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.381%) C
6 1 (2.381%) Perl
6 1 (2.381%) PHP
6 1 (2.381%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.381%) VBScript
6 1 (2.381%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.381%) Sun Certification
1 1 (2.381%) Degree
1 1 (2.381%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 3 (7.143%) VMware Server
2 2 (4.762%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) IBM
2 6 (14.29%) Adobe
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.524%) SAP
5 3 (7.143%) VMware
5 3 (7.143%) Endeca
5 3 (7.143%) hybris
6 2 (4.762%) Oracle
6 2 (4.762%) ATG
7 1 (2.381%) Sun
7 1 (2.381%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.381%) JBoss
7 1 (2.381%) Intershop