The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce over the 3 months to 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 36 37 43
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +6
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 2095 2165 2278
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 4.786% 4.084% 3.984%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.686% 5.938% 5.880%
Number of daily rates quoted 1501 1447 1464
Average daily rate £423 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £599 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 20
Average hourly rate £40.00 £17.50 £35.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+128.57% -51.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £15.05 £19.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.70 £40.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -52.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
31333 36462 38743
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.57% 68.77% 67.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19221 21322 22496
Average daily rate £420 £405 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 1194 1381
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.13 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.42 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
E-Commerce
UK

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

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 England region.

England E-Commerce Hourly Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England E-Commerce Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +7 1349 £450 +11.11% 475
South East +1 256 £400 +6.66% 82
East of England -2 180 £350 +16.66% 66
Yorkshire +6 97 £313 +4.16% 59
North West -3 78 £325 +8.33% 109
East Midlands +7 65 £400 +29.03% 29
West Midlands -23 36 £325 +8.33% 43
South West +1 23 £360 +2.93% 39
Midlands +6 3 £650 - 1
North East +18 1 £310 -17.33% 6
E-Commerce
UK

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 1021 (26.84%) Retail
2 902 (23.71%) Java
3 722 (18.98%) JavaScript
4 697 (18.32%) Agile Software Development
5 625 (16.43%) Finance
6 621 (16.32%) CSS
7 590 (15.51%) HTML
8 577 (15.17%) .NET
9 504 (13.25%) SQL
10 494 (12.99%) C#
11 432 (11.36%) Banking
12 423 (11.12%) Scrum
13 400 (10.52%) jQuery
14 388 (10.20%) TDD
15 373 (9.805%) ASP.NET
16 361 (9.490%) XML
17 358 (9.411%) Project Management
18 333 (8.754%) MVC
19 330 (8.675%) SQL Server
20 299 (7.860%) Ajax
21 296 (7.781%) Linux
22 289 (7.597%) Oracle
23 284 (7.466%) WebSphere
24 283 (7.440%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
24 283 (7.440%) HTML5
25 271 (7.124%) OO
26 267 (7.019%) CMS
27 263 (6.914%) J2EE
28 260 (6.835%) Spring
29 252 (6.625%) Marketing

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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
1 621 (16.32%) CSS
2 590 (15.51%) HTML
3 577 (15.17%) .NET
4 400 (10.52%) jQuery
5 373 (9.805%) ASP.NET
6 361 (9.490%) XML
7 299 (7.860%) Ajax
8 284 (7.466%) WebSphere
9 283 (7.440%) HTML5
10 263 (6.914%) J2EE
11 260 (6.835%) Spring
12 227 (5.967%) Web Services
13 191 (5.021%) CSS3
14 161 (4.232%) JSP
15 154 (4.048%) XHTML
16 148 (3.891%) ASP.NET MVC
17 128 (3.365%) SOAP
17 128 (3.365%) Hibernate
18 119 (3.128%) XSLT
19 100 (2.629%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 267 (7.019%) CMS
2 147 (3.864%) Apache
3 102 (2.681%) Magento
4 88 (2.313%) Tomcat
5 84 (2.208%) WebSphere Application Server
5 84 (2.208%) IIS
6 57 (1.498%) Adobe CQ
7 54 (1.420%) WebLogic
8 50 (1.314%) Drupal
9 45 (1.183%) Umbraco
10 38 (0.999%) Sitecore CMS
11 32 (0.841%) SharePoint
12 30 (0.789%) Commerce Server
13 29 (0.762%) ESB
14 21 (0.552%) Windows Azure
15 19 (0.499%) Amazon AWS
15 19 (0.499%) Kentico
15 19 (0.499%) MQSeries
16 18 (0.473%) Oracle Workflow
16 18 (0.473%) WordPress
Applications
1 120 (3.155%) MS Excel
1 120 (3.155%) Photoshop
2 85 (2.234%) MS Visio
3 40 (1.052%) MS Office
3 40 (1.052%) Adobe Illustrator
4 29 (0.762%) MS PowerPoint
4 29 (0.762%) Fireworks
5 27 (0.710%) MS Project
6 25 (0.657%) OmniGraffle
7 11 (0.289%) InDesign
8 7 (0.184%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.131%) SPSS
10 4 (0.105%) Mingle
11 2 (0.053%) Office 365
11 2 (0.053%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.053%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 31 (0.815%) Google Analytics
2 13 (0.342%) WebTrends
3 12 (0.315%) Tridion
3 12 (0.315%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 11 (0.289%) RMDS
5 8 (0.210%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.210%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (0.184%) SiteCatalyst
7 5 (0.131%) Oracle Retail
7 5 (0.131%) ION MarketView
7 5 (0.131%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.131%) SAP Retail
7 5 (0.131%) BASE24
7 5 (0.131%) Summit
8 4 (0.105%) SAP CRM
8 4 (0.105%) Lawson
8 4 (0.105%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.105%) Dynamics AX
8 4 (0.105%) FLEXCUBE
8 4 (0.105%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 239 (6.283%) Internet
2 102 (2.681%) Firewall
3 63 (1.656%) TCP/IP
4 62 (1.630%) BIG-IP
5 61 (1.604%) HTTP
6 55 (1.446%) NetScaler
7 48 (1.262%) LDAP
8 36 (0.946%) DNS
9 26 (0.683%) VoIP
10 25 (0.657%) OSPF
10 25 (0.657%) BGP
11 24 (0.631%) Intranet
12 22 (0.578%) LAN
13 21 (0.552%) VPN
13 21 (0.552%) Network Security
13 21 (0.552%) Cisco ASA
14 19 (0.499%) NetScreen
14 19 (0.499%) WAN
15 18 (0.473%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (0.447%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (8.675%) SQL Server
2 193 (5.074%) MySQL
3 91 (2.392%) SQL Server 2008
4 71 (1.866%) DB2
5 70 (1.840%) Data Warehouse
6 67 (1.761%) RDBMS
7 63 (1.656%) Big Data
8 56 (1.472%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (1.393%) NoSQL
10 50 (1.314%) SQL Server 2005
11 42 (1.104%) Hadoop
12 41 (1.078%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 37 (0.973%) Apache Cassandra
14 29 (0.762%) MongoDB
15 23 (0.605%) SQL Server 2012
16 21 (0.552%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 15 (0.394%) Oracle 8/8i
18 13 (0.342%) Data Mining
19 11 (0.289%) PostgreSQL
19 11 (0.289%) HBase
Development Applications
1 160 (4.206%) JUnit
2 132 (3.470%) Selenium
3 125 (3.286%) Maven
4 121 (3.181%) Subversion
5 76 (1.998%) Ant
6 74 (1.945%) Cucumber
7 69 (1.814%) Visual Studio
8 65 (1.709%) Git (software)
9 61 (1.604%) JIRA
10 60 (1.577%) Jenkins
11 55 (1.446%) WebDriver
12 44 (1.157%) Eclipse
13 43 (1.130%) Axure RP
14 34 (0.894%) Team Foundation Server
15 25 (0.657%) Hudson
15 25 (0.657%) QuickTest Pro
16 21 (0.552%) Dreamweaver
17 20 (0.526%) ClearCase
18 18 (0.473%) FitNesse
18 18 (0.473%) WATIR
General
1 1021 (26.84%) Retail
2 625 (16.43%) Finance
3 432 (11.36%) Banking
4 252 (6.625%) Marketing
5 143 (3.759%) Investment Banking
6 112 (2.944%) Front Office
7 111 (2.918%) Games
8 103 (2.708%) Telecoms
9 91 (2.392%) Retail Banking
10 79 (2.077%) Publishing
11 50 (1.314%) Legal
12 39 (1.025%) Billing
13 38 (0.999%) Manufacturing
14 34 (0.894%) Back Office
15 33 (0.868%) Law
16 26 (0.683%) Corporate Banking
17 25 (0.657%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.499%) French Language
19 18 (0.473%) German Language
20 15 (0.394%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 1400 (36.80%) Developer
2 609 (16.01%) Analyst
3 435 (11.44%) Business Analyst
4 388 (10.20%) Project Manager
5 335 (8.807%) Architect
6 271 (7.124%) Java Developer
7 268 (7.045%) .NET Developer
8 168 (4.416%) Web Developer
9 154 (4.048%) Senior Developer
10 151 (3.970%) Solutions Architect
11 142 (3.733%) E-Commerce Manager
12 137 (3.601%) C# Developer
13 122 (3.207%) Designer
14 120 (3.155%) PHP Developer
15 117 (3.076%) ASP.NET Developer
16 108 (2.839%) Front-End Developer
17 99 (2.603%) Consultant
18 92 (2.419%) E-Commerce Project Manager
19 74 (1.945%) Tester
20 71 (1.866%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 283 (7.440%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 111 (2.918%) Mobile App
3 91 (2.392%) Open Source
4 79 (2.077%) Digital Media
5 77 (2.024%) Fixed Income
6 56 (1.472%) Computer Science
7 53 (1.393%) iPad
8 51 (1.341%) W3C
9 49 (1.288%) iPhone
10 48 (1.262%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (1.262%) Online Banking
11 41 (1.078%) N-Tier
12 40 (1.052%) PKI
13 36 (0.946%) RIA
14 35 (0.920%) Social Media
15 30 (0.789%) SaaS
15 30 (0.789%) EPoS
16 27 (0.710%) Management Information System
16 27 (0.710%) Mobile Payment
17 26 (0.683%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 296 (7.781%) Linux
2 238 (6.257%) UNIX
3 202 (5.310%) Windows
4 88 (2.313%) Android
5 73 (1.919%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 70 (1.840%) Apple iOS
7 43 (1.130%) Solaris
8 37 (0.973%) Windows XP
9 26 (0.683%) Windows Server 2008
10 13 (0.342%) CentOS
10 13 (0.342%) AIX
10 13 (0.342%) HPUX
11 11 (0.289%) Windows Server 2003
12 10 (0.263%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.210%) Windows Mobile
14 6 (0.158%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.131%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.105%) BlackBerry OS
16 4 (0.105%) Windows 2000
17 3 (0.079%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (18.32%) Agile Software Development
2 423 (11.12%) Scrum
3 388 (10.20%) TDD
4 358 (9.411%) Project Management
5 333 (8.754%) MVC
6 271 (7.124%) OO
7 236 (6.204%) Stakeholder Management
8 205 (5.389%) Business Analysis
9 202 (5.310%) BDD
10 184 (4.837%) PRINCE2
11 172 (4.522%) UML
11 172 (4.522%) Content Management
12 163 (4.285%) Web Development
13 155 (4.075%) Continuous Integration
14 138 (3.628%) Analytics
15 134 (3.523%) Unit Testing
16 122 (3.207%) ITIL
17 114 (2.997%) Multithreading
18 113 (2.971%) SOA
19 111 (2.918%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 902 (23.71%) Java
2 722 (18.98%) JavaScript
3 504 (13.25%) SQL
4 494 (12.99%) C#
5 231 (6.073%) PHP
6 116 (3.049%) Ruby
7 108 (2.839%) Perl
8 82 (2.156%) C++
9 70 (1.840%) T-SQL
10 63 (1.656%) PHP5
11 59 (1.551%) Python
12 54 (1.420%) VB.NET
13 41 (1.078%) C
14 31 (0.815%) Groovy
15 28 (0.736%) Scala
16 27 (0.710%) Bash shell
17 26 (0.683%) Shell Script
18 20 (0.526%) XPath
18 20 (0.526%) PL/SQL
19 18 (0.473%) VB
Qualifications
1 203 (5.336%) Degree
2 45 (1.183%) ISEB
3 38 (0.999%) ITIL Certification
4 31 (0.815%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 24 (0.631%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (0.631%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 23 (0.605%) PMI Certification
6 23 (0.605%) CCNP
7 20 (0.526%) ISTQB
8 12 (0.315%) CCSE
9 11 (0.289%) MBA
9 11 (0.289%) GIAC
9 11 (0.289%) Security Cleared
9 11 (0.289%) CCIE
9 11 (0.289%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.263%) GWAPT
10 10 (0.263%) GPEN
11 9 (0.237%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (0.184%) SC Cleared
12 7 (0.184%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (4.916%) QA
2 20 (0.526%) SLA
3 13 (0.342%) PCI DSS
4 8 (0.210%) ISO 8583
4 8 (0.210%) ISO 9001
5 6 (0.158%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.079%) GxP
6 3 (0.079%) COSO
7 2 (0.053%) WCAG
7 2 (0.053%) WAI
8 1 (0.026%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (0.710%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (0.578%) ProxySG
3 15 (0.394%) vSphere
4 14 (0.368%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.210%) XenServer
6 7 (0.184%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.158%) Varnish
8 5 (0.131%) VirtualBox
8 5 (0.131%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.105%) VMware ESX
9 4 (0.105%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.053%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.053%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.053%) Xen
10 2 (0.053%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.053%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 1 (0.026%) NDS
11 1 (0.026%) Squid
Systems Management
1 38 (0.999%) HP Quality Center
2 32 (0.841%) Puppet
3 13 (0.342%) Splunk
4 12 (0.315%) Nagios
5 10 (0.263%) Tivoli
5 10 (0.263%) Cisco CUCM
6 9 (0.237%) HP SiteScope
6 9 (0.237%) Cisco UCCX
7 8 (0.210%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 6 (0.158%) Cacti
9 5 (0.131%) SCOM
10 4 (0.105%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.079%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 2 (0.053%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 1 (0.026%) BMC PATROL
13 1 (0.026%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.026%) WebInspect
13 1 (0.026%) Business Desktop Deployment
13 1 (0.026%) SCCM
13 1 (0.026%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 289 (7.597%) Oracle
2 220 (5.783%) Microsoft
3 175 (4.600%) ATG
4 158 (4.154%) hybris
5 146 (3.838%) IBM
6 121 (3.181%) Adobe
7 82 (2.156%) Red Hat
8 77 (2.024%) Citrix
9 68 (1.788%) JBoss
10 66 (1.735%) F5
11 59 (1.551%) Endeca
12 54 (1.420%) Zend
13 53 (1.393%) HP
14 51 (1.341%) SAP
15 49 (1.288%) Google
16 48 (1.262%) VMware
17 46 (1.209%) Cisco
18 43 (1.130%) Sitecore
19 34 (0.894%) Omniture
20 33 (0.868%) TIBCO
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Witham, South East
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East London
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