England Retail Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in contract IT jobs within the England region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Retailing
Location Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crowthorne Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Rochester Rugby Scotland Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	54
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	1449	2335
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.351 %	2.549 %
As % of the category below	5.516 %	5.842 %
Daily rates quoted	702	1120
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£389
Average daily rate	£414	£414
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£387
% change on same period last year	-0.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	81
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.72	£19.98
Average hourly rate	£20.37	£22.58
% change on same period last year	-9.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.02	£25.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.64	£19.09
% change on same period last year	+2.92 %
General England
Matching contract IT job ads	26267	39972
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	42.62 %	43.63 %
Daily rates quoted	9498	14468
Average minimum daily rate	£397	£416
Average daily rate	£425	£445
% change on same period last year	-4.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£453	£474
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£378
% change on same period last year	+0.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	1893	2579
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.11	£25.08
Average hourly rate	£26.73	£26.94
% change on same period last year	-0.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.35	£28.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.32	£26.63
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Retail UK

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 England 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 England region.

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail across the England region over the 3 months to 4 December 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 England region.

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail across the England region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

Retail
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the England region over the 3 months to 4 December 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
London	+6	741	£435	-0.23 %
South East	+1	204	£385	+7.04 %
South West	+16	127	£399	-1.31 %
Yorkshire	+15	93	£408	+4.94 %
East of England	-23	76	£349	-3.69 %
North West	-19	73	£418	-2.85 %
East Midlands	-4	61	£438	+2.84 %
West Midlands	-17	38	£276	-19.50 %
Midlands	+3	28	£470	+7.98 %
North East	+15	4	£148	-

Retail UK

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 1085 (30.48 %) Banking 2 1019 (28.62 %) Finance 3 856 (24.04 %) Retail Banking 4 423 (11.88 %) E-Commerce 5 375 (10.53 %) Project Management 6 290 (8.146 %) Oracle 7 283 (7.949 %) SQL 8 281 (7.893 %) SAP 9 267 (7.500 %) .NET 10 245 (6.882 %) Business Analysis 11 234 (6.573 %) Stakeholder Management 12 226 (6.348 %) SQL Server 13 221 (6.208 %) PRINCE2 14 206 (5.787 %) Microsoft 15 196 (5.506 %) Windows

16 190 (5.337 %) C# 17 186 (5.225 %) Migration 18 182 (5.112 %) Java 19 170 (4.775 %) EPoS 20 165 (4.635 %) UNIX 21 152 (4.270 %) ASP.NET 22 130 (3.652 %) XML 23 125 (3.511 %) Marketing 23 125 (3.511 %) Change Management 24 123 (3.455 %) Telecoms 24 123 (3.455 %) Internet 24 123 (3.455 %) HTML 25 121 (3.399 %) CSS 26 114 (3.202 %) SQL Server 2005 27 113 (3.174 %) JavaScript

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 1 267 (7.500 %) .NET 2 152 (4.270 %) ASP.NET 3 130 (3.652 %) XML 4 123 (3.455 %) HTML 5 121 (3.399 %) CSS 6 86 (2.416 %) J2EE 7 79 (2.219 %) XHTML 8 65 (1.826 %) WebSphere 9 57 (1.601 %) WebServices 10 47 (1.320 %) AJAX 11 43 (1.208 %) JSP 12 34 (0.955 %) XSLT 13 32 (0.899 %) ASP 13 32 (0.899 %) Spring 13 32 (0.899 %) Hibernate 14 27 (0.758 %) XSL 15 15 (0.421 %) Swing 15 15 (0.421 %) Middleware 15 15 (0.421 %) ADO.NET 16 14 (0.393 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 62 (1.742 %) SAS 2 58 (1.629 %) Commerce Server 3 53 (1.489 %) SharePoint 4 47 (1.320 %) Commerce Server 2007 5 33 (0.927 %) BizTalk Server 6 24 (0.674 %) CMS 6 24 (0.674 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 23 (0.646 %) MS Exchange 8 18 (0.506 %) MQSeries 8 18 (0.506 %) IIS 9 15 (0.421 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 14 (0.393 %) WebSphere MQ 11 12 (0.337 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 11 (0.309 %) WebLogic 13 10 (0.281 %) Lotus Notes 13 10 (0.281 %) ATG Dynamo 14 8 (0.225 %) Apache 14 8 (0.225 %) Tomcat 15 7 (0.197 %) Lotus Domino 15 7 (0.197 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 99 (2.781 %) MS Excel 2 71 (1.994 %) MS Visio 3 64 (1.798 %) CA Clarity 4 59 (1.657 %) MS Office 5 57 (1.601 %) MS Project 6 30 (0.843 %) MS PowerPoint 7 18 (0.506 %) Photoshop 8 12 (0.337 %) Spreadsheet 9 10 (0.281 %) SPSS 10 6 (0.169 %) Fireworks 11 4 (0.112 %) Adobe Illustrator 12 3 (0.084 %) MATLAB 12 3 (0.084 %) InfoPath 13 1 (0.028 %) Open Workbench 13 1 (0.028 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 68 (1.910 %) SAP Retail 2 33 (0.927 %) SAP CO 3 32 (0.899 %) SAP FI/CO 3 32 (0.899 %) SAP FI 4 31 (0.871 %) RMDS 5 23 (0.646 %) SAP CRM 6 19 (0.534 %) SAP MM 7 17 (0.478 %) SAP SD 8 13 (0.365 %) Oracle Applications 8 13 (0.365 %) Retail-J 9 12 (0.337 %) SAP ERP 9 12 (0.337 %) SAP IS-U 10 11 (0.309 %) Summit 10 11 (0.309 %) Oracle Financials 10 11 (0.309 %) SAP HR 10 11 (0.309 %) Oracle EBS 11 10 (0.281 %) Oracle 11i 11 10 (0.281 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 12 8 (0.225 %) SAP APO 12 8 (0.225 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 123 (3.455 %) Internet 2 41 (1.152 %) ATM 3 32 (0.899 %) Firewall 4 25 (0.702 %) Wireless 5 20 (0.562 %) Intranet 5 20 (0.562 %) SAN 5 20 (0.562 %) TCP/IP 6 18 (0.506 %) LAN 7 15 (0.421 %) Network Security 8 12 (0.337 %) SMS 8 12 (0.337 %) WAN 9 8 (0.225 %) Broadband 9 8 (0.225 %) MPLS 9 8 (0.225 %) Intrusion Detection 9 8 (0.225 %) VLAN 10 7 (0.197 %) DNS 10 7 (0.197 %) HTTP 10 7 (0.197 %) NetScreen 10 7 (0.197 %) LDAP 11 6 (0.169 %) OSPF	Database & Business Intelligence 1 226 (6.348 %) SQL Server 2 114 (3.202 %) SQL Server 2005 3 92 (2.584 %) Datawarehouse 4 56 (1.573 %) BusinessObjects 5 55 (1.545 %) DB2 6 38 (1.067 %) Oracle 10g 7 35 (0.983 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 33 (0.927 %) ETL 9 26 (0.730 %) MS Access 10 25 (0.702 %) SQL Server 2000 11 24 (0.674 %) MySQL 12 23 (0.646 %) Oracle Reports 13 19 (0.534 %) SAP BW 13 19 (0.534 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 17 (0.478 %) Oracle 9i 15 15 (0.421 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 16 14 (0.393 %) Base SAS 16 14 (0.393 %) Data Cleansing 16 14 (0.393 %) SAP BI 16 14 (0.393 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 32 (0.899 %) TestDirector 2 26 (0.730 %) Flash 3 22 (0.618 %) Eclipse 4 21 (0.590 %) LoadRunner 5 19 (0.534 %) Visual Studio 6 17 (0.478 %) Oracle Forms 7 16 (0.449 %) QuickTest Pro 8 15 (0.421 %) RequisitePro 9 13 (0.365 %) Dreamweaver 10 11 (0.309 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 10 (0.281 %) JUnit 11 10 (0.281 %) NUnit 12 9 (0.253 %) Ant 13 7 (0.197 %) InstallShield 13 7 (0.197 %) ProC 14 6 (0.169 %) ClearQuest 15 4 (0.112 %) MSI 15 4 (0.112 %) PeopleTools 15 4 (0.112 %) ERwin 15 4 (0.112 %) Synon	General 1 1085 (30.48 %) Banking 2 1019 (28.62 %) Finance 3 856 (24.04 %) Retail Banking 4 125 (3.511 %) Marketing 5 123 (3.455 %) Telecoms 6 112 (3.146 %) Insurance 7 60 (1.685 %) Online Banking 8 41 (1.152 %) Investment Banking 9 40 (1.124 %) Front Office 9 40 (1.124 %) Manufacturing 10 39 (1.096 %) Back Office 11 36 (1.011 %) Government 12 31 (0.871 %) Education 13 30 (0.843 %) Billing 13 30 (0.843 %) Pensions 14 29 (0.815 %) FMCG 15 23 (0.646 %) Financial Institution 16 22 (0.618 %) Health 17 16 (0.449 %) Music 18 15 (0.421 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 1138 (31.97 %) Analyst 2 739 (20.76 %) Business Analyst 3 583 (16.38 %) Project Manager 4 397 (11.15 %) Developer 5 312 (8.764 %) Consultant 6 190 (5.337 %) Architect 7 130 (3.652 %) Banking Business Analyst 8 126 (3.539 %) .NET Developer 9 105 (2.949 %) SAP Consultant 10 92 (2.584 %) Programme Manager 11 89 (2.500 %) Test Analyst 12 81 (2.275 %) Support Analyst 13 73 (2.051 %) Senior Analyst 14 72 (2.022 %) Systems Analyst 15 71 (1.994 %) Solutions Architect 16 64 (1.798 %) C# Developer 17 63 (1.770 %) Java Developer 18 52 (1.461 %) Web Developer 18 52 (1.461 %) ASP.NET Developer 19 51 (1.433 %) SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 170 (4.775 %) EPoS 2 46 (1.292 %) Derivative 3 44 (1.236 %) Mainframe 4 34 (0.955 %) Credit Derivative 5 30 (0.843 %) Management Information System 6 26 (0.730 %) Fixed Income 7 25 (0.702 %) AS400 8 22 (0.618 %) EFT 8 22 (0.618 %) French Language 9 20 (0.562 %) Credit Risk 10 17 (0.478 %) iSeries 10 17 (0.478 %) Chip and PIN 11 15 (0.421 %) Statistics 12 14 (0.393 %) Equities 13 13 (0.365 %) PMI 13 13 (0.365 %) Computer Science 14 12 (0.337 %) W3C 15 11 (0.309 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 15 11 (0.309 %) IBM Mainframe 16 10 (0.281 %) Spanish Language
Operating Systems 1 196 (5.506 %) Windows 2 165 (4.635 %) UNIX 3 81 (2.275 %) Linux 4 39 (1.096 %) Windows Server 2003 5 35 (0.983 %) Windows XP 6 29 (0.815 %) Solaris 7 27 (0.758 %) Red Hat Linux 8 25 (0.702 %) Windows 2000 9 16 (0.449 %) AIX 10 14 (0.393 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 8 (0.225 %) Windows Mobile 12 6 (0.169 %) Windows Vista 12 6 (0.169 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 5 (0.140 %) HPUX 14 4 (0.112 %) Mac OS X 15 2 (0.056 %) zOS 15 2 (0.056 %) MVS 15 2 (0.056 %) Windows NT 16 1 (0.028 %) OpenVMS 16 1 (0.028 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 423 (11.88 %) E-Commerce 2 375 (10.53 %) Project Management 3 245 (6.882 %) Business Analysis 4 234 (6.573 %) Stakeholder Management 5 221 (6.208 %) PRINCE2 6 186 (5.225 %) Migration 7 125 (3.511 %) Change Management 8 100 (2.809 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 98 (2.753 %) Test Scripting 10 96 (2.697 %) UML 11 87 (2.444 %) Business Intelligence 12 85 (2.388 %) GAP Analysis 13 82 (2.303 %) Data Migration 14 81 (2.275 %) CRM 15 77 (2.163 %) ITIL 16 74 (2.079 %) ERP 17 71 (1.994 %) Data Modelling 17 71 (1.994 %) Investment Management 17 71 (1.994 %) Logistics 18 69 (1.938 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 283 (7.949 %) SQL 2 190 (5.337 %) C# 3 182 (5.112 %) Java 4 113 (3.174 %) JavaScript 5 60 (1.685 %) VB 6 47 (1.320 %) C 7 41 (1.152 %) VBA 8 40 (1.124 %) PL/SQL 9 36 (1.011 %) VB.NET 10 35 (0.983 %) Transact-SQL 11 19 (0.534 %) C++ 12 18 (0.506 %) Shell Script 13 17 (0.478 %) ABAP 14 14 (0.393 %) PHP 15 13 (0.365 %) RPG 16 11 (0.309 %) Perl 17 8 (0.225 %) COBOL 18 7 (0.197 %) VBScript 18 7 (0.197 %) ActionScript 18 7 (0.197 %) PowerShell	Qualifications 1 78 (2.191 %) Degree 2 49 (1.376 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 48 (1.348 %) ISEB 4 29 (0.815 %) PMP 5 28 (0.787 %) PMI Certification 6 25 (0.702 %) Microsoft Certification 7 22 (0.618 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 17 (0.478 %) Citrix Certification 9 15 (0.421 %) A+ Certification 10 14 (0.393 %) DCSE 10 14 (0.393 %) SAP Certification 11 13 (0.365 %) HP APS 12 12 (0.337 %) ITIL Certification 12 12 (0.337 %) Cisco Certification 13 11 (0.309 %) ACCA 14 9 (0.253 %) CIMA 15 7 (0.197 %) CCNA 16 6 (0.169 %) CCNP 16 6 (0.169 %) MCSE 17 5 (0.140 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 46 (1.292 %) QA 2 39 (1.096 %) SLA 3 31 (0.871 %) Basel II 4 28 (0.787 %) PCI DSS 5 10 (0.281 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 6 (0.169 %) WAI 7 4 (0.112 %) BS7799 7 4 (0.112 %) GAAP 7 4 (0.112 %) ISO27001 8 2 (0.056 %) ISO8583 8 2 (0.056 %) ISO9000 8 2 (0.056 %) MiFID 9 1 (0.028 %) COBIT 9 1 (0.028 %) ISO12207	System Software 1 65 (1.826 %) Active Directory 2 22 (0.618 %) NetBackup 3 14 (0.393 %) NFS 4 13 (0.365 %) Oracle RAC 5 7 (0.197 %) Oracle RMAN 6 5 (0.140 %) VMware ESX 6 5 (0.140 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 5 (0.140 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 4 (0.112 %) MSMQ 7 4 (0.112 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 2 (0.056 %) Xen 8 2 (0.056 %) Backup Exec 9 1 (0.028 %) ISA Server 9 1 (0.028 %) RACF 9 1 (0.028 %) MetaFrame 9 1 (0.028 %) Terminal Server 9 1 (0.028 %) MailMarshal 9 1 (0.028 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 9 1 (0.028 %) SAP ITS
Systems Management 1 14 (0.393 %) MOM 1 14 (0.393 %) SCOM 2 11 (0.309 %) Tivoli 3 9 (0.253 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 6 (0.169 %) Tivoli Monitoring 5 5 (0.140 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 4 (0.112 %) Unicenter 7 3 (0.084 %) Legato 7 3 (0.084 %) Tivoli NetView 8 2 (0.056 %) OpenView 8 2 (0.056 %) ARCserve 8 2 (0.056 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 2 (0.056 %) MIIS 8 2 (0.056 %) RepliStor 8 2 (0.056 %) OMEGAMON 8 2 (0.056 %) EMC NetWorker 8 2 (0.056 %) ServiceCenter 8 2 (0.056 %) SCCM 8 2 (0.056 %) AutoSys 8 2 (0.056 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 290 (8.146 %) Oracle 2 281 (7.893 %) SAP 3 206 (5.787 %) Microsoft 4 78 (2.191 %) IBM 5 58 (1.629 %) Cisco 6 56 (1.573 %) Business Objects 7 48 (1.348 %) Retek 8 40 (1.124 %) HP 9 38 (1.067 %) Cognos 10 34 (0.955 %) JDA 11 31 (0.871 %) Reuters 12 27 (0.758 %) Red Hat 12 27 (0.758 %) Citrix 13 22 (0.618 %) VMware 13 22 (0.618 %) Retalix 14 21 (0.590 %) ATG 14 21 (0.590 %) Remedy 15 20 (0.562 %) CheckPoint 16 19 (0.534 %) VERITAS 16 19 (0.534 %) Dell