Essex E-Commerce Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the Essex 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Isle of Man Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lichfield Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	44
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	21	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	5.469 %	4.878 %
Daily rates quoted	13	10
Average minimum daily rate	£470	£481
Average daily rate	£474	£487
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£479	£493
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	-
Average hourly rate	£16.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.29	£31.14
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	384	410
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.536 %	0.412 %
Daily rates quoted	134	133
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£363
Average daily rate	£400	£380
% change on same period last year	+5.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.29	£30.45
Average hourly rate	£30.58	£31.29
% change on same period last year	-2.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.87	£32.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
E-Commerce East of 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 Essex 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 Essex region.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the Essex region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Essex region.

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Southend-on-Sea	-5	11	£475	+13.77 %
Chelmsford	+5	1	-	-

E-Commerce East of England

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 32 (71.11 %) Government 2 28 (62.22 %) DSDM 2 28 (62.22 %) Internet 3 18 (40.00 %) Oracle 4 17 (37.78 %) Client/Server 5 16 (35.56 %) Java 6 12 (26.67 %) UML 6 12 (26.67 %) Matrix Management 6 12 (26.67 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 8 (17.78 %) Security Cleared 8 6 (13.33 %) OO 8 6 (13.33 %) J2EE 9 5 (11.11 %) N-Tier 9 5 (11.11 %) Publishing 9 5 (11.11 %) Use Case

9 5 (11.11 %) Project Planning 10 4 (8.889 %) EAI 10 4 (8.889 %) Data Modelling 10 4 (8.889 %) ETL 10 4 (8.889 %) XML 11 3 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 11 3 (6.667 %) SQL Server 11 3 (6.667 %) .NET 11 3 (6.667 %) Middleware 11 3 (6.667 %) Configuration Management 11 3 (6.667 %) Process Management 11 3 (6.667 %) E-business 11 3 (6.667 %) Education 11 3 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 12 2 (4.444 %) BC Cleared

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 6 (13.33 %) J2EE 2 4 (8.889 %) XML 3 3 (6.667 %) .NET 3 3 (6.667 %) Middleware 4 2 (4.444 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (2.222 %) JSP 5 1 (2.222 %) Servlets 5 1 (2.222 %) HTML 5 1 (2.222 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.222 %) WebLogic 1 1 (2.222 %) CMS
Communications & Networking 1 28 (62.22 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (8.889 %) ETL 2 3 (6.667 %) SQL Server 3 2 (4.444 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (2.222 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 32 (71.11 %) Government 2 5 (11.11 %) Publishing 3 3 (6.667 %) Education 4 1 (2.222 %) Back Office 4 1 (2.222 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 26 (57.78 %) Project Manager 2 19 (42.22 %) Technical Project Manager 2 19 (42.22 %) Technical Manager 3 12 (26.67 %) Analyst 4 6 (13.33 %) Business Analyst 5 5 (11.11 %) Systems Analyst 5 5 (11.11 %) Technical Analyst 6 4 (8.889 %) Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) .NET Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) Delivery Manager 8 2 (4.444 %) E-Commerce Project Manager 8 2 (4.444 %) E-Commerce Manager 9 1 (2.222 %) VB.NET Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) SQL Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) IT Manager 9 1 (2.222 %) Technical Architect 9 1 (2.222 %) Data Analyst 9 1 (2.222 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 17 (37.78 %) Client/Server 2 5 (11.11 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.222 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (62.22 %) DSDM 2 12 (26.67 %) UML 2 12 (26.67 %) Enterprise Architecture 2 12 (26.67 %) Matrix Management 3 8 (17.78 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (13.33 %) OO 5 5 (11.11 %) Project Planning 5 5 (11.11 %) Use Case 6 4 (8.889 %) EAI 6 4 (8.889 %) Data Modelling 7 3 (6.667 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (6.667 %) Process Management 7 3 (6.667 %) E-business 7 3 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (4.444 %) BC Cleared 8 2 (4.444 %) Content Management 8 2 (4.444 %) RAD 9 1 (2.222 %) RUP 9 1 (2.222 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 16 (35.56 %) Java 2 1 (2.222 %) PHP 2 1 (2.222 %) SQL 2 1 (2.222 %) VB 2 1 (2.222 %) VB.NET 2 1 (2.222 %) VB6 2 1 (2.222 %) C# 2 1 (2.222 %) DHTML	Vendors 1 18 (40.00 %) Oracle 2 1 (2.222 %) BEA