The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 18 40 46
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +6
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 35 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 8.274% 2.237% 0.517%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.90% 3.571% 0.847%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 2 2
Average daily rate £313 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £300 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £416 £380 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -52.05%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
294 280 236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 69.50% 62.64% 60.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 126 104
Average daily rate £325 £320 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -8.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £125 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 42 37
Average hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £27.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -0.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £17.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £41.80 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
E-Commerce
East of England

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex 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
Colchester +21 14 £413 +17.85%
Harlow - 2 £438 -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
Basildon - 1 £250 -
Braintree - - - -
Brentwood - - - -
E-Commerce
East of England

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 17 (34.00%) SQL
2 15 (30.00%) C#
2 15 (30.00%) .NET
3 14 (28.00%) MVC
4 12 (24.00%) Project Management
4 12 (24.00%) CheckPoint
4 12 (24.00%) Cisco
4 12 (24.00%) ASP.NET
4 12 (24.00%) BIG-IP
4 12 (24.00%) Cisco IOS
4 12 (24.00%) Network Security
4 12 (24.00%) F5
5 11 (22.00%) CCSE
5 11 (22.00%) Finance
6 10 (20.00%) Blue Coat
6 10 (20.00%) ProxySG
6 10 (20.00%) WCF
6 10 (20.00%) LINQ
6 10 (20.00%) XML
7 9 (18.00%) CCIE
7 9 (18.00%) CCNP
7 9 (18.00%) Citrix
7 9 (18.00%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (18.00%) VMware
7 9 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (16.00%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (16.00%) Infoblox
8 8 (16.00%) Imperva
8 8 (16.00%) Cisco UCCX
8 8 (16.00%) Cisco CUCM

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 15 (30.00%) .NET
2 12 (24.00%) ASP.NET
3 10 (20.00%) XML
3 10 (20.00%) WCF
3 10 (20.00%) LINQ
4 8 (16.00%) CSS
4 8 (16.00%) XHTML
4 8 (16.00%) NHibernate
5 6 (12.00%) jQuery
6 5 (10.00%) Ajax
7 4 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (8.000%) XSLT
7 4 (8.000%) HTML
7 4 (8.000%) Web Services
8 3 (6.000%) J2EE
8 3 (6.000%) HTML5
9 2 (4.000%) REST
9 2 (4.000%) CSS3
9 2 (4.000%) MooTools
9 2 (4.000%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.00%) CMS
2 3 (6.000%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (4.000%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (4.000%) PrestaShop
4 1 (2.000%) IIS
4 1 (2.000%) osCommerce
4 1 (2.000%) Magento
Applications
1 4 (8.000%) Photoshop
2 3 (6.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.000%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) BIG-IP
1 12 (24.00%) Cisco IOS
1 12 (24.00%) Network Security
2 8 (16.00%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (16.00%) DMVPN
2 8 (16.00%) DHCP
2 8 (16.00%) DNS
2 8 (16.00%) OSPF
2 8 (16.00%) NetScreen
2 8 (16.00%) Firewall
2 8 (16.00%) VoIP
3 1 (2.000%) WAN
3 1 (2.000%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (6.000%) MySQL
3 2 (4.000%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.000%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.000%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.000%) PowerDesigner
General
1 11 (22.00%) Finance
2 8 (16.00%) Retail
3 3 (6.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Developer
2 13 (26.00%) Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Business Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Security Specialist
3 8 (16.00%) Network Specialist
3 8 (16.00%) Network Security Specialist
3 8 (16.00%) E-Commerce Specialist
4 7 (14.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Web Developer
5 6 (12.00%) .NET Developer
6 5 (10.00%) C# Developer
6 5 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
6 5 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (6.000%) Development Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Development Support Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (6.000%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.000%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (6.000%) PHP Developer
7 3 (6.000%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Thin Client
1 8 (16.00%) Fat Client
2 3 (6.000%) Tandem
3 1 (2.000%) Social Network
3 1 (2.000%) Clustering
3 1 (2.000%) Open Source
3 1 (2.000%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.000%) Windows
3 1 (2.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.000%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) MVC
2 12 (24.00%) Project Management
3 7 (14.00%) User Stories
3 7 (14.00%) Use Case
4 4 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (8.000%) Content Management
5 3 (6.000%) PRINCE2
5 3 (6.000%) Scrum
5 3 (6.000%) OO
5 3 (6.000%) RAD
5 3 (6.000%) CRM
6 2 (4.000%) Web Design
6 2 (4.000%) SEO
6 2 (4.000%) Unit Testing
6 2 (4.000%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (4.000%) Image Processing
6 2 (4.000%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (4.000%) Analytics
7 1 (2.000%) Progressive Enhancement
7 1 (2.000%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) SQL
2 15 (30.00%) C#
3 8 (16.00%) C
4 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.00%) PHP
5 6 (12.00%) Java
6 3 (6.000%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.000%) XQuery
7 2 (4.000%) XPath
8 1 (2.000%) Ruby
8 1 (2.000%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) CCSE
2 9 (18.00%) CCIE
2 9 (18.00%) CCNP
2 9 (18.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.000%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (20.00%) ProxySG
2 9 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.000%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.000%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 8 (16.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Cisco
1 12 (24.00%) CheckPoint
1 12 (24.00%) F5
2 10 (20.00%) Blue Coat
3 9 (18.00%) VMware
3 9 (18.00%) Citrix
4 8 (16.00%) Juniper
4 8 (16.00%) HP
4 8 (16.00%) Infoblox
4 8 (16.00%) Imperva
5 4 (8.000%) Adobe
6 3 (6.000%) ATG
7 2 (4.000%) FatWire
7 2 (4.000%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.000%) Elastic Path
7 2 (4.000%) Omniture
7 2 (4.000%) Google
8 1 (2.000%) Oracle
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