The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail 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 terms in our General category for the Glasgow 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
Retailing
Rank 67 40 42
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +2
Contract jobs citing Retail 13 20 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.380% 2.591% 3.000%
As % of the General category 3.178% 4.684% 6.269%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 17
Average daily rate £359 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £436 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £11.58
% change year-on-year
+18.42% +64.14%
All of the General Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
409 427 335
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 43.42% 55.31% 47.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 217 198
Average daily rate £350 £345 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -3.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 2
Average hourly rate £14.50 £9.50 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.63% -67.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £21.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £61.80 £37.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Retail
Scotland

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Glasgow Retail Jobs Demand Trend

Retail
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Retail Daily Rate Trend

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Glasgow Retail Daily Rate Histogram

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 35 (71.43%) Banking
2 33 (67.35%) Retail Banking
3 29 (59.18%) Finance
4 9 (18.37%) Telecoms
5 8 (16.33%) Business Analysis
5 8 (16.33%) SQL
6 6 (12.24%) Change Management
6 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
7 5 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (10.20%) Project Management
7 5 (10.20%) GAP Analysis
7 5 (10.20%) MS Project
7 5 (10.20%) Test Strategy
8 4 (8.163%) Oracle
8 4 (8.163%) Java
8 4 (8.163%) PRINCE2
8 4 (8.163%) Smartcard
8 4 (8.163%) EPoS
8 4 (8.163%) Spring
8 4 (8.163%) Hibernate
8 4 (8.163%) PCI DSS
8 4 (8.163%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (6.122%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (6.122%) Test Management
9 3 (6.122%) Validation
9 3 (6.122%) Migration
9 3 (6.122%) Investment Banking
9 3 (6.122%) EMV
9 3 (6.122%) Web Services
9 3 (6.122%) SharePoint

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 4 (8.163%) Spring
1 4 (8.163%) Hibernate
2 3 (6.122%) Web Services
3 2 (4.082%) XML
3 2 (4.082%) JMS
3 2 (4.082%) HTML
3 2 (4.082%) EJB
3 2 (4.082%) CSS
3 2 (4.082%) JDBC
3 2 (4.082%) JSP
3 2 (4.082%) Servlets
3 2 (4.082%) SOAP
3 2 (4.082%) TopLink
3 2 (4.082%) JPA
3 2 (4.082%) JSF
3 2 (4.082%) XMLBeans
4 1 (2.041%) Java EE
4 1 (2.041%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.122%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) MS Project
2 2 (4.082%) MS Office
2 2 (4.082%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.041%) ADSL
1 1 (2.041%) LAN
1 1 (2.041%) WLAN
1 1 (2.041%) HTTP
1 1 (2.041%) VPN
1 1 (2.041%) SAN
1 1 (2.041%) MPLS
1 1 (2.041%) BGP
1 1 (2.041%) EIGRP
1 1 (2.041%) Firewall
1 1 (2.041%) Wireless
1 1 (2.041%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (2.041%) NAS
1 1 (2.041%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.082%) RDBMS
1 2 (4.082%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.082%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.041%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.041%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (4.082%) Maven
2 1 (2.041%) LoadRunner
General
1 35 (71.43%) Banking
2 33 (67.35%) Retail Banking
3 29 (59.18%) Finance
4 9 (18.37%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.122%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.082%) Marketing
6 2 (4.082%) Back Office
6 2 (4.082%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (57.14%) Analyst
2 19 (38.78%) Business Analyst
3 8 (16.33%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.163%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (8.163%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.163%) Financial Business Analyst
4 4 (8.163%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 4 (8.163%) PMO Analyst
4 4 (8.163%) Developer
5 3 (6.122%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.082%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.082%) Tester
6 2 (4.082%) Implementation Manager
6 2 (4.082%) Performance Tester
6 2 (4.082%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.082%) Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (2.041%) Lead Business Analyst
7 1 (2.041%) PMO Manager
7 1 (2.041%) C++/Java Developer
7 1 (2.041%) Payments Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.163%) Smartcard
1 4 (8.163%) EPoS
2 3 (6.122%) EMV
3 2 (4.082%) Open Source
3 2 (4.082%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.082%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.041%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.041%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.041%) Neural Network
4 1 (2.041%) Derivative
4 1 (2.041%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.082%) UNIX
2 1 (2.041%) Windows
2 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.33%) Business Analysis
2 6 (12.24%) Change Management
3 5 (10.20%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (10.20%) Project Management
3 5 (10.20%) Test Strategy
4 4 (8.163%) PRINCE2
5 3 (6.122%) Validation
5 3 (6.122%) Migration
5 3 (6.122%) Test Management
5 3 (6.122%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (4.082%) Test Scripting
6 2 (4.082%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (4.082%) Multithreading
6 2 (4.082%) Systems Analysis
6 2 (4.082%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (4.082%) Customer Insight
6 2 (4.082%) Test Automation
6 2 (4.082%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (4.082%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.33%) SQL
2 4 (8.163%) Java
3 2 (4.082%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.082%) C
3 2 (4.082%) Scala
4 1 (2.041%) Python
4 1 (2.041%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.163%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.041%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.041%) VMware ESX
1 1 (2.041%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.041%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.041%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (8.163%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.041%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.163%) Oracle
3 1 (2.041%) Cisco
3 1 (2.041%) VMware
3 1 (2.041%) SonicWALL
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