Gloucestershire E-Commerce Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the Gloucestershire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Andover Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Isle of Man Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Lichfield Liverpool London 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 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	50
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	7	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.512 %	1.058 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£335
Average daily rate	£404	£335
% change on same period last year	+20.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.29	£31.18
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Processes & Methodologies Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	463	378
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.652 %	0.382 %
Daily rates quoted	135	132
Average minimum daily rate	£384	£379
Average daily rate	£395	£392
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.40	£29.78
Average hourly rate	£27.76	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.13	£31.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
E-Commerce South West

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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 10 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 10 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
Cheltenham	-	3	£425	-
Cirencester	-	2	£325	-
Gloucester	-	1	-	-

E-Commerce South West

E-Commerce
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 4 (57.14 %) C# 1 4 (57.14 %) ASP.NET 1 4 (57.14 %) .NET 2 3 (42.86 %) WCF 3 2 (28.57 %) CGI 3 2 (28.57 %) PHP 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL 4 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET 4 1 (14.29 %) ISEB 4 1 (14.29 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (14.29 %) Commerce Server 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 4 1 (14.29 %) ADO.NET 4 1 (14.29 %) Regression Testing

4 1 (14.29 %) Finance 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (14.29 %) Incident Management 4 1 (14.29 %) Online Banking 4 1 (14.29 %) Banking 4 1 (14.29 %) Retail 4 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (14.29 %) Web Testing 4 1 (14.29 %) Test Scripting

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 4 (57.14 %) .NET 1 4 (57.14 %) ASP.NET 2 3 (42.86 %) WCF 3 2 (28.57 %) CGI 4 1 (14.29 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (14.29 %) Commerce Server
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance 1 1 (14.29 %) Banking 1 1 (14.29 %) Retail 1 1 (14.29 %) Online Banking
Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) .NET Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) .NET Web Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) PHP Web Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) Web Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) PHP Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) Tester 4 1 (14.29 %) UAT Tester	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) Regression Testing 1 1 (14.29 %) Incident Management 1 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 1 (14.29 %) Web Testing 1 1 (14.29 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 4 (57.14 %) C# 2 2 (28.57 %) PHP 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL 3 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) ISEB