The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 36 35 37
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Contract jobs citing Retail 2 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.671% 0.746% 1.987%
As % of the General category 1.835% 1.905% 7.792%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £251 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £7.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +73.91%
All of the General Category
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
109 105 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 36.58% 39.18% 25.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 37
Average daily rate £339 £260 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.28% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 13
Average hourly rate £27.59 £16.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.19% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.80 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £74.25 £29.25 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Retail
South East

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Retail Daily Rate Trend

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) AutoCAD
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Revit
3 1 (8.333%) Software Deployment
3 1 (8.333%) Investment Management
3 1 (8.333%) Project Management
3 1 (8.333%) MQSeries
3 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
3 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.333%) DHCP
3 1 (8.333%) DNS
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.333%) Avaya
3 1 (8.333%) JDA
3 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
3 1 (8.333%) HTML
3 1 (8.333%) Java
3 1 (8.333%) J2EE
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle
3 1 (8.333%) Ant
3 1 (8.333%) JUnit
3 1 (8.333%) Servlets
3 1 (8.333%) Struts
3 1 (8.333%) Wireless
3 1 (8.333%) Risk Management
3 1 (8.333%) Finance
3 1 (8.333%) Handset
3 1 (8.333%) Hibernate

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (8.333%) HTML
1 1 (8.333%) J2EE
1 1 (8.333%) Servlets
1 1 (8.333%) Struts
1 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
1 1 (8.333%) Spring
1 1 (8.333%) Ajax
1 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) AutoCAD
1 2 (16.67%) Revit
2 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) DHCP
1 1 (8.333%) DNS
1 1 (8.333%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Ant
1 1 (8.333%) JUnit
General
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.333%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (8.333%) Support Analyst
2 1 (8.333%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (8.333%) Field Engineer
2 1 (8.333%) Desktop Support
2 1 (8.333%) Developer
2 1 (8.333%) Analyst
2 1 (8.333%) Consultant
2 1 (8.333%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
2 1 (8.333%) Business Consultant
2 1 (8.333%) Desktop Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
1 1 (8.333%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (8.333%) Software Deployment
1 1 (8.333%) Investment Management
1 1 (8.333%) Project Management
1 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
1 1 (8.333%) Risk Management
1 1 (8.333%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.333%) Avaya
1 1 (8.333%) JDA
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle
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