London Commerce Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Commerce Server skills within the London region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Commerce Server over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Commerce Server
Location Berkshire Cambridgeshire City of London Clackmannanshire Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England England Halifax Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties London Maidenhead Midlands North Yorkshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland South East South West South Yorkshire UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	367	458
Rank change on same period last year	+91
Matching contract IT job ads	34	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.707 %	0.171 %
Daily rates quoted	22	7
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£336
Average daily rate	£384	£361
% change on same period last year	+6.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£438	£390
% change on same period last year	+12.43 %
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	£37.50	£31.79
% change on same period last year	+17.97 %
Application Platforms London
Matching contract IT job ads	4812	5840
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.414 %	5.908 %
Daily rates quoted	1857	1868
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£378
Average daily rate	£391	£401
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£424
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	405	473
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.40	£23.47
Average hourly rate	£23.65	£24.91
% change on same period last year	-5.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.90	£26.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Commerce Server 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.

Commerce Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Commerce Server across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Commerce Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Commerce Server across the London region.

Commerce Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Commerce Server across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Commerce Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Commerce Server across the London region.

Commerce Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Commerce Server within the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
City of London	-	2	£350	-

Commerce Server England

Commerce Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Commerce Server 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 Commerce Server.

1 35 (72.92 %) .NET 2 32 (66.67 %) C# 2 32 (66.67 %) Commerce Server 2007 3 29 (60.42 %) ASP.NET 4 28 (58.33 %) E-Commerce 5 26 (54.17 %) SQL Server 5 26 (54.17 %) Retail 6 22 (45.83 %) Microsoft 7 14 (29.17 %) XHTML 7 14 (29.17 %) SQL Server 2005 8 13 (27.08 %) SharePoint 9 11 (22.92 %) CSS 9 11 (22.92 %) JavaScript 9 11 (22.92 %) Content Management 9 11 (22.92 %) SharePoint Server 2007

10 10 (20.83 %) AJAX 10 10 (20.83 %) BizTalk Server 10 10 (20.83 %) XML 11 9 (18.75 %) ADO.NET 11 9 (18.75 %) Transact-SQL 12 8 (16.67 %) SQL 12 8 (16.67 %) SQL Server 7 12 8 (16.67 %) ATG 12 8 (16.67 %) ATG Dynamo 13 7 (14.58 %) B2C 13 7 (14.58 %) Java 13 7 (14.58 %) J2EE 13 7 (14.58 %) WebServices 14 6 (12.50 %) C 14 6 (12.50 %) Web Development

Commerce Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Commerce Server 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 Commerce Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 35 (72.92 %) .NET 2 29 (60.42 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (29.17 %) XHTML 4 11 (22.92 %) CSS 5 10 (20.83 %) XML 5 10 (20.83 %) AJAX 6 9 (18.75 %) ADO.NET 7 7 (14.58 %) J2EE 7 7 (14.58 %) WebServices 8 5 (10.42 %) WCF 9 4 (8.333 %) XSL 9 4 (8.333 %) JSP 10 3 (6.250 %) WF 10 3 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 3 (6.250 %) WinForms 10 3 (6.250 %) J2SE 11 2 (4.167 %) MVC 11 2 (4.167 %) HTML 12 1 (2.083 %) XSLT 12 1 (2.083 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 32 (66.67 %) Commerce Server 2007 2 13 (27.08 %) SharePoint 3 11 (22.92 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 10 (20.83 %) BizTalk Server 5 8 (16.67 %) ATG Dynamo 6 4 (8.333 %) Content Management Server 7 3 (6.250 %) MQSeries 7 3 (6.250 %) EPiServer 8 2 (4.167 %) CMS 9 1 (2.083 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 4 (8.333 %) MS Excel 2 3 (6.250 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.083 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (54.17 %) SQL Server 2 14 (29.17 %) SQL Server 2005 3 8 (16.67 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 26 (54.17 %) Retail 2 4 (8.333 %) Insurance 3 3 (6.250 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 34 (70.83 %) Developer 2 16 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 3 11 (22.92 %) C# Developer 4 7 (14.58 %) Consultant 5 4 (8.333 %) Project Manager 5 4 (8.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 4 (8.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (6.250 %) WinForms Developer 6 3 (6.250 %) SharePoint Consultant 7 2 (4.167 %) SharePoint Developer 7 2 (4.167 %) UI Developer 7 2 (4.167 %) E-Commerce Project Manager 7 2 (4.167 %) Java Developer 7 2 (4.167 %) E-Commerce Manager 7 2 (4.167 %) Senior Developer 8 1 (2.083 %) Senior Project Manager 8 1 (2.083 %) Senior Manager 8 1 (2.083 %) Architect 8 1 (2.083 %) Technical Architect 8 1 (2.083 %) .NET Architect	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.083 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 4 (8.333 %) UNIX 2 2 (4.167 %) Windows 3 1 (2.083 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (58.33 %) E-Commerce 2 11 (22.92 %) Content Management 3 7 (14.58 %) B2C 4 6 (12.50 %) Web Development 5 5 (10.42 %) Agile Software Development 6 4 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 4 (8.333 %) Workflow 7 3 (6.250 %) Project Management 7 3 (6.250 %) EAI 7 3 (6.250 %) UML 7 3 (6.250 %) OO 8 1 (2.083 %) CRM 8 1 (2.083 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 32 (66.67 %) C# 2 11 (22.92 %) JavaScript 3 9 (18.75 %) Transact-SQL 4 8 (16.67 %) SQL 5 7 (14.58 %) Java 6 6 (12.50 %) C 7 3 (6.250 %) DHTML 7 3 (6.250 %) PL/SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.250 %) QA
System Software 1 3 (6.250 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 22 (45.83 %) Microsoft 2 8 (16.67 %) ATG 3 3 (6.250 %) Oracle 4 1 (2.083 %) Omniture