London Retail-J Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Retail-J skills within the London region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail-J over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Retail-J
Location Berkshire England Hampshire London Reading South East Thames Valley UK	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	400	475
Rank change on same period last year	+75
Matching contract IT job ads	4	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.165 %	0.087 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£367	-
Average daily rate	£367	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£367	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Business Applications London
Matching contract IT job ads	2425	3466
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.200 %	3.452 %
Daily rates quoted	839	1123
Average minimum daily rate	£455	£453
Average daily rate	£490	£486
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£525	£520
UK excluding London average daily rate	£443	£421
% change on same period last year	+5.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	65	79
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.26	£25.05
Average hourly rate	£39.34	£27.40
% change on same period last year	+43.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.41	£29.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.70	£24.63
% change on same period last year	+12.49 %
Retail-J 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Retail-J across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail-J across the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Retail-J 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-J.

1 8 (100.00 %) Retail 2 4 (50.00 %) Java 3 3 (37.50 %) JDeveloper 4 2 (25.00 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (12.50 %) Casewise 5 1 (12.50 %) Data Architecture 5 1 (12.50 %) EPoS 5 1 (12.50 %) SAP 5 1 (12.50 %) Back Office 5 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Retail-J 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-J. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) JDeveloper	General 1 8 (100.00 %) Retail 2 1 (12.50 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Consultant 2 2 (25.00 %) Business Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Configuration Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Java Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) SAP Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Business Analysis 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Architecture 2 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) Java
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Casewise 1 1 (12.50 %) SAP