London Retail Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in contract IT jobs within the London region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Retailing
Location Amersham Andover Ascot Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Jersey Kegworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Pudsey Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stockport Street Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Witney Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	48
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	1078	1460
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.423 %	1.454 %
As % of the category below	5.690 %	5.264 %
Daily rates quoted	548	675
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£409
Average daily rate	£436	£432
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£463	£456
UK excluding London average daily rate	£408	£393
% change on same period last year	+3.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.86	£24.44
Average hourly rate	£23.35	£25.17
% change on same period last year	-7.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.83	£25.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.95	£19.35
% change on same period last year	+49.60 %
General London
Matching contract IT job ads	18945	27738
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	25.00 %	27.63 %
Daily rates quoted	8842	11361
Average minimum daily rate	£436	£444
Average daily rate	£469	£474
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£502	£505
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	712	947
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.10	£24.33
Average hourly rate	£26.95	£26.14
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.81	£27.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.94	£27.04
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Retail 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.

Retail
Demand Trend

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

Retail
Daily Rate Trend

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

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail across the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail across the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Retail
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 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	+15	165	£423	-2.06 %
Docklands, London	+5	13	£541	+0.47 %
Croydon	+8	5	-	-
Canary Wharf	+9	5	£470	+24.29 %
Kingston Upon Thames	-	5	£313	-
Uxbridge	-15	5	£375	+11.11 %
Ealing	+3	3	£418	+49.10 %
Luton	-	3	£500	-
Surbiton	-	2	£400	-
Greenford	-	2	-	-
Feltham	-5	1	£445	+10.24 %

Retail England

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 723 (36.50 %) Banking 2 591 (29.83 %) Finance 3 528 (26.65 %) Retail Banking 4 258 (13.02 %) E-Commerce 5 247 (12.47 %) Project Management 6 166 (8.380 %) Oracle 7 157 (7.925 %) Stakeholder Management 8 153 (7.723 %) SQL 9 152 (7.673 %) PRINCE2 10 146 (7.370 %) .NET 11 143 (7.219 %) SAP 12 125 (6.310 %) Business Analysis 13 122 (6.159 %) SQL Server 14 114 (5.755 %) Windows 15 101 (5.098 %) Java

16 100 (5.048 %) Microsoft 17 97 (4.897 %) UNIX 18 95 (4.796 %) Investment Management 19 93 (4.695 %) C# 20 85 (4.291 %) XML 21 80 (4.038 %) Datawarehouse 22 75 (3.786 %) Migration 23 74 (3.735 %) ASP.NET 24 72 (3.635 %) Internet 25 70 (3.534 %) EPoS 25 70 (3.534 %) Change Management 26 69 (3.483 %) UML 27 65 (3.281 %) Insurance 27 65 (3.281 %) Business Intelligence 28 63 (3.180 %) J2EE

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 1 146 (7.370 %) .NET 2 85 (4.291 %) XML 3 74 (3.735 %) ASP.NET 4 63 (3.180 %) J2EE 5 59 (2.978 %) HTML 6 58 (2.928 %) CSS 6 58 (2.928 %) WebSphere 7 35 (1.767 %) JSP 8 33 (1.666 %) XHTML 9 29 (1.464 %) WebServices 9 29 (1.464 %) AJAX 10 24 (1.212 %) XSLT 11 23 (1.161 %) Spring 12 18 (0.909 %) Hibernate 13 14 (0.707 %) EJB 14 13 (0.656 %) EDI 15 12 (0.606 %) ASP 15 12 (0.606 %) Struts 15 12 (0.606 %) Servlets 15 12 (0.606 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 39 (1.969 %) SAS 2 31 (1.565 %) SharePoint 3 30 (1.514 %) Commerce Server 4 24 (1.212 %) Commerce Server 2007 4 24 (1.212 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 18 (0.909 %) BizTalk Server 6 15 (0.757 %) WebLogic 7 13 (0.656 %) CMS 8 10 (0.505 %) MS Exchange 9 9 (0.454 %) MQSeries 10 8 (0.404 %) Apache 10 8 (0.404 %) Tomcat 10 8 (0.404 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 7 (0.353 %) IIS 12 6 (0.303 %) Lotus Notes 13 5 (0.252 %) CICS 14 4 (0.202 %) WebSphere MQ 15 3 (0.151 %) Exchange Server 2000 15 3 (0.151 %) ATG Dynamo 16 2 (0.101 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 63 (3.180 %) MS Excel 2 41 (2.070 %) MS Visio 2 41 (2.070 %) MS Office 3 29 (1.464 %) MS Project 4 16 (0.808 %) MS PowerPoint 5 9 (0.454 %) Fireworks 6 8 (0.404 %) Photoshop 7 5 (0.252 %) CA Clarity 8 3 (0.151 %) Spreadsheet 8 3 (0.151 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 2 (0.101 %) MATLAB 9 2 (0.101 %) SPSS 10 1 (0.050 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 33 (1.666 %) SAP Retail 2 32 (1.615 %) RMDS 3 13 (0.656 %) SAP CO 3 13 (0.656 %) SAP FI 3 13 (0.656 %) SAP FI/CO 4 12 (0.606 %) SAP ERP 5 10 (0.505 %) SAP HR 6 9 (0.454 %) SAP SD 7 8 (0.404 %) Retail-J 7 8 (0.404 %) SAP HCM 8 5 (0.252 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 8 5 (0.252 %) SAP AFS 8 5 (0.252 %) SAP CRM 9 4 (0.202 %) Oracle Applications 9 4 (0.202 %) Misys Midas 10 3 (0.151 %) Summit 10 3 (0.151 %) VisionPLUS 10 3 (0.151 %) Temenos Globus 10 3 (0.151 %) Oracle 11i 11 2 (0.101 %) SAP WM
Communications & Networking 1 72 (3.635 %) Internet 2 19 (0.959 %) LAN 3 18 (0.909 %) WAN 4 16 (0.808 %) SAN 5 12 (0.606 %) Firewall 5 12 (0.606 %) TCP/IP 6 11 (0.555 %) ATM 6 11 (0.555 %) Intranet 7 8 (0.404 %) Network Security 8 7 (0.353 %) DNS 9 6 (0.303 %) Wireless 9 6 (0.303 %) DHCP 10 5 (0.252 %) Ethernet 10 5 (0.252 %) 3G 11 4 (0.202 %) VPN 12 3 (0.151 %) BSS 12 3 (0.151 %) FTP 12 3 (0.151 %) SMS 12 3 (0.151 %) Extranet 12 3 (0.151 %) NetScreen	Database & Business Intelligence 1 122 (6.159 %) SQL Server 2 80 (4.038 %) Datawarehouse 3 52 (2.625 %) SQL Server 2005 4 32 (1.615 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 28 (1.413 %) Oracle 10g 6 25 (1.262 %) BusinessObjects 7 23 (1.161 %) MS Access 8 21 (1.060 %) ETL 9 19 (0.959 %) DB2 10 10 (0.505 %) SQL Server 2000 10 10 (0.505 %) Base SAS 11 8 (0.404 %) Data Cleansing 12 7 (0.353 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 7 (0.353 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 7 (0.353 %) MySQL 13 6 (0.303 %) GIS 13 6 (0.303 %) Crystal Reports 13 6 (0.303 %) Oracle Reports 13 6 (0.303 %) BusinessObjects XI 14 5 (0.252 %) Reference Data
Development Applications 1 25 (1.262 %) TestDirector 2 15 (0.757 %) Flash 3 11 (0.555 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 9 (0.454 %) JUnit 4 9 (0.454 %) Dreamweaver 4 9 (0.454 %) LoadRunner 5 8 (0.404 %) NUnit 6 7 (0.353 %) Eclipse 6 7 (0.353 %) Visual Studio 6 7 (0.353 %) QuickTest Pro 7 6 (0.303 %) WinRunner 7 6 (0.303 %) Ant 8 5 (0.252 %) PVCS 9 4 (0.202 %) RequisitePro 9 4 (0.202 %) FitNesse 10 3 (0.151 %) Subversion 10 3 (0.151 %) Rational Rose 10 3 (0.151 %) Synon 10 3 (0.151 %) JDeveloper 11 2 (0.101 %) ProC	General 1 723 (36.50 %) Banking 2 591 (29.83 %) Finance 3 528 (26.65 %) Retail Banking 4 65 (3.281 %) Insurance 5 53 (2.675 %) Marketing 6 44 (2.221 %) Online Banking 7 42 (2.120 %) Telecoms 8 35 (1.767 %) Front Office 9 32 (1.615 %) Investment Banking 10 31 (1.565 %) Back Office 11 28 (1.413 %) Government 12 22 (1.111 %) Education 13 19 (0.959 %) FMCG 14 14 (0.707 %) Legal 15 13 (0.656 %) Manufacturing 15 13 (0.656 %) Financial Institution 16 12 (0.606 %) Billing 17 9 (0.454 %) Pensions 17 9 (0.454 %) Corporate Banking 18 8 (0.404 %) Private Banking
Job Titles 1 645 (32.56 %) Analyst 2 425 (21.45 %) Business Analyst 3 394 (19.89 %) Project Manager 4 229 (11.56 %) Developer 5 157 (7.925 %) Consultant 6 107 (5.401 %) Architect 7 69 (3.483 %) .NET Developer 8 67 (3.382 %) Trainee 9 59 (2.978 %) Banking Business Analyst 10 50 (2.524 %) SAP Consultant 11 49 (2.473 %) Senior Analyst 12 46 (2.322 %) Web Developer 13 43 (2.171 %) Solutions Architect 13 43 (2.171 %) Programme Manager 14 42 (2.120 %) Systems Analyst 15 39 (1.969 %) Test Analyst 15 39 (1.969 %) Support Analyst 16 36 (1.817 %) Java Developer 17 35 (1.767 %) Senior Manager 18 34 (1.716 %) Test Manager	Miscellaneous 1 70 (3.534 %) EPoS 2 52 (2.625 %) Derivative 3 36 (1.817 %) Credit Derivative 4 32 (1.615 %) Credit Risk 5 31 (1.565 %) Fixed Income 6 27 (1.363 %) French Language 7 26 (1.312 %) AS400 8 21 (1.060 %) Equities 9 17 (0.858 %) Management Information System 10 15 (0.757 %) PMI 11 14 (0.707 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 12 13 (0.656 %) Chip and PIN 13 11 (0.555 %) EFT 14 10 (0.505 %) W3C 15 9 (0.454 %) Italian Language 15 9 (0.454 %) EMV 16 8 (0.404 %) E-Learning 16 8 (0.404 %) Mainframe 16 8 (0.404 %) Spanish Language 17 7 (0.353 %) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems 1 114 (5.755 %) Windows 2 97 (4.897 %) UNIX 3 32 (1.615 %) Solaris 4 31 (1.565 %) Linux 5 24 (1.212 %) Windows Server 2003 6 23 (1.161 %) AIX 6 23 (1.161 %) Windows XP 7 22 (1.111 %) Windows 2000 8 20 (1.010 %) Red Hat Linux 9 16 (0.808 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 5 (0.252 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 5 (0.252 %) Windows Vista 10 5 (0.252 %) zOS 11 2 (0.101 %) HPUX 12 1 (0.050 %) VMS 12 1 (0.050 %) MVS 12 1 (0.050 %) Mac OS X 12 1 (0.050 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 258 (13.02 %) E-Commerce 2 247 (12.47 %) Project Management 3 157 (7.925 %) Stakeholder Management 4 152 (7.673 %) PRINCE2 5 125 (6.310 %) Business Analysis 6 95 (4.796 %) Investment Management 7 75 (3.786 %) Migration 8 70 (3.534 %) Change Management 9 69 (3.483 %) UML 10 65 (3.281 %) Business Intelligence 11 63 (3.180 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 46 (2.322 %) Logistics 13 37 (1.868 %) Risk Analysis 13 37 (1.868 %) Programme Management 14 36 (1.817 %) CRM 15 33 (1.666 %) ERP 16 32 (1.615 %) Test Scripting 16 32 (1.615 %) RUP 17 28 (1.413 %) Supplier Management 17 28 (1.413 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 153 (7.723 %) SQL 2 101 (5.098 %) Java 3 93 (4.695 %) C# 4 52 (2.625 %) VBA 5 50 (2.524 %) JavaScript 6 27 (1.363 %) VB 7 21 (1.060 %) VB.NET 8 16 (0.808 %) Transact-SQL 9 13 (0.656 %) C 10 9 (0.454 %) C++ 11 8 (0.404 %) Perl 11 8 (0.404 %) PL/SQL 11 8 (0.404 %) RPG 11 8 (0.404 %) ActionScript 12 7 (0.353 %) VB6 13 6 (0.303 %) ABAP 13 6 (0.303 %) VBScript 13 6 (0.303 %) DHTML 14 4 (0.202 %) Shell Script 15 3 (0.151 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 39 (1.969 %) Degree 2 29 (1.464 %) ISEB 3 26 (1.312 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 16 (0.808 %) Citrix Certification 5 12 (0.606 %) PMP 5 12 (0.606 %) PMI Certification 6 8 (0.404 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 7 (0.353 %) Cisco Certification 8 4 (0.202 %) CCNP 8 4 (0.202 %) Microsoft Certification 8 4 (0.202 %) MCSE 9 3 (0.151 %) Chartered Engineer 9 3 (0.151 %) ITIL Certification 9 3 (0.151 %) CCIE 10 2 (0.101 %) CIMA 10 2 (0.101 %) ACCA 10 2 (0.101 %) CCEA 10 2 (0.101 %) CCA 11 1 (0.050 %) ISTQB 11 1 (0.050 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 26 (1.312 %) Basel II 2 23 (1.161 %) QA 3 12 (0.606 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 12 (0.606 %) SLA 4 4 (0.202 %) PCI DSS 5 2 (0.101 %) MiFID 6 1 (0.050 %) WAI 6 1 (0.050 %) ISO9001 6 1 (0.050 %) ISO8583	System Software 1 27 (1.363 %) Active Directory 2 20 (1.010 %) NetBackup 3 16 (0.808 %) NFS 4 7 (0.353 %) Oracle RAC 5 3 (0.151 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 3 (0.151 %) MSMQ 5 3 (0.151 %) Oracle RMAN 6 2 (0.101 %) VMware ESX 6 2 (0.101 %) ISA Server 6 2 (0.101 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 1 (0.050 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 9 (0.454 %) MOM 2 8 (0.404 %) SCOM 3 6 (0.303 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 6 (0.303 %) Tivoli 4 3 (0.151 %) Unicenter 4 3 (0.151 %) Tivoli Configuration Manager 4 3 (0.151 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (0.101 %) RepliStor 5 2 (0.101 %) MIMEsweeper 5 2 (0.101 %) MAINVIEW 5 2 (0.101 %) Legato 5 2 (0.101 %) OMEGAMON 5 2 (0.101 %) EMC NetWorker 6 1 (0.050 %) ServiceCenter 6 1 (0.050 %) BMC PATROL 6 1 (0.050 %) Tivoli NetView 6 1 (0.050 %) CiscoWorks 6 1 (0.050 %) OpenView 6 1 (0.050 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 166 (8.380 %) Oracle 2 143 (7.219 %) SAP 3 100 (5.048 %) Microsoft 4 47 (2.373 %) Cognos 5 42 (2.120 %) Cisco 6 33 (1.666 %) Reuters 7 30 (1.514 %) MicroStrategy 8 29 (1.464 %) Retek 9 26 (1.312 %) Citrix 9 26 (1.312 %) JDA 10 25 (1.262 %) Business Objects 11 20 (1.010 %) IBM 11 20 (1.010 %) Red Hat 12 19 (0.959 %) Bloomberg 13 17 (0.858 %) Mitel 13 17 (0.858 %) VERITAS 14 15 (0.757 %) Yantra 14 15 (0.757 %) Sun 15 13 (0.656 %) Fundtech 16 10 (0.505 %) Siebel