The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 17 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 North Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 24 19 30
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +11
Contract jobs citing Retail 3 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 1.935% 3.911% 1.648%
As % of the General category 9.091% 10.45% 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £388 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.81% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £6.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £11.58
% change year-on-year
+18.42% +64.14%
All of the General Category
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
33 67 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 21.29% 37.43% 44.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 35
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £270 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £436
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
Average hourly rate £9.75 £16.50 £15.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.90% +9.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Retail
Yorkshire

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire Retail Daily Rate Trend

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail across the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North Yorkshire Retail Daily Rate Histogram

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
York -6 1 - -
Retail
Yorkshire

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Extranet
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Content Management
2 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
2 1 (16.67%) Ajax
2 1 (16.67%) Omniture
2 1 (16.67%) MCTS
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) EPiServer
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) Ajax
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 1 (16.67%) FMCG
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Content Management
2 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCTS
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Omniture
2 1 (16.67%) EPiServer
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco