The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough 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 Peterborough 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 14 10 18
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +8
Contract jobs citing Retail 3 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 3.191% 10.71% 5.405%
As % of the General category 8.108% 37.50% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
Average daily rate £313 £438 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £438 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £438 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
37 24 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 39.36% 28.57% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 18
Average daily rate £446 £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £441 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £493 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
Average hourly rate £32.00 £30.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.91% +12.96%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Retail
Cambridgeshire

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 7 (53.85%) .NET
1 7 (53.85%) J2EE
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
1 7 (53.85%) Web Services
1 7 (53.85%) RUP
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle 8/8i
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
1 7 (53.85%) BizTalk Server
1 7 (53.85%) webMethods
1 7 (53.85%) Unified Process
1 7 (53.85%) TOGAF
1 7 (53.85%) WebSphere
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
1 7 (53.85%) Talend Open Studio
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (53.85%) Talend
2 6 (46.15%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (46.15%) Waterfall
2 6 (46.15%) Service Management
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) RAD
2 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 5 (38.46%) ESB
4 4 (30.77%) Finance
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Middleware
5 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 2 (15.38%) QA
5 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 7 (53.85%) .NET
1 7 (53.85%) J2EE
1 7 (53.85%) Web Services
1 7 (53.85%) WebSphere
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (15.38%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (38.46%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) LAN
1 1 (7.692%) WAN
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Head of User Experience
4 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) RUP
1 7 (53.85%) Unified Process
1 7 (53.85%) TOGAF
2 6 (46.15%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (46.15%) Waterfall
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) RAD
2 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 6 (46.15%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
3 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
3 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Information Architecture
4 1 (7.692%) Analytics
4 1 (7.692%) User Stories
4 1 (7.692%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
1 7 (53.85%) webMethods
1 7 (53.85%) Talend
2 1 (7.692%) Cisco
2 1 (7.692%) Juniper
2 1 (7.692%) CODA
2 1 (7.692%) CheckPoint