Reading E-Commerce Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Abingdon Amersham Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Lichfield Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	63
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	12	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.000 %	0.865 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£317
Average daily rate	£205	£358
% change on same period last year	-42.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£210	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£367
% change on same period last year	+2.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.14	£35.31
% change on same period last year	-20.30 %
Processes & Methodologies Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	600	578
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.791 %	0.613 %
Daily rates quoted	197	169
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£345
Average daily rate	£348	£370
% change on same period last year	-5.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.89	£34.23
Average hourly rate	£30.21	£36.17
% change on same period last year	-16.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.52	£38.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
E-Commerce Berkshire

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.

E-Commerce
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

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

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

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

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce.

1 9 (52.94 %) Java 1 9 (52.94 %) J2EE 2 8 (47.06 %) MSI 3 6 (35.29 %) Retail 4 5 (29.41 %) ATG 4 5 (29.41 %) HTML 4 5 (29.41 %) CSS 5 4 (23.53 %) JavaScript 5 4 (23.53 %) XHTML 5 4 (23.53 %) ATG Dynamo 5 4 (23.53 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (17.65 %) Linux 6 3 (17.65 %) PHP 6 3 (17.65 %) MySQL 7 2 (11.76 %) XML

7 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 7 2 (11.76 %) Photoshop 7 2 (11.76 %) Unix 7 2 (11.76 %) Apache 7 2 (11.76 %) Flash 7 2 (11.76 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 2 (11.76 %) Direct Marketing 7 2 (11.76 %) PHP5 7 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (11.76 %) Marketing 8 1 (5.882 %) Web Development 8 1 (5.882 %) Derivative 8 1 (5.882 %) Pensions 8 1 (5.882 %) CCSE 8 1 (5.882 %) Content Management

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (52.94 %) J2EE 2 5 (29.41 %) HTML 2 5 (29.41 %) CSS 3 4 (23.53 %) XHTML 4 2 (11.76 %) XML 5 1 (5.882 %) XSL 5 1 (5.882 %) JSP 5 1 (5.882 %) WebServices 5 1 (5.882 %) .NET 5 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (5.882 %) WAP 5 1 (5.882 %) LAMP 5 1 (5.882 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 4 (23.53 %) ATG Dynamo 2 2 (11.76 %) Apache 3 1 (5.882 %) Commerce Server 3 1 (5.882 %) WebLogic Portal 3 1 (5.882 %) Commerce Server 2007
Applications 1 2 (11.76 %) Photoshop 1 2 (11.76 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.882 %) Cisco PIX 1 1 (5.882 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (17.65 %) MySQL 2 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 8 (47.06 %) MSI 2 2 (11.76 %) Flash
General 1 6 (35.29 %) Retail 2 4 (23.53 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (11.76 %) Marketing 4 1 (5.882 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 9 (52.94 %) Developer 2 5 (29.41 %) Senior Developer 2 5 (29.41 %) Java Developer 2 5 (29.41 %) Architect 3 4 (23.53 %) J2EE Developer 3 4 (23.53 %) J2EE Architect 3 4 (23.53 %) Senior J2EE Developer 3 4 (23.53 %) Senior Java Developer 3 4 (23.53 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 3 4 (23.53 %) Java Architect 3 4 (23.53 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 3 (17.65 %) PHP Developer 5 2 (11.76 %) Web Designer 6 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (5.882 %) Information Architect 6 1 (5.882 %) .NET Developer 6 1 (5.882 %) C# Developer 6 1 (5.882 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (5.882 %) Cisco Support 6 1 (5.882 %) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.882 %) W3C 1 1 (5.882 %) Derivative	Operating Systems 1 3 (17.65 %) Linux 2 2 (11.76 %) Unix 3 1 (5.882 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.76 %) Direct Marketing 2 1 (5.882 %) Usability Testing 2 1 (5.882 %) OOP 2 1 (5.882 %) B2B 2 1 (5.882 %) B2C 2 1 (5.882 %) E-business 2 1 (5.882 %) SEO 2 1 (5.882 %) Content Management 2 1 (5.882 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 9 (52.94 %) Java 2 4 (23.53 %) JavaScript 3 3 (17.65 %) PHP 4 2 (11.76 %) PHP5 5 1 (5.882 %) PHP4 5 1 (5.882 %) C# 5 1 (5.882 %) SQL 5 1 (5.882 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 1 (5.882 %) CCSP 1 1 (5.882 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (5.882 %) CCSE 1 1 (5.882 %) Degree	Vendors 1 5 (29.41 %) ATG 2 1 (5.882 %) Oracle 2 1 (5.882 %) Vignette 2 1 (5.882 %) Cisco 2 1 (5.882 %) BEA 2 1 (5.882 %) Nokia 2 1 (5.882 %) Red Hat 2 1 (5.882 %) CheckPoint