The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 39 74 72
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -2
Contract jobs citing Retail 32 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.717% 0.615% 0.485%
As % of the General category 10.19% 1.570% 1.946%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
Average daily rate £413 £343 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.43% +14.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £339 £329 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £357 £486
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 - £100.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +73.91%
All of the General Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
314 446 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 36.47% 39.19% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 126 104
Average daily rate £325 £309 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.34% -11.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £219 £176
10% offered a daily rate of more than £437 £519 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.38 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.86% +3.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Retail
Berkshire

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading Retail Hourly Rate Histogram

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 32 (41.56%) Oracle
2 31 (40.26%) Windows
3 28 (36.36%) SQL
4 26 (33.77%) Oracle Retail
5 24 (31.17%) Microsoft
5 24 (31.17%) VMware
6 22 (28.57%) Active Directory
7 20 (25.97%) Windows Server 2008
8 19 (24.68%) Windows Server 2003
9 18 (23.38%) SQL Server
10 17 (22.08%) MS Office
11 16 (20.78%) SharePoint
12 14 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
13 13 (16.88%) VMware Infrastructure
13 13 (16.88%) PowerShell
13 13 (16.88%) SQL Server 2005
14 10 (12.99%) MS Exchange
14 10 (12.99%) Exchange Server 2007
15 9 (11.69%) SharePoint 2010
15 9 (11.69%) MS Visio
15 9 (11.69%) XML
15 9 (11.69%) PL/SQL
16 8 (10.39%) VMware ESXi
17 7 (9.091%) Finance
17 7 (9.091%) .NET
17 7 (9.091%) J2EE
17 7 (9.091%) Windows XP
18 6 (7.792%) CRM
18 6 (7.792%) HTML
18 6 (7.792%) Workflow

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 9 (11.69%) XML
2 7 (9.091%) .NET
2 7 (9.091%) J2EE
3 6 (7.792%) HTML
4 5 (6.494%) jQuery
4 5 (6.494%) CSS
5 4 (5.195%) WCF
6 3 (3.896%) Ajax
6 3 (3.896%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (3.896%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 3 (3.896%) Web Services
6 3 (3.896%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.597%) JSP
7 2 (2.597%) CSS3
7 2 (2.597%) HTML5
8 1 (1.299%) JSON
8 1 (1.299%) Velocity
8 1 (1.299%) FreeMarker
8 1 (1.299%) WebSphere
8 1 (1.299%) WF
Application Platforms
1 16 (20.78%) SharePoint
2 10 (12.99%) MS Exchange
2 10 (12.99%) Exchange Server 2007
3 9 (11.69%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (6.494%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (3.896%) ESB
5 3 (3.896%) CMS
5 3 (3.896%) Apache
5 3 (3.896%) Tomcat
6 2 (2.597%) WebLogic
6 2 (2.597%) IIS
6 2 (2.597%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (2.597%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (1.299%) Jetty
7 1 (1.299%) Resin
7 1 (1.299%) Umbraco
7 1 (1.299%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (1.299%) FileNet
7 1 (1.299%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (1.299%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (22.08%) MS Office
2 9 (11.69%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.597%) Photoshop
3 2 (2.597%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 26 (33.77%) Oracle Retail
2 3 (3.896%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.299%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.195%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.597%) SSL
2 2 (2.597%) LAN
2 2 (2.597%) VoIP
2 2 (2.597%) HTTP
2 2 (2.597%) CTI
2 2 (2.597%) SAN
3 1 (1.299%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.299%) Firewall
3 1 (1.299%) LDAP
3 1 (1.299%) Broadband
3 1 (1.299%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) SQL Server
2 14 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (16.88%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (6.494%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (5.195%) Oracle Discoverer
6 3 (3.896%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (3.896%) IDOL
6 3 (3.896%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (3.896%) Subversion
2 1 (1.299%) Ant
2 1 (1.299%) JUnit
General
1 7 (9.091%) Finance
2 4 (5.195%) Back Office
2 4 (5.195%) Banking
3 3 (3.896%) Marketing
3 3 (3.896%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.597%) Electronics
4 2 (2.597%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.299%) Billing
5 1 (1.299%) Legal
5 1 (1.299%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.299%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Consultant
2 12 (15.58%) Oracle Consultant
3 11 (14.29%) Developer
4 10 (12.99%) Administrator
5 9 (11.69%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 7 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.195%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (3.896%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.896%) C# Programmer
8 3 (3.896%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (3.896%) DBA
8 3 (3.896%) Programmer
8 3 (3.896%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.896%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.896%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (3.896%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.896%) Team Leader
9 2 (2.597%) Java Developer
9 2 (2.597%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.195%) Clustering
2 2 (2.597%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.299%) Derivative
3 1 (1.299%) Open Source
3 1 (1.299%) FMCG
3 1 (1.299%) iPhone
3 1 (1.299%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 31 (40.26%) Windows
2 20 (25.97%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (24.68%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (9.091%) Windows XP
5 5 (6.494%) UNIX
6 4 (5.195%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.597%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (7.792%) CRM
1 6 (7.792%) Workflow
2 5 (6.494%) ITIL
3 4 (5.195%) E-Commerce
3 4 (5.195%) System Testing
4 3 (3.896%) Web Development
4 3 (3.896%) MVC
4 3 (3.896%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (2.597%) ERP
5 2 (2.597%) Project Management
5 2 (2.597%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (2.597%) WFM
6 1 (1.299%) Predictive Analytics
6 1 (1.299%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (1.299%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (1.299%) Content Management
6 1 (1.299%) Logistics
6 1 (1.299%) Multithreading
6 1 (1.299%) Performance Testing
6 1 (1.299%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.36%) SQL
2 13 (16.88%) PowerShell
3 9 (11.69%) PL/SQL
4 5 (6.494%) Java
5 3 (3.896%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.896%) C#
6 1 (1.299%) Bash shell
6 1 (1.299%) Perl
6 1 (1.299%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (3.896%) Degree
2 2 (2.597%) HNC
3 1 (1.299%) OCP
3 1 (1.299%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.299%) Avaya Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.299%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 13 (16.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.39%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (7.792%) vSphere
5 4 (5.195%) ISA Server
6 2 (2.597%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.299%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.299%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (1.299%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (7.792%) SCOM
2 5 (6.494%) SCCM
3 2 (2.597%) HP SIM
4 1 (1.299%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.299%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.299%) Foglight
4 1 (1.299%) MOM
Vendors
1 32 (41.56%) Oracle
2 24 (31.17%) Microsoft
2 24 (31.17%) VMware
3 6 (7.792%) Clearswift
4 5 (6.494%) HP
5 2 (2.597%) JBoss
5 2 (2.597%) Avaya
5 2 (2.597%) IBM
5 2 (2.597%) Verint
6 1 (1.299%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.299%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.299%) hybris
6 1 (1.299%) Venda
6 1 (1.299%) Retek
6 1 (1.299%) Websense
6 1 (1.299%) ReadSoft
6 1 (1.299%) ATG
6 1 (1.299%) Cisco
6 1 (1.299%) Dell
6 1 (1.299%) Juniper
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