The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-Commerce 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Scotland 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
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 110 68 92
Rank change year-on-year
-42 +24
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 11 37 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.444% 1.383% 0.657%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.651% 2.151% 0.978%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 16
Average daily rate £425 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £200 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £500 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -50.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1689 1720 1840
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.16% 64.28% 67.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 873 954
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 68 49
Average hourly rate £20.50 £24.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.58% -17.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
E-Commerce
UK

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Scotland E-Commerce Jobs Demand Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland E-Commerce Daily Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland E-Commerce Daily Rate Histogram

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland E-Commerce Hourly Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Edinburgh -16 5 £413 -8.33%
Glasgow -21 4 £425 +112.50%
Aberdeen +2 1 - -
E-Commerce
UK

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 17 (60.71%) Marketing
2 14 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 14 (50.00%) Customer Insight
3 8 (28.57%) Banking
4 7 (25.00%) Finance
5 6 (21.43%) Retail
6 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
7 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 3 (10.71%) PHP
7 3 (10.71%) Cognos
7 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (10.71%) CSS
7 3 (10.71%) Project Management
7 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (7.143%) SonicWALL
8 2 (7.143%) HSRP
8 2 (7.143%) FortiGate
8 2 (7.143%) Retail Banking
8 2 (7.143%) jQuery
8 2 (7.143%) PCI DSS
8 2 (7.143%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (7.143%) EIGRP
8 2 (7.143%) Service Delivery
8 2 (7.143%) Firewall
8 2 (7.143%) Management Information System
8 2 (7.143%) Wireless
8 2 (7.143%) BGP
8 2 (7.143%) EPoS
8 2 (7.143%) EMV
8 2 (7.143%) Smartcard

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (10.71%) CSS
2 2 (7.143%) jQuery
2 2 (7.143%) HTML
2 2 (7.143%) Web Services
3 1 (3.571%) XHTML
3 1 (3.571%) XML
3 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.571%) JDBC
3 1 (3.571%) Struts
3 1 (3.571%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.571%) RESTful
3 1 (3.571%) HTML5
3 1 (3.571%) OSGi
3 1 (3.571%) Apache Sling
3 1 (3.571%) Lucene
3 1 (3.571%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) Apache
2 1 (3.571%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.571%) Adobe CQ
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.143%) HSRP
1 2 (7.143%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (7.143%) EIGRP
1 2 (7.143%) Firewall
1 2 (7.143%) Wireless
1 2 (7.143%) BGP
1 2 (7.143%) MPLS
1 2 (7.143%) ADSL
1 2 (7.143%) LAN
1 2 (7.143%) WLAN
1 2 (7.143%) WAN
1 2 (7.143%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.143%) MySQL
General
1 17 (60.71%) Marketing
2 8 (28.57%) Banking
3 7 (25.00%) Finance
4 6 (21.43%) Retail
5 2 (7.143%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.571%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Business Analyst
1 13 (46.43%) Analyst
2 10 (35.71%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 2 (7.143%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 2 (7.143%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Consultant
4 2 (7.143%) PHP Developer
4 2 (7.143%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.571%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (3.571%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 1 (3.571%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Business Consultant
5 1 (3.571%) SQL Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Project Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.571%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.571%) Programmer
5 1 (3.571%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.143%) EPoS
1 2 (7.143%) EMV
1 2 (7.143%) Smartcard
2 1 (3.571%) Telematics
2 1 (3.571%) Online Banking
2 1 (3.571%) Mathematics
2 1 (3.571%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.571%) Copywriting
2 1 (3.571%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.571%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 14 (50.00%) Customer Insight
2 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (10.71%) Project Management
3 2 (7.143%) Service Delivery
3 2 (7.143%) OO
4 1 (3.571%) OOP
4 1 (3.571%) BCP
4 1 (3.571%) DRM
4 1 (3.571%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.571%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (3.571%) Validation
4 1 (3.571%) Business Continuity
4 1 (3.571%) Web Design
4 1 (3.571%) Programme Management
4 1 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.571%) User Experience Design
4 1 (3.571%) Product Management
4 1 (3.571%) Enterprise Content Management
4 1 (3.571%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
1 3 (10.71%) PHP
2 2 (7.143%) SQL
3 1 (3.571%) Python
3 1 (3.571%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (7.143%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Cognos
2 2 (7.143%) SonicWALL
2 2 (7.143%) Cisco
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle
3 1 (3.571%) Adobe
3 1 (3.571%) Alterian
3 1 (3.571%) Google
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