Retail Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 49 18 12
Rank change year-on-year
-31 -6
Contract jobs citing Retail 77 144 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 3.154% 5.457% 8.458%
As % of the General category 7.319% 10.11% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 106 148
Average daily rate £396 £380 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.21% -15.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £263 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +110.52%
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 1052 1425 1562
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.10% 54.00% 55.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 729 823
Average daily rate £396 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.02% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £486 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 29 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £14.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.69 £9.80 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.15 £34.50 £41.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Retail
UK

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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 -8 50 £413 +9.12%
Glasgow -32 15 £359 +2.50%
Fife - 5 £323 -
Dundee - 2 - -
Stirling -12 1 £400 -
Retail
UK

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 110 (63.22%) Banking
2 97 (55.75%) Retail Banking
3 94 (54.02%) Finance
4 29 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (12.07%) Business Analysis
6 17 (9.770%) Project Management
7 16 (9.195%) Telecoms
8 15 (8.621%) Oracle
8 15 (8.621%) MS Project
9 14 (8.046%) Change Management
10 12 (6.897%) SQL
10 12 (6.897%) Microsoft
11 10 (5.747%) Migration
12 9 (5.172%) Marketing
12 9 (5.172%) Mainframe
12 9 (5.172%) Middleware
13 8 (4.598%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (4.598%) MS Excel
13 8 (4.598%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (4.598%) Data Modelling
13 8 (4.598%) MS Office
13 8 (4.598%) Credit Risk
13 8 (4.598%) User Acceptance Testing
14 7 (4.023%) MS PowerPoint
14 7 (4.023%) Programme Management
14 7 (4.023%) Investment Banking
14 7 (4.023%) CSS
14 7 (4.023%) HTML
14 7 (4.023%) IBM
14 7 (4.023%) MVC

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (5.172%) Middleware
2 7 (4.023%) CSS
2 7 (4.023%) HTML
3 6 (3.448%) HTML5
3 6 (3.448%) Web Services
4 5 (2.874%) Hibernate
4 5 (2.874%) Spring
5 4 (2.299%) CSS3
5 4 (2.299%) .NET
5 4 (2.299%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.149%) JPA
6 2 (1.149%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.149%) EJB
6 2 (1.149%) JMS
6 2 (1.149%) J2EE
6 2 (1.149%) XML
6 2 (1.149%) JDBC
6 2 (1.149%) JSP
6 2 (1.149%) Servlets
6 2 (1.149%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.448%) SAS
2 5 (2.874%) MQSeries
3 4 (2.299%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.575%) SugarCRM
4 1 (0.575%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.575%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.575%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 15 (8.621%) MS Project
2 8 (4.598%) MS Excel
2 8 (4.598%) MS Office
3 7 (4.023%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.575%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.575%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.575%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.575%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (0.575%) Oracle CRM
1 1 (0.575%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.448%) Internet
2 5 (2.874%) Wireless
3 4 (2.299%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.299%) Broadband
4 2 (1.149%) MPLS
4 2 (1.149%) SAN
4 2 (1.149%) ATM
4 2 (1.149%) HTTP
5 1 (0.575%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.575%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.575%) VPN
5 1 (0.575%) LAN
5 1 (0.575%) WLAN
5 1 (0.575%) ADSL
5 1 (0.575%) BGP
5 1 (0.575%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.575%) Intranet
5 1 (0.575%) Firewall
5 1 (0.575%) HSRP
5 1 (0.575%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.598%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.023%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.874%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.874%) DB2
4 3 (1.724%) PowerCenter
4 3 (1.724%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.149%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (1.149%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.149%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.575%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.575%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (2.299%) Git (software)
2 2 (1.149%) Maven
3 1 (0.575%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.575%) ERwin
General
1 110 (63.22%) Banking
2 97 (55.75%) Retail Banking
3 94 (54.02%) Finance
4 16 (9.195%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.172%) Marketing
6 7 (4.023%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.299%) Publishing
8 3 (1.724%) Games
8 3 (1.724%) Back Office
9 2 (1.149%) Legal
9 2 (1.149%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.575%) Advertising
10 1 (0.575%) Front Office
10 1 (0.575%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 63 (36.21%) Analyst
2 38 (21.84%) Business Analyst
3 35 (20.11%) Project Manager
4 16 (9.195%) Developer
5 10 (5.747%) Test Analyst
5 10 (5.747%) Architect
6 7 (4.023%) Financial Business Analyst
6 7 (4.023%) Banking Business Analyst
6 7 (4.023%) Data Analyst
7 6 (3.448%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (3.448%) Systems Analyst
7 6 (3.448%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 6 (3.448%) PMO Analyst
8 5 (2.874%) Java Developer
8 5 (2.874%) Web Developer
8 5 (2.874%) Senior Architect
9 4 (2.299%) Consultant
9 4 (2.299%) Senior Manager
9 4 (2.299%) Applications Developer
9 4 (2.299%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.172%) Mainframe
2 8 (4.598%) Credit Risk
3 5 (2.874%) Smartcard
3 5 (2.874%) EPoS
4 4 (2.299%) Video on Demand
4 4 (2.299%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.299%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.299%) Interactive TV
4 4 (2.299%) IPTV
4 4 (2.299%) Smartphone
5 3 (1.724%) EMV
5 3 (1.724%) Open Source
6 2 (1.149%) FMCG
6 2 (1.149%) Social Media
6 2 (1.149%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.149%) Data Extraction
6 2 (1.149%) Derivative
7 1 (0.575%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.575%) Copywriting
7 1 (0.575%) Neural Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.299%) Linux
2 2 (1.149%) UNIX
2 2 (1.149%) Windows
3 1 (0.575%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.575%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.575%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 21 (12.07%) Business Analysis
3 17 (9.770%) Project Management
4 14 (8.046%) Change Management
5 10 (5.747%) Migration
6 8 (4.598%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (4.598%) Data Modelling
6 8 (4.598%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (4.023%) Programme Management
7 7 (4.023%) MVC
8 6 (3.448%) Business Transformation
8 6 (3.448%) E-Commerce
8 6 (3.448%) Asset Management
8 6 (3.448%) Scrum
8 6 (3.448%) Test Scripting
9 5 (2.874%) Time Management
9 5 (2.874%) Software Engineering
9 5 (2.874%) Data Analysis
9 5 (2.874%) ETL
10 4 (2.299%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.897%) SQL
2 6 (3.448%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.874%) Java
3 5 (2.874%) C
4 4 (2.299%) Ruby
5 3 (1.724%) VB.NET
5 3 (1.724%) Scala
6 2 (1.149%) VBA
6 2 (1.149%) C++
6 2 (1.149%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.575%) VB
7 1 (0.575%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (2.299%) ISEB
2 2 (1.149%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (0.575%) Degree
3 1 (0.575%) HND
3 1 (0.575%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.874%) QA
1 5 (2.874%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.575%) WCAG
2 1 (0.575%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (1.724%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (1.724%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.575%) VMware ESX
2 1 (0.575%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.575%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (3.448%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.575%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 15 (8.621%) Oracle
2 12 (6.897%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.023%) IBM
4 4 (2.299%) Salesforce.com
4 4 (2.299%) Informatica
5 3 (1.724%) VMware
5 3 (1.724%) Teradata
6 2 (1.149%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (1.149%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.575%) DataFlux
7 1 (0.575%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.575%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.575%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.575%) SAP
7 1 (0.575%) JBoss
7 1 (0.575%) Cisco
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