South Coast Retail Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in contract IT jobs within the South Coast region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Retailing
Location Abingdon Andover Ascot Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crowthorne Croydon Dartford Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Kegworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Pudsey Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Street Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	22
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	3.846 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£375
Average daily rate	-	£388
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£390
% change on same period last year	+5.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.87	£20.31
% change on same period last year	+32.28 %
General South Coast
Matching contract IT job ads	52	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.053 %
Daily rates quoted	18	27
Average minimum daily rate	£390	£458
Average daily rate	£410	£468
% change on same period last year	-12.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£477
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.08	£26.78
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Retail England

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.

Retail
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the South Coast region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Retail
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Retail across the South Coast region.

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the South Coast region.

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast 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 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Programme Management 2 2 (25.00 %) Finance 3 1 (12.50 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio 3 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma 3 1 (12.50 %) Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Retail Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast 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.

Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Banking 2 1 (12.50 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Analyst 2 4 (50.00 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (37.50 %) Project Manager 4 1 (12.50 %) Report Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Programme Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) Sarbanes-Oxley