The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 20 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 South East 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 60 43 37
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -6
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 215 344 402
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 2.749% 3.401% 3.907%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.047% 5.266% 6.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 179 226
Average daily rate £400 £363 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -4.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £275 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £533 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 11
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -50.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5312 6532 6680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.92% 64.58% 64.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2748 3133 3027
Average daily rate £375 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 327 358
Average hourly rate £27.00 £27.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.50 £13.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Berkshire -7 71 £401 +14.42%
Hampshire -19 44 £409 +2.18%
Surrey +12 43 £425 +30.76%
Buckinghamshire -5 22 £400 +29.03%
Oxfordshire +5 11 £399 +10.00%
East Sussex +6 7 £325 +8.33%
Middlesex +2 4 £350 -2.77%
Kent -19 4 £300 -25.00%
West Sussex +6 3 £340 +13.33%
Home Counties +2 2 £210 -65.00%
E-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 132 (32.75%) Retail
2 83 (20.60%) JavaScript
3 77 (19.11%) Java
4 67 (16.63%) Project Management
5 65 (16.13%) HTML
5 65 (16.13%) CSS
6 62 (15.38%) Finance
7 59 (14.64%) Agile Software Development
8 57 (14.14%) SQL
9 53 (13.15%) WebSphere
10 45 (11.17%) J2EE
10 45 (11.17%) Scrum
11 43 (10.67%) XML
12 41 (10.17%) Ajax
13 40 (9.926%) Marketing
14 39 (9.677%) PHP
15 35 (8.685%) .NET
15 35 (8.685%) UML
16 34 (8.437%) JSP
16 34 (8.437%) Business Analysis
16 34 (8.437%) Use Case
17 33 (8.189%) C#
18 32 (7.940%) PRINCE2
19 31 (7.692%) ATG
20 29 (7.196%) IBM
20 29 (7.196%) jQuery
20 29 (7.196%) JSTL
21 28 (6.948%) Stakeholder Management
21 28 (6.948%) MVC
22 27 (6.700%) EJB

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 65 (16.13%) HTML
1 65 (16.13%) CSS
2 53 (13.15%) WebSphere
3 45 (11.17%) J2EE
4 43 (10.67%) XML
5 41 (10.17%) Ajax
6 35 (8.685%) .NET
7 34 (8.437%) JSP
8 29 (7.196%) JSTL
8 29 (7.196%) jQuery
9 27 (6.700%) EJB
10 26 (6.452%) JMS
11 23 (5.707%) XHTML
11 23 (5.707%) HTML5
12 22 (5.459%) Spring
13 16 (3.970%) LAMP
13 16 (3.970%) ASP.NET
14 14 (3.474%) Hibernate
15 12 (2.978%) NHibernate
16 11 (2.730%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 20 (4.963%) CMS
2 14 (3.474%) Drupal
3 9 (2.233%) Apache
4 8 (1.985%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.737%) Commerce Server
6 6 (1.489%) Magento
6 6 (1.489%) Confluence
7 3 (0.744%) Adobe CQ
8 2 (0.496%) Windows Azure
8 2 (0.496%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.496%) WordPress
8 2 (0.496%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.496%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.496%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.248%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.248%) ATG Dynamo
9 1 (0.248%) ESB
9 1 (0.248%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.248%) IIS
9 1 (0.248%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 21 (5.211%) Photoshop
2 10 (2.481%) MS Project
3 8 (1.985%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.737%) Fireworks
4 7 (1.737%) MS Excel
4 7 (1.737%) OmniGraffle
5 5 (1.241%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (1.241%) InDesign
6 3 (0.744%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.496%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.241%) BASE24
2 4 (0.993%) WebTrends
2 4 (0.993%) Google Analytics
3 2 (0.496%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.496%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.496%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.496%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.248%) Summit
4 1 (0.248%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.248%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.248%) Apache OFBiz
4 1 (0.248%) SiteCatalyst
4 1 (0.248%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.211%) Internet
2 4 (0.993%) ATM
3 3 (0.744%) LAN
3 3 (0.744%) WAN
3 3 (0.744%) HTTP
3 3 (0.744%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.496%) 3G
4 2 (0.496%) 2G
4 2 (0.496%) Broadband
4 2 (0.496%) LTE
5 1 (0.248%) FWSM
5 1 (0.248%) SSH
5 1 (0.248%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.248%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (0.248%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.248%) BGP
5 1 (0.248%) Firewall
5 1 (0.248%) DNS
5 1 (0.248%) SSL
5 1 (0.248%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.700%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.955%) MySQL
3 11 (2.730%) DB2
4 6 (1.489%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (0.993%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.744%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (0.496%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (0.496%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.496%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.496%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.496%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.248%) QlikView
8 1 (0.248%) SQLite
8 1 (0.248%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.248%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.248%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.248%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.248%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
8 1 (0.248%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.248%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 26 (6.452%) JUnit
2 10 (2.481%) JIRA
3 9 (2.233%) Dreamweaver
3 9 (2.233%) Selenium
4 8 (1.985%) Subversion
5 7 (1.737%) Axure RP
6 6 (1.489%) QuickTest Pro
6 6 (1.489%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.241%) Maven
8 4 (0.993%) Ant
8 4 (0.993%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.993%) PhoneGap
9 3 (0.744%) NUnit
9 3 (0.744%) FitNesse
9 3 (0.744%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.496%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.496%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.496%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.496%) Git (software)
10 2 (0.496%) WATIR
General
1 132 (32.75%) Retail
2 62 (15.38%) Finance
3 40 (9.926%) Marketing
4 22 (5.459%) Telecoms
5 8 (1.985%) Publishing
5 8 (1.985%) Banking
6 7 (1.737%) Automotive
6 7 (1.737%) Law
7 5 (1.241%) Back Office
7 5 (1.241%) Games
7 5 (1.241%) Billing
7 5 (1.241%) Interactive Media
8 4 (0.993%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.744%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.496%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.496%) Advertising
11 1 (0.248%) Electronics
11 1 (0.248%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.248%) Music
Job Titles
1 130 (32.26%) Developer
2 77 (19.11%) Analyst
3 74 (18.36%) Project Manager
4 70 (17.37%) Business Analyst
5 38 (9.429%) Architect
6 26 (6.452%) PHP Developer
7 24 (5.955%) .NET Developer
8 21 (5.211%) Web Developer
9 16 (3.970%) WebSphere Developer
10 14 (3.474%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.226%) E-Commerce Manager
12 12 (2.978%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.730%) Agile Business Analyst
14 10 (2.481%) Agile .NET Developer
14 10 (2.481%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
14 10 (2.481%) C# Developer
14 10 (2.481%) E-Commerce Project Manager
15 9 (2.233%) WebSphere Architect
15 9 (2.233%) Consultant
16 8 (1.985%) Business Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (2.730%) Mobile App
2 9 (2.233%) SaaS
3 8 (1.985%) PMI
3 8 (1.985%) EPoS
3 8 (1.985%) W3C
4 7 (1.737%) Smartcard
4 7 (1.737%) EFT
4 7 (1.737%) EFTPOS
5 6 (1.489%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.993%) Web 2.0
6 4 (0.993%) EMV
6 4 (0.993%) Digital Media
7 3 (0.744%) Social Media
7 3 (0.744%) Wiki
7 3 (0.744%) Statistics
8 2 (0.496%) Social Network
8 2 (0.496%) Online Games
8 2 (0.496%) FMCG
8 2 (0.496%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.496%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.459%) Linux
2 19 (4.715%) UNIX
3 12 (2.978%) Windows
4 6 (1.489%) Android
4 6 (1.489%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.496%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.248%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.248%) AIX
6 1 (0.248%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (16.63%) Project Management
2 59 (14.64%) Agile Software Development
3 45 (11.17%) Scrum
4 35 (8.685%) UML
5 34 (8.437%) Business Analysis
5 34 (8.437%) Use Case
6 32 (7.940%) PRINCE2
7 28 (6.948%) MVC
7 28 (6.948%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (6.700%) TDD
9 24 (5.955%) Web Development
10 22 (5.459%) OO
11 21 (5.211%) RAD
12 16 (3.970%) RUP
12 16 (3.970%) Requirements Management
12 16 (3.970%) Content Management
13 15 (3.722%) Automated Testing
13 15 (3.722%) Software Testing
14 14 (3.474%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (3.226%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 83 (20.60%) JavaScript
2 77 (19.11%) Java
3 57 (14.14%) SQL
4 39 (9.677%) PHP
5 33 (8.189%) C#
6 15 (3.722%) PHP5
7 4 (0.993%) ActionScript
8 3 (0.744%) Ruby
8 3 (0.744%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.496%) C
10 1 (0.248%) C++
10 1 (0.248%) VB
10 1 (0.248%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.248%) XPath
10 1 (0.248%) Perl
10 1 (0.248%) Python
10 1 (0.248%) XQuery
10 1 (0.248%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.248%) VB6
10 1 (0.248%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (4.218%) Degree
2 9 (2.233%) PMI Certification
3 8 (1.985%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 7 (1.737%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (0.993%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (0.744%) APMP
6 3 (0.744%) ISEB
7 1 (0.248%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.248%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.248%) MCSE
7 1 (0.248%) CCIE
7 1 (0.248%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.248%) PMP
7 1 (0.248%) SCWCD
7 1 (0.248%) MBCS
7 1 (0.248%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.248%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.467%) QA
2 7 (1.737%) ISO 8583
3 2 (0.496%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.248%) WAI
4 1 (0.248%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (0.993%) vSphere
1 4 (0.993%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.496%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.248%) Varnish
3 1 (0.248%) VMware ESX
3 1 (0.248%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (0.993%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (0.744%) SCOM
3 1 (0.248%) Nagios
3 1 (0.248%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.248%) Puppet
3 1 (0.248%) Splunk
3 1 (0.248%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 31 (7.692%) ATG
2 29 (7.196%) IBM
3 25 (6.203%) Oracle
4 15 (3.722%) Adobe
4 15 (3.722%) hybris
5 13 (3.226%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.233%) HP
6 9 (2.233%) Zend
7 7 (1.737%) Wincor Nixdorf
8 6 (1.489%) VMware
8 6 (1.489%) VeriFone
8 6 (1.489%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.241%) SAP
9 5 (1.241%) Google
10 4 (0.993%) Omniture
10 4 (0.993%) VocaLink
11 3 (0.744%) Compuware
11 3 (0.744%) Salesforce.com
12 2 (0.496%) Siebel
12 2 (0.496%) Sun
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