South Yorkshire Retail Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in contract IT jobs within the South Yorkshire 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 15 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 Derbyshire 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 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 Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	5	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.505 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£409	£391
% change on same period last year	+4.68 %
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	£25.82	£21.28
% change on same period last year	+21.36 %
General South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	111	169
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.158 %	0.175 %
Daily rates quoted	22	26
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£306
Average daily rate	£302	£328
% change on same period last year	-8.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.23	£23.86
Average hourly rate	£27.10	£25.39
% change on same period last year	+6.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.97	£26.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.97	£26.66
% change on same period last year	+4.91 %
Retail Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Sheffield	-	3	-	-

Retail Yorkshire

Retail
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 7 (43.75 %) Remedy 2 4 (25.00 %) ITIL 3 3 (18.75 %) Service Delivery 3 3 (18.75 %) Problem Management 4 2 (12.50 %) EPoS 4 2 (12.50 %) Smartcard 4 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 5 1 (6.250 %) PMP 5 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (6.250 %) Finance 5 1 (6.250 %) Publishing 5 1 (6.250 %) Migration 5 1 (6.250 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (6.250 %) DB2

5 1 (6.250 %) Teradata 5 1 (6.250 %) Programme Management 5 1 (6.250 %) Incident Management 5 1 (6.250 %) Marketing

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) DB2	General 1 1 (6.250 %) Finance 1 1 (6.250 %) Publishing 1 1 (6.250 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 10 (62.50 %) Service Manager 2 9 (56.25 %) Operations Manager 3 3 (18.75 %) Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) Project Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) Technical Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) Delivery Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) ITIL Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) ITIL Service Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) IT Services Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) IT Operations Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Technical Services Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Technical Operations Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) DB2 DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) Incident Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Technical Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Programme Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) DBA	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) EPoS 1 2 (12.50 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) ITIL 2 3 (18.75 %) Problem Management 2 3 (18.75 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 4 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (6.250 %) Migration 4 1 (6.250 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Programme Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Incident Management
Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) PMP	Vendors 1 7 (43.75 %) Remedy 2 1 (6.250 %) Teradata