The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EPoS in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EPoS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Miscellaneous category for the Southampton 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Point Of Sale (EPoS)
Rank 36 30 27
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -3
Contract jobs citing EPoS 1 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.299% 1.167% 0.535%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.429% 3.896% 2.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £425 £388 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% +32.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £325 £285
% change year-on-year
-15.38% +14.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £14.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
+60.71% +12.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
70 77 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 20.90% 29.96% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 36 11
Average daily rate £300 £320 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +34.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £201 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £502 £513 £474
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 8
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £26.68
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -17.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.84 £15.17 £13.16
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.53 £35.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
EPoS
Hampshire

EPoS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing EPoS across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Southampton EPoS Jobs Demand Trend

EPoS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Southampton EPoS Daily Rate Trend

EPoS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Southampton EPoS Hourly Rate Trend

EPoS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing EPoS 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 EPoS.

1 3 (60.00%) SOA
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 5.5
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) WSUS
3 1 (20.00%) CMDB
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) ISEB
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) PMP
3 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Sage
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003

EPoS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing EPoS 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 EPoS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 5.5
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Test Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) SOA
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Sage