The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 21 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 Staffordshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 6 21 27
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +6
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 14 12 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 16.47% 5.530% 5.479%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.58% 8.392% 9.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 6
Average daily rate £315 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% +13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £288 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £363 £313
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -50.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
62 143 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 72.94% 65.90% 60.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 60 48
Average daily rate £320 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £370 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
Average hourly rate £21.29 £20.26 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% +68.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
E-Commerce
West Midlands

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Stoke-on-Trent +9 8 £328 +0.76%
Stafford - 1 - -
E-Commerce
West Midlands

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 26 (63.41%) JavaScript
1 26 (63.41%) .NET
2 25 (60.98%) CSS
2 25 (60.98%) SQL
3 24 (58.54%) VB.NET
3 24 (58.54%) C#
3 24 (58.54%) ASP.NET
4 23 (56.10%) XHTML
5 21 (51.22%) SQL Server
6 20 (48.78%) XML
6 20 (48.78%) XSLT
7 19 (46.34%) N-Tier
7 19 (46.34%) SOA
7 19 (46.34%) SEO
7 19 (46.34%) Ajax
7 19 (46.34%) jQuery
7 19 (46.34%) Unit Testing
7 19 (46.34%) HTML5
7 19 (46.34%) CSS3
8 17 (41.46%) Degree
8 17 (41.46%) Web Application Development
9 12 (29.27%) Android
10 11 (26.83%) Apple iOS
11 10 (24.39%) TDD
12 9 (21.95%) Java
12 9 (21.95%) Mobile App
13 8 (19.51%) Web Development
14 7 (17.07%) JSON
14 7 (17.07%) Document Management
14 7 (17.07%) Objective-C

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 26 (63.41%) .NET
2 25 (60.98%) CSS
3 24 (58.54%) ASP.NET
4 23 (56.10%) XHTML
5 20 (48.78%) XML
5 20 (48.78%) XSLT
6 19 (46.34%) Ajax
6 19 (46.34%) jQuery
6 19 (46.34%) HTML5
6 19 (46.34%) CSS3
7 7 (17.07%) JSON
7 7 (17.07%) iOS SDK
8 2 (4.878%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.878%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (14.63%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.439%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (51.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.439%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.439%) OLTP
2 1 (2.439%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Eclipse
2 6 (14.63%) JIRA
General
1 5 (12.20%) Games
1 5 (12.20%) Retail
2 4 (9.756%) Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (80.49%) Developer
2 24 (58.54%) .NET Developer
3 22 (53.66%) ASP.NET Developer
4 18 (43.90%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 18 (43.90%) VB.NET Developer
5 17 (41.46%) Web Developer
6 16 (39.02%) SQL Developer
6 16 (39.02%) .NET Web Developer
7 8 (19.51%) Mobile Developer
8 4 (9.756%) Test Leader
9 3 (7.317%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (7.317%) Analyst
9 3 (7.317%) Test Analyst
9 3 (7.317%) C# Developer
9 3 (7.317%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 2 (4.878%) Website Developer
11 1 (2.439%) DBA
11 1 (2.439%) C# Web Developer
11 1 (2.439%) SQL DBA
11 1 (2.439%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 19 (46.34%) N-Tier
2 9 (21.95%) Mobile App
3 7 (17.07%) iPhone
4 4 (9.756%) Blackberry
5 3 (7.317%) WURFL
6 1 (2.439%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Android
2 11 (26.83%) Apple iOS
3 4 (9.756%) Windows
4 3 (7.317%) BlackBerry OS
4 3 (7.317%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (2.439%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) SOA
1 19 (46.34%) SEO
1 19 (46.34%) Unit Testing
2 17 (41.46%) Web Application Development
3 10 (24.39%) TDD
4 8 (19.51%) Web Development
5 7 (17.07%) Document Management
6 5 (12.20%) Software Testing
6 5 (12.20%) Test Scripting
7 4 (9.756%) Risk Management
8 3 (7.317%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (4.878%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (4.878%) Manual Testing
9 2 (4.878%) Content Management
10 1 (2.439%) CRM
10 1 (2.439%) ETL
10 1 (2.439%) System Testing
10 1 (2.439%) User Acceptance Testing
10 1 (2.439%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) JavaScript
2 25 (60.98%) SQL
3 24 (58.54%) VB.NET
3 24 (58.54%) C#
4 9 (21.95%) Java
5 7 (17.07%) Objective-C
6 1 (2.439%) PHP
6 1 (2.439%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) Degree
2 1 (2.439%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) AccuRev
2 4 (9.756%) hybris
3 1 (2.439%) Symbian