The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our General category for the Stirling 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 24 11 5
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -6
Contract jobs citing Retail 1 3 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 0.893% 7.692% 21.69%
As % of the General category 1.266% 9.375% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 15
Average daily rate £400 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +73.91%
All of the General Category
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
79 32 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 70.54% 82.05% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 48
Average daily rate £375 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £344
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £503 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Retail
Scotland

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the Stirling region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Stirling Retail Jobs Demand Trend

Retail
Daily Rate Trend

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

Stirling Retail Daily Rate Trend

Retail
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Broadband
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
1 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (66.67%) Wireless
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
1 4 (66.67%) Interactive TV
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (66.67%) IPTV
1 4 (66.67%) Smartphone
1 4 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 4 (66.67%) Video on Demand
1 4 (66.67%) HTML5
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (66.67%) CSS3
1 4 (66.67%) Web Application Development
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
2 1 (16.67%) SSADM

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (66.67%) HTML5
1 4 (66.67%) CSS3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Broadband
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
1 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (66.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Web Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Applications Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Web Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Interactive TV
1 4 (66.67%) IPTV
1 4 (66.67%) Smartphone
1 4 (66.67%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
1 4 (66.67%) Web Application Development
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
2 1 (16.67%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA