The first part of the table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

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.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank404448
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+4
Matching contract IT job ads223723411716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK3.780 %3.815 %3.117 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category5.657 %5.711 %4.954 %
Number of daily rates quoted14581502916
Average daily rate£375£425£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76 %+6.25 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£261£275£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£625£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£375£338
% change year-on-year
-13.33 %+11.11 %
Number of hourly rates quoted182920
Average hourly rate£17.50£35.00£85.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00 %-58.82 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£35.00£30.00
% change year-on-year
-50.00 %+16.66 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
395424099234637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK66.81 %66.80 %62.91 %
Number of daily rates quoted227212330817347
Average daily rate£403£440£413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.52 %+6.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£275£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£585£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£365£375£350
% change year-on-year
-2.66 %+7.14 %
Number of hourly rates quoted127714631258
Average hourly rate£25.00£29.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79 %+16.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£13.50£13.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£30.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66 %+20.00 %

E-Commerce
Demand Trend

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

E-Commerce Demand Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing E-Commerce within the UK.

E-Commerce Daily Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

E-Commerce Daily Rate Histogram

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce within the UK.

E-Commerce Hourly Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

E-Commerce Hourly Rate Histogram

E-Commerce
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+22187£375-11.76 %
LondonUp+21258£413-17.50 %
South EastDown-6346£360-4.00 %
City of LondonUp+8329£450-18.18 %
East of EnglandUp+7208£300-25.00 %
BerkshireUp+3115£350-8.01 %
North WestUp+8111£325+8.33 %
HertfordshireDown-185£425-
YorkshireUp+1180£265-18.58 %
West MidlandsUp+2077£300-
ManchesterUp+675£300+0.84 %
East MidlandsDown-662£300-20.00 %
HampshireUp+561£400+8.10 %
West YorkshireUp+555£291-2.91 %
CambridgeshireUp+451£294-25.63 %
SurreyDown-2250£339-15.31 %
WatfordUp+142--
South WestDown-2741£350-1.40 %
BuckinghamshireDown-3234£288-36.11 %
ScotlandUp+1533£423+5.62 %
LeedsDown-931£325+8.33 %
BirminghamUp+523£300+33.33 %
EdinburghUp+2322£435+24.28 %
NorfolkDown-522£288-23.33 %
KentUp+2120£400+102.53 %
CambridgeDown-320£375+2.73 %
NottinghamshireDown-1019£310-11.42 %
NorthamptonshireDown-818£340-15.00 %
BristolDown-918£325-7.80 %
SuffolkUp+1117£275-

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1883 (22.42 %)Retail
2770 (19.55 %)Java
3715 (18.15 %).NET
4654 (16.60 %)HTML
5643 (16.32 %)CSS
6639 (16.22 %)JavaScript
7611 (15.51 %)Finance
8578 (14.67 %)SQL
9574 (14.57 %)C#
10567 (14.39 %)Agile Software Development
11504 (12.80 %)SQL Server
12492 (12.49 %)ASP.NET
13426 (10.81 %)Banking
14409 (10.38 %)Scrum
15397 (10.08 %)Project Management
16381 (9.673 %)MVC
17353 (8.962 %)jQuery
18340 (8.632 %)TDD
19310 (7.870 %)XML
20304 (7.718 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
21290 (7.362 %)Ajax
22283 (7.185 %)Internet
23281 (7.134 %)J2EE
24278 (7.058 %)Marketing
25277 (7.032 %)Stakeholder Management
26276 (7.007 %)Oracle
27274 (6.956 %)PHP
28272 (6.905 %)Linux
29259 (6.575 %)Spring
30258 (6.550 %)Microsoft

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1715 (18.15 %).NET
2654 (16.60 %)HTML
3643 (16.32 %)CSS
4492 (12.49 %)ASP.NET
5353 (8.962 %)jQuery
6310 (7.870 %)XML
7290 (7.362 %)Ajax
8281 (7.134 %)J2EE
9259 (6.575 %)Spring
10223 (5.661 %)WebSphere
11216 (5.484 %)Web Services
12185 (4.697 %)HTML5
13150 (3.808 %)Hibernate
14149 (3.783 %)XHTML
15125 (3.173 %)WCF
16119 (3.021 %)XSLT
17118 (2.996 %)ASP.NET MVC
1892 (2.336 %)JSP
1892 (2.336 %)CSS3
1983 (2.107 %)LAMP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1207 (5.255 %)Apache
2206 (5.230 %)CMS
3118 (2.996 %)Tomcat
4110 (2.793 %)IIS
5109 (2.767 %)Magento
671 (1.802 %)WebLogic
754 (1.371 %)Drupal
853 (1.346 %)WebSphere Application Server
942 (1.066 %)WordPress
1038 (0.965 %)BizTalk Server
1038 (0.965 %)Commerce Server
1134 (0.863 %)Joomla!
1223 (0.584 %)SharePoint
1322 (0.559 %)Umbraco
1420 (0.508 %)Documentum
1420 (0.508 %)TeamSite
1420 (0.508 %)Amazon EC2
1518 (0.457 %)Rendezvous
1617 (0.432 %)ActiveMQ
1715 (0.381 %)ESB
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1127 (3.224 %)Photoshop
2107 (2.716 %)MS Visio
385 (2.158 %)MS Excel
466 (1.676 %)Adobe Illustrator
540 (1.015 %)MS Project
634 (0.863 %)MS Office
723 (0.584 %)MS PowerPoint
820 (0.508 %)InDesign
919 (0.482 %)Fireworks
1011 (0.279 %)OmniGraffle
115 (0.127 %)SPSS
122 (0.051 %)MATLAB
122 (0.051 %)Spreadsheet
131 (0.025 %)PowerPivot
131 (0.025 %)InfoPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
139 (0.990 %)Google Analytics
218 (0.457 %)Tridion
311 (0.279 %)Dynamics CRM
48 (0.203 %)WebTrends
48 (0.203 %)RMDS
56 (0.152 %)SiteCatalyst
56 (0.152 %)Oracle Retail
65 (0.127 %)Dynamics NAV
65 (0.127 %)SAP SD
65 (0.127 %)Oracle Financials
74 (0.102 %)Oracle EBS
74 (0.102 %)SAP MM
83 (0.076 %)SAP FI-AP
83 (0.076 %)Retail-J
83 (0.076 %)SAP CO
83 (0.076 %)SAP Retail
83 (0.076 %)SAP FI
83 (0.076 %)Oracle Applications
83 (0.076 %)BASE24
83 (0.076 %)SAP FI/CO
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1283 (7.185 %)Internet
273 (1.853 %)Firewall
368 (1.726 %)Intranet
466 (1.676 %)HTTP
556 (1.422 %)TCP/IP
649 (1.244 %)DNS
734 (0.863 %)WAN
833 (0.838 %)BGP
932 (0.812 %)Network Security
932 (0.812 %)LAN
1030 (0.762 %)BIG-IP
1129 (0.736 %)SSL
1226 (0.660 %)FTP
1324 (0.609 %)Cisco ASA
1422 (0.559 %)DHCP
1521 (0.533 %)Cisco PIX
1521 (0.533 %)LDAP
1620 (0.508 %)SMTP
1620 (0.508 %)NetScreen
1719 (0.482 %)VoIP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1504 (12.80 %)SQL Server
2254 (6.448 %)MySQL
3167 (4.240 %)SQL Server 2008
4103 (2.615 %)SQL Server 2005
574 (1.879 %)DB2
668 (1.726 %)SQL Server Integration Services
749 (1.244 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
847 (1.193 %)Data Warehouse
945 (1.142 %)ETL
1041 (1.041 %)RDBMS
1124 (0.609 %)Oracle 11g
1222 (0.559 %)Hadoop
1317 (0.432 %)Oracle 8/8i
1416 (0.406 %)Oracle 10g
1416 (0.406 %)NoSQL
1515 (0.381 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1613 (0.330 %)OLTP
1712 (0.305 %)DTS
1811 (0.279 %)MongoDB
1811 (0.279 %)Apache Cassandra
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1125 (3.173 %)Maven
2108 (2.742 %)Subversion
381 (2.056 %)Selenium
479 (2.006 %)JUnit
572 (1.828 %)Ant
651 (1.295 %)Visual Studio
750 (1.269 %)Eclipse
849 (1.244 %)JIRA
947 (1.193 %)Dreamweaver
1043 (1.092 %)Git (software)
1134 (0.863 %)Team Foundation Server
1233 (0.838 %)Hudson
1330 (0.762 %)NUnit
1330 (0.762 %)Jasmine
1330 (0.762 %)Axure RP
1429 (0.736 %)QuickTest Pro
1528 (0.711 %)Balsamiq Mockups
1622 (0.559 %)TestNG
1721 (0.533 %)TeamCity
1820 (0.508 %)Cucumber
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1883 (22.42 %)Retail
2611 (15.51 %)Finance
3426 (10.81 %)Banking
4278 (7.058 %)Marketing
5169 (4.290 %)Front Office
6162 (4.113 %)Investment Banking
7137 (3.478 %)Telecoms
879 (2.006 %)Games
973 (1.853 %)Retail Banking
1060 (1.523 %)Publishing
1146 (1.168 %)Back Office
1241 (1.041 %)Financial Institution
1328 (0.711 %)Advertising
1420 (0.508 %)Interactive Media
1513 (0.330 %)Corporate Banking
1513 (0.330 %)Law
1612 (0.305 %)Legal
1612 (0.305 %)Billing
179 (0.228 %)Multimedia
188 (0.203 %)Music
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11487 (37.75 %)Developer
2662 (16.81 %)Analyst
3483 (12.26 %)Project Manager
4469 (11.91 %)Business Analyst
5401 (10.18 %).NET Developer
6347 (8.809 %)Java Developer
7266 (6.753 %)Architect
8221 (5.611 %)Senior Developer
9204 (5.179 %)Web Developer
10167 (4.240 %)E-Commerce Manager
11161 (4.087 %)C# Developer
12142 (3.605 %)ASP.NET Developer
13130 (3.300 %)Consultant
14128 (3.250 %)PHP Developer
15127 (3.224 %)C# .NET Developer
16122 (3.097 %)Designer
16122 (3.097 %)E-Commerce Project Manager
17105 (2.666 %)Front-End Developer
1891 (2.310 %)Senior .NET Developer
1982 (2.082 %)Test Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1304 (7.718 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
287 (2.209 %)Open Source
374 (1.879 %)Social Media
374 (1.879 %)Fixed Income
468 (1.726 %)Digital Media
552 (1.320 %)Online Banking
649 (1.244 %)RIA
745 (1.142 %)iPhone
844 (1.117 %)iPad
936 (0.914 %)Client/Server
1034 (0.863 %)N-Tier
1133 (0.838 %)Web 2.0
1232 (0.812 %)FMCG
1232 (0.812 %)W3C
1232 (0.812 %)Management Information System
1232 (0.812 %)Derivative
1328 (0.711 %)Smartphone
1427 (0.685 %)Computer Science
1427 (0.685 %)EPoS
1526 (0.660 %)Online Games
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1272 (6.905 %)Linux
2236 (5.991 %)UNIX
3197 (5.001 %)Windows
454 (1.371 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
454 (1.371 %)Solaris
549 (1.244 %)Android
648 (1.219 %)Apple iOS
732 (0.812 %)Windows Server 2008
830 (0.762 %)AIX
928 (0.711 %)Windows Server 2003
1016 (0.406 %)Windows XP
1114 (0.355 %)CentOS
1213 (0.330 %)SUSE
138 (0.203 %)zOS
138 (0.203 %)Debian
138 (0.203 %)Windows Mobile
147 (0.178 %)HPUX
155 (0.127 %)Windows 2000 Server
155 (0.127 %)BlackBerry OS
164 (0.102 %)Mac OS X
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1567 (14.39 %)Agile Software Development
2409 (10.38 %)Scrum
3397 (10.08 %)Project Management
4381 (9.673 %)MVC
5340 (8.632 %)TDD
6277 (7.032 %)Stakeholder Management
7237 (6.017 %)OO
8215 (5.458 %)Business Analysis
9191 (4.849 %)Web Development
10172 (4.367 %)PRINCE2
11144 (3.656 %)Change Management
12127 (3.224 %)CRM
12127 (3.224 %)User Acceptance Testing
13124 (3.148 %)Migration
14123 (3.123 %)Continuous Integration
15119 (3.021 %)Content Management
16117 (2.970 %)UML
17105 (2.666 %)SEO
18101 (2.564 %)Risk Management
18101 (2.564 %)Unit Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1770 (19.55 %)Java
2639 (16.22 %)JavaScript
3578 (14.67 %)SQL
4574 (14.57 %)C#
5274 (6.956 %)PHP
6114 (2.894 %)Perl
795 (2.412 %)VB.NET
869 (1.752 %)T-SQL
957 (1.447 %)Ruby
1051 (1.295 %)PHP5
1143 (1.092 %)Python
1239 (0.990 %)C
1338 (0.965 %)Shell Script
1435 (0.889 %)ActionScript
1534 (0.863 %)VB
1632 (0.812 %)PL/SQL
1728 (0.711 %)C++
1822 (0.559 %)Bash shell
1918 (0.457 %)ActionScript 3.0
2017 (0.432 %)Groovy
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1127 (3.224 %)Degree
286 (2.183 %)Microsoft Certification
350 (1.269 %)ISEB
447 (1.193 %)Cisco Certification
534 (0.863 %)CCNP
633 (0.838 %)PRINCE2 Certification
724 (0.609 %)CCIE
823 (0.584 %)PMP
823 (0.584 %)PMI Certification
918 (0.457 %)Security Cleared
1016 (0.406 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1114 (0.355 %)ISTQB
1213 (0.330 %)CCVP
1312 (0.305 %)CCSA
1411 (0.279 %)SC Cleared
159 (0.228 %)CCSE
159 (0.228 %)CISSP
168 (0.203 %)MCSE
168 (0.203 %)Sun Certification
177 (0.178 %)GIAC
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1134 (3.402 %)QA
239 (0.990 %)SLA
37 (0.178 %)PCI DSS
37 (0.178 %)WCAG
46 (0.152 %)ISO 8583
54 (0.102 %)WAI
63 (0.076 %)ISO/IEC 27001
63 (0.076 %)ISO 9001
72 (0.051 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
81 (0.025 %)COSO
81 (0.025 %)Solvency II
81 (0.025 %)FATCA
81 (0.025 %)COBIT
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
154 (1.371 %)Active Directory
230 (0.762 %)VMware Infrastructure
310 (0.254 %)Squid
47 (0.178 %)vSphere
47 (0.178 %)Varnish
47 (0.178 %)VMware ESXi
47 (0.178 %)VMware ESX
55 (0.127 %)Oracle RAC
64 (0.102 %)XenApp
72 (0.051 %)Snort
72 (0.051 %)Postfix
81 (0.025 %)Veritas Cluster Server
81 (0.025 %)Hyper-V
81 (0.025 %)Citrix Presentation Server
81 (0.025 %)Tivoli Directory Server
81 (0.025 %)Apache Flume
81 (0.025 %)Xen
81 (0.025 %)NFS
81 (0.025 %)Terminal Server
81 (0.025 %)Terminal Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
147 (1.193 %)HP Quality Center
231 (0.787 %)Tivoli
318 (0.457 %)Nagios
318 (0.457 %)Puppet
414 (0.355 %)ZABBIX
59 (0.228 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
67 (0.178 %)Tivoli Monitoring
76 (0.152 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
84 (0.102 %)BladeLogic
93 (0.076 %)Cobbler
102 (0.051 %)Control-M
102 (0.051 %)NetBackup
102 (0.051 %)Backup Exec
102 (0.051 %)WSUS
102 (0.051 %)SCOM
102 (0.051 %)EMC NetWorker
111 (0.025 %)SolarWinds Orion
111 (0.025 %)Cacti
111 (0.025 %)Ganglia
111 (0.025 %)WMI
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1276 (7.007 %)Oracle
2258 (6.550 %)Microsoft
3132 (3.351 %)IBM
4119 (3.021 %)ATG
5101 (2.564 %)JBoss
682 (2.082 %)Adobe
776 (1.929 %)Zend
874 (1.879 %)hybris
967 (1.701 %)Red Hat
1059 (1.498 %)Google
1158 (1.472 %)Cisco
1253 (1.346 %)VMware
1345 (1.142 %)HP
1345 (1.142 %)SAP
1442 (1.066 %)29West
1539 (0.990 %)Endeca
1638 (0.965 %)Omniture
1737 (0.939 %)F5
1835 (0.889 %)Interwoven
1934 (0.863 %)Citrix