Wales E-Commerce Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Andover Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Isle of Man Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Lichfield Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	58
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.340 %	0.577 %
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	£382	£379
% change on same period last year	+0.82 %
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	£30.48	£31.96
% change on same period last year	-4.61 %
Processes & Methodologies Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	589	520
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.839 %	0.538 %
Daily rates quoted	206	115
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£395
Average daily rate	£369	£437
% change on same period last year	-15.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£478
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	83	68
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.42	£21.93
Average hourly rate	£35.93	£24.10
% change on same period last year	+49.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.45	£26.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£29.76
% change on same period last year	-1.54 %
E-Commerce UK

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.

E-Commerce
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

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

E-Commerce
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Wales 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
South Wales	-2	2	-	-

E-Commerce UK

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 3 (42.86 %) .NET 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP 1 3 (42.86 %) XML 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP SD 1 3 (42.86 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP PS 2 2 (28.57 %) CSS 2 2 (28.57 %) C# 2 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 2 2 (28.57 %) PHP 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (14.29 %) Marketing

3 1 (14.29 %) Web Development 3 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 1 (14.29 %) Product Marketing 3 1 (14.29 %) Data Integration 3 1 (14.29 %) BC Cleared 3 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (14.29 %) Back Office 3 1 (14.29 %) SEO 3 1 (14.29 %) Health 3 1 (14.29 %) Games 3 1 (14.29 %) Retail 3 1 (14.29 %) Perl 3 1 (14.29 %) Java 3 1 (14.29 %) J2EE 3 1 (14.29 %) MySQL

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 3 (42.86 %) .NET 1 3 (42.86 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (42.86 %) XML 2 2 (28.57 %) CSS 3 1 (14.29 %) J2EE 3 1 (14.29 %) ASP 3 1 (14.29 %) XHTML 3 1 (14.29 %) Middleware 3 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) WebLogic
Business Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP SD 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP PS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (14.29 %) DTS 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (14.29 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Ant 1 1 (14.29 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (14.29 %) Back Office 1 1 (14.29 %) Health 1 1 (14.29 %) Games 1 1 (14.29 %) Retail 1 1 (14.29 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) Consultant 2 3 (42.86 %) SAP SD Consultant 2 3 (42.86 %) SAP Consultant 3 2 (28.57 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) SAP PS Consultant 4 1 (14.29 %) .NET Programmer 4 1 (14.29 %) Programmer 4 1 (14.29 %) Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 1 1 (14.29 %) Windows 1 1 (14.29 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) OOP 1 1 (14.29 %) OO 1 1 (14.29 %) SEO 1 1 (14.29 %) Web Development 1 1 (14.29 %) Product Marketing 1 1 (14.29 %) BC Cleared 1 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL 2 2 (28.57 %) PHP 2 2 (28.57 %) C# 2 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 3 1 (14.29 %) Perl 3 1 (14.29 %) Java 3 1 (14.29 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (14.29 %) Shell Script	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) SAP 2 1 (14.29 %) Oracle