Watford E-Commerce Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the Watford 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location Amersham Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	10
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	34	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	28.57 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	5	18
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£367
Average daily rate	£330	£378
% change on same period last year	-12.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.86	£34.47
% change on same period last year	-10.49 %
Processes & Methodologies Watford
Matching contract IT job ads	119	143
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.159 %	0.145 %
Daily rates quoted	47	62
Average minimum daily rate	£429	£336
Average daily rate	£446	£342
% change on same period last year	+30.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£464	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-65.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
E-Commerce Hertfordshire

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 Watford 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 Watford region.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the Watford region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Watford region.

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 27 (30.68 %) J2EE 1 27 (30.68 %) XHTML 2 25 (28.41 %) Java 2 25 (28.41 %) Finance 3 23 (26.14 %) CSS 4 22 (25.00 %) JavaScript 5 20 (22.73 %) UML 6 19 (21.59 %) Photoshop 6 19 (21.59 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 19 (21.59 %) Web Design 6 19 (21.59 %) WebSphere 7 18 (20.45 %) JSP 8 17 (19.32 %) IBM 8 17 (19.32 %) SEO 9 16 (18.18 %) Project Management

9 16 (18.18 %) Retail 9 16 (18.18 %) HTML 10 15 (17.05 %) .NET 11 13 (14.77 %) EJB 11 13 (14.77 %) SQL 11 13 (14.77 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 12 (13.64 %) Struts 13 11 (12.50 %) Oracle 13 11 (12.50 %) DB2 14 10 (11.36 %) Insurance 14 10 (11.36 %) Servlets 15 9 (10.23 %) MQSeries 15 9 (10.23 %) Time Management 16 8 (9.091 %) Commerce Server 2007 16 8 (9.091 %) B2C

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 27 (30.68 %) J2EE 1 27 (30.68 %) XHTML 2 23 (26.14 %) CSS 3 19 (21.59 %) WebSphere 4 18 (20.45 %) JSP 5 16 (18.18 %) HTML 6 15 (17.05 %) .NET 7 13 (14.77 %) EJB 8 12 (13.64 %) Struts 9 10 (11.36 %) Servlets 10 8 (9.091 %) JDBC 11 7 (7.955 %) XML 12 6 (6.818 %) JMS 12 6 (6.818 %) JSF 13 5 (5.682 %) XSL 14 4 (4.545 %) WebServices 14 4 (4.545 %) MVC 14 4 (4.545 %) ADO.NET 14 4 (4.545 %) Java EE 15 3 (3.409 %) JSTL	Application Platforms 1 13 (14.77 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 9 (10.23 %) MQSeries 3 8 (9.091 %) Commerce Server 3 8 (9.091 %) Commerce Server 2007 4 6 (6.818 %) Tomcat 5 4 (4.545 %) SharePoint 6 3 (3.409 %) IBM HTTP Server 6 3 (3.409 %) WebLogic 6 3 (3.409 %) IIS 6 3 (3.409 %) JBoss 7 2 (2.273 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 2 (2.273 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 19 (21.59 %) Photoshop 1 19 (21.59 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.409 %) HTTP 2 2 (2.273 %) SAN 2 2 (2.273 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (12.50 %) DB2 2 4 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2 4 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.136 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 6 (6.818 %) JUnit 2 2 (2.273 %) Eclipse 3 1 (1.136 %) TestDirector 3 1 (1.136 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (1.136 %) LoadRunner 3 1 (1.136 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (1.136 %) Flash 3 1 (1.136 %) ClearCase 3 1 (1.136 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General 1 25 (28.41 %) Finance 2 16 (18.18 %) Retail 3 10 (11.36 %) Insurance 4 3 (3.409 %) Games	Job Titles 1 35 (39.77 %) Developer 2 16 (18.18 %) Project Manager 3 11 (12.50 %) Java Developer 4 10 (11.36 %) Analyst 5 9 (10.23 %) Senior Manager 5 9 (10.23 %) Web Designer 5 9 (10.23 %) Senior Project Manager 5 9 (10.23 %) E-Commerce Project Manager 5 9 (10.23 %) E-Commerce Manager 5 9 (10.23 %) Photoshop Designer 5 9 (10.23 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 8 (9.091 %) J2EE Developer 6 8 (9.091 %) Business Analyst 7 6 (6.818 %) Senior Analyst 7 6 (6.818 %) UML Business Analyst 8 5 (5.682 %) Senior Web Designer 9 4 (4.545 %) Senior Business Analyst 9 4 (4.545 %) Senior Developer 10 3 (3.409 %) Financial Business Analyst 10 3 (3.409 %) Senior Photoshop Designer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (9.091 %) W3C 2 2 (2.273 %) PMI 3 1 (1.136 %) iDTV	Operating Systems 1 7 (7.955 %) UNIX 2 3 (3.409 %) Windows 2 3 (3.409 %) AIX 2 3 (3.409 %) Linux 2 3 (3.409 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (22.73 %) UML 2 19 (21.59 %) Web Design 3 17 (19.32 %) SEO 4 16 (18.18 %) Project Management 5 9 (10.23 %) Time Management 6 8 (9.091 %) B2C 7 6 (6.818 %) Change Management 7 6 (6.818 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 6 (6.818 %) Continuous Integration 8 5 (5.682 %) Content Management 9 3 (3.409 %) PRINCE2 10 2 (2.273 %) Regression Testing 10 2 (2.273 %) Automated Testing 10 2 (2.273 %) Business Analysis 10 2 (2.273 %) System Testing 11 1 (1.136 %) Web Development 11 1 (1.136 %) Use Case 11 1 (1.136 %) CMMI 11 1 (1.136 %) RAD 11 1 (1.136 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 25 (28.41 %) Java 2 22 (25.00 %) JavaScript 3 13 (14.77 %) SQL 4 8 (9.091 %) C 5 3 (3.409 %) C# 5 3 (3.409 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (2.273 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (2.273 %) DHTML 7 1 (1.136 %) Perl 7 1 (1.136 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 1 (1.136 %) ISEB	Systems Management 1 2 (2.273 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 17 (19.32 %) IBM 2 11 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 6 (6.818 %) Microsoft 4 3 (3.409 %) BEA 4 3 (3.409 %) Red Hat 5 2 (2.273 %) HP 6 1 (1.136 %) Dell 6 1 (1.136 %) Sun