Retail Contracts in Watford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 17 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 Watford 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing Retail 16 50 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 23.88% 45.87% 35.53%
As % of the General category 66.67% 76.92% 58.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 9
Average daily rate £433 £375 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.33% -8.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £386 £345 £348
10% offered a daily rate of more than £630 £434 £526
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 £19.00 £11.58
% change year-on-year
+18.42% +64.14%
All of the General Category
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 24 65 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 35.82% 59.63% 60.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 17
Average daily rate £500 £375 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +2.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £322 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £454 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £14.75 £11.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +31.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Retail
Hertfordshire

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Retail Daily Rate Trend

Retail
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Retail across the Watford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Watford Retail Daily Rate Histogram

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Retail across the Watford region.

Watford Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 52 (78.79%) E-Commerce
2 44 (66.67%) Finance
3 34 (51.52%) Java
4 29 (43.94%) Project Management
5 27 (40.91%) Games
6 26 (39.39%) Time Management
7 25 (37.88%) WebSphere
7 25 (37.88%) IBM
7 25 (37.88%) J2EE
8 18 (27.27%) JavaScript
8 18 (27.27%) HTML
8 18 (27.27%) SQL
9 16 (24.24%) Waterfall
10 15 (22.73%) JSTL
10 15 (22.73%) JSP
10 15 (22.73%) XHTML
11 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (19.70%) Change Control
12 9 (13.64%) Manufacturing
12 9 (13.64%) W3C
12 9 (13.64%) MQSeries
12 9 (13.64%) XML
12 9 (13.64%) UNIX
12 9 (13.64%) CSS
12 9 (13.64%) DB2
12 9 (13.64%) Semantic HTML
13 8 (12.12%) Data Modelling
13 8 (12.12%) Change Management
14 7 (10.61%) RDBMS
14 7 (10.61%) ERwin

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 25 (37.88%) J2EE
1 25 (37.88%) WebSphere
2 18 (27.27%) HTML
3 15 (22.73%) JSTL
3 15 (22.73%) XHTML
3 15 (22.73%) JSP
4 9 (13.64%) CSS
4 9 (13.64%) Semantic HTML
4 9 (13.64%) XML
5 6 (9.091%) XSLT
5 6 (9.091%) JMS
5 6 (9.091%) XMLBeans
5 6 (9.091%) Ajax
5 6 (9.091%) JDBC
5 6 (9.091%) EJB
5 6 (9.091%) Servlets
5 6 (9.091%) Struts
6 3 (4.545%) Flash
7 1 (1.515%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 9 (13.64%) MQSeries
2 6 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.515%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.515%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (9.091%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) DB2
2 7 (10.61%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.545%) DbVisualizer
4 1 (1.515%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.515%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.515%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) ERwin
2 6 (9.091%) Log4j
2 6 (9.091%) Subversion
2 6 (9.091%) Ant
2 6 (9.091%) JUnit
2 6 (9.091%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (9.091%) Eclipse
3 3 (4.545%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (4.545%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.515%) Selenium
4 1 (1.515%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 1 (1.515%) Axure RP
General
1 44 (66.67%) Finance
2 27 (40.91%) Games
3 9 (13.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Project Manager
2 15 (22.73%) Developer
3 13 (19.70%) Analyst
3 13 (19.70%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 13 (19.70%) E-Commerce Manager
4 12 (18.18%) Business Analyst
5 9 (13.64%) Front-End Developer
6 6 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 6 (9.091%) Java Developer
6 6 (9.091%) J2EE Developer
7 5 (7.576%) Architect
7 5 (7.576%) Programme Manager
8 4 (6.061%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.545%) Tester
9 3 (4.545%) Information Architect
9 3 (4.545%) Agile Project Manager
9 3 (4.545%) Data Modeller
10 1 (1.515%) Test Leader
10 1 (1.515%) User Experience Architect
10 1 (1.515%) Database Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) W3C
2 6 (9.091%) Web 2.0
3 4 (6.061%) EPoS
4 1 (1.515%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.515%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) UNIX
2 7 (10.61%) Linux
3 6 (9.091%) HPUX
3 6 (9.091%) Solaris
4 1 (1.515%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (78.79%) E-Commerce
2 29 (43.94%) Project Management
3 26 (39.39%) Time Management
4 16 (24.24%) Waterfall
5 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (19.70%) Change Control
6 8 (12.12%) Data Modelling
6 8 (12.12%) Change Management
7 6 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.091%) Content Management
7 6 (9.091%) UML
7 6 (9.091%) OO
7 6 (9.091%) RAD
8 5 (7.576%) ETL
8 5 (7.576%) Programme Management
8 5 (7.576%) Risk Management
8 5 (7.576%) Data Mapping
8 5 (7.576%) Change Data Capture
9 3 (4.545%) Automated Testing
9 3 (4.545%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (51.52%) Java
2 18 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 18 (27.27%) SQL
3 6 (9.091%) XPath
3 6 (9.091%) Bash shell
3 6 (9.091%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (1.515%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.030%) QA
Vendors
1 25 (37.88%) IBM
2 6 (9.091%) Elastic Path
2 6 (9.091%) Interwoven
2 6 (9.091%) ATG
2 6 (9.091%) Blue Martini
3 3 (4.545%) HP
4 1 (1.515%) ClickTale
4 1 (1.515%) Omniture
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