The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT contracts advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Welwyn Garden City 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 7 10 14
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +4
Contract jobs citing E-Commerce 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 9.091% 2.439% 2.703%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 3.333% 3.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £17.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+114.28% -50.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Welwyn Garden City
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
24 30 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 72.73% 73.17% 81.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 9
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £100 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £438 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 12
Average hourly rate £14.50 £11.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.81% -32.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
E-Commerce
Hertfordshire

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing E-Commerce across the Welwyn Garden City region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Welwyn Garden City E-Commerce Jobs Demand Trend

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing E-Commerce across the Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City E-Commerce Daily Rate Trend

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 5 (62.50%) Scrum
1 5 (62.50%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 4 (50.00%) SOA
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) MVC
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 4 (50.00%) WCF
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
3 3 (37.50%) Retail
4 2 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) PHP
5 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
5 1 (12.50%) MySQL
5 1 (12.50%) Adobe
5 1 (12.50%) Apple
5 1 (12.50%) Fireworks
5 1 (12.50%) XSLT

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 5 (62.50%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (50.00%) WCF
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) XSLT
4 1 (12.50%) XHTML
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Magento
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
1 1 (12.50%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Axure RP
General
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Agile .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
4 1 (12.50%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) SOA
2 4 (50.00%) MVC
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Web Development
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Web Design
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Web Accessibility
4 1 (12.50%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) XPath
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Zend