West Midlands E-Commerce Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) skills within the West Midlands 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 24 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 Bury St Edmunds 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 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 Suffolk 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 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	76
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	48	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	2.689 %	3.077 %
Daily rates quoted	20	10
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£360
Average daily rate	£324	£390
% change on same period last year	-16.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.50	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£40.38	£44.25
% change on same period last year	-8.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.25	£48.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.57	£34.47
% change on same period last year	-14.21 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1785	1690
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.376 %	1.713 %
Daily rates quoted	453	394
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£343
Average daily rate	£361	£362
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	95	197
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.22	£25.60
Average hourly rate	£27.78	£28.00
% change on same period last year	-0.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.35	£30.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.35	£30.17
% change on same period last year	-2.69 %
E-Commerce England

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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

E-Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands region.

E-Commerce
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 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
Warwickshire	+4	14	£350	-
Staffordshire	-	10	£371	-
Worcestershire	-	4	£171	-
Birmingham	-7	3	-	-
Coventry	-15	3	£400	-
Herefordshire	+18	1	-	-

E-Commerce England

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 39 (38.61 %) .NET 2 31 (30.69 %) HTML 3 26 (25.74 %) Finance 4 23 (22.77 %) CSS 5 21 (20.79 %) JavaScript 5 21 (20.79 %) UML 6 20 (19.80 %) Pensions 7 19 (18.81 %) EDI 8 18 (17.82 %) SQL Server 9 17 (16.83 %) Flash 9 17 (16.83 %) XHTML 10 16 (15.84 %) SSADM 10 16 (15.84 %) Internet 10 16 (15.84 %) Web Development 10 16 (15.84 %) Content Management

10 16 (15.84 %) AJAX 11 14 (13.86 %) SQL 11 14 (13.86 %) XML 11 14 (13.86 %) VB.NET 11 14 (13.86 %) Photoshop 12 13 (12.87 %) ASP 13 12 (11.88 %) PHP 13 12 (11.88 %) Java 14 11 (10.89 %) J2EE 14 11 (10.89 %) ASP.NET 14 11 (10.89 %) SQL Server 2005 15 10 (9.901 %) Migration 15 10 (9.901 %) Intranet 16 9 (8.911 %) CMS 16 9 (8.911 %) MySQL

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 39 (38.61 %) .NET 2 31 (30.69 %) HTML 3 23 (22.77 %) CSS 4 19 (18.81 %) EDI 5 17 (16.83 %) XHTML 6 16 (15.84 %) AJAX 7 14 (13.86 %) XML 8 13 (12.87 %) ASP 9 11 (10.89 %) ASP.NET 9 11 (10.89 %) J2EE 10 6 (5.941 %) JSP 11 3 (2.970 %) WebServices 12 2 (1.980 %) Servlets 12 2 (1.980 %) Struts 12 2 (1.980 %) WebSphere 13 1 (0.990 %) .NET Framework 13 1 (0.990 %) Adobe Flex 13 1 (0.990 %) Drupal 13 1 (0.990 %) JDBC 13 1 (0.990 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 9 (8.911 %) CMS 2 2 (1.980 %) Apache 3 1 (0.990 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (0.990 %) IIS
Applications 1 14 (13.86 %) Photoshop 2 5 (4.950 %) 3ds Max 3 3 (2.970 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 2 (1.980 %) Fireworks 4 2 (1.980 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.990 %) MS Office 5 1 (0.990 %) ImageReady 5 1 (0.990 %) FreeHand 5 1 (0.990 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 16 (15.84 %) Internet 2 10 (9.901 %) Intranet 3 4 (3.960 %) SSL 3 4 (3.960 %) Firewall 3 4 (3.960 %) VPN 4 3 (2.970 %) Ethernet 4 3 (2.970 %) RIP 4 3 (2.970 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (2.970 %) ISDN 4 3 (2.970 %) LAN 4 3 (2.970 %) WAN 4 3 (2.970 %) SMDS 4 3 (2.970 %) Cisco PIX 4 3 (2.970 %) MPLS 4 3 (2.970 %) OSPF 4 3 (2.970 %) BGP 4 3 (2.970 %) EIGRP 5 2 (1.980 %) DHCP 5 2 (1.980 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (17.82 %) SQL Server 2 11 (10.89 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (8.911 %) MySQL 4 8 (7.921 %) SQL Server 2000 5 6 (5.941 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.990 %) DB2 6 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 17 (16.83 %) Flash 2 5 (4.950 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (0.990 %) TestDirector 3 1 (0.990 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (0.990 %) StarTeam 3 1 (0.990 %) Ant 3 1 (0.990 %) JUnit 3 1 (0.990 %) Visual Studio
General 1 26 (25.74 %) Finance 2 20 (19.80 %) Pensions 3 9 (8.911 %) Marketing 3 9 (8.911 %) Retail 4 5 (4.950 %) Back Office 5 2 (1.980 %) Government 6 1 (0.990 %) Health 6 1 (0.990 %) Multimedia 6 1 (0.990 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.990 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.990 %) Video Editing	Job Titles 1 53 (52.48 %) Developer 2 27 (26.73 %) Analyst 3 23 (22.77 %) Business Analyst 4 18 (17.82 %) Web Developer 5 16 (15.84 %) .NET Developer 6 10 (9.901 %) VB.NET Developer 7 8 (7.921 %) Java Developer 8 7 (6.931 %) Project Manager 9 6 (5.941 %) C# Developer 9 6 (5.941 %) PHP Developer 10 5 (4.950 %) ASP Developer 10 5 (4.950 %) ASP.NET Developer 11 3 (2.970 %) Web Designer 11 3 (2.970 %) Financial Business Analyst 11 3 (2.970 %) E-Commerce Manager 11 3 (2.970 %) Consultant 11 3 (2.970 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 11 3 (2.970 %) C# Web Developer 11 3 (2.970 %) JSP Developer 11 3 (2.970 %) Web Manager
Miscellaneous 1 8 (7.921 %) W3C 2 7 (6.931 %) Client/Server 3 2 (1.980 %) EPoS 4 1 (0.990 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.990 %) Tandem 4 1 (0.990 %) PKI 4 1 (0.990 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (0.990 %) PDA 4 1 (0.990 %) Computer Science 4 1 (0.990 %) RMADS	Operating Systems 1 3 (2.970 %) Linux 2 2 (1.980 %) Windows 3 1 (0.990 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (20.79 %) UML 2 16 (15.84 %) SSADM 2 16 (15.84 %) Content Management 2 16 (15.84 %) Web Development 3 10 (9.901 %) Migration 4 8 (7.921 %) RAD 5 6 (5.941 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 6 (5.941 %) Systems Analysis 5 6 (5.941 %) OO 6 5 (4.950 %) Business Analysis 7 4 (3.960 %) Internet Marketing 7 4 (3.960 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (3.960 %) Web Design 7 4 (3.960 %) Project Management 8 3 (2.970 %) Network Design 8 3 (2.970 %) Load Balancing 9 2 (1.980 %) Pay per click 9 2 (1.980 %) Enterprise Architecture 9 2 (1.980 %) Service Delivery 9 2 (1.980 %) E-business	Programming Languages 1 21 (20.79 %) JavaScript 2 14 (13.86 %) VB.NET 2 14 (13.86 %) SQL 3 12 (11.88 %) Java 3 12 (11.88 %) PHP 4 7 (6.931 %) C# 5 5 (4.950 %) VB 6 2 (1.980 %) ActionScript 7 1 (0.990 %) PHP5 7 1 (0.990 %) PHP4 7 1 (0.990 %) C 7 1 (0.990 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (1.980 %) CCNA 1 2 (1.980 %) CCDA 1 2 (1.980 %) CCDP 1 2 (1.980 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (1.980 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (5.941 %) QA 2 1 (0.990 %) ISO17799 2 1 (0.990 %) SLA 2 1 (0.990 %) ISO27001
Vendors 1 8 (7.921 %) Oracle 2 5 (4.950 %) Microsoft 2 5 (4.950 %) Adobe 3 4 (3.960 %) Stellent 4 3 (2.970 %) Nortel 4 3 (2.970 %) Cisco 4 3 (2.970 %) CheckPoint 5 1 (0.990 %) HP 5 1 (0.990 %) Borland 5 1 (0.990 %) Google