The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT contracts advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 23 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 Worcestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 19 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Retail 5 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 5.319% - 1.667%
As % of the General category 13.89% - 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £383 - £145
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +73.91%
All of the General Category
Worcestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
36 11 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 38.30% 19.64% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 9
Average daily rate £383 £268 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.99% +15.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £200 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £266
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £32.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.50 £32.00 £18.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £57.50 £33.20 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Retail
West Midlands

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire Retail Daily Rate Trend

Retail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Worcestershire Retail Hourly Rate Trend

Retail
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Worcester - 3 £383 -
Redditch - 1 - -
Retail
West Midlands

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Project Management
3 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 5 (33.33%) Six Sigma
3 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 5 (33.33%) CCNA
3 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 5 (33.33%) MS Project
3 5 (33.33%) MS Office
3 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (33.33%) French Language
3 5 (33.33%) German Language
3 5 (33.33%) Italian Language
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Firewall
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
4 4 (26.67%) Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
5 3 (20.00%) VBA
5 3 (20.00%) SAS
5 3 (20.00%) SAS Certification
5 3 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) VMware
5 3 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
6 2 (13.33%) Finance

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 5 (33.33%) MS Visio
1 5 (33.33%) MS Project
1 5 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.667%) SAN
2 1 (6.667%) LAN
2 1 (6.667%) WAN
2 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.667%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) MySQL
General
1 5 (33.33%) French Language
1 5 (33.33%) German Language
1 5 (33.33%) Italian Language
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) SAS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Support
4 1 (6.667%) Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Network Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Network Specialist
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Support
4 1 (6.667%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Network Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ITIL
1 6 (40.00%) Project Management
2 5 (33.33%) Six Sigma
3 3 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.667%) Migration
5 1 (6.667%) Service Management
5 1 (6.667%) B2B
5 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
5 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) CCNA
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (20.00%) SAS Certification
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Cisco
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle