The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT jobs advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bath region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 45 41 26
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -15
Permanent jobs citing Retail 6 1 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 1.583% 0.463% 6.699%
As % of the General category 4.000% 1.429% 13.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 14
Average salary £37,500 - £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All of the General Category
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
150 70 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 39.58% 32.41% 50.72%
Number of salaries quoted 144 69 101
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,850 £22,800
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £90,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Retail
Somerset

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath Retail Jobs Demand Trend

Retail
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Retail across the Bath region.

Bath Retail Salary Trend

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Retail.

1 5 (71.43%) SAS
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) SPSS
2 4 (57.14%) Marketing
2 4 (57.14%) Direct Marketing
3 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
3 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Talend Open Studio
3 2 (28.57%) Riverbed
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Six Sigma
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (28.57%) Subversion
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) RDF
3 2 (28.57%) RHCE
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) JBoss
3 2 (28.57%) Apache

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Retail. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) SAS
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
2 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Talend Open Studio
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Insight Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Direct Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Six Sigma
2 2 (28.57%) RDF
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
1 2 (28.57%) Ruby
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) PHP
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) RHCE
1 2 (28.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
1 2 (28.57%) Riverbed
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) JBoss
1 2 (28.57%) Talend