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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 46 39 41
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Retail 18 8 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 3.147% 1.914% 5.373%
As % of the General category 9.045% 4.651% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 30
Average salary £36,375 £32,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.67% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,050 £30,750 £27,950
10% offered a salary of more than £45,050 £33,250 £68,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All of the General Category
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
199 172 277
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 34.79% 41.15% 48.01%
Number of salaries quoted 176 161 266
Average salary £36,400 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.00% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,300 £25,450 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Retail
South Wales

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Retail Salary Trend

Retail
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Retail across the Cardiff region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cardiff Retail Salary Histogram

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 20 (58.82%) Finance
2 16 (47.06%) .NET
2 16 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 16 (47.06%) ASP.NET
3 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
3 11 (32.35%) Banking
4 10 (29.41%) MS Excel
5 9 (26.47%) SharePoint
5 9 (26.47%) Retail Banking
6 8 (23.53%) .NET Framework
6 8 (23.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (23.53%) ReSharper
6 8 (23.53%) VB6
6 8 (23.53%) TDD
6 8 (23.53%) Content Management
6 8 (23.53%) Unit Testing
6 8 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (23.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (23.53%) Sitecore CMS
6 8 (23.53%) Sitecore
6 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
6 8 (23.53%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 8 (23.53%) Castle Windsor
6 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 8 (23.53%) Razor View Engine
6 8 (23.53%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (23.53%) CRM
6 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (23.53%) OO
6 8 (23.53%) Visual Studio

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 Development
1 16 (47.06%) .NET
1 16 (47.06%) ASP.NET
2 8 (23.53%) .NET Framework
2 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
2 8 (23.53%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 8 (23.53%) Castle Windsor
2 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 8 (23.53%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (2.941%) COM
3 1 (2.941%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 9 (26.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (23.53%) CMS
2 8 (23.53%) SharePoint Server
2 8 (23.53%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (17.65%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.941%) Site Server
4 1 (2.941%) IIS
4 1 (2.941%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.941%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.941%) SAS
4 1 (2.941%) CICS
4 1 (2.941%) Magento
4 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 10 (29.41%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.882%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.941%) VLAN
2 1 (2.941%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.941%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Visual Studio
1 8 (23.53%) ReSharper
1 8 (23.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (58.82%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Banking
3 9 (26.47%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.882%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.941%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.941%) Back Office
5 1 (2.941%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 11 (32.35%) .NET Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) VB.NET Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Business Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) BizTalk Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Security Officer
5 4 (11.76%) Information Security Officer
6 2 (5.882%) Business Continuity Manager
6 2 (5.882%) Business Manager
6 2 (5.882%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Consultant
7 1 (2.941%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.941%) Programmer
7 1 (2.941%) Technical Support
7 1 (2.941%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.941%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.941%) Administrator
7 1 (2.941%) Architect
7 1 (2.941%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.882%) Credit Risk
2 1 (2.941%) RIA
2 1 (2.941%) EPoS
2 1 (2.941%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.941%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.941%) Replication
2 1 (2.941%) Human Factors
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.882%) Windows
2 1 (2.941%) Windows XP
2 1 (2.941%) zOS
2 1 (2.941%) MVS
2 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (2.941%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) OO
1 8 (23.53%) CRM
1 8 (23.53%) Scrum
1 8 (23.53%) TDD
1 8 (23.53%) Content Management
1 8 (23.53%) Unit Testing
1 8 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (20.59%) Information Security
3 3 (8.824%) E-Commerce
4 2 (5.882%) BCP
4 2 (5.882%) Service Management
4 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
4 2 (5.882%) Business Continuity
4 2 (5.882%) ITSM
4 2 (5.882%) ITIL
4 2 (5.882%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (2.941%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (2.941%) Performance Management
5 1 (2.941%) Change Control
5 1 (2.941%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) C#
1 8 (23.53%) VB
1 8 (23.53%) VB.NET
1 8 (23.53%) VB6
2 2 (5.882%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (11.76%) CISSP
3 1 (2.941%) Degree
3 1 (2.941%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.941%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.941%) Terminal Services
1 1 (2.941%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.941%) WSUS
1 1 (2.941%) SCCM
1 1 (2.941%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (23.53%) Sitecore
3 6 (17.65%) Oracle
4 2 (5.882%) VMware
5 1 (2.941%) Kaspersky
5 1 (2.941%) Veeam
5 1 (2.941%) SAP
5 1 (2.941%) Citrix
5 1 (2.941%) BT