The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 33 35 43
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Retail 15 2 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 4.902% 1.205% 5.208%
As % of the General category 16.48% 4.167% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 12
Average salary £28,500 £25,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.67% -26.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,788 £20,350 £25,250
10% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,150 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All of the General Category
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
91 48 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 29.74% 28.92% 24.31%
Number of salaries quoted 54 47 64
Average salary £38,500 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.33% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,300 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Retail
Cheshire

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Retail Salary Trend

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) Banking
2 10 (43.48%) Asset Management
2 10 (43.48%) Investment Banking
2 10 (43.48%) Retail Banking
2 10 (43.48%) Private Banking
2 10 (43.48%) Online Banking
2 10 (43.48%) Wealth Management
2 10 (43.48%) Investment Management
2 10 (43.48%) Financial Institution
2 10 (43.48%) Risk Management
3 8 (34.78%) JCL
3 8 (34.78%) DB2
3 8 (34.78%) ITIL
3 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (34.78%) ISPF
4 7 (30.43%) MS Excel
4 7 (30.43%) MS Office
5 6 (26.09%) Windows
5 6 (26.09%) Mainframe
5 6 (26.09%) jQuery
5 6 (26.09%) Incident Management
6 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
6 5 (21.74%) UNIX
7 4 (17.39%) MQSeries
7 4 (17.39%) MS Visio
7 4 (17.39%) CICS
7 4 (17.39%) .NET

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 8 (34.78%) ISPF
2 6 (26.09%) jQuery
3 4 (17.39%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Framework
3 4 (17.39%) HTML
3 4 (17.39%) .NET
4 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
4 3 (13.04%) CSS
4 3 (13.04%) WPF
4 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.348%) Django
5 1 (4.348%) JSON
5 1 (4.348%) Middleware
5 1 (4.348%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) MQSeries
1 4 (17.39%) CICS
2 2 (8.696%) Joomla!
3 1 (4.348%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) MS Office
1 7 (30.43%) MS Excel
2 4 (17.39%) MS Visio
2 4 (17.39%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (8.696%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) Firewall
2 1 (4.348%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) DB2
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (17.39%) MySQL
4 1 (4.348%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.348%) OLTP
4 1 (4.348%) VLDB
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.348%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) ChangeMan
2 2 (8.696%) Dreamweaver
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 10 (43.48%) Financial Institution
2 10 (43.48%) Banking
2 10 (43.48%) Investment Banking
2 10 (43.48%) Retail Banking
2 10 (43.48%) Private Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.348%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 8 (34.78%) Consultant
2 8 (34.78%) Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Incident Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Mainframe Consultant
4 4 (17.39%) Management Consultant
5 2 (8.696%) Graduate
5 2 (8.696%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (4.348%) IT Support
6 1 (4.348%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Python/Django Developer
6 1 (4.348%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (4.348%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Online Banking
2 6 (26.09%) Mainframe
3 4 (17.39%) LPAR
4 2 (8.696%) Economics
4 2 (8.696%) Statistics
4 2 (8.696%) Mathematics
5 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
5 1 (4.348%) Data Integration
5 1 (4.348%) iPhone
5 1 (4.348%) iSeries
5 1 (4.348%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.348%) AS400
5 1 (4.348%) Replication
5 1 (4.348%) Open Source
5 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) UNIX
3 4 (17.39%) AIX
3 4 (17.39%) zOS
3 4 (17.39%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Risk Management
1 10 (43.48%) Asset Management
1 10 (43.48%) Wealth Management
1 10 (43.48%) Investment Management
2 8 (34.78%) ITIL
3 6 (26.09%) Incident Management
4 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (17.39%) MVC
5 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Web Application Development
7 2 (8.696%) Data Validation
7 2 (8.696%) Data Analysis
7 2 (8.696%) Web Development
7 2 (8.696%) Validation
7 2 (8.696%) E-Commerce
7 2 (8.696%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.696%) Benchmarking
7 2 (8.696%) Project Management
8 1 (4.348%) Change Management
8 1 (4.348%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) JCL
2 4 (17.39%) C#
2 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.696%) PHP
4 1 (4.348%) SQL
4 1 (4.348%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.348%) Python
4 1 (4.348%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 1 (4.348%) HND
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Tivoli
1 4 (17.39%) CA Endevor
1 4 (17.39%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.348%) Hitachi
Chester, Cheshire
You will have 3+ years working as a business analyst with some project management skills, Prince2 qualification will be a distinct advantage... Retail or E-commerce skills are...
Spring Technology
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Chester, North West
Working on the development and design of complex web-based business applications you will have at least 2 years commercial experience of working with Python, with MySQL and...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + bens
Posted: 3 June 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Key skills: Python, Django, MySQL Python developer sought by this market leading renowned eCommerce retail based organisation. Working on the development and design of complex web-based business...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Chester, Cheshire
FDM. is urgently seeking driven graduates (or those due to graduate in 2013) to become FDM Software/Digital Developers and represent them as IT Consultants on-site working...
FDM Group
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 4 June 2013