Chester Retail Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Retail' in IT jobs within the Chester region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Altrincham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Castleford Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Feltham Fife Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gourock Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Wight Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milnthorpe Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Royston Rugby Sale Salford Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Wantage Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Wigan Willenhall Wiltshire Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodford Green Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	44
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	27
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	8.969 %	9.408 %
Salaries quoted	20	25
Average minimum salary	£30,350	£26,988
Average salary	£32,925	£28,794
% change on same period last year	+14.34 %
Average maximum salary	£35,500	£30,600
UK excluding London average salary	£44,754	£44,392
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
General Chester
Matching permanent IT job ads	223	287
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.109 %	0.127 %
Salaries quoted	200	276
Average minimum salary	£29,930	£33,791
Average salary	£32,069	£37,099
% change on same period last year	-13.55 %
Average maximum salary	£34,208	£40,407
UK excluding London average salary	£40,607	£42,099
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Retail Cheshire

Retail
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Retail across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Retail
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Retail across the Chester region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Chester region citing Retail also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Retail.

1 26 (54.17 %) SQL 2 25 (52.08 %) SQL Server 3 22 (45.83 %) Finance 4 19 (39.58 %) ASP.NET 4 19 (39.58 %) WebServices 4 19 (39.58 %) .NET 4 19 (39.58 %) C# 4 19 (39.58 %) Banking 5 18 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 6 17 (35.42 %) AJAX 6 17 (35.42 %) DHTML 6 17 (35.42 %) Education 7 15 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2000 7 15 (31.25 %) Transact-SQL 7 15 (31.25 %) OOP

7 15 (31.25 %) OOD 8 13 (27.08 %) Insurance 9 12 (25.00 %) Pensions 10 11 (22.92 %) Corporate Banking 11 9 (18.75 %) Health 12 8 (16.67 %) Oracle 13 7 (14.58 %) Stakeholder Management 13 7 (14.58 %) Oracle 10g 14 5 (10.42 %) Windows 14 5 (10.42 %) UML 15 4 (8.333 %) Unix 15 4 (8.333 %) Oracle 9i 15 4 (8.333 %) Business Objects 15 4 (8.333 %) Microsoft 15 4 (8.333 %) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Chester region citing Retail also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Retail. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 19 (39.58 %) .NET 1 19 (39.58 %) ASP.NET 1 19 (39.58 %) WebServices 2 17 (35.42 %) AJAX 3 2 (4.167 %) XML 3 2 (4.167 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.167 %) IIS 2 1 (2.083 %) SAS
Applications 1 2 (4.167 %) Photoshop 1 2 (4.167 %) MS Visio 1 2 (4.167 %) Fireworks 1 2 (4.167 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 2 (4.167 %) Oracle 11i 1 2 (4.167 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (2.083 %) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (52.08 %) SQL Server 2 18 (37.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 15 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (14.58 %) Oracle 10g 5 4 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects 5 4 (8.333 %) Oracle 9i 5 4 (8.333 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 3 (6.250 %) Hyperion Essbase 6 3 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (6.250 %) BODI 7 2 (4.167 %) Oracle Reports 7 2 (4.167 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 2 (4.167 %) DataStage 7 2 (4.167 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 2 (4.167 %) RDBMS 7 2 (4.167 %) Oracle OWB 7 2 (4.167 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 1 (2.083 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (2.083 %) ETL	Development Applications 1 2 (4.167 %) Oracle Forms 1 2 (4.167 %) TestDirector 1 2 (4.167 %) Subversion
General 1 22 (45.83 %) Finance 2 19 (39.58 %) Banking 3 17 (35.42 %) Education 4 13 (27.08 %) Insurance 5 12 (25.00 %) Pensions 6 11 (22.92 %) Corporate Banking 7 9 (18.75 %) Health 8 4 (8.333 %) Telecoms 8 4 (8.333 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 25 (52.08 %) Analyst 2 17 (35.42 %) Programmer 3 15 (31.25 %) Analyst Programmer 3 15 (31.25 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 3 15 (31.25 %) Server Analyst 3 15 (31.25 %) .NET Programmer 3 15 (31.25 %) C# Analyst Programmer 4 13 (27.08 %) Web Programmer 4 13 (27.08 %) Web Analyst 5 9 (18.75 %) Business Analyst 6 6 (12.50 %) Project Manager 6 6 (12.50 %) Developer 7 4 (8.333 %) Web Developer 7 4 (8.333 %) Consultant 7 4 (8.333 %) Project Leader 8 3 (6.250 %) Senior Analyst 8 3 (6.250 %) .NET Web Developer 8 3 (6.250 %) .NET Developer 8 3 (6.250 %) C# Developer 8 3 (6.250 %) Business Consultant
Operating Systems 1 5 (10.42 %) Windows 2 4 (8.333 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (31.25 %) OOP 1 15 (31.25 %) OOD 2 7 (14.58 %) Stakeholder Management 3 5 (10.42 %) UML 4 4 (8.333 %) Project Management 4 4 (8.333 %) Automated Testing 5 3 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 6 2 (4.167 %) Change Management 6 2 (4.167 %) Project Planning 6 2 (4.167 %) Matrix Management 6 2 (4.167 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (4.167 %) Integration Testing 6 2 (4.167 %) Test Management 6 2 (4.167 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (4.167 %) Scrum 6 2 (4.167 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (4.167 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (2.083 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (2.083 %) Software Testing 7 1 (2.083 %) Manual Testing
Programming Languages 1 26 (54.17 %) SQL 2 19 (39.58 %) C# 3 17 (35.42 %) DHTML 4 15 (31.25 %) Transact-SQL 5 2 (4.167 %) VB 5 2 (4.167 %) C 5 2 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (4.167 %) C++	Qualifications 1 2 (4.167 %) HND 1 2 (4.167 %) OCP 1 2 (4.167 %) Oracle Certification 1 2 (4.167 %) MCPD 1 2 (4.167 %) Degree 2 1 (2.083 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.083 %) QA	Vendors 1 8 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 4 (8.333 %) Business Objects 2 4 (8.333 %) Microsoft 3 3 (6.250 %) Hyperion 4 2 (4.167 %) Informatica 4 2 (4.167 %) Quark 4 2 (4.167 %) Ab Initio 5 1 (2.083 %) Cognos