The first table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT jobs advertised for the Maidstone region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited E-Commerce 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Maidstone region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Rank 23 18 19
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +1
Permanent jobs citing E-Commerce 1 3 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 1.235% 6.522% 10.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.695% 7.895% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 7
Average salary £27,500 £14,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+89.65% -65.88%
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £37,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year
+5.33% -5.06%
All Processes & Methodologies
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
59 38 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 72.84% 82.61% 62.18%
Number of salaries quoted 56 36 67
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £23,100
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £53,240 £39,600
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
E-Commerce
Kent

E-Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the Maidstone region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Maidstone E-Commerce Jobs Demand Trend

E-Commerce
Salary Trend

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

Maidstone E-Commerce Salary Trend

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce.

1 21 (87.50%) PHP
2 20 (83.33%) MySQL
3 19 (79.17%) Retail
4 15 (62.50%) Linux
5 14 (58.33%) Apache
6 13 (54.17%) CSS
7 12 (50.00%) HTML
8 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
8 10 (41.67%) OOP
8 10 (41.67%) Ajax
9 9 (37.50%) jQuery
10 8 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (33.33%) OO
11 7 (29.17%) Windows
12 6 (25.00%) UML
12 6 (25.00%) SOAP
12 6 (25.00%) UNIX
12 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
12 6 (25.00%) Smarty
12 6 (25.00%) REST
12 6 (25.00%) Facebook
13 4 (16.67%) JIRA
13 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
13 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
13 4 (16.67%) Selenium
13 4 (16.67%) Apple
13 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
13 4 (16.67%) Windows 8
13 4 (16.67%) WebDriver
13 4 (16.67%) PHPUnit

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone region citing E-Commerce 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 E-Commerce. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (54.17%) CSS
2 12 (50.00%) HTML
3 10 (41.67%) Ajax
4 9 (37.50%) jQuery
5 6 (25.00%) SOAP
5 6 (25.00%) Smarty
5 6 (25.00%) REST
6 2 (8.333%) LAMP
6 2 (8.333%) .NET
6 2 (8.333%) Flash
6 2 (8.333%) XHTML
7 1 (4.167%) MooTools
Application Platforms
1 14 (58.33%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.333%) Firewall
1 2 (8.333%) SAN
1 2 (8.333%) VPN
1 2 (8.333%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (83.33%) MySQL
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
1 4 (16.67%) Selenium
1 4 (16.67%) WebDriver
1 4 (16.67%) PHPUnit
2 2 (8.333%) Subversion
General
1 19 (79.17%) Retail
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Web Developer
3 8 (33.33%) PHP Developer
4 5 (20.83%) PHP Web Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Analyst
5 4 (16.67%) Test Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Administrator
6 2 (8.333%) Junior Developer
6 2 (8.333%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (8.333%) Junior PHP Developer
6 2 (8.333%) Junior
7 1 (4.167%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Web Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Designer
7 1 (4.167%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Programme Manager
7 1 (4.167%) PHP Programmer
7 1 (4.167%) Web Programmer
7 1 (4.167%) Software Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) EPoS
2 1 (4.167%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Windows
3 6 (25.00%) UNIX
4 4 (16.67%) Windows 8
4 4 (16.67%) Android
4 4 (16.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.167%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) OOP
2 8 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (33.33%) OO
3 6 (25.00%) UML
3 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 4 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (8.333%) Fault Management
6 2 (8.333%) Test Management
7 1 (4.167%) Mobile Application Development
7 1 (4.167%) PRINCE
7 1 (4.167%) Project Management
7 1 (4.167%) Web Development
7 1 (4.167%) Content Management
7 1 (4.167%) MVC
7 1 (4.167%) Scrum
7 1 (4.167%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) PHP
2 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.167%) Perl
3 1 (4.167%) SQL
3 1 (4.167%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Facebook
2 4 (16.67%) Apple
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.333%) WatchGuard
4 2 (8.333%) HP
4 2 (8.333%) Juniper
4 2 (8.333%) Cisco
4 2 (8.333%) 3PAR
5 1 (4.167%) Zend
5 1 (4.167%) VMware