The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT jobs advertised for the Maidstone region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 24 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 Maidstone region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank - - 30
Permanent jobs citing Retail 0 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone - - 1.695%
As % of the General category - - 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All of the General Category
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
29 22 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 35.80% 47.83% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 28 22 16
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,750 £25,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Retail
Kent

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone Retail Salary Trend

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 (83.33%) PHP
1 20 (83.33%) MySQL
2 19 (79.17%) E-Commerce
3 16 (66.67%) Linux
4 15 (62.50%) Apache
5 10 (41.67%) OOP
5 10 (41.67%) CSS
5 10 (41.67%) HTML
6 9 (37.50%) Windows
7 8 (33.33%) OO
7 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 8 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (33.33%) Ajax
7 8 (33.33%) jQuery
8 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
8 7 (29.17%) UNIX
9 6 (25.00%) SOAP
9 6 (25.00%) UML
9 6 (25.00%) Smarty
9 6 (25.00%) REST
9 6 (25.00%) Facebook
10 5 (20.83%) Windows 8
10 5 (20.83%) Apple iOS
10 5 (20.83%) Android
10 5 (20.83%) PHPUnit
10 5 (20.83%) Test Scripting
10 5 (20.83%) Selenium
10 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
10 5 (20.83%) Apple
10 5 (20.83%) SQL Server

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 10 (41.67%) CSS
1 10 (41.67%) HTML
2 8 (33.33%) Ajax
2 8 (33.33%) jQuery
3 6 (25.00%) SOAP
3 6 (25.00%) Smarty
3 6 (25.00%) REST
4 4 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (4.167%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 15 (62.50%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.333%) SAN
1 2 (8.333%) VPN
1 2 (8.333%) Firewall
1 2 (8.333%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (83.33%) MySQL
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) PHPUnit
1 5 (20.83%) Selenium
2 4 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (8.333%) Subversion
3 2 (8.333%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) PHP Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Web Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Test Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) PHP Web Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (8.333%) Junior PHP Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Junior
5 2 (8.333%) Administrator
6 1 (4.167%) Web Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Programmer
6 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (4.167%) IT Programme Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Supply Chain Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) Windows
3 7 (29.17%) UNIX
4 5 (20.83%) Windows 8
4 5 (20.83%) Apple iOS
4 5 (20.83%) Android
5 1 (4.167%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.167%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.167%) Windows NT
5 1 (4.167%) Windows XP
5 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) E-Commerce
2 10 (41.67%) OOP
3 8 (33.33%) OO
3 8 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
5 6 (25.00%) UML
6 5 (20.83%) Test Scripting
7 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Fault Management
8 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (8.333%) Integration Testing
10 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
10 1 (4.167%) Scrum
10 1 (4.167%) PLM
10 1 (4.167%) PRINCE
10 1 (4.167%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) PHP
2 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (4.167%) VB6
4 1 (4.167%) Perl
4 1 (4.167%) SQL
4 1 (4.167%) VB
4 1 (4.167%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Facebook
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Apple
3 2 (8.333%) HP
3 2 (8.333%) Juniper
3 2 (8.333%) Cisco
3 2 (8.333%) 3PAR
3 2 (8.333%) WatchGuard
4 1 (4.167%) VMware