The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 20 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 Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 10 14 21
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Retail 18 32 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 7.469% 10.85% 5.585%
As % of the General category 16.67% 27.35% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 16
Average salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,750 £45,000 £42,250
10% offered a salary of more than £58,000 £65,000 £71,250
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All of the General Category
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
108 117 95
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 44.81% 39.66% 25.27%
Number of salaries quoted 78 102 75
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £40,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Retail
England

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Retail Salary Trend

Retail
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Retail across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Midlands Retail Salary Histogram

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 (44.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) .NET
3 6 (24.00%) Oracle
3 6 (24.00%) C#
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 6 (24.00%) QA
4 5 (20.00%) Wealth Management
4 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 5 (20.00%) Retail Banking
4 5 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (20.00%) International Banking
4 5 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (20.00%) Avaloq
4 5 (20.00%) Fundtech
4 5 (20.00%) TSYS
4 5 (20.00%) Fiserv
4 5 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
4 5 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
4 5 (20.00%) FATCA
4 5 (20.00%) Billing
4 5 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 5 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Misys
4 5 (20.00%) Temenos
4 5 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (20.00%) C
5 4 (16.00%) SQL

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) jQuery
2 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (12.00%) CSS
3 2 (8.000%) XML
3 2 (8.000%) XSLT
3 2 (8.000%) ASP
3 2 (8.000%) XHTML
3 2 (8.000%) Ajax
3 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (8.000%) HTML5
3 2 (8.000%) RESTful
3 2 (8.000%) CSS3
3 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (4.000%) WCF
4 1 (4.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.000%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (4.000%) SAP Retail
1 1 (4.000%) SAP MM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.000%) Internet
2 1 (4.000%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 5 (20.00%) Retail Banking
3 5 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (20.00%) International Banking
3 5 (20.00%) Billing
4 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.000%) Marketing
6 1 (4.000%) Games
6 1 (4.000%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (16.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Storage Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Test Manager
4 2 (8.000%) Web Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.000%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Senior Web Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Programme Test Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Sales Director
5 1 (4.000%) SAP FI Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Credit Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.000%) SAP MM Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (16.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.000%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Wealth Management
1 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 5 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
1 5 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
1 5 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
1 5 (20.00%) Business Analysis
1 5 (20.00%) Programme Management
1 5 (20.00%) Migration
2 4 (16.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (16.00%) Scrum
3 2 (8.000%) MVC
3 2 (8.000%) Web Accessibility
3 2 (8.000%) OWASP
3 2 (8.000%) Test Strategy
3 2 (8.000%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (4.000%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) C#
2 5 (20.00%) C
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Java
4 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.000%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.000%) ISEB
3 1 (4.000%) Degree
3 1 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.000%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 5 (20.00%) FATCA
3 1 (4.000%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Legato
1 4 (16.00%) NetBackup
1 4 (16.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Avaloq
2 5 (20.00%) Fundtech
2 5 (20.00%) TSYS
2 5 (20.00%) Fiserv
2 5 (20.00%) Misys
2 5 (20.00%) Temenos
3 4 (16.00%) Symantec
3 4 (16.00%) Fujitsu
4 2 (8.000%) SAP
5 1 (4.000%) Retek
5 1 (4.000%) Cisco
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