Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for E-Commerce skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited E-Commerce over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the North West region.

 Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank213747
Rank change year-on-year
Up+16Up+10
Matching permanent IT job ads427341460
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West7.886 %5.972 %3.655 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category12.14 %10.28 %6.318 %
Salaries quoted385326425
Average salary£32,000£35,000£31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.570 %+12.90 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,000£22,250£21,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£57,500£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
North West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
351733177281
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West64.95 %58.09 %57.85 %
Salaries quoted314029006209
Average salary£35,000£35,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
--6.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£24,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£65,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
E-Commerce EnglandE-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West E-Commerce Demand Trend

E-Commerce
Salary Trend

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

North West E-Commerce Salary Trend

E-Commerce
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing E-Commerce across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North West E-Commerce Salary Histogram

E-Commerce
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing E-Commerce within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
ManchesterUp+36259£32,000-8.57 %
CheshireDown-2169£27,500-21.42 %
LancashireUp+1547£35,000-
MerseysideUp+827£41,250+55.66 %
CumbriaUp+85£32,500-7.14 %
E-Commerce EnglandE-Commerce
England

E-Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1314 (42.38 %)CSS
2279 (37.65 %).NET
3256 (34.55 %)JavaScript
4221 (29.82 %)XHTML
5206 (27.80 %)HTML
6205 (27.67 %)ASP.NET
7194 (26.18 %)SQL Server
8181 (24.43 %)SQL
9168 (22.67 %)C#
10155 (20.92 %)PHP
11153 (20.65 %)Marketing
12151 (20.38 %)Retail
12151 (20.38 %)XML
13118 (15.92 %)MySQL
14116 (15.65 %)Web Development
15110 (14.84 %)AJAX
16104 (14.04 %)SEO
16104 (14.04 %)CMS
1793 (12.55 %)Web Services
1892 (12.42 %)VB.NET
1976 (10.26 %)SQL Server 2005
2074 (9.987 %)Java
2171 (9.582 %)OO
2266 (8.907 %)Internet
2364 (8.637 %)Microsoft
2458 (7.827 %)jQuery
2555 (7.422 %)Agile Software Development
2652 (7.018 %)Scrum
2750 (6.748 %)ASP
2847 (6.343 %)Photoshop

E-Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West 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.

North West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1314 (42.38 %)CSS
2279 (37.65 %).NET
3221 (29.82 %)XHTML
4206 (27.80 %)HTML
5205 (27.67 %)ASP.NET
6151 (20.38 %)XML
7110 (14.84 %)AJAX
893 (12.55 %)Web Services
958 (7.827 %)jQuery
1050 (6.748 %)ASP
1145 (6.073 %)J2EE
1236 (4.858 %)Ruby on Rails
1236 (4.858 %)Flash
1331 (4.184 %)LINQ
1427 (3.644 %)Spring
1526 (3.509 %)LAMP
1624 (3.239 %)Struts
1722 (2.969 %)Haml
1722 (2.969 %)WCF
1819 (2.564 %)NHibernate
North West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1104 (14.04 %)CMS
237 (4.993 %)Apache
328 (3.779 %)IIS
422 (2.969 %)Magento
59 (1.215 %)Drupal
59 (1.215 %)SharePoint
59 (1.215 %)MS Exchange
68 (1.080 %)ATG Dynamo
77 (0.945 %)WebSphere MQ
77 (0.945 %)ColdFusion
77 (0.945 %)ColdFusion MX
86 (0.810 %)Tomcat
86 (0.810 %)Umbraco
94 (0.540 %)SugarCRM
94 (0.540 %)WebLogic
103 (0.405 %)WebSphere Application Server
112 (0.270 %)Exchange Server 2003
112 (0.270 %)SharePoint Portal Server
112 (0.270 %)osCommerce
121 (0.135 %)WordPress
North West IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
147 (6.343 %)Photoshop
222 (2.969 %)MS Visio
318 (2.429 %)MS Excel
416 (2.159 %)Fireworks
416 (2.159 %)Adobe Illustrator
512 (1.619 %)MS Office
63 (0.405 %)MS Project
63 (0.405 %)CA Clarity
71 (0.135 %)QuarkXPress
North West IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (1.080 %)Google Analytics
25 (0.675 %)Dynamics CRM
25 (0.675 %)WebTrends
34 (0.540 %)Dynamics AX
43 (0.405 %)Oracle EBS
43 (0.405 %)Axapta
52 (0.270 %)Navision
52 (0.270 %)Pivotal CRM
61 (0.135 %)Microsoft CRM
North West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
166 (8.907 %)Internet
219 (2.564 %)Intranet
32 (0.270 %)DNS
32 (0.270 %)DHCP
32 (0.270 %)Extranet
41 (0.135 %)Firewall
41 (0.135 %)Cisco ASA
41 (0.135 %)FTP
North West IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1194 (26.18 %)SQL Server
2118 (15.92 %)MySQL
376 (10.26 %)SQL Server 2005
437 (4.993 %)SQL Server 2008
533 (4.453 %)SQL Server 2000
619 (2.564 %)DB2
79 (1.215 %)SQL Server Integration Services
86 (0.810 %)Crystal Reports
95 (0.675 %)OLAP
95 (0.675 %)ETL
95 (0.675 %)OLTP
95 (0.675 %)Oracle OLAP
103 (0.405 %)Oracle 11g
103 (0.405 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
103 (0.405 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
103 (0.405 %)Oracle 10g
103 (0.405 %)Datawarehouse
111 (0.135 %)RDBMS
North West IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
131 (4.184 %)Dreamweaver
222 (2.969 %)Subversion
313 (1.754 %)Visual Studio
412 (1.619 %)NUnit
58 (1.080 %)JUnit
64 (0.540 %)Ant
73 (0.405 %)MorphX
73 (0.405 %)Selenium
73 (0.405 %)WebDriver
North West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1153 (20.65 %)Marketing
2151 (20.38 %)Retail
346 (6.208 %)Social Media
438 (5.128 %)Finance
535 (4.723 %)Health
535 (4.723 %)Pensions
624 (3.239 %)Advertising
715 (2.024 %)Insurance
811 (1.484 %)Telecoms
910 (1.350 %)Back Office
106 (0.810 %)Games
106 (0.810 %)Multimedia
114 (0.540 %)Construction
114 (0.540 %)Education
114 (0.540 %)Animation
123 (0.405 %)Pharmaceutical
123 (0.405 %)Banking
132 (0.270 %)Graphic Design
132 (0.270 %)Manufacturing
141 (0.135 %)Front Office
North West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1437 (58.97 %)Developer
2193 (26.05 %)Web Developer
3153 (20.65 %).NET Developer
496 (12.96 %)Analyst
591 (12.28 %)PHP Developer
672 (9.717 %)ASP.NET Developer
762 (8.367 %)C# Developer
861 (8.232 %).NET Web Developer
959 (7.962 %)Business Analyst
1051 (6.883 %)Senior Developer
1146 (6.208 %)Web Designer
1146 (6.208 %)Designer
1242 (5.668 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1337 (4.993 %)Java Developer
1428 (3.779 %)PHP Web Developer
1524 (3.239 %)Senior .NET Developer
1622 (2.969 %)VB.NET Developer
1721 (2.834 %)Architect
1721 (2.834 %)Systems Analyst
1820 (2.699 %)Senior Web Developer
North West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
142 (5.668 %)Web 2.0
236 (4.858 %)W3C
315 (2.024 %)Google App Engine
412 (1.619 %)Clustering
412 (1.619 %)Statistics
510 (1.350 %)Computer Science
510 (1.350 %)Copywriting
510 (1.350 %)E-Learning
510 (1.350 %)Open Source
69 (1.215 %)FMCG
69 (1.215 %)Replication
78 (1.080 %)Management Information System
87 (0.945 %)Blog
94 (0.540 %)Social Network
103 (0.405 %)Photography
103 (0.405 %)Data Protection Act
103 (0.405 %)iPhone
103 (0.405 %)Cloud Computing
112 (0.270 %)PDA
121 (0.135 %)Mainframe
North West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
145 (6.073 %)Windows
239 (5.263 %)Linux
312 (1.619 %)Windows Server 2008
49 (1.215 %)Windows Server 2003
57 (0.945 %)Windows Mobile
65 (0.675 %)UNIX
74 (0.540 %)Red Hat Linux
74 (0.540 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
74 (0.540 %)Fedora
74 (0.540 %)Ubuntu
83 (0.405 %)Windows 2000 Server
91 (0.135 %)Debian
91 (0.135 %)Windows 2000
91 (0.135 %)Windows XP
North West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1116 (15.65 %)Web Development
2104 (14.04 %)SEO
371 (9.582 %)OO
455 (7.422 %)Agile Software Development
552 (7.018 %)Scrum
646 (6.208 %)MVC
646 (6.208 %)Content Management
646 (6.208 %)Pay per click
741 (5.533 %)Online Marketing
835 (4.723 %)CRM
934 (4.588 %)UML
934 (4.588 %)Email Marketing
1030 (4.049 %)Web Design
1123 (3.104 %)Project Management
1220 (2.699 %)OOD
1319 (2.564 %)B2C
1418 (2.429 %)Logistics
1517 (2.294 %)Use Case
1616 (2.159 %)SOA
1714 (1.889 %)OOP
North West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1256 (34.55 %)JavaScript
2181 (24.43 %)SQL
3168 (22.67 %)C#
4155 (20.92 %)PHP
592 (12.42 %)VB.NET
674 (9.987 %)Java
739 (5.263 %)T-SQL
836 (4.858 %)Ruby
933 (4.453 %)C
1029 (3.914 %)Perl
1125 (3.374 %)PHP5
1224 (3.239 %)VB
1315 (2.024 %)Python
1411 (1.484 %)VBScript
1411 (1.484 %)PHP4
155 (0.675 %)PL/SQL
155 (0.675 %)ActionScript
163 (0.405 %)XPath
163 (0.405 %)X++
163 (0.405 %)Objective-C
North West IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
146 (6.208 %)Degree
29 (1.215 %)ISEB
35 (0.675 %)Microsoft Certification
43 (0.405 %)PRINCE2 Certification
43 (0.405 %)MCDBA
52 (0.270 %)MCSE
61 (0.135 %)CISSP
61 (0.135 %)CEH
61 (0.135 %)SC Cleared
61 (0.135 %)Security Cleared
North West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
116 (2.159 %)QA
23 (0.405 %)ISO9001
23 (0.405 %)WCAG
32 (0.270 %)SLA
32 (0.270 %)PCI DSS
North West IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (1.080 %)MSMQ
25 (0.675 %)Active Directory
32 (0.270 %)VMware Infrastructure
41 (0.135 %)Postfix
41 (0.135 %)XenServer
41 (0.135 %)Snort
North West IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.135 %)Nessus
North West IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
164 (8.637 %)Microsoft
236 (4.858 %)Oracle
334 (4.588 %)Google
418 (2.429 %)ATG
516 (2.159 %)Adobe
611 (1.484 %)IBM
710 (1.350 %)Yahoo!
86 (0.810 %)Interwoven
95 (0.675 %)Zend
104 (0.540 %)JBoss
104 (0.540 %)Red Hat
113 (0.405 %)Cisco
113 (0.405 %)BEA
122 (0.270 %)FatWire
122 (0.270 %)VMware
131 (0.135 %)telerik
131 (0.135 %)Omniture
131 (0.135 %)Apple
131 (0.135 %)Sage
131 (0.135 %)Quark