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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 79 39 33
Rank change year-on-year
-40 -6
Permanent jobs citing Retail 77 160 179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 2.458% 4.618% 5.268%
As % of the General category 5.528% 11.89% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 54 113 142
Average salary £45,500 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.21% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £61,250 £75,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All of the General Category
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1393 1346 1589
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 44.48% 38.85% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 799 914 1172
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £69,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Retail
UK

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Retail Salary Trend

Retail
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland Retail Salary Histogram

Retail
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh -18 53 £50,000 -4.76%
Glasgow -12 16 £42,500 +54.54%
Aberdeen -19 2 £29,500 -56.29%
Aberdeenshire - 1 £29,000 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £18,000 -
Retail
UK

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 111 (68.52%) Finance
2 63 (38.89%) Banking
3 46 (28.40%) Retail Banking
4 37 (22.84%) Microsoft
5 36 (22.22%) Telecoms
6 29 (17.90%) SQL
7 28 (17.28%) MS Excel
8 27 (16.67%) Project Management
9 22 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (12.96%) Linux
11 20 (12.35%) Agile Software Development
12 19 (11.73%) Java
13 18 (11.11%) Internet
13 18 (11.11%) .NET
13 18 (11.11%) SQL Server
13 18 (11.11%) SAS
14 17 (10.49%) C#
14 17 (10.49%) Scrum
15 15 (9.259%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (9.259%) Spring
15 15 (9.259%) Oracle
16 14 (8.642%) Content Management
16 14 (8.642%) Business Analysis
16 14 (8.642%) Credit Risk
17 13 (8.025%) Web Services
17 13 (8.025%) Data Warehouse
17 13 (8.025%) Windows
18 12 (7.407%) UNIX
18 12 (7.407%) JavaScript
18 12 (7.407%) Maven

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 18 (11.11%) .NET
2 15 (9.259%) Spring
3 13 (8.025%) Web Services
4 11 (6.790%) CSS
4 11 (6.790%) HTML
5 10 (6.173%) Middleware
6 9 (5.556%) SOAP
6 9 (5.556%) WebSphere
6 9 (5.556%) Java EE
6 9 (5.556%) iBATIS
6 9 (5.556%) REST
7 8 (4.938%) Ajax
8 6 (3.704%) jQuery
9 5 (3.086%) XML
10 4 (2.469%) Ruby on Rails
10 4 (2.469%) ASP.NET
11 3 (1.852%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (1.852%) JSF
11 3 (1.852%) Hibernate
12 2 (1.235%) Oracle ADF
Application Platforms
1 18 (11.11%) SAS
2 9 (5.556%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (3.086%) Apache
3 5 (3.086%) CMS
4 4 (2.469%) nginx
5 3 (1.852%) ESB
6 2 (1.235%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.235%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.235%) WebLogic Portal
6 2 (1.235%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.617%) Gentran
7 1 (0.617%) IIS
7 1 (0.617%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.617%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 28 (17.28%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.852%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.235%) MS Project
3 2 (1.235%) MS Office
4 1 (0.617%) SPSS
4 1 (0.617%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.852%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.235%) SAP MM
2 2 (1.235%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.617%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.617%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.617%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.11%) Internet
2 5 (3.086%) NFC
3 4 (2.469%) Network Security
3 4 (2.469%) TACACS
3 4 (2.469%) SMTP
3 4 (2.469%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.852%) ATM
4 3 (1.852%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.617%) Firewall
5 1 (0.617%) Wireless Security
5 1 (0.617%) Wireless
5 1 (0.617%) IPsec
5 1 (0.617%) VLAN
5 1 (0.617%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.617%) VPN
5 1 (0.617%) DNS
5 1 (0.617%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.025%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.556%) InterSystems Cache
4 5 (3.086%) MySQL
5 4 (2.469%) MS Access
5 4 (2.469%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (2.469%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.852%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.235%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (1.235%) DataStage
7 2 (1.235%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.235%) Oracle OWB
7 2 (1.235%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (1.235%) TOAD
8 1 (0.617%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.617%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (7.407%) Subversion
1 12 (7.407%) Maven
2 3 (1.852%) Eclipse
2 3 (1.852%) JIRA
3 2 (1.235%) JDeveloper
3 2 (1.235%) MagicDraw
3 2 (1.235%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.235%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.617%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (0.617%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.617%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (0.617%) Selenium
4 1 (0.617%) Jenkins
General
1 111 (68.52%) Finance
2 63 (38.89%) Banking
3 46 (28.40%) Retail Banking
4 36 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.790%) Marketing
6 6 (3.704%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.086%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.469%) Advertising
8 4 (2.469%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.235%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.617%) Automotive
10 1 (0.617%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (21.60%) Analyst
2 23 (14.20%) Developer
3 19 (11.73%) Architect
4 13 (8.025%) Business Analyst
4 13 (8.025%) Consultant
5 11 (6.790%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (6.790%) Project Manager
6 8 (4.938%) Development Manager
6 8 (4.938%) Development Team Manager
7 7 (4.321%) Technical Architect
7 7 (4.321%) Web Developer
7 7 (4.321%) Infrastructure Manager
8 6 (3.704%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.086%) Support Engineer
9 5 (3.086%) Junior
9 5 (3.086%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.086%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.086%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.086%) Risk Manager
9 5 (3.086%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.642%) Credit Risk
2 7 (4.321%) EPoS
2 7 (4.321%) Mainframe
3 5 (3.086%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.086%) EFTPOS
3 5 (3.086%) Smartcard
3 5 (3.086%) Statistics
3 5 (3.086%) Mobile Payment
4 4 (2.469%) Mathematics
5 3 (1.852%) Open Source
5 3 (1.852%) Digital Media
5 3 (1.852%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.852%) Online Banking
5 3 (1.852%) IVR
5 3 (1.852%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.235%) CLARiiON
6 2 (1.235%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.235%) Clustering
6 2 (1.235%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.235%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.96%) Linux
2 13 (8.025%) Windows
3 12 (7.407%) UNIX
4 2 (1.235%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.617%) AIX
5 1 (0.617%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (16.67%) Project Management
2 22 (13.58%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (12.35%) Agile Software Development
4 17 (10.49%) Scrum
5 15 (9.259%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (8.642%) Content Management
6 14 (8.642%) Business Analysis
7 11 (6.790%) Web Development
7 11 (6.790%) Data Modelling
7 11 (6.790%) SOA
8 10 (6.173%) Service Management
9 9 (5.556%) Asset Management
9 9 (5.556%) Information Architecture
10 8 (4.938%) Performance Management
11 7 (4.321%) TDD
11 7 (4.321%) Requirements Analysis
11 7 (4.321%) Project Planning
11 7 (4.321%) MVC
11 7 (4.321%) UML
12 6 (3.704%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.90%) SQL
2 19 (11.73%) Java
3 17 (10.49%) C#
4 12 (7.407%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.321%) C++
6 6 (3.704%) Delphi
6 6 (3.704%) PHP
6 6 (3.704%) C
7 5 (3.086%) Embedded C
7 5 (3.086%) Embedded C++
7 5 (3.086%) Perl
8 4 (2.469%) Python
8 4 (2.469%) VB
9 3 (1.852%) VBScript
10 2 (1.235%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.235%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.235%) VBA
10 2 (1.235%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (6.173%) Degree
1 10 (6.173%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.938%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.321%) ISEB
4 2 (1.235%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.235%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.617%) CCNA
5 1 (0.617%) CISA
5 1 (0.617%) QiCA
5 1 (0.617%) CCSA
5 1 (0.617%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.617%) CISSP
5 1 (0.617%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.617%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.617%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.617%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.617%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.321%) QA
2 6 (3.704%) SLA
3 3 (1.852%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (3.704%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.469%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.235%) XenDesktop
3 2 (1.235%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.617%) vSphere
4 1 (0.617%) VMware ESX
4 1 (0.617%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.617%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (3.086%) SCOM
2 4 (2.469%) ZABBIX
2 4 (2.469%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (2.469%) Puppet
3 3 (1.852%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.852%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (1.852%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (22.84%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.259%) Oracle
3 12 (7.407%) Fujitsu
4 9 (5.556%) Alterian
5 7 (4.321%) HP
6 6 (3.704%) VMware
7 5 (3.086%) Business Objects
8 3 (1.852%) SAP
8 3 (1.852%) Siebel
8 3 (1.852%) IBM
8 3 (1.852%) Cognizant
9 2 (1.235%) NetApp
9 2 (1.235%) Symantec
9 2 (1.235%) EMC
9 2 (1.235%) Citrix
9 2 (1.235%) Cognos
9 2 (1.235%) Cisco
10 1 (0.617%) JBoss
10 1 (0.617%) Juniper
10 1 (0.617%) CheckPoint
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