The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 17 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Retailing
Rank 31 21 12
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -9
Permanent jobs citing Retail 35 41 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 5.495% 9.297% 11.53%
As % of the General category 13.06% 22.04% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 34 40 55
Average salary £29,750 £42,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.16% -1.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £31,010 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,450 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All of the General Category
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
268 186 202
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 42.07% 42.18% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 240 176 189
Average salary £38,000 £38,625 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.61% -5.79%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,250 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £90,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Retail
South West

Retail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Retail Salary Trend

Retail
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Retail across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bridgwater - 19 £28,250 -
Taunton +4 6 £36,250 -25.64%
Bath -6 6 £37,500 -
Yeovil +2 1 £40,000 -20.00%
Retail
South West

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 (44.44%) HTML
1 20 (44.44%) Java
1 20 (44.44%) CSS
1 20 (44.44%) Degree
2 19 (42.22%) Mathematics
2 19 (42.22%) SQL
2 19 (42.22%) .NET
3 18 (40.00%) Web Services
3 18 (40.00%) Scrum
3 18 (40.00%) Product Management
3 18 (40.00%) TDD
4 12 (26.67%) Project Management
4 12 (26.67%) Finance
5 9 (20.00%) C#
5 9 (20.00%) Java EE
6 6 (13.33%) SAS
6 6 (13.33%) SPSS
7 5 (11.11%) ITIL
7 5 (11.11%) Test Scripting
7 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 5 (11.11%) Business Analysis
7 5 (11.11%) Software Testing
8 4 (8.889%) Marketing
8 4 (8.889%) Direct Marketing
8 4 (8.889%) PHP
8 4 (8.889%) JUnit
8 4 (8.889%) MySQL
8 4 (8.889%) Test Strategy
9 3 (6.667%) SQL Server
9 3 (6.667%) Linux

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 20 (44.44%) HTML
1 20 (44.44%) CSS
2 19 (42.22%) .NET
3 18 (40.00%) Web Services
4 9 (20.00%) Java EE
5 2 (4.444%) Ajax
5 2 (4.444%) jQuery
5 2 (4.444%) XHTML
5 2 (4.444%) LAMP
6 1 (2.222%) XML-RPC
6 1 (2.222%) XML
6 1 (2.222%) SOAP
6 1 (2.222%) JSON
6 1 (2.222%) Symfony
6 1 (2.222%) CakePHP
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) SAS
2 2 (4.444%) Apache
2 2 (4.444%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.222%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) SPSS
2 2 (4.444%) MS Office
3 1 (2.222%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.444%) Firewall
2 1 (2.222%) WAN
2 1 (2.222%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.889%) MySQL
2 3 (6.667%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.444%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.222%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.222%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (2.222%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.222%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.889%) JUnit
2 2 (4.444%) Subversion
2 2 (4.444%) JIRA
2 2 (4.444%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (2.222%) Git (software)
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (8.889%) Marketing
3 1 (2.222%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.222%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.222%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) Software Developer
1 20 (44.44%) Developer
2 14 (31.11%) Analyst
3 13 (28.89%) Java Developer
3 13 (28.89%) .NET Developer
3 13 (28.89%) Java Software Developer
3 13 (28.89%) Agile .NET Developer
3 13 (28.89%) .NET Software Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Insight Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Graduate Software Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Trainee Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Trainee
5 5 (11.11%) Graduate
6 4 (8.889%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.667%) Test Manager
7 3 (6.667%) Applications Manager
8 2 (4.444%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.444%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (4.444%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (42.22%) Mathematics
2 2 (4.444%) Open Source
3 1 (2.222%) FMCG
3 1 (2.222%) Economics
3 1 (2.222%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.667%) Linux
2 2 (4.444%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.222%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Scrum
1 18 (40.00%) TDD
1 18 (40.00%) Product Management
2 12 (26.67%) Project Management
3 5 (11.11%) ITIL
3 5 (11.11%) Business Analysis
3 5 (11.11%) Software Testing
3 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
3 5 (11.11%) Test Scripting
4 4 (8.889%) Test Strategy
4 4 (8.889%) Direct Marketing
5 3 (6.667%) Use Case
5 3 (6.667%) UML
5 3 (6.667%) Test Management
6 2 (4.444%) OOP
6 2 (4.444%) OO
6 2 (4.444%) E-Commerce
6 2 (4.444%) MVC
6 2 (4.444%) RDF
6 2 (4.444%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Java
2 19 (42.22%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) C#
4 4 (8.889%) PHP
5 3 (6.667%) Python
5 3 (6.667%) Ruby
6 2 (4.444%) Bash shell
6 2 (4.444%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.444%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.444%) RHCE
3 2 (4.444%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.444%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.444%) Gluster
Systems Management
1 2 (4.444%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (6.667%) Cisco
1 3 (6.667%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.444%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.444%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.444%) Riverbed
2 2 (4.444%) Talend
2 2 (4.444%) JBoss
3 1 (2.222%) VMware
3 1 (2.222%) Zend
3 1 (2.222%) Citrix
3 1 (2.222%) Business Objects
3 1 (2.222%) SAP
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Salary: £25000 - £26000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
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Innovative Technology
Salary: Competitive
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