The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Retail over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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 terms in our General category.

Retailing
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank453146
Rank change year-on-year
Down-14Up+15
Matching permanent IT job ads591767754067
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.907 %5.525 %4.260 %
As % of the General category10.90 %11.42 %8.739 %
Number of salaries quoted483855883236
Average salary£50,000£50,000£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+5.26 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£75,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
542715931346540
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK45.01 %48.37 %48.74 %
Number of salaries quoted456244848337646
Average salary£50,000£52,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£85,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.65 %+2.50 %

Retail
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Retail within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Retail Demand Trend

Retail
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Retail within the UK.

Retail Salary Trend

Retail
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Retail over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Retail Salary Histogram

Retail
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-155559£48,500-3.00 %
LondonDown-32945£55,000-
South EastDown-13954£45,000-10.00 %
City of LondonUp+4566£55,000-4.34 %
East of EnglandDown-20439£42,500-5.55 %
HertfordshireDown-8279£45,000-5.26 %
YorkshireUp+11272£40,000+6.66 %
North WestDown-32264£42,500+13.33 %
BerkshireUp+6259£47,500-13.63 %
West MidlandsDown-3255£47,500+9.19 %
East MidlandsDown-11234£37,500-11.76 %
SurreyDown-4212£45,000-
HampshireDown-14189£45,000-
ManchesterDown-13169£47,500+26.66 %
ScotlandDown-4157£50,000+11.11 %
West YorkshireDown-12156£40,000+7.38 %
South WestDown-24151£40,000-5.88 %
WatfordUp+2114£43,000-9.47 %
BuckinghamshireDown-19106£41,250-17.50 %
EdinburghUp+9101£53,750+19.44 %
BirminghamUp+2289£52,500+40.00 %
LeicestershireDown-179£35,865-4.36 %
CambridgeshireDown-274£40,000+14.28 %
Milton KeynesDown-173£40,000-20.00 %
ReadingDown-972£45,000-25.00 %
SouthamptonDown-2866£45,000-10.00 %
NottinghamshireDown-2365£47,500-5.00 %
LeedsDown-2465£41,500+18.57 %
OxfordshireUp+2560£37,000-26.00 %
South YorkshireUp+2259£45,000+5.88 %

Retail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

14002 (34.00 %)Finance
23238 (27.51 %)E-Commerce
32234 (18.98 %)SQL
42149 (18.26 %)Banking
51569 (13.33 %).NET
61529 (12.99 %)Oracle
71427 (12.13 %)SQL Server
81422 (12.08 %)Project Management
91385 (11.77 %)Java
101359 (11.55 %)Microsoft
111267 (10.77 %)HTML
121198 (10.18 %)JavaScript
131195 (10.15 %)CSS
141113 (9.457 %)Marketing
141113 (9.457 %)Degree
151061 (9.015 %)Windows
161039 (8.828 %)Manufacturing
171033 (8.777 %)C#
181023 (8.692 %)SAP
191012 (8.599 %)Retail Banking
20976 (8.293 %)Telecoms
21885 (7.520 %)XML
22871 (7.401 %)Business Intelligence
23843 (7.163 %)Linux
24813 (6.908 %)Business Analysis
25767 (6.517 %)ASP.NET
26753 (6.398 %)Stakeholder Management
27738 (6.271 %)Scrum
28718 (6.101 %)MS Excel
29691 (5.871 %)PRINCE2

Retail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11569 (13.33 %).NET
21267 (10.77 %)HTML
31195 (10.15 %)CSS
4885 (7.520 %)XML
5767 (6.517 %)ASP.NET
6616 (5.234 %)J2EE
7589 (5.005 %)WebSphere
8535 (4.546 %)jQuery
9516 (4.384 %)Ajax
10469 (3.985 %)Web Services
11312 (2.651 %)XHTML
12250 (2.124 %)JSP
12250 (2.124 %)WCF
13238 (2.022 %)Middleware
14204 (1.733 %)Spring
15201 (1.708 %)XSLT
15201 (1.708 %)ASP.NET MVC
16171 (1.453 %)Flash
17159 (1.351 %).NET Framework
18157 (1.334 %)HTML5
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1316 (2.685 %)Apache
2288 (2.447 %)SAS
3213 (1.810 %)SharePoint
4201 (1.708 %)CMS
5191 (1.623 %)Tomcat
6177 (1.504 %)IIS
7158 (1.343 %)WebSphere Application Server
8150 (1.275 %)MS Exchange
9134 (1.139 %)ESB
10116 (0.986 %)Magento
10116 (0.986 %)WebLogic
1193 (0.790 %)MQSeries
1289 (0.756 %)BizTalk Server
1371 (0.603 %)WebSphere MQ
1470 (0.595 %)NetWeaver
1569 (0.586 %)ActiveMQ
1662 (0.527 %)IBM HTTP Server
1758 (0.493 %)Exchange Server 2010
1856 (0.476 %)Exchange Server 2003
1951 (0.433 %)Exchange Server 2007
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1718 (6.101 %)MS Excel
2435 (3.696 %)MS Visio
3411 (3.492 %)MS Office
4263 (2.235 %)Photoshop
5131 (1.113 %)MS PowerPoint
6104 (0.884 %)MS Project
789 (0.756 %)Adobe Illustrator
869 (0.586 %)SPSS
943 (0.365 %)Fireworks
1018 (0.153 %)InDesign
1117 (0.144 %)Spreadsheet
1213 (0.110 %)OmniGraffle
139 (0.076 %)Adobe Premiere
145 (0.042 %)Acrobat
145 (0.042 %)GIMP
154 (0.034 %)ImageReady
154 (0.034 %)InfoPath
154 (0.034 %)MATLAB
163 (0.025 %)FrameMaker
163 (0.025 %)Mingle
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1197 (1.674 %)SAP Retail
2132 (1.122 %)SAP FI
3125 (1.062 %)SAP FI/CO
3125 (1.062 %)SAP CO
4115 (0.977 %)Google Analytics
5114 (0.969 %)Oracle Retail
693 (0.790 %)Dynamics AX
776 (0.646 %)Dynamics CRM
872 (0.612 %)Oracle EBS
970 (0.595 %)Dynamics NAV
1056 (0.476 %)Oracle EBS R12
1153 (0.450 %)SAP FSCM
1252 (0.442 %)SAP MM
1347 (0.399 %)SAP SD
1446 (0.391 %)Temenos T24
1542 (0.357 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1641 (0.348 %)Oracle Applications
1738 (0.323 %)SAP CRM
1738 (0.323 %)SAP ERP
1830 (0.255 %)Oracle BPM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1500 (4.248 %)Internet
2161 (1.368 %)Firewall
3156 (1.326 %)SAN
4154 (1.309 %)LAN
5147 (1.249 %)WAN
6143 (1.215 %)HTTP
7111 (0.943 %)DNS
8110 (0.935 %)TCP/IP
984 (0.714 %)VoIP
1068 (0.578 %)VPN
1166 (0.561 %)Wireless
1260 (0.510 %)DHCP
1355 (0.467 %)Network Security
1448 (0.408 %)Intranet
1547 (0.399 %)SSL
1646 (0.391 %)FTP
1736 (0.306 %)ATM
1831 (0.263 %)HTTPS
1928 (0.238 %)MPLS
1928 (0.238 %)NAS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11427 (12.13 %)SQL Server
2567 (4.818 %)Data Warehouse
3449 (3.815 %)MySQL
4349 (2.965 %)SQL Server 2008
5323 (2.744 %)SQL Server 2005
5323 (2.744 %)ETL
6282 (2.396 %)DB2
7264 (2.243 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
8254 (2.158 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9217 (1.844 %)RDBMS
10187 (1.589 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
11140 (1.190 %)SAP BW
12108 (0.918 %)Oracle 8/8i
13106 (0.901 %)DataStage
1496 (0.816 %)BusinessObjects
1591 (0.773 %)Oracle Reports
1689 (0.756 %)Oracle 11g
1788 (0.748 %)SQL Server 2000
1877 (0.654 %)OLAP
1975 (0.637 %)Crystal Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1329 (2.795 %)Subversion
2158 (1.343 %)Selenium
3157 (1.334 %)NUnit
4150 (1.275 %)Visual Studio
5146 (1.241 %)Eclipse
5146 (1.241 %)Git (software)
6143 (1.215 %)QuickTest Pro
7103 (0.875 %)Dreamweaver
7103 (0.875 %)VSS/SourceSafe
899 (0.841 %)Rhino Mocks
996 (0.816 %)Team Foundation Server
1084 (0.714 %)JUnit
1177 (0.654 %)LoadRunner
1274 (0.629 %)JIRA
1365 (0.552 %)Ant
1464 (0.544 %)Maven
1556 (0.476 %)ERwin
1645 (0.382 %)Cucumber
1743 (0.365 %)Synon
1841 (0.348 %)Hudson
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14002 (34.00 %)Finance
22149 (18.26 %)Banking
31113 (9.457 %)Marketing
41039 (8.828 %)Manufacturing
51012 (8.599 %)Retail Banking
6976 (8.293 %)Telecoms
7329 (2.795 %)Games
8217 (1.844 %)Back Office
9216 (1.835 %)Investment Banking
10206 (1.750 %)Publishing
11179 (1.521 %)Advertising
12153 (1.300 %)Law
13132 (1.122 %)Pharmaceutical
14131 (1.113 %)Legal
1583 (0.705 %)Automotive
1583 (0.705 %)Wholesale Banking
1678 (0.663 %)German Language
1773 (0.620 %)Financial Institution
1866 (0.561 %)Private Banking
1964 (0.544 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12508 (21.31 %)Analyst
22185 (18.57 %)Developer
31402 (11.91 %)Business Analyst
41396 (11.86 %)Architect
51147 (9.746 %)Consultant
61094 (9.296 %)Project Manager
7512 (4.350 %).NET Developer
8459 (3.900 %)Solutions Architect
9357 (3.033 %)Senior Analyst
10351 (2.982 %)SAP Consultant
11334 (2.838 %)Senior Developer
12319 (2.711 %)Java Developer
13293 (2.490 %)C# Developer
14270 (2.294 %)Web Developer
15256 (2.175 %)Senior Manager
16245 (2.082 %)Programme Manager
17237 (2.014 %)Support Analyst
18236 (2.005 %)Designer
19217 (1.844 %)Senior Business Analyst
20216 (1.835 %)C# .NET Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1483 (4.104 %)EPoS
2384 (3.263 %)FMCG
3242 (2.056 %)Computer Science
4235 (1.997 %)Management Information System
5219 (1.861 %)Social Media
6178 (1.512 %)SaaS
7150 (1.275 %)Open Source
8146 (1.241 %)Mathematics
9138 (1.173 %)Mainframe
10122 (1.037 %)Credit Risk
11119 (1.011 %)Online Games
12104 (0.884 %)Digital Media
1397 (0.824 %)Web 2.0
1495 (0.807 %)Blackberry
1592 (0.782 %)Cloud Computing
1689 (0.756 %)Data Integration
1781 (0.688 %)PMI
1879 (0.671 %)EFT
1974 (0.629 %)Replication
2071 (0.603 %)Client/Server
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11061 (9.015 %)Windows
2843 (7.163 %)Linux
3634 (5.387 %)UNIX
4167 (1.419 %)Windows Server 2008
5147 (1.249 %)Windows Server 2003
6146 (1.241 %)AIX
7145 (1.232 %)Solaris
8140 (1.190 %)Windows XP
9109 (0.926 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10107 (0.909 %)Apple iOS
1193 (0.790 %)Android
1286 (0.731 %)Windows 7
1350 (0.425 %)Windows Vista
1440 (0.340 %)Ubuntu
1536 (0.306 %)Debian
1634 (0.289 %)HPUX
1731 (0.263 %)SUSE
1731 (0.263 %)Windows 2000 Server
1825 (0.212 %)Mac OS X
1923 (0.195 %)Windows 2000
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13238 (27.51 %)E-Commerce
21422 (12.08 %)Project Management
3871 (7.401 %)Business Intelligence
4813 (6.908 %)Business Analysis
5753 (6.398 %)Stakeholder Management
6738 (6.271 %)Scrum
7691 (5.871 %)PRINCE2
8688 (5.846 %)Agile Software Development
9658 (5.591 %)CRM
10604 (5.132 %)ERP
11552 (4.690 %)Service Delivery
12540 (4.588 %)ITIL
13518 (4.401 %)UML
14490 (4.163 %)MVC
15455 (3.866 %)SOA
16445 (3.781 %)OO
17439 (3.730 %)Change Management
18438 (3.722 %)TDD
19388 (3.297 %)Web Development
20377 (3.203 %)Data Modelling
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12234 (18.98 %)SQL
21385 (11.77 %)Java
31198 (10.18 %)JavaScript
41033 (8.777 %)C#
5492 (4.180 %)PHP
6298 (2.532 %)T-SQL
7288 (2.447 %)Perl
8259 (2.201 %)VB
9251 (2.133 %)VB.NET
10237 (2.014 %)C
11219 (1.861 %)C++
12191 (1.623 %)PL/SQL
13161 (1.368 %)Python
14142 (1.207 %)PHP5
15128 (1.088 %)Shell Script
16116 (0.986 %)Bash shell
17105 (0.892 %)Ruby
1887 (0.739 %)VB6
1986 (0.731 %)VBA
2064 (0.544 %)VBScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11113 (9.457 %)Degree
2311 (2.643 %)ISEB
3296 (2.515 %)Microsoft Certification
4208 (1.767 %)MCP
5188 (1.597 %)Security Cleared
6154 (1.309 %)PRINCE2 Certification
7121 (1.028 %)SC Cleared
8119 (1.011 %)MCTS
9109 (0.926 %)PMI Certification
10105 (0.892 %)Cisco Certification
11100 (0.850 %)MCAD
11100 (0.850 %)MCSD
1288 (0.748 %)ISTQB
1385 (0.722 %)MCSE
1471 (0.603 %)CCNA
1471 (0.603 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1570 (0.595 %)ITIL Certification
1652 (0.442 %)MBA
1751 (0.433 %)HND
1847 (0.399 %)ISEB Practitioner
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1541 (4.597 %)QA
2266 (2.260 %)SLA
386 (0.731 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
468 (0.578 %)ISO 9001
552 (0.442 %)PCI DSS
650 (0.425 %)Data Quality
734 (0.289 %)ISO/IEC 27001
829 (0.246 %)Basel III
925 (0.212 %)Solvency II
1022 (0.187 %)Basel II
1119 (0.161 %)FATCA
1218 (0.153 %)COBIT
138 (0.068 %)ISO 9000
147 (0.059 %)PAS 78
156 (0.051 %)IAS 39
163 (0.025 %)ISO 8583
163 (0.025 %)JSP 440
163 (0.025 %)COSO
172 (0.017 %)GxP
172 (0.017 %)GAAP
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1225 (1.912 %)Active Directory
2150 (1.275 %)VMware Infrastructure
359 (0.501 %)XenApp
437 (0.314 %)vSphere
437 (0.314 %)Terminal Services
533 (0.280 %)XenDesktop
631 (0.263 %)VMware ESX
729 (0.246 %)NFS
824 (0.204 %)Hyper-V
923 (0.195 %)Oracle RAC
1018 (0.153 %)XenServer
1116 (0.136 %)SRDF
1214 (0.119 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1313 (0.110 %)ISA Server
1411 (0.093 %)Oracle RMAN
158 (0.068 %)Terminal Server
158 (0.068 %)IAG
158 (0.068 %)Varnish
158 (0.068 %)VMware ESXi
166 (0.051 %)Veritas Volume Manager
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1110 (0.935 %)HP Quality Center
239 (0.331 %)SCCM
332 (0.272 %)SCOM
430 (0.255 %)Nagios
527 (0.229 %)Tivoli
527 (0.229 %)NetBackup
626 (0.221 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
723 (0.195 %)Backup Exec
822 (0.187 %)Norton AntiVirus
917 (0.144 %)WSUS
1016 (0.136 %)EMC NetWorker
1016 (0.136 %)Unicenter
1112 (0.102 %)Puppet
1210 (0.085 %)Cisco UCCX
1210 (0.085 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
139 (0.076 %)MIMEsweeper
139 (0.076 %)EMC TimeFinder
147 (0.059 %)Data Guard
147 (0.059 %)ZABBIX
147 (0.059 %)MOM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11529 (12.99 %)Oracle
21359 (11.55 %)Microsoft
31023 (8.692 %)SAP
4469 (3.985 %)IBM
5266 (2.260 %)ATG
6256 (2.175 %)VMware
7241 (2.048 %)HP
8229 (1.946 %)Teradata
9223 (1.895 %)Cisco
10201 (1.708 %)Citrix
11196 (1.665 %)JBoss
12190 (1.614 %)Business Objects
13186 (1.580 %)Adobe
14161 (1.368 %)Red Hat
15143 (1.215 %)Google
16124 (1.054 %)hybris
17117 (0.994 %)Fujitsu
18101 (0.858 %)Sun
19100 (0.850 %)Symantec
2099 (0.841 %)Demandware