The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Application Platforms category for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 27 33 41
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +8
Contract jobs citing CMS 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.047% 1.075% 0.685%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.762% 5.556% 2.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £150 - £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £17.76 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-7.06% -11.22%
All Application Platforms
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
42 54 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 21.99% 19.35% 25.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 27 38
Average daily rate £325 £375 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +76.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £325 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £301
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.00 £10.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% +11.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
CMS
East of England

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bedfordshire CMS Jobs Demand Trend

CMS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CMS across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire CMS Daily Rate Trend

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton -4 2 £150 -
Bedford -2 1 - -
CMS
East of England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing CMS 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited CMS.

1 6 (54.55%) CSS
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
4 3 (27.27%) PHP
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 2 (18.18%) XML
5 2 (18.18%) OOP
5 2 (18.18%) OO
5 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 2 (18.18%) XHTML
5 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
5 2 (18.18%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (18.18%) Sitecore
6 1 (9.091%) WebDriver
6 1 (9.091%) Kentico
6 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
6 1 (9.091%) BDD
6 1 (9.091%) CSS3
6 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
6 1 (9.091%) concrete5
6 1 (9.091%) SpecFlow
6 1 (9.091%) Gherkin
6 1 (9.091%) Content Management
6 1 (9.091%) TDD
6 1 (9.091%) SharePoint

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing CMS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) CSS
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) XML
3 2 (18.18%) XHTML
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (9.091%) CSS3
4 1 (9.091%) Gherkin
4 1 (9.091%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (9.091%) Kentico
2 1 (9.091%) concrete5
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.091%) IIS
2 1 (9.091%) DotNetNuke
2 1 (9.091%) Drupal
2 1 (9.091%) Immediacy CMS
2 1 (9.091%) WordPress
2 1 (9.091%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) WebDriver
1 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
1 1 (9.091%) SpecFlow
1 1 (9.091%) Selenium
General
1 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 1 (9.091%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) PHP Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Web Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (9.091%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Junior
4 1 (9.091%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Junior Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
2 2 (18.18%) OOP
2 2 (18.18%) OO
2 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) BDD
3 1 (9.091%) Content Management
3 1 (9.091%) TDD
3 1 (9.091%) Web Development
3 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Time Management
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) Ruby
4 1 (9.091%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Sitecore
2 1 (9.091%) EPiServer