The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Birmingham 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 41 46 37
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -9
Contract jobs citing CMS 6 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.245% 1.242% 1.550%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.897% 7.477% 6.957%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 2
Average daily rate - £238 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £295
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -6.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+31.57% -5.00%
All Application Platforms
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
87 107 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 18.05% 16.61% 22.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 56 63
Average daily rate £365 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.80% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £183 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £392 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
Average hourly rate £12.00 £30.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +172.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
CMS
West Midlands

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 (35.29%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
2 4 (23.53%) E-Learning
2 4 (23.53%) HTML
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
2 4 (23.53%) CSS
2 4 (23.53%) Web Services
2 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 4 (23.53%) SaaS
3 3 (17.65%) WordPress
3 3 (17.65%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (17.65%) Sitecore
4 2 (11.76%) Social Media
4 2 (11.76%) Content Management
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Publishing
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 1 (5.882%) C
5 1 (5.882%) SEO
5 1 (5.882%) Automotive
5 1 (5.882%) Migration
5 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.882%) Clustering
5 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.882%) C++
5 1 (5.882%) COBOL
5 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
5 1 (5.882%) PHP
5 1 (5.882%) SQL

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 (35.29%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) HTML
2 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
2 4 (23.53%) CSS
2 4 (23.53%) Web Services
3 1 (5.882%) XHTML
3 1 (5.882%) jQuery
3 1 (5.882%) CSS3
3 1 (5.882%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) WordPress
2 3 (17.65%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (5.882%) Joomla!
3 1 (5.882%) Umbraco
3 1 (5.882%) EPiServer CMS
3 1 (5.882%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
General
1 2 (11.76%) Publishing
2 1 (5.882%) Automotive
2 1 (5.882%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Web Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Service Manager
3 4 (23.53%) Web Manager
4 3 (17.65%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Front-End Web Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Web Editor
5 2 (11.76%) Programmer
5 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Consultant
6 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.882%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.882%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (5.882%) PHP Programmer
6 1 (5.882%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (5.882%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) E-Learning
1 4 (23.53%) SaaS
2 2 (11.76%) Social Media
3 1 (5.882%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) OpenVMS
1 1 (5.882%) UNIX
1 1 (5.882%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
2 2 (11.76%) Content Management
2 2 (11.76%) Project Management
3 1 (5.882%) SEO
3 1 (5.882%) Migration
3 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.882%) Web Development
3 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) C#
3 1 (5.882%) C
3 1 (5.882%) C++
3 1 (5.882%) COBOL
3 1 (5.882%) PHP
3 1 (5.882%) SQL
3 1 (5.882%) Pascal
3 1 (5.882%) PowerHouse
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.882%) Google
2 1 (5.882%) EPiServer
2 1 (5.882%) Facebook