The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 24 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 Bradford 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 23 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing CMS 4 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 2.614% 1.333% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.29% 6.250% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £325 £150 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% -
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 £17.51 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.76% -12.45%
All Application Platforms
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
28 32 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 18.30% 21.33% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 7
Average daily rate £300 £365 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.80% +16.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £120 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £550 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £15.25 - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
CMS
West Yorkshire

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (60.00%) EPiServer
3 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) EPiServer CMS
4 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) Web Application Development
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (20.00%) Joomla!
5 1 (20.00%) WCF
5 1 (20.00%) Zend
5 1 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (20.00%) WordPress
5 1 (20.00%) Content Management
5 1 (20.00%) MVC
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) XHTML
5 1 (20.00%) MySQL
5 1 (20.00%) PHP
5 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (20.00%) Drupal

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) WCF
4 1 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (20.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (60.00%) EPiServer CMS
2 1 (20.00%) Joomla!
2 1 (20.00%) WordPress
2 1 (20.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
5 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
5 1 (20.00%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (20.00%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (20.00%) PHP Programmer
5 1 (20.00%) Web Programmer
5 1 (20.00%) Programmer
5 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (20.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) EPiServer
2 1 (20.00%) Zend