The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 21 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 Cardiff 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 24 30 31
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +1
Contract jobs citing CMS 2 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.093% 0.885% 1.322%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.333% 5.263% 6.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £200 £358 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-44.05% +58.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £18.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year
-5.55% -8.86%
All Application Platforms
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
24 38 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 13.11% 16.81% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 38
Average daily rate £325 £298 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.24% -8.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £105 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £500 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £17.00 - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
CMS
South Wales

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Social Media
3 1 (33.33%) Kentico
3 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Flash
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Flash
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Kentico
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Junior
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Database Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Junior Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Application Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Social Media
2 1 (33.33%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) XAML
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft