CMS Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 45 52 64
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +12
Contract jobs citing CMS 16 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.216% 1.856% 0.905%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.90% 10.34% 5.660%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 4
Average daily rate £340 £330 £294
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% +12.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £294 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £381 £438 £307
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £9.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £19.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-13.15% -2.56%
All Application Platforms
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 124 145 159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 17.17% 17.95% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 71 96
Average daily rate £339 £344 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.45% -1.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £291 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £14.00 £31.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £30.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
CMS
North West

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Knutsford - 3 £355 -
Macclesfield - 3 £350 -
Chester - 2 £313 -
Crewe +2 1 £315 -8.02%
CMS
North West

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 17 (43.59%) .NET
2 14 (35.90%) C#
2 14 (35.90%) Retail
3 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 13 (33.33%) CSS
4 12 (30.77%) E-Commerce
5 11 (28.21%) ASP.NET
5 11 (28.21%) SharePoint
5 11 (28.21%) HTML
6 10 (25.64%) MVC
7 9 (23.08%) Finance
7 9 (23.08%) PHP
7 9 (23.08%) EPiServer
8 8 (20.51%) Magento
8 8 (20.51%) Umbraco
8 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
8 8 (20.51%) OO
8 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
8 8 (20.51%) Intranet
9 7 (17.95%) Web Services
9 7 (17.95%) Content Management
9 7 (17.95%) Banking
9 7 (17.95%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (17.95%) PHP5
10 6 (15.38%) jQuery
10 6 (15.38%) RESTful
10 6 (15.38%) Subversion
10 6 (15.38%) SOAP
10 6 (15.38%) MySQL
11 5 (12.82%) MS Office

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 17 (43.59%) .NET
2 13 (33.33%) CSS
3 11 (28.21%) ASP.NET
3 11 (28.21%) HTML
4 7 (17.95%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (17.95%) Web Services
5 6 (15.38%) SOAP
5 6 (15.38%) jQuery
5 6 (15.38%) RESTful
6 5 (12.82%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 4 (10.26%) Ajax
8 3 (7.692%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (5.128%) JSON
10 1 (2.564%) XML
10 1 (2.564%) LAMP
10 1 (2.564%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 1 (2.564%) HTML5
10 1 (2.564%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 11 (28.21%) SharePoint
2 8 (20.51%) Umbraco
2 8 (20.51%) Magento
3 4 (10.26%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (7.692%) WordPress
4 3 (7.692%) LiveLink
4 3 (7.692%) Joomla!
5 2 (5.128%) Drupal
5 2 (5.128%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) MS Office
1 5 (12.82%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Subversion
General
1 14 (35.90%) Retail
2 9 (23.08%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Retail Banking
5 2 (5.128%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 26 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Content Editor
4 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (10.26%) C# Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Service Manager
5 3 (7.692%) PHP Developer
5 3 (7.692%) Web Editor
5 3 (7.692%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (7.692%) SharePoint Developer
5 3 (7.692%) Web Content Editor
5 3 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (2.564%) CMS Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Lead .NET Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Service Level Manager
6 1 (2.564%) Senior Web Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Web Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Digital Media
2 3 (7.692%) Online Banking
3 2 (5.128%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) E-Commerce
2 10 (25.64%) MVC
3 8 (20.51%) OO
4 7 (17.95%) Content Management
5 4 (10.26%) Service Management
6 3 (7.692%) OOP
6 3 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (5.128%) Web Application Development
8 1 (2.564%) Document Management
8 1 (2.564%) Migration
8 1 (2.564%) PRINCE2
8 1 (2.564%) Service Delivery
8 1 (2.564%) SOA
8 1 (2.564%) PRINCE
8 1 (2.564%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) C#
2 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 9 (23.08%) PHP
4 7 (17.95%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (2.564%) PMP
1 1 (2.564%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) EPiServer
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.26%) Sitecore
3 4 (10.26%) IBM
4 3 (7.692%) FatWire
5 2 (5.128%) Zend
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