City of London Content Management Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Content Management Server over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS)
Location Berkshire City of London East of England Edinburgh England Essex Highlands Inverness Lancashire London Midlands North West Reading Scotland Slough South East Surrey UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	212	192
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	8	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.653 %	0.968 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£500
Average daily rate	£398	£500
% change on same period last year	-20.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£470	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£313
% change on same period last year	+22.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.86	£33.33
% change on same period last year	-22.42 %
Application Platforms City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1225	723
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.615 %	0.767 %
Daily rates quoted	586	263
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£417
Average daily rate	£411	£442
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£468
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.99	£19.91
Average hourly rate	£27.89	£21.23
% change on same period last year	+31.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.80	£22.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Content Management Server London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Content Management Server across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Content Management Server across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Content Management Server across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Content Management Server across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Content Management Server 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 Content Management Server.

1 10 (83.33 %) Microsoft 2 8 (66.67 %) .NET 2 8 (66.67 %) MS Excel 2 8 (66.67 %) CMS 2 8 (66.67 %) Content Management 3 7 (58.33 %) SharePoint 4 5 (41.67 %) IIS 4 5 (41.67 %) Internet 4 5 (41.67 %) Windows 5 4 (33.33 %) XML 5 4 (33.33 %) XSLT 5 4 (33.33 %) JavaScript 5 4 (33.33 %) QA 5 4 (33.33 %) Test Management 6 3 (25.00 %) SharePoint Portal Server

6 3 (25.00 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 3 (25.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 3 (25.00 %) Change Management 6 3 (25.00 %) Windows XP 6 3 (25.00 %) SQL 6 3 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 6 3 (25.00 %) C# 7 2 (16.67 %) MS Office 8 1 (8.333 %) ASP 8 1 (8.333 %) CSS 8 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 8 1 (8.333 %) XHTML 8 1 (8.333 %) RedDot 8 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 8 1 (8.333 %) Security Cleared

Content Management Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Content Management Server 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 Content Management Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (66.67 %) .NET 2 4 (33.33 %) XML 2 4 (33.33 %) XSLT 3 3 (25.00 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 3 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (8.333 %) CSS 4 1 (8.333 %) ASP 4 1 (8.333 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 8 (66.67 %) CMS 2 7 (58.33 %) SharePoint 3 5 (41.67 %) IIS 4 3 (25.00 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 3 (25.00 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 8 (66.67 %) MS Excel 2 2 (16.67 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 5 (41.67 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 1 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 4 (33.33 %) Developer 1 4 (33.33 %) Test Manager 1 4 (33.33 %) QA Manager 2 3 (25.00 %) 1st Line Support 2 3 (25.00 %) SharePoint Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (8.333 %) Web Applications Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) SharePoint Consultant 3 1 (8.333 %) Web Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) Consultant 3 1 (8.333 %) Applications Developer
Operating Systems 1 5 (41.67 %) Windows 2 3 (25.00 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (66.67 %) Content Management 2 4 (33.33 %) Test Management 3 3 (25.00 %) Change Management 4 1 (8.333 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 3 (25.00 %) SQL 2 3 (25.00 %) C#	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (33.33 %) QA
Vendors 1 10 (83.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (8.333 %) RedDot