City of London Content Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Content Management over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Berkshire Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Greenhithe Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	167
Rank change on same period last year	+52
Matching contract IT job ads	113	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.150 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	2.404 %	0.952 %
Daily rates quoted	53	13
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£383
Average daily rate	£289	£395
% change on same period last year	-26.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£327
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£54.00	£26.25
Average hourly rate	£58.67	£26.25
% change on same period last year	+123.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£63.33	£26.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.90	£30.83
% change on same period last year	-32.21 %
Processes & Methodologies City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	4701	3363
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.243 %	3.451 %
Daily rates quoted	2632	1566
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£450
Average daily rate	£466	£487
% change on same period last year	-4.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£506	£523
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	107	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.46	£26.50
Average hourly rate	£30.87	£28.77
% change on same period last year	+7.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.28	£31.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.43	£30.35
% change on same period last year	-3.02 %
Content Management 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 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 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 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 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 across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Content Management across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Content Management 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.

1 84 (43.08 %) CMS 2 70 (35.90 %) HTML 3 54 (27.69 %) CSS 4 50 (25.64 %) SQL 5 49 (25.13 %) .NET 5 49 (25.13 %) XML 6 45 (23.08 %) JavaScript 7 30 (15.38 %) ASP.NET 8 29 (14.87 %) Intranet 9 28 (14.36 %) SQL Server 9 28 (14.36 %) ASP 10 27 (13.85 %) Photoshop 10 27 (13.85 %) Java 10 27 (13.85 %) Internet 11 25 (12.82 %) JSP

12 24 (12.31 %) SharePoint 13 23 (11.79 %) Microsoft 14 22 (11.28 %) PHP 14 22 (11.28 %) Publishing 15 21 (10.77 %) XSLT 16 20 (10.26 %) Windows 16 20 (10.26 %) Finance 17 19 (9.744 %) C# 17 19 (9.744 %) MS Office 18 18 (9.231 %) XHTML 18 18 (9.231 %) Web Development 19 17 (8.718 %) OO 19 17 (8.718 %) UNIX 19 17 (8.718 %) Dreamweaver 20 16 (8.205 %) Flash

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Content Management 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 70 (35.90 %) HTML 2 54 (27.69 %) CSS 3 49 (25.13 %) .NET 3 49 (25.13 %) XML 4 30 (15.38 %) ASP.NET 5 28 (14.36 %) ASP 6 25 (12.82 %) JSP 7 21 (10.77 %) XSLT 8 18 (9.231 %) XHTML 9 16 (8.205 %) J2EE 10 14 (7.179 %) WebServices 11 13 (6.667 %) Taglibs 12 11 (5.641 %) Hibernate 12 11 (5.641 %) Spring 13 10 (5.128 %) AJAX 13 10 (5.128 %) Struts 14 6 (3.077 %) .NET Framework 14 6 (3.077 %) LAMP 14 6 (3.077 %) Drupal 15 5 (2.564 %) RSS	Application Platforms 1 84 (43.08 %) CMS 2 24 (12.31 %) SharePoint 3 15 (7.692 %) IIS 4 12 (6.154 %) TeamSite 4 12 (6.154 %) WebLogic 5 11 (5.641 %) Apache 6 10 (5.128 %) JBoss 6 10 (5.128 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 8 (4.103 %) Content Management Server 8 6 (3.077 %) Tomcat 9 5 (2.564 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 4 (2.051 %) Documentum 11 2 (1.026 %) ColdFusion 11 2 (1.026 %) WebLogic Portal 11 2 (1.026 %) Lotus Notes 11 2 (1.026 %) Alfresco 12 1 (0.513 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 27 (13.85 %) Photoshop 2 19 (9.744 %) MS Office 3 14 (7.179 %) MS Excel 4 4 (2.051 %) Fireworks 5 3 (1.538 %) MS Project 5 3 (1.538 %) MS Visio 5 3 (1.538 %) InDesign 5 3 (1.538 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.513 %) Shockwave 6 1 (0.513 %) Acrobat 6 1 (0.513 %) Paint Shop Pro 6 1 (0.513 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 2 (1.026 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 29 (14.87 %) Intranet 2 27 (13.85 %) Internet 3 8 (4.103 %) Firewall 4 5 (2.564 %) DNS 5 2 (1.026 %) Extranet 5 2 (1.026 %) Broadband 5 2 (1.026 %) FTP 6 1 (0.513 %) HTTP 6 1 (0.513 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (0.513 %) IMAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (14.36 %) SQL Server 2 16 (8.205 %) MySQL 3 9 (4.615 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (2.051 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (1.538 %) EDRMS 6 2 (1.026 %) SQL Server 7 6 2 (1.026 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.513 %) Data Mining 7 1 (0.513 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (0.513 %) DB2 7 1 (0.513 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (0.513 %) dBASE
Development Applications 1 17 (8.718 %) Dreamweaver 2 16 (8.205 %) Flash 3 12 (6.154 %) Visual Studio 4 11 (5.641 %) Ant 5 5 (2.564 %) FrontPage 6 2 (1.026 %) PVCS 6 2 (1.026 %) WinRunner 6 2 (1.026 %) TestDirector 6 2 (1.026 %) QuickTest Pro 7 1 (0.513 %) Log4Net 7 1 (0.513 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 1 (0.513 %) Selenium 7 1 (0.513 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 22 (11.28 %) Publishing 2 20 (10.26 %) Finance 3 15 (7.692 %) Marketing 4 9 (4.615 %) Government 5 7 (3.590 %) Banking 6 6 (3.077 %) Law 6 6 (3.077 %) Insurance 7 4 (2.051 %) Financial Institution 7 4 (2.051 %) Telecoms 8 3 (1.538 %) Back Office 9 2 (1.026 %) Front Office 9 2 (1.026 %) Health 9 2 (1.026 %) Education 9 2 (1.026 %) Music 9 2 (1.026 %) Legal 9 2 (1.026 %) Advertising 9 2 (1.026 %) Multimedia 10 1 (0.513 %) Music Industry 10 1 (0.513 %) Corporate Banking
Job Titles 1 68 (34.87 %) Developer 2 30 (15.38 %) Analyst 3 26 (13.33 %) Web Developer 4 13 (6.667 %) Architect 4 13 (6.667 %) Web Analyst 5 12 (6.154 %) Project Manager 6 10 (5.128 %) Business Analyst 7 9 (4.615 %) Support Analyst 8 6 (3.077 %) Consultant 8 6 (3.077 %) Administrator 8 6 (3.077 %) Web Manager 9 5 (2.564 %) Java Developer 9 5 (2.564 %) .NET Developer 9 5 (2.564 %) Web Designer 9 5 (2.564 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 5 (2.564 %) Web Editor 9 5 (2.564 %) Programmer 10 4 (2.051 %) Coordinator 10 4 (2.051 %) Systems Analyst 10 4 (2.051 %) Technical Architect	Miscellaneous 1 14 (7.179 %) Web 2.0 2 12 (6.154 %) N-Tier 3 7 (3.590 %) Management Information System 4 5 (2.564 %) W3C 4 5 (2.564 %) Asset Management 4 5 (2.564 %) Streaming Media 4 5 (2.564 %) Blog 4 5 (2.564 %) Podcast 5 4 (2.051 %) Wiki 5 4 (2.051 %) Streaming Video 5 4 (2.051 %) Clustering 6 3 (1.538 %) German Language 7 2 (1.026 %) Italian Language 7 2 (1.026 %) Taxonomies 8 1 (0.513 %) Copywriting
Operating Systems 1 20 (10.26 %) Windows 2 17 (8.718 %) UNIX 3 12 (6.154 %) Linux 4 6 (3.077 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (1.026 %) Solaris 6 1 (0.513 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.513 %) Mac OS X Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (9.231 %) Web Development 2 17 (8.718 %) OO 3 15 (7.692 %) Project Management 4 13 (6.667 %) UML 5 11 (5.641 %) Time Management 6 9 (4.615 %) PRINCE2 7 8 (4.103 %) Agile Software Development 7 8 (4.103 %) Business Analysis 7 8 (4.103 %) Investment Management 8 7 (3.590 %) CRM 8 7 (3.590 %) E-Commerce 9 6 (3.077 %) Document Management 9 6 (3.077 %) Web Design 10 5 (2.564 %) Performance Testing 10 5 (2.564 %) Software Testing 10 5 (2.564 %) Requirements Analysis 10 5 (2.564 %) Change Management 11 4 (2.051 %) Workflow 11 4 (2.051 %) Migration 11 4 (2.051 %) Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 50 (25.64 %) SQL 2 45 (23.08 %) JavaScript 3 27 (13.85 %) Java 4 22 (11.28 %) PHP 5 19 (9.744 %) C# 6 6 (3.077 %) VB 7 5 (2.564 %) VBScript 8 4 (2.051 %) Perl 9 3 (1.538 %) ActionScript 9 3 (1.538 %) VB6 10 2 (1.026 %) Python 10 2 (1.026 %) DHTML 11 1 (0.513 %) C++ 11 1 (0.513 %) Transact-SQL 11 1 (0.513 %) Shell Script 11 1 (0.513 %) Ruby 11 1 (0.513 %) PHP5 11 1 (0.513 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 5 (2.564 %) ISEB 2 2 (1.026 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (1.026 %) Degree 3 1 (0.513 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 13 (6.667 %) QA 2 3 (1.538 %) WAI 3 1 (0.513 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 6 (3.077 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.026 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 4 (2.051 %) MAILsweeper	Vendors 1 23 (11.79 %) Microsoft 2 14 (7.179 %) Oracle 3 12 (6.154 %) Stellent 4 10 (5.128 %) Adobe 5 8 (4.103 %) Sybase 6 7 (3.590 %) RedDot 7 6 (3.077 %) Vignette 8 4 (2.051 %) Tridion 8 4 (2.051 %) Blue Coat 9 3 (1.538 %) Siebel 10 2 (1.026 %) IBM 10 2 (1.026 %) Macromedia 10 2 (1.026 %) Lotus 10 2 (1.026 %) Apple 10 2 (1.026 %) Agresso 10 2 (1.026 %) Open Text 10 2 (1.026 %) Websense 10 2 (1.026 %) FileNet 10 2 (1.026 %) Empirix 11 1 (0.513 %) ION Trading