East Midlands CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CMS over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highland Home Counties Hounslow Inverness Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Plymouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	71
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	33	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	9.402 %	4.514 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£398	£270
Average daily rate	£398	£270
% change on same period last year	+47.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£316
% change on same period last year	-11.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£13.83
Average hourly rate	-	£15.83
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£17.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.84	£23.12
% change on same period last year	-14.21 %
Application Platforms East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	351	288
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.450 %	0.324 %
Daily rates quoted	97	59
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£310
Average daily rate	£353	£321
% change on same period last year	+9.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.66	£17.92
Average hourly rate	£19.36	£19.57
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.05	£21.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
CMS England

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.

CMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

CMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the East Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the East Midlands region.

CMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the East Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Nottinghamshire	+8	14	£463	+71.60 %
2	Leicestershire	-	1	£200	-

CMS England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS.

1 31 (53.45 %) Content Management 2 24 (41.38 %) CSS 3 21 (36.21 %) .NET 4 19 (32.76 %) ASP.NET 5 17 (29.31 %) JavaScript 6 15 (25.86 %) MySQL 7 14 (24.14 %) HTML 7 14 (24.14 %) Dreamweaver 8 13 (22.41 %) Java 8 13 (22.41 %) SQL Server 9 12 (20.69 %) SharePoint 9 12 (20.69 %) Internet 10 11 (18.97 %) EDRMS 10 11 (18.97 %) Intranet 10 11 (18.97 %) VB.NET

10 11 (18.97 %) PHP 10 11 (18.97 %) Visual Studio 10 11 (18.97 %) AJAX 11 10 (17.24 %) SQL 12 9 (15.52 %) C# 12 9 (15.52 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 9 (15.52 %) Web Development 13 8 (13.79 %) VB6 13 8 (13.79 %) ASP 13 8 (13.79 %) IIS 13 8 (13.79 %) VB 13 8 (13.79 %) ColdFusion 14 7 (12.07 %) E-Commerce 14 7 (12.07 %) XML 15 6 (10.34 %) Linux

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (41.38 %) CSS 2 21 (36.21 %) .NET 3 19 (32.76 %) ASP.NET 4 14 (24.14 %) HTML 5 11 (18.97 %) AJAX 6 8 (13.79 %) ASP 7 7 (12.07 %) XML 8 5 (8.621 %) LAMP 9 4 (6.897 %) Hibernate 9 4 (6.897 %) Spring 9 4 (6.897 %) Struts 9 4 (6.897 %) WebServices 9 4 (6.897 %) J2EE 10 3 (5.172 %) XHTML 11 2 (3.448 %) Lucene 11 2 (3.448 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 1 (1.724 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 12 (20.69 %) SharePoint 2 9 (15.52 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 8 (13.79 %) ColdFusion 3 8 (13.79 %) IIS 4 4 (6.897 %) Apache 4 4 (6.897 %) Tomcat 4 4 (6.897 %) ColdFusion MX 5 3 (5.172 %) LiveLink 6 2 (3.448 %) Rhythmyx 7 1 (1.724 %) Content Management Server 7 1 (1.724 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (1.724 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 6 (10.34 %) Photoshop 2 5 (8.621 %) MS Excel 3 2 (3.448 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 12 (20.69 %) Internet 2 11 (18.97 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (25.86 %) MySQL 2 13 (22.41 %) SQL Server 3 11 (18.97 %) EDRMS 4 3 (5.172 %) SQL Server 7 5 2 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (3.448 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 14 (24.14 %) Dreamweaver 2 11 (18.97 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (6.897 %) Ant 4 2 (3.448 %) Flash 4 2 (3.448 %) Eclipse
General 1 3 (5.172 %) Government 1 3 (5.172 %) Marketing 2 2 (3.448 %) Law 2 2 (3.448 %) Legal 2 2 (3.448 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 38 (65.52 %) Developer 2 11 (18.97 %) Project Manager 2 11 (18.97 %) .NET Developer 3 10 (17.24 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 10 (17.24 %) Web Developer 4 9 (15.52 %) VB.NET Developer 5 8 (13.79 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 6 (10.34 %) ColdFusion Developer 7 4 (6.897 %) SharePoint Developer 8 3 (5.172 %) PHP Developer 8 3 (5.172 %) C# Developer 8 3 (5.172 %) J2EE Developer 8 3 (5.172 %) Consultant 9 2 (3.448 %) Trainer 9 2 (3.448 %) Senior Manager 9 2 (3.448 %) Java Developer 9 2 (3.448 %) IT Trainer 9 2 (3.448 %) Legal IT Trainer 9 2 (3.448 %) SharePoint Consultant 9 2 (3.448 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.724 %) Client/Server 1 1 (1.724 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 6 (10.34 %) Linux 2 1 (1.724 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 31 (53.45 %) Content Management 2 9 (15.52 %) Web Development 3 7 (12.07 %) E-Commerce 4 6 (10.34 %) SEO 4 6 (10.34 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (5.172 %) Project Management 5 3 (5.172 %) OO 5 3 (5.172 %) CRM 6 2 (3.448 %) B2B 6 2 (3.448 %) Web Analytics 7 1 (1.724 %) Data Management 7 1 (1.724 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (1.724 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (1.724 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 17 (29.31 %) JavaScript 2 13 (22.41 %) Java 3 11 (18.97 %) VB.NET 3 11 (18.97 %) PHP 4 10 (17.24 %) SQL 5 9 (15.52 %) C# 6 8 (13.79 %) VB 6 8 (13.79 %) VB6 7 3 (5.172 %) Python 8 1 (1.724 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 1 (1.724 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 2 (3.448 %) Microsoft 1 2 (3.448 %) Open Text 2 1 (1.724 %) Altiris 2 1 (1.724 %) Citrix 2 1 (1.724 %) Lotus 2 1 (1.724 %) Oracle