East Midlands Content Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management skills within the East Midlands 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 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire 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 Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenhithe Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	81
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	42	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	4.430 %	0.918 %
Daily rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum daily rate	£418	£350
Average daily rate	£418	£350
% change on same period last year	+19.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£418	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£337
% change on same period last year	-4.46 %
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	£23.61	£29.19
% change on same period last year	-19.08 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	948	871
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.250 %	0.924 %
Daily rates quoted	271	231
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£346
Average daily rate	£400	£365
% change on same period last year	+9.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	92
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.59	£24.87
Average hourly rate	£22.87	£25.94
% change on same period last year	-11.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.16	£27.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
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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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 across the East Midlands region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Content Management within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Nottinghamshire	+6	20	£418	+19.52 %
Northamptonshire	-4	5	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 32 (56.14 %) CMS 2 22 (38.60 %) Internet 2 22 (38.60 %) .NET 2 22 (38.60 %) ASP.NET 3 21 (36.84 %) HTML 3 21 (36.84 %) JavaScript 4 20 (35.09 %) Intranet 5 16 (28.07 %) CSS 6 15 (26.32 %) VB.NET 6 15 (26.32 %) Visual Studio 6 15 (26.32 %) Dreamweaver 7 14 (24.56 %) SharePoint 7 14 (24.56 %) IIS 8 13 (22.81 %) VB 8 13 (22.81 %) Java

8 13 (22.81 %) VB6 9 11 (19.30 %) EDRMS 10 9 (15.79 %) Taxonomies 10 9 (15.79 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 8 (14.04 %) Government 11 8 (14.04 %) XML 12 7 (12.28 %) PRINCE2 12 7 (12.28 %) SQL Server 13 6 (10.53 %) C# 13 6 (10.53 %) WebServices 13 6 (10.53 %) Information Management 13 6 (10.53 %) Stakeholder Management 14 5 (8.772 %) Flash 14 5 (8.772 %) Photoshop 15 4 (7.018 %) Web 2.0

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 22 (38.60 %) .NET 1 22 (38.60 %) ASP.NET 2 21 (36.84 %) HTML 3 16 (28.07 %) CSS 4 8 (14.04 %) XML 5 6 (10.53 %) WebServices 6 2 (3.509 %) AJAX 6 2 (3.509 %) ASP 7 1 (1.754 %) J2EE 7 1 (1.754 %) XSL 7 1 (1.754 %) LAMP 7 1 (1.754 %) JSF 7 1 (1.754 %) Fusebox 7 1 (1.754 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 32 (56.14 %) CMS 2 14 (24.56 %) IIS 2 14 (24.56 %) SharePoint 3 9 (15.79 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (3.509 %) LiveLink 5 1 (1.754 %) Alfresco 5 1 (1.754 %) ColdFusion 5 1 (1.754 %) Apache
Applications 1 5 (8.772 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 2 (3.509 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 22 (38.60 %) Internet 2 20 (35.09 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (19.30 %) EDRMS 2 7 (12.28 %) SQL Server 3 2 (3.509 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (3.509 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.754 %) MySQL 4 1 (1.754 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 15 (26.32 %) Visual Studio 1 15 (26.32 %) Dreamweaver 2 5 (8.772 %) Flash	General 1 8 (14.04 %) Government 2 4 (7.018 %) Local Government 2 4 (7.018 %) Marketing 3 2 (3.509 %) Multimedia 4 1 (1.754 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.754 %) Publishing 4 1 (1.754 %) Banking 4 1 (1.754 %) Finance 4 1 (1.754 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 27 (47.37 %) Developer 2 15 (26.32 %) .NET Developer 2 15 (26.32 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 13 (22.81 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 3 13 (22.81 %) Project Manager 3 13 (22.81 %) VB.NET Developer 4 7 (12.28 %) Architect 4 7 (12.28 %) Web Developer 4 7 (12.28 %) Information Architect 5 6 (10.53 %) Web Architect 6 5 (8.772 %) Analyst 7 4 (7.018 %) C# Developer 8 3 (5.263 %) Administrator 8 3 (5.263 %) Web Analyst 9 2 (3.509 %) SQL Developer 9 2 (3.509 %) SQL Server Developer 9 2 (3.509 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 2 (3.509 %) Internet Developer 9 2 (3.509 %) Data Analyst 9 2 (3.509 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 9 (15.79 %) Taxonomies 2 4 (7.018 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 3 (5.263 %) Unix 1 3 (5.263 %) AIX 1 3 (5.263 %) Linux 2 1 (1.754 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.754 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (12.28 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (10.53 %) Stakeholder Management 2 6 (10.53 %) Information Management 3 3 (5.263 %) Incident Management 3 3 (5.263 %) CRM 3 3 (5.263 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (3.509 %) SEO 4 2 (3.509 %) Migration 4 2 (3.509 %) B2C 4 2 (3.509 %) BCP 4 2 (3.509 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (1.754 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.754 %) Web Design 5 1 (1.754 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (1.754 %) Data Management 5 1 (1.754 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (1.754 %) B2B 5 1 (1.754 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 21 (36.84 %) JavaScript 2 15 (26.32 %) VB.NET 3 13 (22.81 %) Java 3 13 (22.81 %) VB 3 13 (22.81 %) VB6 4 6 (10.53 %) C# 5 2 (3.509 %) C 5 2 (3.509 %) SQL 6 1 (1.754 %) ActionScript 6 1 (1.754 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 1 (1.754 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 2 (3.509 %) Open Text 2 1 (1.754 %) SAP