The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 22 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 East of England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 88 81 110
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +29
Contract jobs citing CMS 28 51 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.286% 1.711% 0.766%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.983% 10.78% 4.132%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 11
Average daily rate £263 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £178 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £30.50 £20.00 £10.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.50% +93.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £20.00 £9.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £32.18 £10.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £17.76 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-7.06% -11.22%
All Application Platforms
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
401 473 484
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 18.42% 15.87% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 224 228
Average daily rate £300 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £213 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 43 48
Average hourly rate £23.50 £19.63 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.74% +40.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.75 £35.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
CMS
England

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England CMS Daily Rate Trend

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England CMS Daily Rate Histogram

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cambridgeshire +4 10 £280 +1.81%
Hertfordshire +3 10 £254 +19.41%
Essex +2 7 £263 +10.52%
Bedfordshire +6 2 £150 -
CMS
England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 27 (44.26%) CSS
2 24 (39.34%) JavaScript
3 23 (37.70%) HTML
4 21 (34.43%) E-Commerce
5 18 (29.51%) PHP
6 16 (26.23%) C#
7 14 (22.95%) Java
7 14 (22.95%) SQL
7 14 (22.95%) .NET
7 14 (22.95%) HTML5
8 13 (21.31%) Drupal
8 13 (21.31%) Content Management
9 11 (18.03%) MySQL
9 11 (18.03%) XML
9 11 (18.03%) OO
9 11 (18.03%) jQuery
10 10 (16.39%) Ajax
10 10 (16.39%) Agile Software Development
11 9 (14.75%) MVC
11 9 (14.75%) SOAP
11 9 (14.75%) Web Services
11 9 (14.75%) RESTful
11 9 (14.75%) CSS3
11 9 (14.75%) PHP5
12 8 (13.11%) ASP.NET
12 8 (13.11%) SQL Server
12 8 (13.11%) SEO
12 8 (13.11%) Finance
13 7 (11.48%) Banking
13 7 (11.48%) Retail

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 27 (44.26%) CSS
2 23 (37.70%) HTML
3 14 (22.95%) .NET
3 14 (22.95%) HTML5
4 11 (18.03%) XML
4 11 (18.03%) jQuery
5 10 (16.39%) Ajax
6 9 (14.75%) SOAP
6 9 (14.75%) Web Services
6 9 (14.75%) RESTful
6 9 (14.75%) CSS3
7 8 (13.11%) ASP.NET
8 7 (11.48%) XHTML
8 7 (11.48%) Sass
8 7 (11.48%) LESS
9 6 (9.836%) J2EE
10 5 (8.197%) Spring
10 5 (8.197%) XSLT
10 5 (8.197%) Node.js
11 4 (6.557%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 13 (21.31%) Drupal
2 6 (9.836%) WordPress
2 6 (9.836%) Apache
3 5 (8.197%) concrete5
4 4 (6.557%) Liferay
4 4 (6.557%) SharePoint
5 3 (4.918%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (3.279%) Sitefinity
6 2 (3.279%) Kentico
6 2 (3.279%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (3.279%) Magento
6 2 (3.279%) DotNetNuke
6 2 (3.279%) Umbraco
6 2 (3.279%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.639%) Content Management Server
7 1 (1.639%) Documentum
7 1 (1.639%) TeamSite
7 1 (1.639%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.639%) IIS
7 1 (1.639%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 3 (4.918%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.279%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.279%) MS Office
3 1 (1.639%) XMetaL
3 1 (1.639%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (1.639%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.639%) MS Project
3 1 (1.639%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.279%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.918%) VoIP
2 2 (3.279%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.639%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) MySQL
2 8 (13.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.557%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.557%) Redis
4 2 (3.279%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.639%) SAP BI
5 1 (1.639%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.639%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Subversion
1 7 (11.48%) Git (software)
2 2 (3.279%) SpecFlow
2 2 (3.279%) Selenium
2 2 (3.279%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.639%) NUnit
3 1 (1.639%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.639%) Ant
3 1 (1.639%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.639%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.639%) Cucumber
General
1 8 (13.11%) Finance
2 7 (11.48%) Banking
2 7 (11.48%) Retail
3 6 (9.836%) Marketing
4 5 (8.197%) Retail Banking
5 4 (6.557%) Publishing
6 2 (3.279%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.639%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 38 (62.30%) Developer
2 9 (14.75%) PHP Developer
3 7 (11.48%) .NET Developer
3 7 (11.48%) Web Developer
4 6 (9.836%) Analyst
4 6 (9.836%) C# Developer
5 5 (8.197%) Front-End Developer
6 4 (6.557%) Portal Developer
6 4 (6.557%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.918%) J2EE Developer
7 3 (4.918%) ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (4.918%) Architect
7 3 (4.918%) Drupal Developer
7 3 (4.918%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 3 (4.918%) Telephony Analyst
8 2 (3.279%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (3.279%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (3.279%) PHP Web Developer
8 2 (3.279%) Technical Development Manager
8 2 (3.279%) .NET Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.197%) Open Source
2 2 (3.279%) Digital Media
2 2 (3.279%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.279%) N-Tier
2 2 (3.279%) W3C
3 1 (1.639%) E-Learning
3 1 (1.639%) Animation
3 1 (1.639%) Semantic Web
3 1 (1.639%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (1.639%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.639%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.197%) Linux
2 1 (1.639%) UNIX
2 1 (1.639%) Windows
2 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (1.639%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (34.43%) E-Commerce
2 13 (21.31%) Content Management
3 11 (18.03%) OO
4 10 (16.39%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (14.75%) MVC
6 8 (13.11%) SEO
7 7 (11.48%) BDD
8 6 (9.836%) OOP
9 5 (8.197%) Scrum
9 5 (8.197%) Web Design
9 5 (8.197%) Web Development
10 4 (6.557%) User Stories
10 4 (6.557%) Unit Testing
10 4 (6.557%) Project Management
10 4 (6.557%) TDD
11 3 (4.918%) CRM
11 3 (4.918%) RAD
11 3 (4.918%) Information Architecture
11 3 (4.918%) Analytics
12 2 (3.279%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 24 (39.34%) JavaScript
2 18 (29.51%) PHP
3 16 (26.23%) C#
4 14 (22.95%) Java
4 14 (22.95%) SQL
5 9 (14.75%) PHP5
6 3 (4.918%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.279%) VB
8 1 (1.639%) Ruby
8 1 (1.639%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.639%) Python
8 1 (1.639%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.639%) VBScript
8 1 (1.639%) C++
8 1 (1.639%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.639%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (3.279%) Degree
1 2 (3.279%) Avaya Certification
2 1 (1.639%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.279%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.639%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (6.557%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.918%) Omniture
2 3 (4.918%) Adobe
2 3 (4.918%) Avaya
2 3 (4.918%) Zend
2 3 (4.918%) Sitecore
3 2 (3.279%) EPiServer
3 2 (3.279%) Oracle
3 2 (3.279%) SAP
3 2 (3.279%) Google
3 2 (3.279%) FatWire
4 1 (1.639%) ATG
4 1 (1.639%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (1.639%) Ektron