The first table below looks at the demand for Content Management 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 Content Management over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management
Rank 83 100 111
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +11
Contract jobs citing Content Management 31 32 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.449% 1.083% 0.605%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.172% 1.682% 0.931%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 7
Average daily rate £338 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £213 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £655 £425 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-0.57% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 £26.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.71% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.51 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-2.91% -7.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1427 1903 1718
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.71% 64.40% 64.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 915 776
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 154 186
Average hourly rate £35.22 £31.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.61% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.08 £12.28 £13.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Content Management
England

Content Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Content Management across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East of England Content Management Jobs Demand Trend

Content Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Content Management across the East of England region.

East of England Content Management Daily Rate Trend

Content Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Content Management across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England Content Management Daily Rate Histogram

Content Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Content Management Hourly Rate Trend

Content Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Management within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hertfordshire -2 16 £233 -45.29%
Essex +7 11 £425 +142.85%
Bedfordshire -1 2 - -
Cambridgeshire +12 1 - -
Suffolk - 1 £138 -
Content Management
England

Content Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 27 (48.21%) JavaScript
2 23 (41.07%) HTML
3 22 (39.29%) Java
3 22 (39.29%) CSS
4 16 (28.57%) J2EE
5 15 (26.79%) XML
5 15 (26.79%) XHTML
6 13 (23.21%) OO
6 13 (23.21%) E-Commerce
6 13 (23.21%) SQL
7 12 (21.43%) JSP
7 12 (21.43%) PHP
7 12 (21.43%) SharePoint
7 12 (21.43%) CMS
7 12 (21.43%) Retail
7 12 (21.43%) Ajax
8 11 (19.64%) Finance
8 11 (19.64%) RAD
8 11 (19.64%) IBM
8 11 (19.64%) jQuery
9 10 (17.86%) XSLT
9 10 (17.86%) UNIX
9 10 (17.86%) Linux
9 10 (17.86%) .NET
9 10 (17.86%) Ant
9 10 (17.86%) Publishing
9 10 (17.86%) WebSphere
9 10 (17.86%) TDD
10 9 (16.07%) Scrum
10 9 (16.07%) Drupal

Content Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 23 (41.07%) HTML
2 22 (39.29%) CSS
3 16 (28.57%) J2EE
4 15 (26.79%) XML
4 15 (26.79%) XHTML
5 12 (21.43%) JSP
5 12 (21.43%) Ajax
6 11 (19.64%) jQuery
7 10 (17.86%) XSLT
7 10 (17.86%) .NET
7 10 (17.86%) WebSphere
8 8 (14.29%) HTML5
8 8 (14.29%) CSS3
9 7 (12.50%) Web Services
10 6 (10.71%) JSTL
10 6 (10.71%) JMS
10 6 (10.71%) Struts
10 6 (10.71%) Servlets
10 6 (10.71%) JDBC
10 6 (10.71%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 12 (21.43%) SharePoint
1 12 (21.43%) CMS
2 9 (16.07%) Drupal
3 6 (10.71%) MQSeries
3 6 (10.71%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (8.929%) Documentum
4 5 (8.929%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (7.143%) Liferay
6 3 (5.357%) IIS
7 1 (1.786%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.786%) WorkSite
7 1 (1.786%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 5 (8.929%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Tridion
2 2 (3.571%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Intranet
1 6 (10.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) RDBMS
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
1 6 (10.71%) DB2
2 2 (3.571%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.786%) IDOL
3 1 (1.786%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Ant
2 7 (12.50%) Eclipse
3 6 (10.71%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 6 (10.71%) JUnit
3 6 (10.71%) Log4j
3 6 (10.71%) Subversion
General
1 12 (21.43%) Retail
2 11 (19.64%) Finance
3 10 (17.86%) Publishing
4 8 (14.29%) Marketing
5 5 (8.929%) Banking
5 5 (8.929%) Games
6 4 (7.143%) Legal
6 4 (7.143%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.571%) Automotive
8 1 (1.786%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.786%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.786%) Electronics
8 1 (1.786%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 34 (60.71%) Developer
2 10 (17.86%) Front-End Developer
3 9 (16.07%) J2EE Developer
4 8 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 6 (10.71%) ASP.NET Developer
5 6 (10.71%) Business Manager
5 6 (10.71%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.929%) C# Developer
6 5 (8.929%) Information Manager
6 5 (8.929%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (8.929%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (7.143%) Portal Developer
7 4 (7.143%) PHP Developer
8 3 (5.357%) SharePoint Administrator
8 3 (5.357%) Applications Manager
8 3 (5.357%) Product Manager
8 3 (5.357%) Applications Support
8 3 (5.357%) Administrator
9 2 (3.571%) Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Web 2.0
2 3 (5.357%) Semantic Web
2 3 (5.357%) Computer Science
2 3 (5.357%) Social Media
3 2 (3.571%) Open Source
4 1 (1.786%) E-Learning
4 1 (1.786%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.786%) Animation
4 1 (1.786%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) UNIX
1 10 (17.86%) Linux
2 6 (10.71%) HPUX
2 6 (10.71%) Solaris
3 4 (7.143%) Apple iOS
3 4 (7.143%) Android
4 3 (5.357%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.21%) OO
1 13 (23.21%) E-Commerce
2 11 (19.64%) RAD
3 10 (17.86%) TDD
4 9 (16.07%) Scrum
5 7 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (10.71%) Project Governance
6 6 (10.71%) UML
6 6 (10.71%) Quality Management
7 5 (8.929%) Web Development
8 4 (7.143%) BDD
8 4 (7.143%) User Stories
8 4 (7.143%) RUP
9 3 (5.357%) SEO
9 3 (5.357%) Service Delivery
9 3 (5.357%) RDF
9 3 (5.357%) Waterfall
10 2 (3.571%) Responsive Web Design
10 2 (3.571%) Problem Management
10 2 (3.571%) Image Processing
Programming Languages
1 27 (48.21%) JavaScript
2 22 (39.29%) Java
3 13 (23.21%) SQL
4 12 (21.43%) PHP
5 7 (12.50%) Perl
6 6 (10.71%) Bash shell
6 6 (10.71%) XPath
6 6 (10.71%) C#
7 4 (7.143%) FQL
8 3 (5.357%) SPARQL
9 1 (1.786%) C++
9 1 (1.786%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.786%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (1.786%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) ISO 9000
2 2 (3.571%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) IBM
2 7 (12.50%) ATG
2 7 (12.50%) Elastic Path
3 6 (10.71%) Interwoven
3 6 (10.71%) FatWire
3 6 (10.71%) Blue Martini
4 4 (7.143%) Facebook
4 4 (7.143%) Twitter
4 4 (7.143%) Oracle
5 3 (5.357%) Adobe
6 2 (3.571%) Omniture
6 2 (3.571%) Google
7 1 (1.786%) Endeca
7 1 (1.786%) Open Text
7 1 (1.786%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.786%) Mercator
7 1 (1.786%) HP
7 1 (1.786%) EPiServer
7 1 (1.786%) hybris