The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sitecore products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sitecore 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 Vendors for the 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Sitecore.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sitecore
Rank 407 515 507
Rank change year-on-year
+108 -8
Contract jobs citing Sitecore 107 55 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.253% 0.101% 0.103%
As % of the Vendors category 0.543% 0.219% 0.223%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 39 26
Average daily rate £355 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.57% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £269 £275 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £405 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £288 £316
% change year-on-year
+22.60% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £10.00 -
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19694 25078 25524
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.65% 46.23% 46.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10834 13246 13131
Average daily rate £400 £400 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1141 1256 1497
Average hourly rate £19.56 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.18% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.34 £11.50 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Sitecore
UK

Sitecore
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Sitecore Jobs Demand Trend

Sitecore
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Sitecore Daily Rate Trend

Sitecore
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Sitecore Daily Rate Histogram

Sitecore
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Sitecore Hourly Rate Trend

Sitecore
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sitecore within the 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
London +60 68 £355 +1.42%
South East +30 19 £425 +36.00%
North West +9 5 £313 +13.63%
West Midlands - 5 £296 -
South West +29 4 £230 -29.23%
Yorkshire - 4 £300 -
East of England - 2 £325 -
Sitecore
UK

Sitecore
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Sitecore 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 Sitecore.

1 172 (75.77%) Sitecore CMS
2 171 (75.33%) .NET
3 163 (71.81%) CMS
4 141 (62.11%) C#
5 117 (51.54%) ASP.NET
6 85 (37.44%) CSS
7 78 (34.36%) MVC
8 74 (32.60%) HTML
9 72 (31.72%) SQL Server
10 70 (30.84%) JavaScript
11 57 (25.11%) ASP.NET MVC
12 56 (24.67%) jQuery
13 54 (23.79%) Umbraco
14 49 (21.59%) Scrum
15 45 (19.82%) E-Commerce
16 44 (19.38%) SQL
16 44 (19.38%) TDD
17 35 (15.42%) EPiServer
18 34 (14.98%) Microsoft
18 34 (14.98%) BDD
19 31 (13.66%) ASP.NET MVC 3
20 30 (13.22%) Agile Software Development
21 29 (12.78%) Content Management
22 26 (11.45%) Ajax
23 24 (10.57%) Visual Studio
23 24 (10.57%) XML
24 23 (10.13%) SharePoint
24 23 (10.13%) Marketing
24 23 (10.13%) Continuous Integration
25 22 (9.692%) .NET Framework

Sitecore
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Sitecore 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 Sitecore. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 171 (75.33%) .NET
2 117 (51.54%) ASP.NET
3 85 (37.44%) CSS
4 74 (32.60%) HTML
5 57 (25.11%) ASP.NET MVC
6 56 (24.67%) jQuery
7 31 (13.66%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 26 (11.45%) Ajax
9 24 (10.57%) XML
10 22 (9.692%) .NET Framework
11 18 (7.930%) WCF
11 18 (7.930%) HTML5
12 17 (7.489%) XHTML
12 17 (7.489%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 17 (7.489%) Razor View Engine
13 15 (6.608%) Web Services
14 12 (5.286%) REST
15 11 (4.846%) CSS3
15 11 (4.846%) RESTful
15 11 (4.846%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 172 (75.77%) Sitecore CMS
2 163 (71.81%) CMS
3 54 (23.79%) Umbraco
4 23 (10.13%) SharePoint
5 10 (4.405%) DotNetNuke
6 9 (3.965%) Kentico
7 6 (2.643%) EPiServer CMS
8 4 (1.762%) Apache
8 4 (1.762%) IIS
8 4 (1.762%) TeamSite
8 4 (1.762%) Sitefinity
8 4 (1.762%) SharePoint 2010
9 3 (1.322%) Drupal
10 2 (0.881%) Liferay
10 2 (0.881%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.881%) Amazon AWS
10 2 (0.881%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.881%) Immediacy CMS
10 2 (0.881%) Documentum
10 2 (0.881%) Content Management Server
Applications
1 6 (2.643%) MS Excel
1 6 (2.643%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.881%) MS Project
3 1 (0.441%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.441%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (1.762%) Google Analytics
2 2 (0.881%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.881%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.441%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.441%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.441%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.608%) HTTP
2 8 (3.524%) Internet
3 6 (2.643%) Intranet
4 1 (0.441%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (31.72%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.965%) MarkLogic
3 5 (2.203%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (1.762%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.762%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.322%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.322%) MySQL
6 2 (0.881%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (0.881%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.881%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.441%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (0.441%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 24 (10.57%) Visual Studio
2 21 (9.251%) Subversion
3 14 (6.167%) JIRA
4 13 (5.727%) SpecFlow
4 13 (5.727%) NUnit
5 9 (3.965%) Git (software)
6 8 (3.524%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (2.643%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.762%) Rhino Mocks
9 3 (1.322%) Selenium
9 3 (1.322%) FitNesse
10 2 (0.881%) Maven
10 2 (0.881%) CruiseControl
10 2 (0.881%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 2 (0.881%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.881%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.881%) Moq
11 1 (0.441%) Appcelerator Titanium
11 1 (0.441%) Dreamweaver
11 1 (0.441%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (10.13%) Marketing
2 22 (9.692%) Finance
3 19 (8.370%) Publishing
4 8 (3.524%) Back Office
5 7 (3.084%) Retail
6 4 (1.762%) Banking
7 3 (1.322%) Automotive
8 2 (0.881%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.881%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.441%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.441%) Advertising
9 1 (0.441%) Electronics
9 1 (0.441%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.441%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (68.28%) Developer
2 75 (33.04%) .NET Developer
3 32 (14.10%) Architect
4 20 (8.811%) Web Developer
5 18 (7.930%) C# Developer
5 18 (7.930%) ASP.NET Developer
6 17 (7.489%) Senior Developer
7 16 (7.048%) Senior .NET Developer
8 14 (6.167%) C# .NET Developer
9 11 (4.846%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 11 (4.846%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.405%) Analyst
11 8 (3.524%) CMS Developer
11 8 (3.524%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.643%) Front-End Developer
12 6 (2.643%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.762%) QA Analyst
13 4 (1.762%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
13 4 (1.762%) C# Web Developer
13 4 (1.762%) Salesforce.com Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.846%) FMCG
2 10 (4.405%) Digital Media
3 4 (1.762%) Mathematics
3 4 (1.762%) Computer Science
3 4 (1.762%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.322%) Data Integration
5 2 (0.881%) Social Media
5 2 (0.881%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.441%) iPad
6 1 (0.441%) W3C
6 1 (0.441%) E-Learning
6 1 (0.441%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.441%) DTV
6 1 (0.441%) iPhone
6 1 (0.441%) Open Source
6 1 (0.441%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.881%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.441%) Windows
2 1 (0.441%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (34.36%) MVC
2 49 (21.59%) Scrum
3 45 (19.82%) E-Commerce
4 44 (19.38%) TDD
5 34 (14.98%) BDD
6 30 (13.22%) Agile Software Development
7 29 (12.78%) Content Management
8 23 (10.13%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (8.811%) Analytics
10 19 (8.370%) Web Development
11 18 (7.930%) Web Analytics
11 18 (7.930%) CRM
12 13 (5.727%) B2C
13 12 (5.286%) Workflow
14 11 (4.846%) Web Application Development
14 11 (4.846%) B2B
15 10 (4.405%) Kanban
16 8 (3.524%) Domain-Driven Design
17 7 (3.084%) SEO
18 6 (2.643%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 141 (62.11%) C#
2 70 (30.84%) JavaScript
3 44 (19.38%) SQL
4 12 (5.286%) Java
5 10 (4.405%) VB.NET
6 8 (3.524%) XQuery
7 7 (3.084%) XPath
8 6 (2.643%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.762%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.762%) PHP
10 2 (0.881%) C
11 1 (0.441%) XAML
11 1 (0.441%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (3.524%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.203%) Degree
3 4 (1.762%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (1.322%) ISEB
4 3 (1.322%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (0.441%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.286%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.762%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 35 (15.42%) EPiServer
2 34 (14.98%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.167%) hybris
4 13 (5.727%) Google
5 4 (1.762%) RedDot
5 4 (1.762%) Hummingbird
5 4 (1.762%) Salesforce.com
5 4 (1.762%) Citrix
5 4 (1.762%) Facebook
6 3 (1.322%) ATG
7 2 (0.881%) Omniture
7 2 (0.881%) Oracle
7 2 (0.881%) SAP
8 1 (0.441%) Appcelerator
8 1 (0.441%) Venda
8 1 (0.441%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.441%) Adobe
8 1 (0.441%) Siebel
8 1 (0.441%) Open Text
8 1 (0.441%) Mercator
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