The first table below looks at the demand for Tridion skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tridion over the 3 months to 21 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 Business Applications category 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SDL Tridion
Rank 506 531 543
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +12
Contract jobs citing Tridion 6 26 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.014% 0.049% 0.022%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.169% 0.566% 0.247%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 3
Average daily rate £325 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £350 £385
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £430 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £12.86
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +210.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £12.86
All Business Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
3543 4592 4863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 8.375% 8.582% 8.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 1887 2355 2527
Average daily rate £450 £450 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 56 86
Average hourly rate £37.80 £34.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.17% +70.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.25 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £57.50 £38.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%
Tridion
UK

Tridion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Tridion Jobs Demand Trend

Tridion
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Tridion Daily Rate Trend

Tridion
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Tridion Hourly Rate Trend

Tridion
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tridion within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 -2 3 £313 -10.71%
South East +26 2 £325 +8.33%
Tridion
UK

Tridion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Tridion 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 Tridion.

1 28 (62.22%) HTML
1 28 (62.22%) XML
2 26 (57.78%) XSLT
2 26 (57.78%) UML
2 26 (57.78%) Java
2 26 (57.78%) .NET
3 24 (53.33%) SQL
4 23 (51.11%) CMS
5 21 (46.67%) Web Development
6 20 (44.44%) E-Commerce
7 17 (37.78%) JavaScript
8 16 (35.56%) Finance
8 16 (35.56%) Content Management
9 15 (33.33%) Internet
9 15 (33.33%) J2EE
9 15 (33.33%) CSS
9 15 (33.33%) OO
10 14 (31.11%) RAD
10 14 (31.11%) JMS
10 14 (31.11%) XHTML
10 14 (31.11%) MQSeries
10 14 (31.11%) UNIX
10 14 (31.11%) HPUX
10 14 (31.11%) Solaris
10 14 (31.11%) Linux
10 14 (31.11%) JDBC
10 14 (31.11%) JSP
10 14 (31.11%) Servlets
10 14 (31.11%) Struts
10 14 (31.11%) DB2

Tridion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Tridion 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 Tridion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (62.22%) HTML
1 28 (62.22%) XML
2 26 (57.78%) XSLT
2 26 (57.78%) .NET
3 15 (33.33%) J2EE
3 15 (33.33%) CSS
4 14 (31.11%) JMS
4 14 (31.11%) XHTML
4 14 (31.11%) JDBC
4 14 (31.11%) JSP
4 14 (31.11%) Servlets
4 14 (31.11%) Struts
4 14 (31.11%) EJB
4 14 (31.11%) XMLBeans
4 14 (31.11%) Ajax
4 14 (31.11%) JSTL
4 14 (31.11%) WebSphere
5 13 (28.89%) jQuery
6 11 (24.44%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.444%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 23 (51.11%) CMS
2 14 (31.11%) MQSeries
2 14 (31.11%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.222%) Telligent Community
3 1 (2.222%) Community Server
3 1 (2.222%) FileNet
Applications
1 4 (8.889%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) DB2
1 14 (31.11%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.444%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) Ant
1 14 (31.11%) JUnit
1 14 (31.11%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 14 (31.11%) Eclipse
1 14 (31.11%) Log4j
1 14 (31.11%) Subversion
2 2 (4.444%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.222%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (35.56%) Finance
2 13 (28.89%) Retail
3 12 (26.67%) Games
4 4 (8.889%) Marketing
5 1 (2.222%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.222%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (86.67%) Developer
2 19 (42.22%) Tridion Developer
3 14 (31.11%) Web Developer
3 14 (31.11%) Java Developer
4 13 (28.89%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 13 (28.89%) J2EE Developer
5 3 (6.667%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.444%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.444%) Digital Project Manager
7 1 (2.222%) Senior Digital Project Manager
7 1 (2.222%) Head of Development
7 1 (2.222%) Technical Director
7 1 (2.222%) Automation Team Leader
7 1 (2.222%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.222%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.222%) Test Team Leader
7 1 (2.222%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (2.222%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (2.222%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Web 2.0
2 2 (4.444%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.222%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.11%) UNIX
1 14 (31.11%) HPUX
1 14 (31.11%) Solaris
1 14 (31.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) UML
2 21 (46.67%) Web Development
3 20 (44.44%) E-Commerce
4 16 (35.56%) Content Management
5 15 (33.33%) OO
6 14 (31.11%) RAD
7 6 (13.33%) System Testing
8 2 (4.444%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (2.222%) BDD
9 1 (2.222%) Kanban
9 1 (2.222%) PRINCE2
9 1 (2.222%) RUP
9 1 (2.222%) OOP
9 1 (2.222%) TDD
9 1 (2.222%) Scrum
9 1 (2.222%) Project Management
9 1 (2.222%) GAP Analysis
9 1 (2.222%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) Java
2 24 (53.33%) SQL
3 17 (37.78%) JavaScript
4 14 (31.11%) Perl
4 14 (31.11%) XPath
4 14 (31.11%) Bash shell
5 12 (26.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.222%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.222%) PMP
2 1 (2.222%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) Interwoven
1 14 (31.11%) IBM
1 14 (31.11%) ATG
1 14 (31.11%) Blue Martini
1 14 (31.11%) Elastic Path
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.222%) Oracle
3 1 (2.222%) FatWire
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