The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 40 42 48
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +6
Contract jobs citing CMS 7 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 1.695% 1.211% 0.759%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.14% 8.065% 3.896%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
Average daily rate £263 £238 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.52% -32.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.22 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £17.76 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-7.06% -11.22%
All Application Platforms
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
69 62 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 16.71% 15.01% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 29 36
Average daily rate £288 £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.11% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £175 £215
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 8 7 17
Average hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% +107.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £18.70 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.10 £32.09 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
CMS
East of England

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex 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
Harlow +3 3 £450 -
Colchester - 2 £200 -
Chelmsford - 1 £263 -
CMS
East of England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) .NET
3 5 (41.67%) E-Commerce
3 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (41.67%) Content Management
4 4 (33.33%) HTML5
4 4 (33.33%) Web Services
4 4 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) MVC
5 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
5 3 (25.00%) PHP
5 3 (25.00%) C#
5 3 (25.00%) XML
5 3 (25.00%) XSLT
5 3 (25.00%) RAD
5 3 (25.00%) CRM
5 3 (25.00%) WCF
5 3 (25.00%) Ajax
6 2 (16.67%) Omniture
6 2 (16.67%) Google
6 2 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (16.67%) Web Development
6 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (16.67%) Image Processing
6 2 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (16.67%) Sass
6 2 (16.67%) LESS

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) HTML5
2 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (25.00%) XML
3 3 (25.00%) XSLT
3 3 (25.00%) WCF
3 3 (25.00%) Ajax
4 2 (16.67%) Sass
4 2 (16.67%) LESS
4 2 (16.67%) jQuery
4 2 (16.67%) MooTools
4 2 (16.67%) CSS3
4 2 (16.67%) Dojo
4 2 (16.67%) XHTML
4 2 (16.67%) J2EE
4 2 (16.67%) COM+
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) JSP
4 2 (16.67%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.333%) Documentum
2 1 (8.333%) Content Management Server
2 1 (8.333%) Umbraco
2 1 (8.333%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Photoshop
2 1 (8.333%) MS Office
2 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (16.67%) Publishing
2 1 (8.333%) Banking
2 1 (8.333%) Retail
2 1 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Retail Banking
2 1 (8.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Development Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Development Project Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Development Manager
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Manager
5 1 (8.333%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Product Manager
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Support Manager
5 1 (8.333%) Support Manager
5 1 (8.333%) Business Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Support
5 1 (8.333%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) N-Tier
2 1 (8.333%) Open Source
2 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) E-Commerce
1 5 (41.67%) Content Management
2 3 (25.00%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) MVC
2 3 (25.00%) RAD
2 3 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Image Processing
3 2 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) OO
3 2 (16.67%) SEO
3 2 (16.67%) Web Design
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.333%) Validation
4 1 (8.333%) Migration
4 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.333%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 3 (25.00%) PHP
4 3 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (8.333%) PL/SQL
5 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
5 1 (8.333%) VBScript
5 1 (8.333%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Omniture
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Adobe
1 2 (16.67%) FatWire