Essex Content Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Content Management over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Greenhithe Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	56
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	14	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	3.733 %	1.087 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£250
Average daily rate	£335	£250
% change on same period last year	+34.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£320
% change on same period last year	+1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£28.00	£27.50
% change on same period last year	+1.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.07	£30.06
% change on same period last year	-29.89 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	375	368
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.500 %	0.372 %
Daily rates quoted	149	129
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£389
Average daily rate	£404	£412
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.36	£33.11
Average hourly rate	£35.78	£33.52
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.20	£33.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Content Management East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Content Management across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Content Management across the Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Content Management across the Essex region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Management within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Basildon	-	4	£285	-
Chelmsford	-	1	-	-

Content Management East of England

Content Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 10 (41.67 %) CMS 1 10 (41.67 %) HTML 1 10 (41.67 %) XML 2 9 (37.50 %) Marketing 3 8 (33.33 %) CSS 3 8 (33.33 %) Internet 4 7 (29.17 %) Intranet 4 7 (29.17 %) Java 4 7 (29.17 %) SQL 5 6 (25.00 %) JavaScript 5 6 (25.00 %) J2EE 5 6 (25.00 %) JSP 5 6 (25.00 %) OO 5 6 (25.00 %) Linux 5 6 (25.00 %) FatWire

5 6 (25.00 %) WebSphere 6 5 (20.83 %) Publishing 7 4 (16.67 %) Struts 7 4 (16.67 %) UNIX 7 4 (16.67 %) Windows 7 4 (16.67 %) Ant 7 4 (16.67 %) IIS 7 4 (16.67 %) MS Office 7 4 (16.67 %) Perl 8 3 (12.50 %) VBScript 8 3 (12.50 %) .NET 8 3 (12.50 %) ASP 8 3 (12.50 %) SharePoint 8 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft 8 3 (12.50 %) Extranet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 10 (41.67 %) HTML 1 10 (41.67 %) XML 2 8 (33.33 %) CSS 3 6 (25.00 %) JSP 3 6 (25.00 %) J2EE 3 6 (25.00 %) WebSphere 4 4 (16.67 %) Struts 5 3 (12.50 %) ASP 5 3 (12.50 %) .NET 6 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (4.167 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 10 (41.67 %) CMS 2 4 (16.67 %) IIS 3 3 (12.50 %) SharePoint 4 1 (4.167 %) TeamSite 4 1 (4.167 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (4.167 %) Tomcat 4 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 1 (4.167 %) MindAlign 4 1 (4.167 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.167 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 8 (33.33 %) Internet 2 7 (29.17 %) Intranet 3 3 (12.50 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Access 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 4 (16.67 %) Ant 2 1 (4.167 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 9 (37.50 %) Marketing 2 5 (20.83 %) Publishing 3 2 (8.333 %) Education 4 1 (4.167 %) Front Office 4 1 (4.167 %) Banking 4 1 (4.167 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (4.167 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 11 (45.83 %) Developer 2 6 (25.00 %) Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) Web Developer 4 3 (12.50 %) Trainer 5 2 (8.333 %) Business Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Technical Specialist 5 2 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support 5 2 (8.333 %) Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Coordinator 6 1 (4.167 %) Software Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Administrator 6 1 (4.167 %) Senior Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Technical Support Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) .NET Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Technical Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Junior Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Developer Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Junior Web Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Web Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) NHS 1 1 (4.167 %) Streaming Media 1 1 (4.167 %) Blog 1 1 (4.167 %) Podcast	Operating Systems 1 6 (25.00 %) Linux 2 4 (16.67 %) UNIX 2 4 (16.67 %) Windows 3 2 (8.333 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (25.00 %) OO 2 2 (8.333 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (8.333 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (4.167 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Web Analytics 3 1 (4.167 %) Web Development 3 1 (4.167 %) Use Case 3 1 (4.167 %) Internet Marketing 3 1 (4.167 %) Digital Marketing 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Change Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Workflow 3 1 (4.167 %) Web Design 3 1 (4.167 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 7 (29.17 %) Java 1 7 (29.17 %) SQL 2 6 (25.00 %) JavaScript 3 4 (16.67 %) Perl 4 3 (12.50 %) VBScript 5 2 (8.333 %) VB 6 1 (4.167 %) C#
Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) Degree	System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 6 (25.00 %) FatWire 2 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft 3 2 (8.333 %) Adobe 3 2 (8.333 %) Apple 4 1 (4.167 %) Interwoven 4 1 (4.167 %) Aprimo