Hertfordshire CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CMS over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highland Home Counties Hounslow Inverness Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Plymouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	74
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	17	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	6.641 %	3.887 %
Daily rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum daily rate	£243	£215
Average daily rate	£265	£230
% change on same period last year	+15.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£245
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£316
% change on same period last year	-11.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.84	£23.12
% change on same period last year	-14.21 %
Application Platforms Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	256	283
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.328 %	0.318 %
Daily rates quoted	116	112
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£338
Average daily rate	£419	£370
% change on same period last year	+13.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£452	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.19	£23.71
Average hourly rate	£18.08	£24.48
% change on same period last year	-26.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.97	£25.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
CMS 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.

CMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

CMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the Hertfordshire region.

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the Hertfordshire region over the past 3 months.

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the Hertfordshire region.

CMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Hertfordshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Watford	-11	3	-	-

CMS East of England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS.

1 35 (71.43 %) HTML 1 35 (71.43 %) TeamSite 2 33 (67.35 %) Content Management 3 28 (57.14 %) Interwoven 4 17 (34.69 %) Photoshop 5 16 (32.65 %) PVCS 6 13 (26.53 %) VBScript 6 13 (26.53 %) Perl 6 13 (26.53 %) Solaris 6 13 (26.53 %) Windows NT 7 11 (22.45 %) OpenDeploy 8 7 (14.29 %) MS Excel 8 7 (14.29 %) Microsoft 8 7 (14.29 %) CSS 8 7 (14.29 %) MS PowerPoint

8 7 (14.29 %) Copywriting 9 6 (12.24 %) XML 9 6 (12.24 %) XSL 9 6 (12.24 %) JavaScript 10 5 (10.20 %) MS Office 11 4 (8.163 %) Windows 11 4 (8.163 %) XHTML 12 3 (6.122 %) Release Management 12 3 (6.122 %) SCOM 12 3 (6.122 %) Games 12 3 (6.122 %) Retail 12 3 (6.122 %) Configuration Management 12 3 (6.122 %) DTV 12 3 (6.122 %) Project Management 12 3 (6.122 %) SQL Server

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 35 (71.43 %) HTML 2 7 (14.29 %) CSS 3 6 (12.24 %) XML 3 6 (12.24 %) XSL 4 4 (8.163 %) XHTML 5 2 (4.082 %) AJAX 5 2 (4.082 %) .NET 5 2 (4.082 %) J2EE 5 2 (4.082 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (4.082 %) Struts 6 1 (2.041 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 35 (71.43 %) TeamSite 2 2 (4.082 %) JBoss 3 1 (2.041 %) Apache 3 1 (2.041 %) Joomla! 3 1 (2.041 %) Mambo
Applications 1 17 (34.69 %) Photoshop 2 7 (14.29 %) MS Excel 2 7 (14.29 %) MS PowerPoint 3 5 (10.20 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.041 %) PBX 1 1 (2.041 %) VoIP 1 1 (2.041 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (2.041 %) CTI 1 1 (2.041 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (6.122 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.082 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 16 (32.65 %) PVCS 2 11 (22.45 %) OpenDeploy 3 2 (4.082 %) Eclipse
General 1 3 (6.122 %) Games 1 3 (6.122 %) Retail 2 2 (4.082 %) Online Games 2 2 (4.082 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 24 (48.98 %) Developer 2 16 (32.65 %) Content Editor 3 4 (8.163 %) Web Content Editor 3 4 (8.163 %) Web Editor 4 3 (6.122 %) Release Engineer 4 3 (6.122 %) Web Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) Java Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) C# Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) Systems Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 2 (4.082 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (2.041 %) Web Content Manager 6 1 (2.041 %) Website Editor 6 1 (2.041 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (2.041 %) Java Web Developer 6 1 (2.041 %) Web Manager 6 1 (2.041 %) Consultant 6 1 (2.041 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (14.29 %) Copywriting 2 3 (6.122 %) DTV 3 1 (2.041 %) IVR	Operating Systems 1 13 (26.53 %) Solaris 1 13 (26.53 %) Windows NT 2 4 (8.163 %) Windows 3 1 (2.041 %) Unix 3 1 (2.041 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (67.35 %) Content Management 2 3 (6.122 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (6.122 %) Project Management 2 3 (6.122 %) Release Management 3 2 (4.082 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (4.082 %) Change Management 3 2 (4.082 %) Web Development 4 1 (2.041 %) OOP 4 1 (2.041 %) B2C 4 1 (2.041 %) Workflow 4 1 (2.041 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 13 (26.53 %) Perl 1 13 (26.53 %) VBScript 2 6 (12.24 %) JavaScript 3 3 (6.122 %) Java 3 3 (6.122 %) SQL 4 2 (4.082 %) C# 4 2 (4.082 %) PHP 5 1 (2.041 %) PHP5 5 1 (2.041 %) DHTML
Systems Management 1 3 (6.122 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 28 (57.14 %) Interwoven 2 7 (14.29 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.041 %) Avaya 3 1 (2.041 %) Tridion