The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 41 57 58
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +1
Contract jobs citing CMS 16 21 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.454% 2.132% 0.898%
As % of the Application Platforms category 16.00% 14.69% 5.405%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 6
Average daily rate £325 £350 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.01% +58.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £164 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £360 £308
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £25.50 £19.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.21% +72.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+31.57% -5.00%
All Application Platforms
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
100 143 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.34% 14.52% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 67 76
Average daily rate £323 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.37% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £249 £147
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £491 £476
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 11
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -29.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £71.30 £30.20 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
CMS
East of England

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Rickmansworth - 4 £228 -
Watford +6 1 - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - -
St Albans - - - -
Borehamwood - - - -
Hemel Hempstead - - - - 1
Hertford - - - - 1
Kings Langley - - - -
CMS
East of England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (55.56%) HTML
1 10 (55.56%) CSS
1 10 (55.56%) Retail
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) E-Commerce
3 7 (38.89%) Web Development
3 7 (38.89%) CSS3
4 6 (33.33%) HTML5
4 6 (33.33%) jQuery
4 6 (33.33%) Content Management
4 6 (33.33%) XHTML
4 6 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (33.33%) Web Services
5 5 (27.78%) Omniture
5 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Marketing
6 4 (22.22%) User Stories
6 4 (22.22%) BDD
6 4 (22.22%) JPA
6 4 (22.22%) JSR 286
6 4 (22.22%) Liferay
6 4 (22.22%) RESTful
6 4 (22.22%) Banking
6 4 (22.22%) Finance
6 4 (22.22%) Retail Banking
6 4 (22.22%) WSRP
6 4 (22.22%) Spring
6 4 (22.22%) JSF
6 4 (22.22%) SOAP

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (55.56%) HTML
1 10 (55.56%) CSS
2 7 (38.89%) CSS3
3 6 (33.33%) HTML5
3 6 (33.33%) Web Services
3 6 (33.33%) XHTML
3 6 (33.33%) jQuery
4 4 (22.22%) JPA
4 4 (22.22%) JSR 286
4 4 (22.22%) RESTful
4 4 (22.22%) Spring
4 4 (22.22%) JSF
4 4 (22.22%) SOAP
4 4 (22.22%) J2EE
4 4 (22.22%) WSRP
5 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 3 (16.67%) .NET
6 2 (11.11%) XML
6 2 (11.11%) XSLT
6 2 (11.11%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Liferay
2 3 (16.67%) LiveSite
2 3 (16.67%) TeamSite
3 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.556%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (5.556%) Umbraco
4 1 (5.556%) WordPress
4 1 (5.556%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (5.556%) Kentico
4 1 (5.556%) Sitefinity
4 1 (5.556%) concrete5
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Project
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
1 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) SAP BI
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 10 (55.56%) Retail
2 5 (27.78%) Marketing
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Retail Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (5.556%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Web Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Portal Developer
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 3 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
4 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Web Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Production Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Web Production Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) SAP BI Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.556%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.556%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.556%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) E-Commerce
1 7 (38.89%) Web Development
2 6 (33.33%) Content Management
3 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (27.78%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) User Stories
4 4 (22.22%) BDD
5 3 (16.67%) Web Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 1 (5.556%) MVC
6 1 (5.556%) SEO
6 1 (5.556%) Scrum
6 1 (5.556%) Web Design
6 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.556%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (5.556%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) VB
5 1 (5.556%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Omniture
2 3 (16.67%) Adobe
2 3 (16.67%) ATG
3 2 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (5.556%) EPiServer
4 1 (5.556%) Sitecore
4 1 (5.556%) Ektron
4 1 (5.556%) Interwoven
4 1 (5.556%) SAP
4 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
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