Hertfordshire Content Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management skills within the Hertfordshire 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 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Surrey Telford Thames Valley Twickenham UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	65
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	26	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	2.948 %	3.344 %
Daily rates quoted	13	18
Average minimum daily rate	£187	£242
Average daily rate	£215	£249
% change on same period last year	-13.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£243	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£323
% change on same period last year	-0.64 %
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	£19.58	£30.30
% change on same period last year	-35.39 %
Processes & Methodologies Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	882	957
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.173 %	0.955 %
Daily rates quoted	319	401
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£353
Average daily rate	£406	£373
% change on same period last year	+8.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	99	95
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.98	£27.69
Average hourly rate	£30.69	£29.50
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.39	£31.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Content Management across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 28 August 2008.

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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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 28 August 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
Watford	0	6	£275	+17.85 %
St Albans	-	2	-	-

Content Management East of England

Content Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 22 (48.89 %) CMS 2 21 (46.67 %) HTML 3 20 (44.44 %) Interwoven 4 18 (40.00 %) TeamSite 5 14 (31.11 %) E-Commerce 6 12 (26.67 %) Solaris 7 10 (22.22 %) VBScript 7 10 (22.22 %) Perl 7 10 (22.22 %) OpenDeploy 7 10 (22.22 %) Marketing 8 9 (20.00 %) Photoshop 9 8 (17.78 %) SQL Server 9 8 (17.78 %) XML 9 8 (17.78 %) CSS 10 7 (15.56 %) Flash

11 6 (13.33 %) Retail 11 6 (13.33 %) Telecoms 11 6 (13.33 %) Legal 11 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2005 11 6 (13.33 %) XHTML 11 6 (13.33 %) SharePoint 11 6 (13.33 %) WebServices 11 6 (13.33 %) .NET 12 5 (11.11 %) ADO.NET 12 5 (11.11 %) XSL 12 5 (11.11 %) Microsoft 12 5 (11.11 %) Commerce Server 2007 12 5 (11.11 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 5 (11.11 %) Commerce Server 12 5 (11.11 %) Web Design

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 21 (46.67 %) HTML 2 8 (17.78 %) CSS 2 8 (17.78 %) XML 3 6 (13.33 %) .NET 3 6 (13.33 %) WebServices 3 6 (13.33 %) XHTML 4 5 (11.11 %) ADO.NET 4 5 (11.11 %) XSL 5 4 (8.889 %) J2EE 5 4 (8.889 %) ASP.NET 6 3 (6.667 %) EJB 6 3 (6.667 %) ASP 6 3 (6.667 %) Servlets 6 3 (6.667 %) Struts 6 3 (6.667 %) AJAX 7 2 (4.444 %) Swing 7 2 (4.444 %) Hibernate 7 2 (4.444 %) Lucene 7 2 (4.444 %) Spring 7 2 (4.444 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 22 (48.89 %) CMS 2 18 (40.00 %) TeamSite 3 6 (13.33 %) SharePoint 4 5 (11.11 %) Commerce Server 4 5 (11.11 %) Commerce Server 2007 5 4 (8.889 %) JBoss 6 2 (4.444 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 1 (2.222 %) Tomcat 7 1 (2.222 %) WebLogic 7 1 (2.222 %) BizTalk Server 7 1 (2.222 %) CoreMedia CMS
Applications 1 9 (20.00 %) Photoshop 2 3 (6.667 %) Spreadsheet 3 2 (4.444 %) InDesign	Business Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 4 (8.889 %) Internet 2 3 (6.667 %) Network Security 2 3 (6.667 %) SSL 2 3 (6.667 %) DMZ	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (17.78 %) SQL Server 2 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.222 %) DB2 3 1 (2.222 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (2.222 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 10 (22.22 %) OpenDeploy 2 7 (15.56 %) Flash 3 4 (8.889 %) Dreamweaver 4 2 (4.444 %) Eclipse 5 1 (2.222 %) ERwin 5 1 (2.222 %) JDeveloper 5 1 (2.222 %) JBuilder 5 1 (2.222 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 10 (22.22 %) Marketing 2 6 (13.33 %) Telecoms 2 6 (13.33 %) Legal 2 6 (13.33 %) Retail 3 4 (8.889 %) Publishing 4 2 (4.444 %) Games 5 1 (2.222 %) Billing 5 1 (2.222 %) Finance 5 1 (2.222 %) Education 5 1 (2.222 %) Health
Job Titles 1 21 (46.67 %) Developer 2 7 (15.56 %) Coordinator 2 7 (15.56 %) Web Designer 3 4 (8.889 %) Java Developer 4 3 (6.667 %) Senior Developer 4 3 (6.667 %) Project Manager 4 3 (6.667 %) Web Editor 4 3 (6.667 %) Photoshop Designer 4 3 (6.667 %) Web Content Editor 4 3 (6.667 %) Content Editor 5 2 (4.444 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 2 (4.444 %) J2EE Developer 6 1 (2.222 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (2.222 %) Programme Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) Analyst 6 1 (2.222 %) Web Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Analyst 6 1 (2.222 %) SharePoint Developer 6 1 (2.222 %) Systems Developer 6 1 (2.222 %) E-Commerce Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.667 %) DTV 2 1 (2.222 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 12 (26.67 %) Solaris 2 1 (2.222 %) Linux 2 1 (2.222 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.222 %) Windows 2 1 (2.222 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (31.11 %) E-Commerce 2 5 (11.11 %) Web Design 2 5 (11.11 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 4 (8.889 %) B2C 3 4 (8.889 %) UML 4 1 (2.222 %) OO 4 1 (2.222 %) RAD 4 1 (2.222 %) SSADM 4 1 (2.222 %) CRM 4 1 (2.222 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.222 %) ERP 4 1 (2.222 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (2.222 %) Project Planning 4 1 (2.222 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 10 (22.22 %) Perl 1 10 (22.22 %) VBScript 2 4 (8.889 %) C 2 4 (8.889 %) C# 2 4 (8.889 %) Java 2 4 (8.889 %) JavaScript 2 4 (8.889 %) Transact-SQL 3 2 (4.444 %) C++ 4 1 (2.222 %) XPath 4 1 (2.222 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (4.444 %) Degree 2 1 (2.222 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.222 %) WAI	Vendors 1 20 (44.44 %) Interwoven 2 5 (11.11 %) Microsoft 3 4 (8.889 %) Oracle 4 3 (6.667 %) Tridion 5 2 (4.444 %) Quark 5 2 (4.444 %) Adobe 6 1 (2.222 %) Sun 6 1 (2.222 %) BEA 6 1 (2.222 %) Vignette 6 1 (2.222 %) Siebel 6 1 (2.222 %) IBM 6 1 (2.222 %) Amdocs