The first table below looks at the demand for Content Management 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 Content Management 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management
Rank 48 50 58
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +8
Contract jobs citing Content Management 16 25 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.458% 2.559% 0.703%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.448% 3.888% 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
Average daily rate £233 £425 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-45.29% +38.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £298 £282
10% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £425 £334
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.51 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.91% -12.45%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
464 643 528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.27% 65.81% 61.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 290 228
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 56 76
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £12.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Content Management
East of England

Content Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Content Management across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hertfordshire Content Management Jobs Demand Trend

Content Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Content Management Daily Rate Trend

Content Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Content Management Hourly Rate Trend

Content Management
Contract Locations

The table below 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 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
Rickmansworth - 10 £228 -
Hertford - 4 - -
Stevenage +2 1 £275 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Content Management
East of England

Content Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 11 (42.31%) Retail
2 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) HTML
2 10 (38.46%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 10 (38.46%) J2EE
3 9 (34.62%) SharePoint
4 7 (26.92%) IBM
4 7 (26.92%) SQL
4 7 (26.92%) XML
4 7 (26.92%) XSLT
5 6 (23.08%) UNIX
5 6 (23.08%) JDBC
5 6 (23.08%) JSP
5 6 (23.08%) Servlets
5 6 (23.08%) HPUX
5 6 (23.08%) Solaris
5 6 (23.08%) Linux
5 6 (23.08%) UML
5 6 (23.08%) OO
5 6 (23.08%) RAD
5 6 (23.08%) XHTML
5 6 (23.08%) MQSeries
5 6 (23.08%) Perl
5 6 (23.08%) DB2
5 6 (23.08%) Ant
5 6 (23.08%) JUnit
5 6 (23.08%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (23.08%) EJB
5 6 (23.08%) Struts

Content Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 10 (38.46%) HTML
1 10 (38.46%) J2EE
2 7 (26.92%) XML
2 7 (26.92%) XSLT
3 6 (23.08%) JDBC
3 6 (23.08%) JSP
3 6 (23.08%) Servlets
3 6 (23.08%) XHTML
3 6 (23.08%) EJB
3 6 (23.08%) Struts
3 6 (23.08%) JMS
3 6 (23.08%) XMLBeans
3 6 (23.08%) Ajax
3 6 (23.08%) WebSphere
3 6 (23.08%) JSTL
4 5 (19.23%) Web Services
4 5 (19.23%) ASP.NET
4 5 (19.23%) .NET
5 4 (15.38%) CSS
5 4 (15.38%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 9 (34.62%) SharePoint
2 6 (23.08%) MQSeries
2 6 (23.08%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (19.23%) CMS
4 4 (15.38%) Liferay
5 3 (11.54%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (11.54%) IIS
6 1 (3.846%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (3.846%) WorkSite
Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Intranet
1 6 (23.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) DB2
1 6 (23.08%) RDBMS
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.846%) IDOL
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Ant
1 6 (23.08%) JUnit
1 6 (23.08%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (23.08%) Eclipse
1 6 (23.08%) Log4j
1 6 (23.08%) Subversion
General
1 11 (42.31%) Retail
2 10 (38.46%) Finance
3 6 (23.08%) Marketing
4 5 (19.23%) Games
5 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 4 (15.38%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) J2EE Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Business Manager
3 6 (23.08%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 5 (19.23%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Information Manager
4 5 (19.23%) .NET Developer
5 4 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 4 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (15.38%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Portal Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Administrator
6 3 (11.54%) SharePoint Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) Architect
7 1 (3.846%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.846%) PMO Manager
7 1 (3.846%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) UNIX
1 6 (23.08%) HPUX
1 6 (23.08%) Solaris
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) UML
1 6 (23.08%) OO
1 6 (23.08%) RAD
1 6 (23.08%) E-Commerce
1 6 (23.08%) Quality Management
1 6 (23.08%) Project Governance
2 4 (15.38%) Scrum
2 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (15.38%) TDD
2 4 (15.38%) User Stories
2 4 (15.38%) BDD
3 1 (3.846%) Document Management
3 1 (3.846%) Project Management
3 1 (3.846%) Process Management
3 1 (3.846%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Java
1 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) Perl
3 6 (23.08%) XPath
3 6 (23.08%) Bash shell
4 5 (19.23%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) ISO 9000
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) IBM
2 6 (23.08%) Interwoven
2 6 (23.08%) ATG
2 6 (23.08%) Blue Martini
2 6 (23.08%) Elastic Path
3 1 (3.846%) HP