The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sitecore products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sitecore 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 Vendors for the Leeds 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Sitecore.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sitecore
Rank 72 74 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing Sitecore 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.375% 0.101% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.809% 0.205% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
371 487 254
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 46.38% 48.94% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 276 114
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £171 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 33
Average hourly rate £34.00 £14.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+134.48% -17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.16 £9.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £45.60 £29.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Sitecore
West Yorkshire

Sitecore
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Sitecore across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Leeds Sitecore Jobs Demand Trend

Sitecore
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Sitecore Daily Rate Trend

Sitecore
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Sitecore 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 Sitecore.

1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Umbraco
3 2 (50.00%) EPiServer
3 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
3 2 (50.00%) DotNetNuke
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012

Sitecore
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Sitecore 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 Sitecore. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) WPF
4 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) DotNetNuke
3 1 (25.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) XAML
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) EPiServer
2 1 (25.00%) Google
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