The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 17 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 Application Platforms category for the Liverpool 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 21 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing CMS 3 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.027% 1.075% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.54% 4.255% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £19.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-13.15% -2.56%
All Application Platforms
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
26 47 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 17.57% 25.27% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 22
Average daily rate £438 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £385 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.50 £18.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.28% -3.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
CMS
Merseyside

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool CMS Daily Rate Trend

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Liverpool CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (82.35%) SQL Server
2 14 (82.35%) ASP.NET
2 14 (82.35%) Umbraco
3 13 (76.47%) Visual Studio
4 11 (64.71%) XML
5 8 (47.06%) CSS
5 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
5 8 (47.06%) jQuery
6 7 (41.18%) HTML5
6 7 (41.18%) CSS3
6 7 (41.18%) SEO
6 7 (41.18%) Twitter
7 6 (35.29%) MVC
7 6 (35.29%) MS Access
7 6 (35.29%) C#
7 6 (35.29%) SQL
8 5 (29.41%) XSD
8 5 (29.41%) XSLT
8 5 (29.41%) Windows
8 5 (29.41%) Linux
8 5 (29.41%) OO
8 5 (29.41%) PHP
8 5 (29.41%) MySQL
8 5 (29.41%) Oracle
8 5 (29.41%) OOD
8 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (29.41%) NetBeans
8 5 (29.41%) Git (software)
8 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (82.35%) ASP.NET
3 11 (64.71%) XML
4 8 (47.06%) CSS
4 8 (47.06%) jQuery
5 7 (41.18%) HTML5
5 7 (41.18%) CSS3
6 5 (29.41%) Razor View Engine
6 5 (29.41%) Google Maps API
6 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (29.41%) CodeIgniter
6 5 (29.41%) CakePHP
6 5 (29.41%) XSD
6 5 (29.41%) XSLT
7 3 (17.65%) HTML
8 2 (11.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
9 1 (5.882%) WCF
9 1 (5.882%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 14 (82.35%) Umbraco
2 5 (29.41%) WordPress
3 1 (5.882%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) MS Access
3 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (29.41%) MySQL
4 1 (5.882%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Visual Studio
2 5 (29.41%) NetBeans
2 5 (29.41%) Git (software)
3 2 (11.76%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (5.882%) Rhino Mocks
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) .NET Developer
3 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Umbraco Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Front-End Web Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Access Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Developer
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Web Developer
7 1 (5.882%) Consultant
7 1 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (5.882%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) SEO
2 6 (35.29%) MVC
3 5 (29.41%) OOD
3 5 (29.41%) OO
3 5 (29.41%) Web Development
3 5 (29.41%) Business Development
4 2 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (11.76%) Web Design
5 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.882%) Workflow
5 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) XPath
3 5 (29.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Twitter
2 5 (29.41%) Facebook
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Google
2 5 (29.41%) Zend
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) Adobe
5 1 (5.882%) Sitecore