The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Macclesfield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 24 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 Macclesfield 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 9 - 19
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing CMS 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield 7.317% - 3.175%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.00% - 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £350 - £299
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £17.51 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.76% -12.45%
All Application Platforms
Macclesfield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
12 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield 29.27% 6.667% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
Average daily rate £325 £300 £294
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +2.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £301 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
CMS
Cheshire

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield region.

Macclesfield CMS Daily Rate Trend

CMS
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 3 (100.00%) EPiServer
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 3 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) JSON

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 3 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) EPiServer