Manchester Content Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Content Management over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenhithe Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	53
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	11	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	1.580 %	3.532 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£110
Average daily rate	£225	£110
% change on same period last year	+104.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£110
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£337
% change on same period last year	-3.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.50	-
Average hourly rate	£25.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.38	£30.74
% change on same period last year	-23.92 %
Processes & Methodologies Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	696	453
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.918 %	0.474 %
Daily rates quoted	149	113
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£338
Average daily rate	£350	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	86	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.76	£21.87
Average hourly rate	£23.36	£23.83
% change on same period last year	-1.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.96	£25.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Content Management North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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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 Manchester 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 job ads citing Content Management within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
Ashton-under-Lyne	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 15 (60.00 %) .NET 2 13 (52.00 %) HTML 3 12 (48.00 %) CMS 4 10 (40.00 %) ASP.NET 4 10 (40.00 %) C# 5 9 (36.00 %) SQL Server 6 8 (32.00 %) CSS 7 7 (28.00 %) JavaScript 8 4 (16.00 %) AJAX 8 4 (16.00 %) Web Design 8 4 (16.00 %) Tridion 8 4 (16.00 %) PHP 8 4 (16.00 %) Photoshop 9 3 (12.00 %) Intranet 9 3 (12.00 %) Flash

9 3 (12.00 %) SharePoint 9 3 (12.00 %) Dreamweaver 9 3 (12.00 %) SQL 9 3 (12.00 %) VB.NET 9 3 (12.00 %) Change Management 9 3 (12.00 %) Web Development 10 2 (8.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 2 (8.000 %) Perl 10 2 (8.000 %) XML 10 2 (8.000 %) Internet 11 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server 7 11 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server 2000 11 1 (4.000 %) Project Management 11 1 (4.000 %) Microsoft 11 1 (4.000 %) Adobe

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 15 (60.00 %) .NET 2 13 (52.00 %) HTML 3 10 (40.00 %) ASP.NET 4 8 (32.00 %) CSS 5 4 (16.00 %) AJAX 6 2 (8.000 %) XML 7 1 (4.000 %) XHTML 7 1 (4.000 %) WebServices 7 1 (4.000 %) XSLT 7 1 (4.000 %) ASP 7 1 (4.000 %) Drupal 7 1 (4.000 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 12 (48.00 %) CMS 2 3 (12.00 %) SharePoint 3 2 (8.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (4.000 %) Joomla! 4 1 (4.000 %) Content Management Server
Applications 1 4 (16.00 %) Photoshop 2 1 (4.000 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 3 (12.00 %) Intranet 2 2 (8.000 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (36.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 3 (12.00 %) Flash 1 3 (12.00 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (4.000 %) FrontPage
General 1 1 (4.000 %) Marketing 1 1 (4.000 %) Graphic Design 1 1 (4.000 %) Multimedia	Job Titles 1 17 (68.00 %) Developer 2 8 (32.00 %) .NET Developer 3 6 (24.00 %) C# Developer 4 4 (16.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 4 (16.00 %) Web Developer 5 3 (12.00 %) Tridion Developer 5 3 (12.00 %) SharePoint Developer 5 3 (12.00 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (8.000 %) VB.NET Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) Project Manager 7 1 (4.000 %) Author 7 1 (4.000 %) Technical Project Manager 7 1 (4.000 %) Administrator 7 1 (4.000 %) Graduate 7 1 (4.000 %) Web Designer 7 1 (4.000 %) Web Author 7 1 (4.000 %) SharePoint Administrator 7 1 (4.000 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) Webmaster 7 1 (4.000 %) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.000 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.00 %) Web Design 2 3 (12.00 %) Change Management 2 3 (12.00 %) Web Development 3 1 (4.000 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.000 %) SEO 3 1 (4.000 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 10 (40.00 %) C# 2 7 (28.00 %) JavaScript 3 4 (16.00 %) PHP 4 3 (12.00 %) SQL 4 3 (12.00 %) VB.NET 5 2 (8.000 %) Perl 6 1 (4.000 %) Java 6 1 (4.000 %) ActionScript 6 1 (4.000 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 1 (4.000 %) HND 1 1 (4.000 %) Degree
Vendors 1 4 (16.00 %) Tridion 2 1 (4.000 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.000 %) Adobe