The first table below looks at the demand for Orchard CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Orchard 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 Manchester 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
Orchard CMS
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Orchard CMS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
174 262 180
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 19.04% 20.14% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 143 88
Average daily rate £295 £325 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.23% +3.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £166 £138
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £443 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 16
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.52% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.90 £24.25 £20.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Orchard CMS
North West

Orchard CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Orchard CMS Jobs Demand Trend

Orchard CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Orchard 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 Orchard CMS.

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) CMS
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 4 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 4 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) OpenRasta
1 4 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 4 (100.00%) RavenDB
1 4 (100.00%) MSBuild
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) CoffeeScript
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework

Orchard CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Orchard 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 Orchard CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) OpenRasta
1 4 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 4 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 4 (100.00%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft