Merseyside CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Bath Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Street Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.082 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£265	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£280	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£300
% change on same period last year	-0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.86	£28.52
% change on same period last year	-12.83 %
Application Platforms Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	49	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.065 %
Daily rates quoted	12	13
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£272
Average daily rate	£331	£281
% change on same period last year	+17.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£348
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.19	£20.89
Average hourly rate	£18.53	£22.54
% change on same period last year	-17.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.88	£24.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.67	£24.13
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
CMS 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.

CMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

CMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CMS across the Merseyside region.

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing CMS within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool	-	2	£265	-

CMS North West

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) SharePoint 1 2 (66.67 %) HTML 1 2 (66.67 %) Web Development 2 1 (33.33 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (33.33 %) SCOM 2 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Construction 2 1 (33.33 %) VB6

2 1 (33.33 %) Content Management 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) DMZ 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) MOM 2 1 (33.33 %) ISA Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 2 1 (33.33 %) MySQL 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) SharePoint 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 1 (33.33 %) DMZ	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) MySQL 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Web Development 2 1 (33.33 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (33.33 %) Content Management 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP 1 1 (33.33 %) VB 1 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 1 1 (33.33 %) VB6	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) SCOM 1 1 (33.33 %) MOM	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Remedy