The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Milton Keynes 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 50 61 55
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -6
Contract jobs citing CMS 7 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.165% 0.299% 0.474%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.195% 1.980% 3.158%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £213 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £295
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -6.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+31.57% -5.00%
All Application Platforms
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
113 101 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 18.80% 15.07% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 35 39
Average daily rate £375 £250 £276
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.15% -9.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £148 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £335 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 10
Average hourly rate £13.50 £13.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £13.35 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
CMS
Buckinghamshire

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes CMS Daily Rate Trend

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Milton Keynes CMS Daily Rate Histogram

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 6 (35.29%) HTML
1 6 (35.29%) Content Management
2 5 (29.41%) PHP
2 5 (29.41%) UNIX
3 4 (23.53%) Web Services
3 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
4 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 3 (17.65%) MySQL
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 3 (17.65%) CSS
4 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 3 (17.65%) Windows
4 3 (17.65%) Publishing
4 3 (17.65%) jQuery
4 3 (17.65%) Drupal
4 3 (17.65%) Adobe CQ
5 2 (11.76%) Facebook
5 2 (11.76%) Twitter
5 2 (11.76%) Zend
5 2 (11.76%) Open Source
5 2 (11.76%) HTML5
5 2 (11.76%) Social Media
5 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
5 2 (11.76%) Joomla!
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 6 (35.29%) HTML
2 4 (23.53%) Web Services
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) jQuery
4 2 (11.76%) HTML5
5 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.882%) SOAP
5 1 (5.882%) Flash
5 1 (5.882%) XHTML
5 1 (5.882%) XML
5 1 (5.882%) XSLT
5 1 (5.882%) CSS3
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Drupal
1 3 (17.65%) Adobe CQ
2 2 (11.76%) Joomla!
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) IIS
3 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.882%) Kentico
3 1 (5.882%) SilverStripe
3 1 (5.882%) concrete5
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (5.882%) WordPress
3 1 (5.882%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.882%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) MySQL
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.882%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (17.65%) Publishing
2 1 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (17.65%) Applications Support
3 2 (11.76%) Content Editor
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Integration Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Web Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
3 2 (11.76%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Configuration Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (5.882%) .NET Programmer
4 1 (5.882%) Programmer
4 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.882%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Open Source
1 2 (11.76%) Social Media
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) CMDB
2 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) UNIX
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Content Management
2 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
3 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
3 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.76%) SOA
4 1 (5.882%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.882%) Data Management
4 1 (5.882%) Change Management
4 1 (5.882%) MVC
4 1 (5.882%) Workflow
4 1 (5.882%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) Service Management
4 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PHP
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
4 1 (5.882%) ActionScript
4 1 (5.882%) VBA
4 1 (5.882%) PHP5
4 1 (5.882%) C#
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) CA SiteMinder
2 1 (5.882%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Facebook
2 2 (11.76%) Twitter
2 2 (11.76%) Zend
3 1 (5.882%) HP
3 1 (5.882%) CA
3 1 (5.882%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.882%) Ektron