North East CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Abingdon Avon Banbury Basildon Bath Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford 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 Gloucestershire Greenford Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich 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 Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	70
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.817 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£294
% change on same period last year	+0.56 %
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	£26.39	£26.89
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Application Platforms North East
Matching contract IT job ads	135	142
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.180 %	0.144 %
Daily rates quoted	21	24
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£392
Average daily rate	£353	£405
% change on same period last year	-12.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.26	£19.86
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£21.36
% change on same period last year	+17.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.73	£22.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
CMS England

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 CMS across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms 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 CMS across the North East 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 North East region.

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 %) Content Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) QA 2 1 (33.33 %) Release Management 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP5 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP4 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) Publishing 2 1 (33.33 %) LAMP 2 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) MySQL 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS

2 1 (33.33 %) XSL 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) Apache 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (33.33 %) DNS 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Terminal Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Symantec 2 1 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 1 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) CSS 1 1 (33.33 %) XSL 1 1 (33.33 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN 1 1 (33.33 %) DNS 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) MySQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Content Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP5 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP4	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) Terminal Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Symantec 1 1 (33.33 %) Sophos 1 1 (33.33 %) Clearswift