North West CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the North West 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highland Home Counties Hounslow Inverness Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Plymouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	106	85
Rank change on same period last year	-21
Matching contract IT job ads	37	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	5.736 %	6.969 %
Daily rates quoted	14	4
Average minimum daily rate	£264	£285
Average daily rate	£272	£323
% change on same period last year	-15.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£281	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£278	£316
% change on same period last year	-11.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£21.92	£25.93
% change on same period last year	-15.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.83	£26.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.58	£23.12
% change on same period last year	-15.30 %
Application Platforms North West
Matching contract IT job ads	645	574
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.828 %	0.645 %
Daily rates quoted	154	111
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£292
Average daily rate	£380	£304
% change on same period last year	+24.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	69	53
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.27	£19.42
Average hourly rate	£24.11	£20.68
% change on same period last year	+16.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.95	£21.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
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.

CMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the North West 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 contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the North West region.

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the North West region over the past 3 months.

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the North West region.

CMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the North West region over the past 3 months.

CMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Manchester	-11	14	£248	-
2	Cheshire	-38	11	£285	+5.55 %
3	Lancashire	+4	6	£287	-23.55 %
4	Merseyside	-	1	-	-

CMS England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS.

1 22 (44.90 %) Content Management 2 14 (28.57 %) .NET 3 10 (20.41 %) HTML 4 9 (18.37 %) CSS 5 8 (16.33 %) PHP 5 8 (16.33 %) SQL Server 6 7 (14.29 %) WebLogic Portal 6 7 (14.29 %) Sun 6 7 (14.29 %) Avaya 6 7 (14.29 %) BEA 6 7 (14.29 %) Ant 6 7 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 6 7 (14.29 %) MySQL 6 7 (14.29 %) WebLogic 6 7 (14.29 %) Vignette

6 7 (14.29 %) LDAP 6 7 (14.29 %) Release Management 7 6 (12.24 %) Performance Testing 7 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 7 6 (12.24 %) JUnit 7 6 (12.24 %) C# 7 6 (12.24 %) XHTML 7 6 (12.24 %) VoIP 7 6 (12.24 %) Intranet 8 5 (10.20 %) Flash 8 5 (10.20 %) LoadRunner 8 5 (10.20 %) JavaScript 8 5 (10.20 %) XML 8 5 (10.20 %) Web Development 9 4 (8.163 %) Umbraco

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (28.57 %) .NET 2 10 (20.41 %) HTML 3 9 (18.37 %) CSS 4 7 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 5 6 (12.24 %) XHTML 6 5 (10.20 %) XML 7 4 (8.163 %) ASP 8 3 (6.122 %) XSLT 9 2 (4.082 %) WebServices 9 2 (4.082 %) AJAX 10 1 (2.041 %) jQuery 10 1 (2.041 %) LAMP 10 1 (2.041 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 7 (14.29 %) WebLogic 1 7 (14.29 %) WebLogic Portal 2 4 (8.163 %) SharePoint 2 4 (8.163 %) Umbraco 3 2 (4.082 %) Joomla! 3 2 (4.082 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (2.041 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (2.041 %) EPiServer
Applications 1 3 (6.122 %) Photoshop 2 1 (2.041 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.041 %) QuarkXPress 2 1 (2.041 %) PageMaker 2 1 (2.041 %) CorelDRAW 2 1 (2.041 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 7 (14.29 %) LDAP 2 6 (12.24 %) VoIP 2 6 (12.24 %) Intranet 3 3 (6.122 %) Internet 4 2 (4.082 %) CTI 5 1 (2.041 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (16.33 %) SQL Server 2 7 (14.29 %) MySQL 3 3 (6.122 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (2.041 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 7 (14.29 %) Ant 2 6 (12.24 %) JUnit 3 5 (10.20 %) Flash 3 5 (10.20 %) LoadRunner 4 2 (4.082 %) FrontPage 5 1 (2.041 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 3 (6.122 %) Finance 1 3 (6.122 %) Graphic Design 2 2 (4.082 %) Government 3 1 (2.041 %) Publishing 3 1 (2.041 %) Banking 3 1 (2.041 %) Local Government 3 1 (2.041 %) Construction 3 1 (2.041 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (2.041 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 24 (48.98 %) Developer 2 8 (16.33 %) Web Developer 3 6 (12.24 %) Support Engineer 4 5 (10.20 %) .NET Developer 4 5 (10.20 %) Analyst 5 4 (8.163 %) Consultant 5 4 (8.163 %) Network Engineer 6 3 (6.122 %) Lead Developer 6 3 (6.122 %) PHP Developer 6 3 (6.122 %) SharePoint Developer 6 3 (6.122 %) Voice Engineer 7 2 (4.082 %) Avaya Engineer 7 2 (4.082 %) Tridion Consultant 7 2 (4.082 %) VB.NET Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) .NET Web Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) HTML Developer 7 2 (4.082 %) Support Consultant 7 2 (4.082 %) Webmaster 8 1 (2.041 %) Report Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.122 %) W3C 2 2 (4.082 %) Management Information System 2 2 (4.082 %) E-Learning 2 2 (4.082 %) IVR 3 1 (2.041 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.041 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.041 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (44.90 %) Content Management 2 7 (14.29 %) Release Management 3 6 (12.24 %) Performance Testing 4 5 (10.20 %) Web Development 5 2 (4.082 %) Web Design 5 2 (4.082 %) Document Management 5 2 (4.082 %) Project Planning 5 2 (4.082 %) QMS 6 1 (2.041 %) Information Management 6 1 (2.041 %) Performance Management 6 1 (2.041 %) UML 6 1 (2.041 %) OOP 6 1 (2.041 %) OO 6 1 (2.041 %) CRM 6 1 (2.041 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (2.041 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (2.041 %) Project Management 6 1 (2.041 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (2.041 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 8 (16.33 %) PHP 2 6 (12.24 %) C# 3 5 (10.20 %) JavaScript 4 4 (8.163 %) SQL 4 4 (8.163 %) VB.NET 5 3 (6.122 %) Perl 6 1 (2.041 %) DHTML 6 1 (2.041 %) Java 6 1 (2.041 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (2.041 %) VBScript 6 1 (2.041 %) VB 6 1 (2.041 %) VB6 6 1 (2.041 %) Ruby 6 1 (2.041 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 3 (6.122 %) Avaya Certification 2 2 (4.082 %) HND 3 1 (2.041 %) Degree	Vendors 1 7 (14.29 %) Vignette 1 7 (14.29 %) Sun 1 7 (14.29 %) Avaya 1 7 (14.29 %) BEA 2 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 3 4 (8.163 %) Tridion 4 2 (4.082 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (4.082 %) Adobe 4 2 (4.082 %) Siemens 5 1 (2.041 %) Cognos 5 1 (2.041 %) Microsoft 5 1 (2.041 %) RedDot 5 1 (2.041 %) Zend