The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 North West 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
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 76 90 107
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +17
Contract jobs citing CMS 42 42 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.828% 1.326% 0.812%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.66% 6.908% 4.950%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 15
Average daily rate £328 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.34% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £258 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £416 £346 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.38 £21.86 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £19.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-13.15% -2.56%
All Application Platforms
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
394 608 505
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 17.15% 19.20% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 314 268
Average daily rate £313 £318 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.57% -7.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £184 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 39 33
Average hourly rate £19.50 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.75 £10.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £37.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
CMS
England

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West CMS Hourly Rate Histogram

CMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester +17 19 £213 -34.61%
Cheshire +7 16 £340 +3.03%
Merseyside +8 3 - -
Lancashire +9 1 £265 -15.87%
Cumbria - 1 - -
CMS
England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 53 (51.46%) .NET
2 40 (38.83%) CSS
3 39 (37.86%) ASP.NET
4 36 (34.95%) JavaScript
5 33 (32.04%) HTML
5 33 (32.04%) SQL Server
6 32 (31.07%) C#
7 29 (28.16%) PHP
8 28 (27.18%) jQuery
9 26 (25.24%) MVC
10 25 (24.27%) Umbraco
11 22 (21.36%) Content Management
12 21 (20.39%) XML
13 19 (18.45%) OO
13 19 (18.45%) E-Commerce
13 19 (18.45%) ASP.NET MVC
14 17 (16.50%) Microsoft
15 16 (15.53%) MySQL
16 15 (14.56%) SQL
16 15 (14.56%) Visual Studio
16 15 (14.56%) Retail
16 15 (14.56%) HTML5
16 15 (14.56%) EPiServer
17 13 (12.62%) CSS3
17 13 (12.62%) Web Services
18 12 (11.65%) SharePoint
19 11 (10.68%) Intranet
19 11 (10.68%) PHP5
19 11 (10.68%) WordPress
19 11 (10.68%) Twitter

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 53 (51.46%) .NET
2 40 (38.83%) CSS
3 39 (37.86%) ASP.NET
4 33 (32.04%) HTML
5 28 (27.18%) jQuery
6 21 (20.39%) XML
7 19 (18.45%) ASP.NET MVC
8 15 (14.56%) HTML5
9 13 (12.62%) CSS3
9 13 (12.62%) Web Services
10 9 (8.738%) RESTful
11 8 (7.767%) Razor View Engine
12 7 (6.796%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 7 (6.796%) SOAP
13 6 (5.825%) Ajax
14 5 (4.854%) .NET Framework
14 5 (4.854%) Google Maps API
14 5 (4.854%) CodeIgniter
14 5 (4.854%) CakePHP
14 5 (4.854%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 25 (24.27%) Umbraco
2 12 (11.65%) SharePoint
3 11 (10.68%) WordPress
4 9 (8.738%) Sitecore CMS
4 9 (8.738%) Magento
5 8 (7.767%) Joomla!
6 5 (4.854%) EPiServer CMS
7 4 (3.883%) Orchard CMS
7 4 (3.883%) Drupal
8 3 (2.913%) LiveLink
8 3 (2.913%) Jadu
9 1 (0.971%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 8 (7.767%) MS Excel
2 6 (5.825%) MS Office
3 5 (4.854%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.942%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.971%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.971%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.971%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) Intranet
2 3 (2.913%) SSH
2 3 (2.913%) LDAP
2 3 (2.913%) HTTP
2 3 (2.913%) SSL
3 1 (0.971%) DNS
3 1 (0.971%) DHCP
3 1 (0.971%) VLAN
3 1 (0.971%) Symposium
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (32.04%) SQL Server
2 16 (15.53%) MySQL
3 7 (6.796%) MS Access
4 5 (4.854%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.883%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.883%) RavenDB
6 1 (0.971%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.971%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.971%) QlikView
6 1 (0.971%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.971%) PerformancePoint
6 1 (0.971%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.971%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (14.56%) Visual Studio
2 9 (8.738%) Git (software)
3 8 (7.767%) Subversion
4 5 (4.854%) NetBeans
5 4 (3.883%) MSBuild
5 4 (3.883%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.913%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.971%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 15 (14.56%) Retail
2 10 (9.709%) Finance
3 9 (8.738%) Banking
4 5 (4.854%) Marketing
5 4 (3.883%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.942%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.942%) Back Office
7 1 (0.971%) Publishing
7 1 (0.971%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (71.84%) Developer
2 21 (20.39%) .NET Developer
3 9 (8.738%) ASP.NET Developer
3 9 (8.738%) Web Developer
4 8 (7.767%) PHP Developer
5 6 (5.825%) C# Developer
5 6 (5.825%) Front-End Developer
5 6 (5.825%) Umbraco Developer
6 5 (4.854%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (4.854%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.854%) Content Editor
6 5 (4.854%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (3.883%) SharePoint Developer
7 4 (3.883%) Service Manager
7 4 (3.883%) Analyst
8 3 (2.913%) Web Editor
8 3 (2.913%) Web Content Editor
8 3 (2.913%) Front-End Web Developer
9 2 (1.942%) Designer
9 2 (1.942%) Engagement Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.825%) Digital Media
2 5 (4.854%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.854%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.883%) Social Media
4 3 (2.913%) NHS
4 3 (2.913%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.942%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.942%) Open Source
6 1 (0.971%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.971%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.709%) Windows
2 6 (5.825%) Linux
3 1 (0.971%) Android
3 1 (0.971%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.24%) MVC
2 22 (21.36%) Content Management
3 19 (18.45%) OO
3 19 (18.45%) E-Commerce
4 10 (9.709%) Web Development
5 8 (7.767%) SEO
6 7 (6.796%) OOP
6 7 (6.796%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (4.854%) Web Design
7 5 (4.854%) Business Development
7 5 (4.854%) OOD
8 4 (3.883%) PRINCE2
8 4 (3.883%) Project Management
8 4 (3.883%) Service Management
8 4 (3.883%) TDD
9 3 (2.913%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (2.913%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (2.913%) CRM
9 3 (2.913%) Web Application Development
10 2 (1.942%) Marketing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.95%) JavaScript
2 32 (31.07%) C#
3 29 (28.16%) PHP
4 15 (14.56%) SQL
5 11 (10.68%) PHP5
6 5 (4.854%) XPath
7 2 (1.942%) CoffeeScript
8 1 (0.971%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (6.796%) Degree
2 2 (1.942%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.942%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (0.971%) PMP
3 1 (0.971%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.971%) ACSA
3 1 (0.971%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 17 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.56%) EPiServer
3 11 (10.68%) Twitter
4 9 (8.738%) Sitecore
5 7 (6.796%) Facebook
5 7 (6.796%) Google
5 7 (6.796%) Zend
5 7 (6.796%) IBM
6 5 (4.854%) Oracle
7 4 (3.883%) Adobe
8 3 (2.913%) FatWire
9 1 (0.971%) Alterian
9 1 (0.971%) Cisco
9 1 (0.971%) Nortel
9 1 (0.971%) Avaya
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