The first table below looks at the demand for Content Management 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 Content Management over the 3 months to 18 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management
Rank 92 102 111
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +9
Contract jobs citing Content Management 30 32 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.245% 1.051% 0.690%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.769% 1.673% 1.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 8
Average daily rate £360 £350 £294
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.92% +19.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £305 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £470 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £341 £325 £323
% change year-on-year
+4.84% +0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
Average hourly rate £28.75 £18.76 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.29% +19.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.81 £17.51 £12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £106.44 £20.00 £19.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+28.94% +8.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1696 1913 1945
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.37% 62.82% 63.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 994 1025
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 87 90
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Content Management
England

Content Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Content Management across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West Content Management Jobs Demand Trend

Content Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Content Management across the North West region.

North West Content Management Daily Rate Trend

Content Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Content Management across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West Content Management Daily Rate Histogram

Content Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Content Management across the North West region.

North West Content Management Hourly Rate Trend

Content Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Content Management across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West Content Management Hourly Rate Histogram

Content Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Management within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester +27 19 £365 +0.81% 8
Cheshire -3 9 £343 -2.00%
Lancashire +3 2 - -
Cumbria - - - -
Content Management
England

Content Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Content Management 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 Content Management.

1 30 (46.88%) JavaScript
2 29 (45.31%) HTML
3 27 (42.19%) CSS
3 27 (42.19%) XML
3 27 (42.19%) CMS
4 22 (34.38%) Java
5 18 (28.13%) jQuery
6 14 (21.88%) Banking
7 13 (20.31%) XHTML
8 12 (18.75%) E-Commerce
8 12 (18.75%) PHP
9 11 (17.19%) IBM
9 11 (17.19%) OO
9 11 (17.19%) HTML5
10 10 (15.63%) Retail
10 10 (15.63%) Windows
10 10 (15.63%) SQL
10 10 (15.63%) J2EE
10 10 (15.63%) Project Management
11 9 (14.06%) Finance
11 9 (14.06%) Interwoven
11 9 (14.06%) Web Services
11 9 (14.06%) XSLT
11 9 (14.06%) UML
11 9 (14.06%) CSS3
12 8 (12.50%) Ajax
12 8 (12.50%) JDBC
12 8 (12.50%) JSP
12 8 (12.50%) Servlets
12 8 (12.50%) .NET

Content Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Content Management 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 Content Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (45.31%) HTML
2 27 (42.19%) CSS
2 27 (42.19%) XML
3 18 (28.13%) jQuery
4 13 (20.31%) XHTML
5 11 (17.19%) HTML5
6 10 (15.63%) J2EE
7 9 (14.06%) Web Services
7 9 (14.06%) XSLT
7 9 (14.06%) CSS3
8 8 (12.50%) Ajax
8 8 (12.50%) JDBC
8 8 (12.50%) JSP
8 8 (12.50%) Servlets
8 8 (12.50%) .NET
9 7 (10.94%) ASP
10 6 (9.375%) EJB
10 6 (9.375%) Struts
10 6 (9.375%) WebSphere
10 6 (9.375%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 27 (42.19%) CMS
2 6 (9.375%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (7.813%) TeamSite
4 4 (6.250%) FileNet
4 4 (6.250%) MQSeries
4 4 (6.250%) Umbraco
4 4 (6.250%) Documentum
5 3 (4.688%) Jadu
5 3 (4.688%) SharePoint
6 2 (3.125%) Apache
6 2 (3.125%) WordPress
6 2 (3.125%) JCAPS
7 1 (1.563%) Apache Solr
7 1 (1.563%) Magento
7 1 (1.563%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.563%) EPiServer CMS
7 1 (1.563%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.563%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (7.813%) Photoshop
1 5 (7.813%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (6.250%) Fireworks
3 3 (4.688%) MS Office
4 1 (1.563%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (6.250%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) Internet
2 3 (4.688%) HTTP
3 2 (3.125%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.125%) VPN
3 2 (3.125%) DNS
3 2 (3.125%) SSL
3 2 (3.125%) SAN
3 2 (3.125%) LAN
3 2 (3.125%) WLAN
3 2 (3.125%) WAN
3 2 (3.125%) DHCP
3 2 (3.125%) Firewall
3 2 (3.125%) NAS
4 1 (1.563%) Extranet
4 1 (1.563%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.375%) DB2
1 6 (9.375%) RDBMS
2 4 (6.250%) MarkLogic
3 3 (4.688%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.125%) MySQL
4 2 (3.125%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.125%) CouchDB
4 2 (3.125%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.375%) Ant
1 6 (9.375%) JUnit
1 6 (9.375%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (9.375%) Eclipse
1 6 (9.375%) Subversion
2 4 (6.250%) Log4j
3 3 (4.688%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.688%) QUnit
4 2 (3.125%) Git (software)
4 2 (3.125%) PHPUnit
4 2 (3.125%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.125%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (3.125%) NetBeans
General
1 14 (21.88%) Banking
2 10 (15.63%) Retail
3 9 (14.06%) Finance
4 7 (10.94%) Publishing
5 5 (7.813%) Retail Banking
5 5 (7.813%) Marketing
6 4 (6.250%) Games
6 4 (6.250%) Back Office
7 2 (3.125%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.125%) Front Office
8 1 (1.563%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.563%) Legal
8 1 (1.563%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 27 (42.19%) Developer
2 12 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 12 (18.75%) Web Developer
3 5 (7.813%) .NET Developer
3 5 (7.813%) Analyst
4 4 (6.250%) Java Developer
4 4 (6.250%) J2EE Developer
4 4 (6.250%) Web Designer
4 4 (6.250%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 4 (6.250%) Designer
5 3 (4.688%) Android Developer
5 3 (4.688%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (4.688%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (4.688%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (4.688%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.125%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (3.125%) Software Tester
6 2 (3.125%) Consultant
6 2 (3.125%) Software Architect
6 2 (3.125%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.375%) Web 2.0
2 5 (7.813%) Client/Server
3 4 (6.250%) Streaming Video
3 4 (6.250%) Semantic Web
3 4 (6.250%) Social Media
3 4 (6.250%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.250%) Interactive TV
4 2 (3.125%) New Media
4 2 (3.125%) Linked Data
4 2 (3.125%) Replication
4 2 (3.125%) Smartphone
4 2 (3.125%) Social Network
4 2 (3.125%) NHS
4 2 (3.125%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.125%) BBC
5 1 (1.563%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.63%) Windows
2 6 (9.375%) Linux
2 6 (9.375%) UNIX
3 4 (6.250%) HPUX
3 4 (6.250%) Solaris
4 3 (4.688%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.688%) Android
5 2 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.125%) Windows NT
5 2 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.75%) E-Commerce
2 11 (17.19%) OO
3 10 (15.63%) Project Management
4 9 (14.06%) UML
5 7 (10.94%) MVC
5 7 (10.94%) SEO
5 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (10.94%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (10.94%) TDD
5 7 (10.94%) Web Development
5 7 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (10.94%) BDD
6 6 (9.375%) Scrum
6 6 (9.375%) RAD
7 5 (7.813%) OOP
7 5 (7.813%) PRINCE2
7 5 (7.813%) Web Analytics
7 5 (7.813%) Analytics
8 4 (6.250%) Test Scripting
8 4 (6.250%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) JavaScript
2 22 (34.38%) Java
3 12 (18.75%) PHP
4 10 (15.63%) SQL
5 8 (12.50%) C#
6 6 (9.375%) Perl
6 6 (9.375%) XPath
6 6 (9.375%) Bash shell
7 4 (6.250%) XQuery
8 3 (4.688%) Objective-C
9 2 (3.125%) Ruby
9 2 (3.125%) SPARQL
10 1 (1.563%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 4 (6.250%) Sun Certification
3 2 (3.125%) CCNP
3 2 (3.125%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.125%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.563%) PMP
4 1 (1.563%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.125%) WCAG
1 2 (3.125%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (3.125%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.125%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (3.125%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.125%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) IBM
2 9 (14.06%) Interwoven
3 8 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.250%) Oracle
4 4 (6.250%) ATG
4 4 (6.250%) EPiServer
4 4 (6.250%) Elastic Path
4 4 (6.250%) Blue Martini
5 3 (4.688%) Zend
5 3 (4.688%) Ariba
5 3 (4.688%) Apple
6 2 (3.125%) VMware
6 2 (3.125%) Facebook
6 2 (3.125%) Twitter
6 2 (3.125%) Cisco
6 2 (3.125%) Juniper
6 2 (3.125%) Sun
6 2 (3.125%) HP
6 2 (3.125%) Google
Manchester, North West
Technical/Software skills: (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (knowledge of jQuery), Photoshop, Illustrator/Fireworks, Microsoft Office suite. *Knowledge and understanding of web authoring using web standards and of web...
Sand Resources
Rate: £20 - £24 per hour
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Technical/Software skills: (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (knowledge of jQuery), Photoshop, Illustrator/Fireworks, Microsoft Office suite. *Knowledge and understanding of web authoring using web standards and of web...
Sand Resources
Rate: £20 - £30 per hour
Posted: 31 May 2013
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