The first table below looks at the demand for Orchard 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 Orchard CMS over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Orchard CMS
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Orchard CMS 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.043% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.242% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
413 585 492
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 17.72% 18.80% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 300 261
Average daily rate £300 £318 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% -7.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £188 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £446 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 39 34
Average hourly rate £19.25 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.75% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.70 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £37.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Orchard CMS
England

Orchard CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Orchard CMS Jobs Demand Trend

Orchard CMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Orchard CMS within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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 - 1 £300 -
Orchard CMS
England

Orchard CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Orchard 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 Orchard CMS.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Kentico
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) OpenRasta
2 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (50.00%) RavenDB
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (50.00%) EPiServer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) Ektron
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Orchard CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Orchard 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 Orchard CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) OpenRasta
2 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Kentico
2 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Umbraco Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (50.00%) Ektron
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
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