The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Northamptonshire 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
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 31 20 31
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +11
Contract jobs citing CMS 1 26 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 0.397% 6.250% 0.365%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.000% 33.77% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 23 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £17.51 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.76% -12.45%
All Application Platforms
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
50 77 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 19.84% 18.51% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 50 21
Average daily rate £350 £250 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £164 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £350 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
Average hourly rate £11.25 - £15.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 - £14.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 - £16.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
CMS
East Midlands

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire CMS Daily Rate Trend

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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton +5 1 - -
CMS
East Midlands

CMS
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Programmer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Joomla! Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Joomla! Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google