The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 21 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 Nottingham 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 33 28 26
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -2
Contract jobs citing CMS 5 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.736% 0.893% 0.858%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.42% 6.061% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £215 - £750
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £8.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £18.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year
-5.55% -8.86%
All Application Platforms
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
48 33 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 16.67% 14.73% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 12
Average daily rate £320 £310 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -7.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £205 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 1
Average hourly rate £28.25 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.83% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
CMS
Nottinghamshire

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham CMS Daily Rate Trend

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (100.00%) jQuery
2 6 (75.00%) CSS
3 5 (62.50%) HTML
3 5 (62.50%) CSS3
3 5 (62.50%) HTML5
4 4 (50.00%) PHP
4 4 (50.00%) XHTML
4 4 (50.00%) Web Design
5 3 (37.50%) Ajax
5 3 (37.50%) JSON
5 3 (37.50%) OOP
5 3 (37.50%) OO
5 3 (37.50%) MySQL
5 3 (37.50%) Photoshop
5 3 (37.50%) Web Application Development
5 3 (37.50%) Sass
6 2 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (25.00%) Modernizr
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
6 2 (25.00%) Facebook
6 2 (25.00%) Twitter
6 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (25.00%) Android
6 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (25.00%) ClearCase
6 2 (25.00%) XML

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 8 (100.00%) jQuery
2 6 (75.00%) CSS
3 5 (62.50%) HTML
3 5 (62.50%) CSS3
3 5 (62.50%) HTML5
4 4 (50.00%) XHTML
5 3 (37.50%) Ajax
5 3 (37.50%) JSON
5 3 (37.50%) Sass
6 2 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (25.00%) Modernizr
6 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (25.00%) XML
7 1 (12.50%) XSLT
7 1 (12.50%) Web Services
7 1 (12.50%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Drupal
1 1 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Photoshop
2 2 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (25.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
2 1 (12.50%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Web Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Web Content Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Web Design
2 3 (37.50%) OOP
2 3 (37.50%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) Web Application Development
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) SEO
3 2 (25.00%) Web Development
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Facebook
1 2 (25.00%) Twitter
1 2 (25.00%) Interwoven
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Sitecore