Reading CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CMS over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highland Home Counties Hounslow Inverness Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Peterlee Plymouth Reading Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	48
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	17	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	10.43 %	15.38 %
Daily rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£281
Average daily rate	£306	£304
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£278	£316
% change on same period last year	-11.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£10.00
% change on same period last year	+50.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.58	£23.12
% change on same period last year	-15.30 %
Application Platforms Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	163	130
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.209 %	0.146 %
Daily rates quoted	51	24
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£323
Average daily rate	£405	£351
% change on same period last year	+15.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.62	£17.46
Average hourly rate	£36.48	£18.63
% change on same period last year	+95.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.34	£19.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
CMS Berkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

CMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the Reading region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the Reading region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS.

1 24 (70.59 %) Content Management 2 20 (58.82 %) HTML 3 18 (52.94 %) XML 4 11 (32.35 %) CSS 5 9 (26.47 %) Education 5 9 (26.47 %) XHTML 6 8 (23.53 %) XSLT 7 7 (20.59 %) Linux 7 7 (20.59 %) PHP 7 7 (20.59 %) MySQL 7 7 (20.59 %) LAMP 7 7 (20.59 %) PHP5 8 6 (17.65 %) Drupal 8 6 (17.65 %) Subversion 8 6 (17.65 %) JavaScript

8 6 (17.65 %) Red Hat 8 6 (17.65 %) Python 9 5 (14.71 %) Agile Software Development 10 4 (11.76 %) Publishing 10 4 (11.76 %) Intranet 10 4 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 10 4 (11.76 %) C# 10 4 (11.76 %) .NET 11 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2005 11 3 (8.824 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 11 3 (8.824 %) Project Management 11 3 (8.824 %) MS Visio 11 3 (8.824 %) Migration 12 2 (5.882 %) Web Design

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing CMS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (58.82 %) HTML 2 18 (52.94 %) XML 3 11 (32.35 %) CSS 4 9 (26.47 %) XHTML 5 8 (23.53 %) XSLT 6 7 (20.59 %) LAMP 7 6 (17.65 %) Drupal 8 4 (11.76 %) .NET 8 4 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 9 3 (8.824 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (5.882 %) WPF 11 1 (2.941 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.882 %) Apache 1 2 (5.882 %) Tomcat 1 2 (5.882 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.941 %) Content Management Server 2 1 (2.941 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (8.824 %) MS Visio 2 2 (5.882 %) Photoshop 3 1 (2.941 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 4 (11.76 %) Intranet 2 2 (5.882 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (20.59 %) MySQL 2 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2 3 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (5.882 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.941 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 6 (17.65 %) Subversion 2 2 (5.882 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (5.882 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (2.941 %) StarTeam
General 1 9 (26.47 %) Education 2 4 (11.76 %) Publishing 3 2 (5.882 %) Government 4 1 (2.941 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 11 (32.35 %) Developer 2 6 (17.65 %) Web Developer 2 6 (17.65 %) Web Editor 2 6 (17.65 %) Content Editor 3 4 (11.76 %) Web Content Editor 3 4 (11.76 %) Architect 4 3 (8.824 %) .NET Developer 4 3 (8.824 %) Web Designer 5 2 (5.882 %) C# Developer 5 2 (5.882 %) Analyst 5 2 (5.882 %) Business Analyst 5 2 (5.882 %) Junior 5 2 (5.882 %) Solutions Architect 5 2 (5.882 %) Information Architect 5 2 (5.882 %) Administrator 5 2 (5.882 %) Junior Web Designer 6 1 (2.941 %) SharePoint Developer 6 1 (2.941 %) Web Manager 6 1 (2.941 %) Web Project Manager 6 1 (2.941 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.882 %) Management Information System 1 2 (5.882 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 7 (20.59 %) Linux 2 1 (2.941 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (70.59 %) Content Management 2 5 (14.71 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (8.824 %) Project Management 3 3 (8.824 %) Migration 4 2 (5.882 %) Web Design 5 1 (2.941 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (20.59 %) PHP 1 7 (20.59 %) PHP5 2 6 (17.65 %) Python 2 6 (17.65 %) JavaScript 3 4 (11.76 %) C# 4 1 (2.941 %) SQL 4 1 (2.941 %) Transact-SQL
Vendors 1 6 (17.65 %) Red Hat 2 2 (5.882 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.941 %) Adobe 3 1 (2.941 %) CA 3 1 (2.941 %) Borland 3 1 (2.941 %) Serena 3 1 (2.941 %) IBM