Scotland Content Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Content Management skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Content Management over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Braintree Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Leeds London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Potters Bar Reading Redditch Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	99
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	23	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	2.218 %	1.822 %
Daily rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum daily rate	£213	£321
Average daily rate	£236	£337
% change on same period last year	-29.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£260	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£342
% change on same period last year	-6.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.02	£24.31
% change on same period last year	-17.64 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1037	1372
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.666 %	1.473 %
Daily rates quoted	246	340
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£331
Average daily rate	£364	£344
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	78	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.04	£18.09
Average hourly rate	£22.17	£19.19
% change on same period last year	+15.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.31	£20.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Content Management across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Content Management across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+15	10	£293	-15.55 %
Edinburgh	+27	6	£180	-
Stirling	+6	2	-	-
Aberdeen	+1	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (37.84 %) JavaScript 1 14 (37.84 %) .NET 1 14 (37.84 %) CSS 2 11 (29.73 %) ASP.NET 2 11 (29.73 %) C# 2 11 (29.73 %) HTML 2 11 (29.73 %) Intranet 2 11 (29.73 %) Internet 3 10 (27.03 %) SharePoint 3 10 (27.03 %) XML 3 10 (27.03 %) Web Development 4 7 (18.92 %) Web Design 4 7 (18.92 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 7 (18.92 %) WebServices 4 7 (18.92 %) XHTML

4 7 (18.92 %) SQL Server 5 6 (16.22 %) DHTML 5 6 (16.22 %) CMS 6 5 (13.51 %) Microsoft 7 4 (10.81 %) Datawarehouse 7 4 (10.81 %) Finance 7 4 (10.81 %) SQL 7 4 (10.81 %) JSP 7 4 (10.81 %) XSL 7 4 (10.81 %) XSLT 7 4 (10.81 %) Mediasurface 7 4 (10.81 %) AJAX 8 3 (8.108 %) Knowledge Management 8 3 (8.108 %) Taxonomies 8 3 (8.108 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (37.84 %) .NET 1 14 (37.84 %) CSS 2 11 (29.73 %) HTML 2 11 (29.73 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (27.03 %) XML 4 7 (18.92 %) XHTML 4 7 (18.92 %) WebServices 5 4 (10.81 %) AJAX 5 4 (10.81 %) XSL 5 4 (10.81 %) XSLT 5 4 (10.81 %) JSP 6 3 (8.108 %) Middleware 7 2 (5.405 %) ASP 8 1 (2.703 %) Web Dynpro 8 1 (2.703 %) WebSphere 8 1 (2.703 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 1 (2.703 %) CAML	Application Platforms 1 10 (27.03 %) SharePoint 2 7 (18.92 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 6 (16.22 %) CMS 4 3 (8.108 %) NetWeaver 5 2 (5.405 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (5.405 %) IIS 6 1 (2.703 %) Apache 6 1 (2.703 %) WebLogic 6 1 (2.703 %) WebLogic Portal 6 1 (2.703 %) Immediacy CMS
Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) Fireworks 1 1 (2.703 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 11 (29.73 %) Intranet 1 11 (29.73 %) Internet 2 2 (5.405 %) Extranet 2 2 (5.405 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (18.92 %) SQL Server 2 4 (10.81 %) Datawarehouse 3 3 (8.108 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (5.405 %) MySQL 5 1 (2.703 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 2 (5.405 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (5.405 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 4 (10.81 %) Finance 2 1 (2.703 %) Publishing 2 1 (2.703 %) Home Office 2 1 (2.703 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 22 (59.46 %) Developer 2 10 (27.03 %) .NET Developer 3 7 (18.92 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 6 (16.22 %) Project Manager 4 6 (16.22 %) Web Developer 5 4 (10.81 %) C# Developer 5 4 (10.81 %) SharePoint Developer 6 3 (8.108 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (8.108 %) PHP Developer 6 3 (8.108 %) Consultant 7 2 (5.405 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (5.405 %) Analyst 7 2 (5.405 %) SAP Consultant 7 2 (5.405 %) Administrator 7 2 (5.405 %) Web Manager 7 2 (5.405 %) .NET Web Developer 7 2 (5.405 %) Senior .NET Developer 7 2 (5.405 %) Senior ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (5.405 %) SAP Portals Consultant 7 2 (5.405 %) Web Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.108 %) Taxonomies 2 2 (5.405 %) W3C 3 1 (2.703 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.703 %) UNIX 1 1 (2.703 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (27.03 %) Web Development 2 7 (18.92 %) Web Design 3 3 (8.108 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (8.108 %) Knowledge Management 4 2 (5.405 %) Change Management 4 2 (5.405 %) Document Management 4 2 (5.405 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.703 %) PRINCE 5 1 (2.703 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (2.703 %) Project Management 5 1 (2.703 %) OO 5 1 (2.703 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (2.703 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (2.703 %) SAP Implementation 5 1 (2.703 %) Investment Management	Programming Languages 1 14 (37.84 %) JavaScript 2 11 (29.73 %) C# 3 6 (16.22 %) DHTML 4 4 (10.81 %) SQL 5 3 (8.108 %) PHP 6 2 (5.405 %) Java 7 1 (2.703 %) ABAP
Qualifications 1 1 (2.703 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (2.703 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.703 %) SLA 1 1 (2.703 %) WCAG 1 1 (2.703 %) WAI
Systems Management 1 1 (2.703 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 5 (13.51 %) Microsoft 2 4 (10.81 %) Mediasurface 3 3 (8.108 %) SAP 4 1 (2.703 %) Cognos 4 1 (2.703 %) IBM 4 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 4 1 (2.703 %) Sybase 4 1 (2.703 %) Vignette 4 1 (2.703 %) Adobe 4 1 (2.703 %) Informatica