The first table below looks at the demand for Sitecore CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sitecore CMS over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sitecore CMS
Rank - 101 -
Contract jobs citing Sitecore CMS 0 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.151% -
As % of the Application Platforms category - 1.020% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £238 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £275 £325
% change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £10.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £10.00 -
All Application Platforms
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
432 392 459
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 17.71% 14.80% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 166 212
Average daily rate £350 £325 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -6.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £436 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £25.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.92% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.23 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Sitecore CMS
UK

Sitecore CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Sitecore CMS Jobs Demand Trend

Sitecore CMS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Sitecore CMS across the Scotland region.

Scotland Sitecore CMS Daily Rate Trend

Sitecore CMS
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Sitecore 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 Sitecore CMS.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) DotNetNuke
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (100.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (100.00%) Sitecore
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4

Sitecore CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Sitecore 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 Sitecore CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) DotNetNuke
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (100.00%) Sitecore