The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Solihull 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 Solihull 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 - - 13
Contract jobs citing CMS 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull - - 1.408%
As % of the Application Platforms category - - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £125
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
Solihull
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull 6.897% 6.329% 4.225%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £125
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
CMS
West Midlands

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DTS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DTS
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Web Usability
1 1 (100.00%) Data Entry
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
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Posted: 23 May 2013