South Coast CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the South Coast 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 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Abingdon Avon Banbury Basildon Bath Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Street Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	21
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	25.00 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£289
% change on same period last year	+6.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.19	£28.14
% change on same period last year	-6.92 %
Application Platforms South Coast
Matching contract IT job ads	4	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.22	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
CMS England

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the South Coast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CMS
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast 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 (50.00 %) Avaya 1 1 (50.00 %) Firmware 1 1 (50.00 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (50.00 %) Finance 1 1 (50.00 %) Content Management

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Coast 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.

General 1 1 (50.00 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (50.00 %) Web Editor 1 1 (50.00 %) Avaya Engineer 1 1 (50.00 %) Avaya Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 1 (50.00 %) Firmware	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (50.00 %) Content Management
Vendors 1 1 (50.00 %) Avaya