South West CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the South West 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	107	124
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	30	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	6.369 %	4.580 %
Daily rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£332
Average daily rate	£329	£341
% change on same period last year	-3.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£278	£316
% change on same period last year	-11.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£22.50
Average hourly rate	-	£28.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.58	£23.12
% change on same period last year	-15.30 %
Application Platforms South West
Matching contract IT job ads	471	655
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.604 %	0.736 %
Daily rates quoted	83	137
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£326
Average daily rate	£356	£339
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.70	£21.71
Average hourly rate	£22.76	£23.26
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.82	£24.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.66	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing CMS across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

CMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the South West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Bristol	+15	12	£335	-
2	Devon	+12	5	-	-
2	Wiltshire	-1	5	£318	-29.44 %

CMS England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South West 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 45 (58.44 %) Content Management 2 35 (45.45 %) HTML 3 23 (29.87 %) Intranet 4 20 (25.97 %) JavaScript 5 15 (19.48 %) .NET 5 15 (19.48 %) Microsoft 6 14 (18.18 %) Content Management Server 6 14 (18.18 %) Photoshop 7 13 (16.88 %) CSS 7 13 (16.88 %) XHTML 8 12 (15.58 %) Dreamweaver 9 10 (12.99 %) Web Development 10 9 (11.69 %) SQL Server 11 8 (10.39 %) C# 11 8 (10.39 %) Morello

12 7 (9.091 %) Web Design 12 7 (9.091 %) PHP 12 7 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 12 7 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 13 6 (7.792 %) XML 13 6 (7.792 %) Government 13 6 (7.792 %) Internet 14 5 (6.494 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 5 (6.494 %) MySQL 14 5 (6.494 %) RedDot 14 5 (6.494 %) Agile Software Development 14 5 (6.494 %) Time Management 15 4 (5.195 %) Immediacy CMS 15 4 (5.195 %) AJAX 15 4 (5.195 %) Marketing

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South West 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 35 (45.45 %) HTML 2 15 (19.48 %) .NET 3 13 (16.88 %) CSS 3 13 (16.88 %) XHTML 4 7 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 5 6 (7.792 %) XML 6 4 (5.195 %) AJAX 7 3 (3.896 %) WebServices 7 3 (3.896 %) LAMP 8 2 (2.597 %) J2EE 8 2 (2.597 %) JSP 8 2 (2.597 %) Servlets 8 2 (2.597 %) XSLT 9 1 (1.299 %) WSDL 9 1 (1.299 %) Ruby on Rails 9 1 (1.299 %) WSRP 9 1 (1.299 %) Drupal 9 1 (1.299 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 14 (18.18 %) Content Management Server 2 8 (10.39 %) Morello 3 4 (5.195 %) Immediacy CMS 4 2 (2.597 %) IIS 5 1 (1.299 %) Apache 5 1 (1.299 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.299 %) WebLogic Portal 5 1 (1.299 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 14 (18.18 %) Photoshop 2 2 (2.597 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.299 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.299 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.299 %) Acrobat 3 1 (1.299 %) Fireworks 3 1 (1.299 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 23 (29.87 %) Intranet 2 6 (7.792 %) Internet 3 4 (5.195 %) Extranet 4 2 (2.597 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (11.69 %) SQL Server 2 5 (6.494 %) MySQL 3 2 (2.597 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 12 (15.58 %) Dreamweaver 2 3 (3.896 %) Flash 3 2 (2.597 %) Eclipse 3 2 (2.597 %) JUnit 3 2 (2.597 %) Visual Studio
General 1 6 (7.792 %) Government 2 4 (5.195 %) Publishing 2 4 (5.195 %) Marketing 3 2 (2.597 %) Military 4 1 (1.299 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 25 (32.47 %) Developer 2 11 (14.29 %) Web Developer 3 10 (12.99 %) Project Manager 4 5 (6.494 %) Support Assistant 5 4 (5.195 %) Web Designer 5 4 (5.195 %) Senior Web Designer 5 4 (5.195 %) Web Manager 6 3 (3.896 %) Web Administrator 6 3 (3.896 %) C# Developer 6 3 (3.896 %) Administrator 7 2 (2.597 %) Java Developer 7 2 (2.597 %) .NET Developer 7 2 (2.597 %) Systems Support 7 2 (2.597 %) Consultant 7 2 (2.597 %) J2EE Developer 7 2 (2.597 %) Coordinator 7 2 (2.597 %) PHP Developer 7 2 (2.597 %) MySQL Developer 7 2 (2.597 %) Content Editor 7 2 (2.597 %) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.896 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 2 (2.597 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 45 (58.44 %) Content Management 2 10 (12.99 %) Web Development 3 7 (9.091 %) Web Design 3 7 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 4 5 (6.494 %) Agile Software Development 4 5 (6.494 %) Time Management 5 4 (5.195 %) Project Management 6 2 (2.597 %) TDD 6 2 (2.597 %) Supplier Management 6 2 (2.597 %) Internet Marketing 7 1 (1.299 %) Digital Marketing 7 1 (1.299 %) Email Marketing 7 1 (1.299 %) Information Management 7 1 (1.299 %) Logistics 7 1 (1.299 %) SEO 7 1 (1.299 %) CRM 7 1 (1.299 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 20 (25.97 %) JavaScript 2 8 (10.39 %) C# 3 7 (9.091 %) PHP 4 3 (3.896 %) SQL 4 3 (3.896 %) Java 5 1 (1.299 %) Perl 5 1 (1.299 %) ActionScript 5 1 (1.299 %) Python 5 1 (1.299 %) Ruby 5 1 (1.299 %) C
Qualifications 1 5 (6.494 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (2.597 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.299 %) Degree	Vendors 1 15 (19.48 %) Microsoft 2 5 (6.494 %) RedDot 3 3 (3.896 %) Tridion 4 2 (2.597 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.299 %) Mercator 5 1 (1.299 %) Adobe