The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Southampton 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
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 27 29 22
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -7
Contract jobs citing CMS 8 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 2.712% 1.310% 3.279%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.11% 9.091% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £275 - £125
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £19.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-13.15% -2.56%
All Application Platforms
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
61 33 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 20.68% 14.41% 22.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 15 14
Average daily rate £375 £285 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.57% -12.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £265 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £525 £551
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
Average hourly rate £17.63 £37.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.00% +60.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.72 £21.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.25 £96.25 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
CMS
Hampshire

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton CMS Daily Rate Trend

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Southampton CMS Daily Rate Histogram

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Southampton CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 7 (50.00%) HTML
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (50.00%) CSS
2 5 (35.71%) PHP
2 5 (35.71%) jQuery
3 4 (28.57%) WordPress
3 4 (28.57%) Drupal
4 3 (21.43%) HTML5
4 3 (21.43%) Web Development
4 3 (21.43%) Content Management
4 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
4 3 (21.43%) XHTML
4 3 (21.43%) TeamSite
5 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
5 2 (14.29%) .NET
5 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) HP
5 2 (14.29%) Zend
5 2 (14.29%) CakePHP
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 2 (14.29%) CSS3
6 1 (7.143%) Twitter
6 1 (7.143%) Data Analytics
6 1 (7.143%) Analytics
6 1 (7.143%) Ektron
6 1 (7.143%) CMS400.NET

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 7 (50.00%) HTML
1 7 (50.00%) CSS
2 5 (35.71%) jQuery
3 3 (21.43%) HTML5
3 3 (21.43%) XHTML
4 2 (14.29%) CakePHP
4 2 (14.29%) CSS3
4 2 (14.29%) .NET
4 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.143%) XML
5 1 (7.143%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Drupal
1 4 (28.57%) WordPress
2 3 (21.43%) TeamSite
3 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (7.143%) Joomla!
4 1 (7.143%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (7.143%) CMS400.NET
4 1 (7.143%) EPiServer CMS
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Photoshop
1 1 (7.143%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) MySQL
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.143%) Selenium
General
1 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.143%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) PHP Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) CMS Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Web Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Drupal Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) W3C
1 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Content Management
1 3 (21.43%) Web Development
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (14.29%) TDD
2 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.143%) Quality Management
3 1 (7.143%) MVC
3 1 (7.143%) Scrum
3 1 (7.143%) Document Management
3 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) Data Analytics
3 1 (7.143%) Analytics
3 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
3 1 (7.143%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) PHP
3 1 (7.143%) PHP5
3 1 (7.143%) Perl
3 1 (7.143%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Zend
1 2 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (7.143%) Interwoven
2 1 (7.143%) EPiServer
2 1 (7.143%) Sitecore
2 1 (7.143%) Ektron
2 1 (7.143%) Twitter
Southampton, South East
The client is looking for someone who has Content Management System experience and is familiar with Sharepoint, groupware collaborative working environments.This is a long term programme of...
Montash Associates
Rate: £500 - £650 per day + negotiable
Posted: 10 May 2013