The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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 13 25 36
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +11
Contract jobs citing CMS 6 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 6.897% 4.110% 1.339%
As % of the Application Platforms category 37.50% 20.45% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
Average daily rate £220 - £288
90% offered a daily rate of more than £217 - £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £270 - £298
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
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
16 44 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 18.39% 20.09% 6.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 4
Average daily rate £135 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-55.00% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £115 £275 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £435 £293
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +59.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
CMS
West Midlands

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 6 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (50.00%) hybris
3 3 (37.50%) Retail
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) Content Management
4 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Android
5 1 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (12.50%) Sitecore
5 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Phone
5 1 (12.50%) Windows
5 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) Handset
5 1 (12.50%) Games
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (12.50%) ETL

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
1 1 (12.50%) Handset
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Content Management
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) hybris
2 1 (12.50%) Symbian
2 1 (12.50%) Sitecore