Staffordshire CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the Staffordshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Bath Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gateshead Glasgow Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	23
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	16.67 %
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	£296	£303
% change on same period last year	-2.55 %
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	£24.94	£27.58
% change on same period last year	-9.55 %
Application Platforms Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	18	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum daily rate	£487	£432
Average daily rate	£506	£449
% change on same period last year	+12.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£526	£466
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£20.75
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£20.75
% change on same period last year	-46.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.00	£20.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
CMS West Midlands

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 Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) MySQL 1 2 (66.67 %) PHP 1 2 (66.67 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) Content Management 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) LAMP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) LAMP 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) MySQL 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) PHP Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Web Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) MySQL Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET