The first table below looks at the demand for the CMS Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CMS Developer
Rank 506 551 564
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +13
Contract jobs requiring a CMS Developer 23 33 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.050% 0.057% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.061% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 16
Average daily rate £356 £325 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.61% -15.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £275 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £600 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £275 £255
% change year-on-year
+13.63% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

CMS Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CMS Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

CMS Developer Jobs Demand Trend

CMS Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CMS Developer within the UK.

CMS Developer Daily Rate Trend

CMS Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

CMS Developer Daily Rate Histogram

CMS Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CMS Developer within the UK.

CMS Developer Hourly Rate Trend

CMS Developer
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +39 21 £356 +14.00%
London +34 10 £370 +13.84%
South East +16 5 £275 -54.16%
West Yorkshire -2 3 £366 +33.18%
Yorkshire -3 3 £366 +33.18%
Buckinghamshire +8 2 £350 -
Leeds -13 2 £370 +34.54%
Berkshire - 2 £200 -
Reading - 2 £200 -
North West +14 1 £425 -
Milton Keynes +7 1 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 £243 -
South West - 1 £263 -
City of London - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £243 -
Hampshire - 1 £275 -
Cheshire - 1 £425 -
Worcester - 1 £243 -
Southampton - 1 £275 -
Bristol - 1 £263 -

CMS Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited CMS Developer in their job title 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 with CMS Developer in their job title.

1 60 (100.00%) CMS
2 35 (58.33%) CSS
3 33 (55.00%) HTML
4 28 (46.67%) JavaScript
5 24 (40.00%) .NET
6 23 (38.33%) C#
6 23 (38.33%) ASP.NET
7 20 (33.33%) Adobe CQ
8 18 (30.00%) JSP
9 17 (28.33%) Ajax
10 14 (23.33%) FreeMarker
10 14 (23.33%) Java
11 13 (21.67%) jQuery
11 13 (21.67%) JSF
12 12 (20.00%) SQL Server
13 11 (18.33%) Web Development
13 11 (18.33%) EPiServer
14 10 (16.67%) EPiServer CMS
14 10 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
15 9 (15.00%) Oracle
16 8 (13.33%) Sitecore CMS
16 8 (13.33%) Sitecore
17 7 (11.67%) Endeca
17 7 (11.67%) FatWire
18 6 (10.00%) RedDot
18 6 (10.00%) Adobe
18 6 (10.00%) Web Services
18 6 (10.00%) E-Commerce
18 6 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
18 6 (10.00%) Umbraco

CMS Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited CMS Developer in their job title 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 with CMS Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (58.33%) CSS
2 33 (55.00%) HTML
3 24 (40.00%) .NET
4 23 (38.33%) ASP.NET
5 18 (30.00%) JSP
6 17 (28.33%) Ajax
7 14 (23.33%) FreeMarker
8 13 (21.67%) jQuery
8 13 (21.67%) JSF
9 6 (10.00%) Web Services
9 6 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (8.333%) JSTL
11 4 (6.667%) XML
11 4 (6.667%) SOAP
11 4 (6.667%) .NET Framework
12 3 (5.000%) HTML5
12 3 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC 2
12 3 (5.000%) Servlets
13 2 (3.333%) XSLT
13 2 (3.333%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 60 (100.00%) CMS
2 20 (33.33%) Adobe CQ
3 10 (16.67%) EPiServer CMS
4 8 (13.33%) Sitecore CMS
5 6 (10.00%) Umbraco
6 4 (6.667%) Kentico
7 3 (5.000%) Amazon AWS
8 2 (3.333%) Joomla!
8 2 (3.333%) Sitefinity
9 1 (1.667%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (1.667%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (1.667%) ESB
9 1 (1.667%) Drupal
9 1 (1.667%) GlassFish
9 1 (1.667%) Tomcat
9 1 (1.667%) SharePoint
9 1 (1.667%) WebLogic
9 1 (1.667%) TeamSite
9 1 (1.667%) Content Management Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.667%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.667%) Internet
2 1 (1.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.667%) MySQL
3 3 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (3.333%) Subversion
1 2 (3.333%) JIRA
1 2 (3.333%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.667%) NUnit
General
1 3 (5.000%) Finance
1 3 (5.000%) Retail
2 2 (3.333%) Publishing
2 2 (3.333%) Games
3 1 (1.667%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.000%) N-Tier
2 2 (3.333%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.667%) Open Source
3 1 (1.667%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (1.667%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.000%) Windows
2 1 (1.667%) UNIX
2 1 (1.667%) Solaris
2 1 (1.667%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.33%) Web Development
2 10 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 5 (8.333%) MVC
4 5 (8.333%) TDD
5 4 (6.667%) Content Management
5 4 (6.667%) OO
6 3 (5.000%) BDD
6 3 (5.000%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (5.000%) Analytics
6 3 (5.000%) Web Analytics
6 3 (5.000%) Incident Management
6 3 (5.000%) Data Protection
6 3 (5.000%) UML
6 3 (5.000%) PRINCE2
6 3 (5.000%) SEO
6 3 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (3.333%) Migration
7 2 (3.333%) Unit Testing
8 1 (1.667%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 23 (38.33%) C#
3 14 (23.33%) Java
4 5 (8.333%) SQL
5 2 (3.333%) PHP
6 1 (1.667%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (3.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.000%) QA
2 1 (1.667%) WCAG
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) EPiServer
2 9 (15.00%) Oracle
3 8 (13.33%) Sitecore
4 7 (11.67%) Endeca
4 7 (11.67%) FatWire
5 6 (10.00%) RedDot
5 6 (10.00%) Adobe
6 1 (1.667%) Ektron
6 1 (1.667%) Omniture
6 1 (1.667%) JBoss
6 1 (1.667%) Mercator
6 1 (1.667%) Interwoven
6 1 (1.667%) Open Text
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