The first table below looks at the demand for Content Management Server skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Content Management Server 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 of the Application Platforms category.

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
Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS)
Rank - 578 580
Contract jobs citing Content Management Server 0 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.010% 0.007%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 0.063% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Average daily rate - £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £443 £400
% change year-on-year
- +10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8396 9507 10206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.10% 16.30% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4754 5212 5447
Average daily rate £359 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.64% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 431 562
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.85 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.75 £37.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%

Content Management Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Content Management Server within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Content Management Server Jobs Demand Trend

Content Management Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Content Management Server Daily Rate Trend

Content Management Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Content Management Server Hourly Rate Trend

Content Management Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Content Management Server 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 Content Management Server.

1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) CMS
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (50.00%) iPad
2 2 (50.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (50.00%) Sitecore
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) W3C
3 1 (25.00%) Intranet
3 1 (25.00%) Web Usability
3 1 (25.00%) EPiServer
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) iPhone
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management

Content Management Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Content Management Server 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 Content Management Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (75.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (50.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) CMS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (25.00%) W3C
2 1 (25.00%) iPhone
2 1 (25.00%) Blog
2 1 (25.00%) Social Network
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
1 1 (25.00%) Web Usability
1 1 (25.00%) Content Management
1 1 (25.00%) Web Development
1 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Sitecore
3 1 (25.00%) EPiServer