The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of EPiServer products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EPiServer over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within EPiServer.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EPiServer
Rank 489 508 507
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -1
Contract jobs citing EPiServer 52 57 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.112% 0.098% 0.127%
As % of the Vendors category 0.238% 0.210% 0.273%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 39 57
Average daily rate £363 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £400
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21806 27110 28885
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.06% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11630 13854 14453
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1173 1314 1625
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.56 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.87% -2.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%

EPiServer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing EPiServer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

EPiServer Jobs Demand Trend

EPiServer
Daily Rate Trend

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

EPiServer Daily Rate Trend

EPiServer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EPiServer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

EPiServer Daily Rate Histogram

EPiServer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

EPiServer Hourly Rate Trend

EPiServer
Top 21 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EPiServer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 51 £363 +11.53%
London +18 23 £373 +10.37%
North West +19 13 £325 +6.12%
West Yorkshire +5 12 £344 +25.00%
Yorkshire +2 12 £344 +25.00%
Cheshire - 10 £338 -
City of London +17 5 £400 +14.28%
Leeds -10 4 £300 +9.09%
Bradford - 4 £325 -
South East +18 3 £300 -47.82%
Macclesfield - 3 £350 -
Manchester +12 2 £300 -11.11%
Hampshire 0 2 £300 -
Southampton -3 2 £300 -
East of England - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Stockport - 1 £300 -
Oxford - 1 - -
Birmingham - 1 - -

EPiServer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EPiServer 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 EPiServer.

1 107 (85.60%) .NET
2 103 (82.40%) C#
3 98 (78.40%) CMS
4 85 (68.00%) CSS
5 81 (64.80%) ASP.NET
6 78 (62.40%) HTML
6 78 (62.40%) JavaScript
7 69 (55.20%) SQL Server
8 57 (45.60%) jQuery
9 46 (36.80%) MVC
10 39 (31.20%) EPiServer CMS
11 35 (28.00%) Sitecore CMS
11 35 (28.00%) Sitecore
12 33 (26.40%) ASP.NET MVC
12 33 (26.40%) Umbraco
13 32 (25.60%) E-Commerce
14 29 (23.20%) Ajax
15 25 (20.00%) SQL
15 25 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
16 21 (16.80%) Visual Studio
16 21 (16.80%) Content Management
17 19 (15.20%) SharePoint
17 19 (15.20%) XML
18 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
19 17 (13.60%) Razor View Engine
20 16 (12.80%) SQL Server 2008
20 16 (12.80%) Agile Software Development
20 16 (12.80%) TDD
21 15 (12.00%) WCF
22 12 (9.600%) .NET Framework

EPiServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EPiServer 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 EPiServer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 107 (85.60%) .NET
2 85 (68.00%) CSS
3 81 (64.80%) ASP.NET
4 78 (62.40%) HTML
5 57 (45.60%) jQuery
6 33 (26.40%) ASP.NET MVC
7 29 (23.20%) Ajax
8 25 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 19 (15.20%) XML
10 17 (13.60%) Razor View Engine
11 15 (12.00%) WCF
12 12 (9.600%) .NET Framework
12 12 (9.600%) ASP.NET MVC 2
12 12 (9.600%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 9 (7.200%) ADO.NET
13 9 (7.200%) XHTML
14 7 (5.600%) HTML5
15 4 (3.200%) JSON
16 3 (2.400%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 3 (2.400%) MooTools
Application Platforms
1 98 (78.40%) CMS
2 39 (31.20%) EPiServer CMS
3 35 (28.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 33 (26.40%) Umbraco
5 19 (15.20%) SharePoint
6 10 (8.000%) DotNetNuke
6 10 (8.000%) Drupal
7 9 (7.200%) Kentico
7 9 (7.200%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (3.200%) Sitefinity
9 2 (1.600%) Immediacy CMS
10 1 (0.800%) Orchard CMS
10 1 (0.800%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.800%) Content Management Server
Applications
1 5 (4.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.800%) MS Project
2 1 (0.800%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.000%) HTTP
2 2 (1.600%) Internet
3 1 (0.800%) GSM
3 1 (0.800%) LAN
3 1 (0.800%) VoIP
3 1 (0.800%) DSL
3 1 (0.800%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.800%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (55.20%) SQL Server
2 16 (12.80%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (4.800%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (4.800%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (3.200%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (1.600%) MySQL
7 1 (0.800%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 21 (16.80%) Visual Studio
2 7 (5.600%) Subversion
3 4 (3.200%) NUnit
3 4 (3.200%) Git (software)
4 3 (2.400%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.800%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.800%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (0.800%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.800%) Selenium
General
1 3 (2.400%) Retail
1 3 (2.400%) Finance
1 3 (2.400%) Marketing
2 2 (1.600%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (0.800%) Investment Banking
3 1 (0.800%) Billing
3 1 (0.800%) Banking
3 1 (0.800%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (91.20%) Developer
2 55 (44.00%) .NET Developer
3 19 (15.20%) C# Developer
3 19 (15.20%) ASP.NET Developer
4 18 (14.40%) Web Developer
5 17 (13.60%) C# .NET Developer
6 11 (8.800%) CMS Developer
6 11 (8.800%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 10 (8.000%) Front-End Developer
8 9 (7.200%) Front-End Web Developer
9 4 (3.200%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.400%) Umbraco Developer
10 3 (2.400%) Senior Developer
11 2 (1.600%) Analyst
11 2 (1.600%) Lead Developer
11 2 (1.600%) C# Web Developer
11 2 (1.600%) .NET Web Developer
11 2 (1.600%) Senior .NET Developer
11 2 (1.600%) Digital Project Manager
11 2 (1.600%) Lead .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.200%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (1.600%) NHS
3 1 (0.800%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.800%) Social Media
3 1 (0.800%) iPad
3 1 (0.800%) iPhone
3 1 (0.800%) IVR
3 1 (0.800%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.800%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.600%) Windows
2 1 (0.800%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.800%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.80%) MVC
2 32 (25.60%) E-Commerce
3 21 (16.80%) Content Management
4 16 (12.80%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (12.80%) TDD
5 12 (9.600%) Web Development
5 12 (9.600%) Scrum
6 9 (7.200%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (7.200%) Unit Testing
7 8 (6.400%) BDD
8 4 (3.200%) CRM
8 4 (3.200%) OO
8 4 (3.200%) Web Application Development
9 3 (2.400%) Test Scripting
9 3 (2.400%) Workflow
9 3 (2.400%) Release Management
10 2 (1.600%) Regression Testing
10 2 (1.600%) Project Management
10 2 (1.600%) ITIL
10 2 (1.600%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 103 (82.40%) C#
2 78 (62.40%) JavaScript
3 25 (20.00%) SQL
4 12 (9.600%) VB.NET
5 7 (5.600%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.400%) C
7 2 (1.600%) Java
7 2 (1.600%) VB
7 2 (1.600%) VB6
8 1 (0.800%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (3.200%) Degree
2 1 (0.800%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (0.800%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.200%) QA
2 1 (0.800%) SLA
Vendors
1 35 (28.00%) Sitecore
2 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.000%) RedDot
4 2 (1.600%) Oracle
4 2 (1.600%) Ektron
5 1 (0.800%) Twitter
5 1 (0.800%) Panasonic
5 1 (0.800%) Cerillion
5 1 (0.800%) Open Text
5 1 (0.800%) Omniture
5 1 (0.800%) Google
5 1 (0.800%) StreamServe
5 1 (0.800%) Sony
North West England
The ideal candidate will have knowledge of C# ASP.NET along with SQL server, EPI Server and eCommerce / commerce... No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 1 May 2013
London
EPiServer Developer - 12 month contractOpus Recruitment Solutions has a long term 12 month contract requirement for a talented ASP-Net Developer with EPiServer CMS experience-This is an...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP300 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
Stockport, North West
Ideally you will have experience with Umbraco, however I'm keen to hear from and speak to anyone who is a solid .NET/CMS developer in all CMS'...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
EPiSERVER, C#, ASP.NET, .NET, MVC, MVC 2, MVC 3, MVC4, MVC Razor, API, CMS, Visual Studio, AJAX, JQuery, JavaScript, XML, HTML, SQL, SQL Server, VB.Net, ADO...
ITHR
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
C#, ASP.NET, .NET, MVC, MVC 2, MVC 3, MVC4, MVC Razor, API, CMS, Visual Studio, AJAX, JQuery, JavaScript, XML, HTML, SQL, SQL Server, VB.Net, ADO.Net,...
ITHR
Rate: £300 - £425 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013