The first table below looks at the demand for Kentico skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Kentico 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.

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
Kentico CMS
Rank 509 565 587
Rank change year-on-year
+56 +22
Contract jobs citing Kentico 21 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.045% 0.022% 0.002%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.250% 0.137% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 1
Average daily rate £293 £293 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £275 -
% change year-on-year
+1.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8409 9490 10269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.12% 16.28% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4782 5232 5474
Average daily rate £353 £350 £378
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.71% -7.28%
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 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 452 419 565
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.65 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -

Kentico
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kentico Jobs Demand Trend

Kentico
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kentico Daily Rate Trend

Kentico
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Kentico within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Kentico Daily Rate Histogram

Kentico
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kentico Hourly Rate Trend

Kentico
Top 19 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kentico within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +55 20 £293 -
London +21 9 £300 -7.69%
East Midlands - 6 £273 -
Nottinghamshire - 3 £280 -
Derbyshire - 3 £245 -
South East +24 2 £350 +30.23%
Buckinghamshire - 2 £350 -
City of London - 2 £310 -
South West - 2 £295 -
East of England - 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
South Wales - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Dorset - 1 £275 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £350 -
Derby - 1 £245 -
Cardiff - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 £315 -
Bournemouth - 1 £275 -

Kentico
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Kentico 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 Kentico.

1 52 (98.11%) .NET
2 51 (96.23%) CMS
3 45 (84.91%) C#
4 42 (79.25%) ASP.NET
5 38 (71.70%) HTML
6 35 (66.04%) CSS
7 33 (62.26%) jQuery
8 26 (49.06%) Umbraco
9 22 (41.51%) Agile Software Development
9 22 (41.51%) JavaScript
10 19 (35.85%) SQL Server
10 19 (35.85%) Sitefinity
11 18 (33.96%) E-Commerce
11 18 (33.96%) Unit Testing
12 17 (32.08%) HTML5
13 16 (30.19%) Web Services
13 16 (30.19%) Scrum
14 15 (28.30%) Subversion
15 14 (26.42%) OO
16 13 (24.53%) BDD
17 12 (22.64%) SOAP
17 12 (22.64%) Kendo UI
18 11 (20.75%) Windows
18 11 (20.75%) SQL Server 2008
19 10 (18.87%) Ajax
19 10 (18.87%) SQL Server 2005
19 10 (18.87%) JSON
20 9 (16.98%) Content Management
20 9 (16.98%) Sitecore CMS
20 9 (16.98%) Sitecore

Kentico
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Kentico 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 Kentico. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 52 (98.11%) .NET
2 42 (79.25%) ASP.NET
3 38 (71.70%) HTML
4 35 (66.04%) CSS
5 33 (62.26%) jQuery
6 17 (32.08%) HTML5
7 16 (30.19%) Web Services
8 12 (22.64%) SOAP
8 12 (22.64%) Kendo UI
9 10 (18.87%) JSON
9 10 (18.87%) Ajax
10 8 (15.09%) ASP
10 8 (15.09%) CSS3
11 7 (13.21%) Ninject
11 7 (13.21%) .NET Framework
12 6 (11.32%) WCF
12 6 (11.32%) XHTML
12 6 (11.32%) WinForms
13 5 (9.434%) Backbone.js
13 5 (9.434%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 51 (96.23%) CMS
2 26 (49.06%) Umbraco
3 19 (35.85%) Sitefinity
4 9 (16.98%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (5.660%) Windows Azure
5 3 (5.660%) EPiServer CMS
5 3 (5.660%) DotNetNuke
5 3 (5.660%) IIS
6 2 (3.774%) WordPress
7 1 (1.887%) Immediacy CMS
7 1 (1.887%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.887%) Joomla!
7 1 (1.887%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.887%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) SQL Server
2 11 (20.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (18.87%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (5.660%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (5.660%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.887%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Subversion
2 8 (15.09%) Visual Studio
2 8 (15.09%) NUnit
3 3 (5.660%) Git (software)
4 2 (3.774%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.887%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (5.660%) Retail
2 2 (3.774%) Marketing
3 1 (1.887%) Back Office
3 1 (1.887%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (98.11%) Developer
2 26 (49.06%) .NET Developer
3 23 (43.40%) Web Developer
4 12 (22.64%) ASP.NET Developer
5 11 (20.75%) C# Developer
6 9 (16.98%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (13.21%) .NET Web Developer
8 4 (7.547%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (7.547%) CMS Developer
9 3 (5.660%) Front-End Developer
10 2 (3.774%) Front-End Web Developer
10 2 (3.774%) ASP Developer
10 2 (3.774%) C# Web Developer
11 1 (1.887%) .NET Programmer
11 1 (1.887%) Senior .NET Web Developer
11 1 (1.887%) Web Programmer
11 1 (1.887%) Website Developer
11 1 (1.887%) Junior Developer
11 1 (1.887%) ASP.NET Programmer
11 1 (1.887%) Salesforce.com Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.774%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (3.774%) Kindle
2 1 (1.887%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.887%) Social Media
2 1 (1.887%) Web 2.0
2 1 (1.887%) Blog
2 1 (1.887%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Windows
2 1 (1.887%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (33.96%) E-Commerce
2 18 (33.96%) Unit Testing
3 16 (30.19%) Scrum
4 14 (26.42%) OO
5 13 (24.53%) BDD
6 9 (16.98%) Domain-Driven Design
6 9 (16.98%) Content Management
7 8 (15.09%) Kanban
8 7 (13.21%) Web Development
8 7 (13.21%) E-business
8 7 (13.21%) MVC
9 6 (11.32%) OOD
10 5 (9.434%) TDD
11 4 (7.547%) Workflow
12 3 (5.660%) Migration
12 3 (5.660%) ETL
12 3 (5.660%) Release Management
12 3 (5.660%) Data Migration
12 3 (5.660%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 45 (84.91%) C#
2 22 (41.51%) JavaScript
3 9 (16.98%) SQL
4 4 (7.547%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.774%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.887%) VBScript
6 1 (1.887%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.774%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Sitecore
2 8 (15.09%) EPiServer
3 7 (13.21%) Alterian
4 3 (5.660%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.660%) Ektron
5 2 (3.774%) Adobe
6 1 (1.887%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (1.887%) Google
6 1 (1.887%) Oracle