The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sitecore 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 Sitecore 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 Sitecore.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sitecore
Rank 433 506 524
Rank change year-on-year
+73 +18
Contract jobs citing Sitecore 108 59 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.233% 0.101% 0.100%
As % of the Vendors category 0.495% 0.218% 0.215%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 40 28
Average daily rate £359 £334 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.49% -4.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £271 £264
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £403 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £275 £316
% change year-on-year
+36.36% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -71.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £10.00 -
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%

Sitecore
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sitecore Jobs Demand Trend

Sitecore
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sitecore Daily Rate Trend

Sitecore
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Sitecore Daily Rate Histogram

Sitecore
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sitecore Hourly Rate Trend

Sitecore
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sitecore 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 +97 107 £359 +7.49%
London +63 69 £355 +1.42%
South East +33 19 £425 +30.76%
City of London +29 18 £400 -
Berkshire - 7 £550 -
West Sussex - 6 £400 -
Reading - 6 £550 -
North West +13 5 £313 +13.63%
West Midlands - 5 £296 -
Manchester - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £300 -
West Yorkshire - 4 £300 -
South West +30 3 £246 -24.23%
East Sussex - 3 £463 -
Leeds - 3 £300 -
Surrey +19 2 £375 +15.38%
Bristol +14 2 £246 -25.37%
Brighton - 2 £500 -
East of England - 2 £325 -
Dorset - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £313 -
Staffordshire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 £325 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £263 -
Luton - 1 £325 -
Farnham - 1 - -
Crawley - 1 - -
Chester - 1 £313 -

Sitecore
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 173 (75.88%) Sitecore CMS
2 170 (74.56%) .NET
3 163 (71.49%) CMS
4 137 (60.09%) C#
5 114 (50.00%) ASP.NET
6 85 (37.28%) CSS
7 79 (34.65%) MVC
8 75 (32.89%) HTML
9 72 (31.58%) SQL Server
10 71 (31.14%) JavaScript
11 57 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
12 56 (24.56%) jQuery
13 55 (24.12%) Umbraco
14 49 (21.49%) Scrum
15 46 (20.18%) E-Commerce
16 45 (19.74%) SQL
16 45 (19.74%) TDD
17 35 (15.35%) Microsoft
17 35 (15.35%) EPiServer
17 35 (15.35%) BDD
18 31 (13.60%) Agile Software Development
18 31 (13.60%) ASP.NET MVC 3
19 30 (13.16%) Content Management
20 26 (11.40%) Ajax
21 24 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
21 24 (10.53%) Visual Studio
21 24 (10.53%) XML
22 23 (10.09%) SharePoint
22 23 (10.09%) Marketing
23 22 (9.649%) .NET Framework

Sitecore
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 170 (74.56%) .NET
2 114 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 85 (37.28%) CSS
4 75 (32.89%) HTML
5 57 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 56 (24.56%) jQuery
7 31 (13.60%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 26 (11.40%) Ajax
9 24 (10.53%) XML
10 22 (9.649%) .NET Framework
11 18 (7.895%) WCF
11 18 (7.895%) HTML5
12 17 (7.456%) XHTML
12 17 (7.456%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 17 (7.456%) Razor View Engine
13 15 (6.579%) Web Services
14 13 (5.702%) REST
15 11 (4.825%) ADO.NET
15 11 (4.825%) RESTful
15 11 (4.825%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 173 (75.88%) Sitecore CMS
2 163 (71.49%) CMS
3 55 (24.12%) Umbraco
4 23 (10.09%) SharePoint
5 10 (4.386%) DotNetNuke
6 9 (3.947%) Kentico
7 6 (2.632%) EPiServer CMS
8 4 (1.754%) Drupal
8 4 (1.754%) IIS
8 4 (1.754%) Apache
8 4 (1.754%) TeamSite
8 4 (1.754%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (1.754%) Sitefinity
9 2 (0.877%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.877%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.877%) Immediacy CMS
9 2 (0.877%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.877%) Amazon AWS
9 2 (0.877%) Liferay
9 2 (0.877%) Documentum
Applications
1 6 (2.632%) MS Excel
1 6 (2.632%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.877%) MS Project
3 1 (0.439%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.439%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (1.754%) Google Analytics
2 2 (0.877%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.877%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.439%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.439%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.439%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.579%) HTTP
2 8 (3.509%) Internet
3 6 (2.632%) Intranet
4 1 (0.439%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.386%) MarkLogic
3 5 (2.193%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (1.754%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.754%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.316%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.316%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.316%) MySQL
6 2 (0.877%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (0.877%) CouchDB
6 2 (0.877%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.439%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 24 (10.53%) Visual Studio
2 21 (9.211%) Subversion
3 14 (6.140%) NUnit
3 14 (6.140%) JIRA
3 14 (6.140%) SpecFlow
4 9 (3.947%) Git (software)
5 8 (3.509%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (2.632%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.193%) Rhino Mocks
8 3 (1.316%) Moq
8 3 (1.316%) Selenium
8 3 (1.316%) FitNesse
9 2 (0.877%) CruiseControl
9 2 (0.877%) Maven
9 2 (0.877%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 2 (0.877%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.877%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.439%) Appcelerator Titanium
10 1 (0.439%) Dreamweaver
10 1 (0.439%) Mercurial
General
1 23 (10.09%) Marketing
2 22 (9.649%) Finance
3 19 (8.333%) Publishing
4 8 (3.509%) Retail
4 8 (3.509%) Back Office
5 4 (1.754%) Banking
6 3 (1.316%) Automotive
7 2 (0.877%) Multimedia
7 2 (0.877%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (0.877%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.439%) Electronics
8 1 (0.439%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.439%) Advertising
8 1 (0.439%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (67.11%) Developer
2 72 (31.58%) .NET Developer
3 33 (14.47%) Architect
4 19 (8.333%) Web Developer
5 17 (7.456%) C# Developer
5 17 (7.456%) ASP.NET Developer
6 15 (6.579%) Senior Developer
7 14 (6.140%) Senior .NET Developer
8 13 (5.702%) C# .NET Developer
9 11 (4.825%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.386%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 10 (4.386%) Analyst
11 9 (3.947%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.509%) CMS Developer
13 6 (2.632%) Front-End Developer
13 6 (2.632%) Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.754%) QA Analyst
14 4 (1.754%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
14 4 (1.754%) Agile Project Manager
14 4 (1.754%) Applications Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.825%) FMCG
2 10 (4.386%) Digital Media
3 4 (1.754%) Mathematics
3 4 (1.754%) Computer Science
3 4 (1.754%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.316%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.316%) Data Integration
5 2 (0.877%) Open Source
5 2 (0.877%) Social Media
6 1 (0.439%) iPad
6 1 (0.439%) W3C
6 1 (0.439%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.439%) DTV
6 1 (0.439%) E-Learning
6 1 (0.439%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (0.439%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.877%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.439%) Windows
2 1 (0.439%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (34.65%) MVC
2 49 (21.49%) Scrum
3 46 (20.18%) E-Commerce
4 45 (19.74%) TDD
5 35 (15.35%) BDD
6 31 (13.60%) Agile Software Development
7 30 (13.16%) Content Management
8 24 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (8.772%) Analytics
10 19 (8.333%) Web Development
11 18 (7.895%) CRM
11 18 (7.895%) Web Analytics
12 13 (5.702%) B2C
13 12 (5.263%) Workflow
14 11 (4.825%) B2B
14 11 (4.825%) Web Application Development
15 10 (4.386%) Kanban
16 8 (3.509%) Domain-Driven Design
17 7 (3.070%) SOA
17 7 (3.070%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 137 (60.09%) C#
2 71 (31.14%) JavaScript
3 45 (19.74%) SQL
4 13 (5.702%) Java
5 10 (4.386%) VB.NET
6 8 (3.509%) XQuery
7 7 (3.070%) XPath
8 6 (2.632%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.193%) PHP
10 3 (1.316%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.877%) C
12 1 (0.439%) XAML
12 1 (0.439%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (3.509%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.193%) Degree
3 4 (1.754%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (1.316%) ISEB
4 3 (1.316%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (0.439%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.702%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.754%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 35 (15.35%) Microsoft
1 35 (15.35%) EPiServer
2 15 (6.579%) hybris
3 13 (5.702%) Google
4 4 (1.754%) ATG
4 4 (1.754%) Hummingbird
4 4 (1.754%) RedDot
4 4 (1.754%) Citrix
4 4 (1.754%) Facebook
5 3 (1.316%) Salesforce.com
6 2 (0.877%) Omniture
6 2 (0.877%) Oracle
6 2 (0.877%) SAP
6 2 (0.877%) Venda
7 1 (0.439%) Appcelerator
7 1 (0.439%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.439%) Adobe
7 1 (0.439%) Siebel
7 1 (0.439%) Mercator
7 1 (0.439%) Open Text
West Yorkshire
The successful .Net Developer is required to have a strong development experiance and customisation experience with C# and SQL server. Desirable skills include Umbraco/Sitecore... No terminology in...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Sitecore Architect / DeveloperA leading NMA Top 25 Digital Agency is looking for Senior Sitecore Developer / Architect for an upcoming Sitecore build-Due to the complexity of the projects...
OPUS
Rate: GBP400 to GBP500 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
Central London
Agile experience along with a solid knowledge of Linq and an appreciation for front end technologies such as CSS/JavaScript/jQuery is desirable. This is an urgent project...
TRG
Rate: 350 Per Day Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013
UK Central London
net cms umbraco sitecoreMy client a TOP 10 NMA is in need of a senior .net Sitecore and Umbraco developer.You must experience of both of these CMS'...
Premier Group
Rate: £300.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
A leading publishing house based in London is looking for Senior -Net Developer / Sitecore Developer for an immediate start-This is a fantastic opportunity to join a talented...
OPUS
Rate: GBP0 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Umbraco Developer - Urgent 3 month contractMy leading client based in the West Midlands is looking for a talented Umbraco / -Net Web Developer for an initial 3 month requirement-...
OPUS
Rate: GBP225 to GBP300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Opportunity to work on the top .Net packages; MVC3, SQL 2008, .Net4, Nhibernate - Razor & HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript This freelance role offers flexible hours and is based in the...
Purple Consultancy
Rate: £350 per annum
Posted: 17 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
London
net cms umbraco sitecore My client a TOP 10 NMA is in need of a senior .net Sitecore and Umbraco developer. You must experience of both of these...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £300.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 22 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
Major plc ( Financial services/media) in the city is looking for a QA/Tester with the following experience: Good experience working with C#/BDD/Specflow important... Agile (Scrum/...
Mark Two People Ltd
Rate: From £350 to £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Quality Assurance Analyst - London - 6 Months. A Senior Quality Assurance Analyst is required to work as part of a fast paced development team within a large publishing company...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013