The first table below looks at the demand for Tridion skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tridion over the 3 months to 21 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 Business Applications 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SDL Tridion
Rank 532 555 568
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +13
Contract jobs citing Tridion 8 26 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.044% 0.020%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.197% 0.496% 0.212%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 3
Average daily rate £325 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £350 £385
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £430 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £12.86
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +210.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £12.86
All Business Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
4057 5243 5648
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 8.594% 8.969% 9.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 2011 2552 2778
Average daily rate £450 £450 £450
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 62 100
Average hourly rate £37.80 £24.17 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.39% -3.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.25 £56.45 £44.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%

Tridion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tridion Jobs Demand Trend

Tridion
Daily Rate Trend

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

Tridion Daily Rate Trend

Tridion
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Tridion Hourly Rate Trend

Tridion
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tridion within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +25 6 £325 -7.14%
London -2 3 £313 -10.71%
South East +26 2 £325 +8.33%
Hampshire - 2 £325 -
Scotland - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -

Tridion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Tridion 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 Tridion.

1 32 (60.38%) HTML
1 32 (60.38%) XML
2 29 (54.72%) XSLT
2 29 (54.72%) Java
2 29 (54.72%) .NET
3 27 (50.94%) UML
3 27 (50.94%) CMS
4 25 (47.17%) SQL
5 22 (41.51%) Web Development
6 21 (39.62%) JavaScript
6 21 (39.62%) E-Commerce
7 20 (37.74%) CSS
8 19 (35.85%) Content Management
9 18 (33.96%) jQuery
10 17 (32.08%) XHTML
11 16 (30.19%) OO
11 16 (30.19%) J2EE
11 16 (30.19%) Finance
12 15 (28.30%) Internet
12 15 (28.30%) Linux
12 15 (28.30%) JUnit
12 15 (28.30%) JDBC
12 15 (28.30%) Servlets
12 15 (28.30%) Struts
13 14 (26.42%) JSP
13 14 (26.42%) EJB
13 14 (26.42%) UNIX
13 14 (26.42%) HPUX
13 14 (26.42%) Solaris
13 14 (26.42%) WebSphere Application Server

Tridion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Tridion 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 Tridion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (60.38%) HTML
1 32 (60.38%) XML
2 29 (54.72%) XSLT
2 29 (54.72%) .NET
3 20 (37.74%) CSS
4 18 (33.96%) jQuery
5 17 (32.08%) XHTML
6 16 (30.19%) J2EE
7 15 (28.30%) JDBC
7 15 (28.30%) Servlets
7 15 (28.30%) Struts
8 14 (26.42%) JSP
8 14 (26.42%) EJB
8 14 (26.42%) JMS
8 14 (26.42%) XMLBeans
8 14 (26.42%) Ajax
8 14 (26.42%) JSTL
8 14 (26.42%) WebSphere
9 13 (24.53%) ASP.NET
10 6 (11.32%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 27 (50.94%) CMS
2 14 (26.42%) WebSphere Application Server
2 14 (26.42%) MQSeries
3 2 (3.774%) Apache
3 2 (3.774%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.887%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (1.887%) Telligent Community
4 1 (1.887%) Community Server
4 1 (1.887%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.887%) FileNet
4 1 (1.887%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (1.887%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.887%) Liferay
4 1 (1.887%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (7.547%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.887%) MS Office
2 1 (1.887%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.42%) DB2
1 14 (26.42%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.660%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.887%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.887%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.887%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) JUnit
2 14 (26.42%) Ant
2 14 (26.42%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 14 (26.42%) Eclipse
2 14 (26.42%) Log4j
2 14 (26.42%) Subversion
3 2 (3.774%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.887%) DbUnit
4 1 (1.887%) JBehave
4 1 (1.887%) Gerrit
4 1 (1.887%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.887%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.887%) Talend Open Studio
4 1 (1.887%) Selenium
General
1 16 (30.19%) Finance
2 13 (24.53%) Retail
3 12 (22.64%) Games
4 4 (7.547%) Marketing
5 1 (1.887%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.887%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.887%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (83.02%) Developer
2 19 (35.85%) Tridion Developer
3 18 (33.96%) Web Developer
4 14 (26.42%) Java Developer
5 13 (24.53%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 13 (24.53%) J2EE Developer
6 3 (5.660%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.774%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.774%) Digital Project Manager
8 1 (1.887%) Technical Director
8 1 (1.887%) Automation Team Leader
8 1 (1.887%) Development Consultant
8 1 (1.887%) Senior Digital Project Manager
8 1 (1.887%) Architect
8 1 (1.887%) Consultant
8 1 (1.887%) Technical Project Manager
8 1 (1.887%) Senior Manager
8 1 (1.887%) Front-End Developer
8 1 (1.887%) Front-End Web Developer
8 1 (1.887%) Head of Development
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.42%) Web 2.0
2 2 (3.774%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.887%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.887%) Statistics
3 1 (1.887%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.887%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.887%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.30%) Linux
2 14 (26.42%) UNIX
2 14 (26.42%) HPUX
2 14 (26.42%) Solaris
3 1 (1.887%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) UML
2 22 (41.51%) Web Development
3 21 (39.62%) E-Commerce
4 19 (35.85%) Content Management
5 16 (30.19%) OO
6 14 (26.42%) RAD
7 6 (11.32%) System Testing
8 2 (3.774%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (3.774%) Configuration Management
9 1 (1.887%) Analytics
9 1 (1.887%) Enterprise Content Management
9 1 (1.887%) Kanban
9 1 (1.887%) BDD
9 1 (1.887%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (1.887%) DRM
9 1 (1.887%) Project Management
9 1 (1.887%) GAP Analysis
9 1 (1.887%) MVC
9 1 (1.887%) RUP
9 1 (1.887%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) Java
2 25 (47.17%) SQL
3 21 (39.62%) JavaScript
4 14 (26.42%) Perl
4 14 (26.42%) XPath
4 14 (26.42%) Bash shell
5 12 (22.64%) C#
6 1 (1.887%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.434%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.774%) Degree
3 1 (1.887%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.887%) PMP
3 1 (1.887%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) IBM
1 14 (26.42%) Interwoven
1 14 (26.42%) ATG
1 14 (26.42%) Blue Martini
1 14 (26.42%) Elastic Path
2 13 (24.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.660%) Oracle
4 1 (1.887%) Talend
4 1 (1.887%) Lotus
4 1 (1.887%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.887%) Adobe
4 1 (1.887%) Google
4 1 (1.887%) Alterian
4 1 (1.887%) FatWire
4 1 (1.887%) Remedy
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Posted: 15 May 2013