The first table below looks at the demand for Umbraco skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Umbraco 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Umbraco
Rank 448 504 538
Rank change year-on-year
+56 +34
Contract jobs citing Umbraco 92 77 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.195% 0.132% 0.070%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.075% 0.806% 0.417%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 65 25
Average daily rate £325 £313 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -2.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £224 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £360 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £285 £275
% change year-on-year
+9.64% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8556 9559 10069
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.12% 16.35% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4847 5264 5366
Average daily rate £353 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.71% -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 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 466 430 558
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 £42.20 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -

Umbraco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Umbraco Jobs Demand Trend

Umbraco
Daily Rate Trend

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

Umbraco Daily Rate Trend

Umbraco
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Umbraco within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Umbraco Daily Rate Histogram

Umbraco
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Umbraco Hourly Rate Trend

Umbraco
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 Umbraco 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 +54 84 £330 +4.76%
London +3 24 £325 -
South East +35 21 £425 +36.00%
North West +24 16 £325 +6.12%
West Sussex - 15 £425 -
City of London +16 9 £325 -
Cheshire +11 9 £325 +13.04%
Scotland -7 8 £241 +7.82%
Glasgow -14 7 £233 +3.91%
West Midlands +12 6 £275 +27.90%
East Midlands +3 6 £273 -12.09%
Yorkshire - 5 £300 -
West Yorkshire - 5 £300 -
Leeds - 4 £300 -
Surrey +19 3 £338 +18.42%
Manchester +16 3 - -
Nottinghamshire -5 3 £280 -9.67%
Merseyside - 3 - -
Derbyshire - 3 £245 -
Liverpool - 3 - -
Macclesfield - 3 £350 -
Reading +9 2 £550 -
Berkshire +6 2 £550 +76.00%
Wolverhampton -2 2 £269 +25.00%
Crawley - 2 £425 -
Birmingham - 2 - -
East of England - 2 £263 -
North East +10 1 - -
Hampshire -12 1 - -
Basingstoke -17 1 - -

Umbraco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 165 (94.83%) .NET
2 141 (81.03%) ASP.NET
3 133 (76.44%) CMS
4 107 (61.49%) C#
5 104 (59.77%) CSS
6 97 (55.75%) jQuery
7 95 (54.60%) JavaScript
8 84 (48.28%) MVC
9 82 (47.13%) SQL Server
10 79 (45.40%) HTML
11 62 (35.63%) ASP.NET MVC
12 61 (35.06%) SQL
13 54 (31.03%) Sitecore
14 45 (25.86%) Sitecore CMS
15 43 (24.71%) HTML5
16 41 (23.56%) Ajax
16 41 (23.56%) XML
17 40 (22.99%) Scrum
18 37 (21.26%) E-Commerce
19 34 (19.54%) Visual Studio
19 34 (19.54%) Agile Software Development
20 33 (18.97%) EPiServer
21 31 (17.82%) Web Services
22 29 (16.67%) TDD
23 28 (16.09%) OO
23 28 (16.09%) Microsoft
23 28 (16.09%) Razor View Engine
24 27 (15.52%) Subversion
25 26 (14.94%) NUnit
25 26 (14.94%) Kentico

Umbraco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 165 (94.83%) .NET
2 141 (81.03%) ASP.NET
3 104 (59.77%) CSS
4 97 (55.75%) jQuery
5 79 (45.40%) HTML
6 62 (35.63%) ASP.NET MVC
7 43 (24.71%) HTML5
8 41 (23.56%) Ajax
8 41 (23.56%) XML
9 31 (17.82%) Web Services
10 28 (16.09%) Razor View Engine
11 25 (14.37%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 24 (13.79%) WCF
13 23 (13.22%) .NET Framework
13 23 (13.22%) XHTML
14 20 (11.49%) CSS3
15 19 (10.92%) Google Maps API
16 18 (10.34%) XSLT
17 15 (8.621%) ASP.NET MVC 4
18 14 (8.046%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 133 (76.44%) CMS
2 45 (25.86%) Sitecore CMS
3 26 (14.94%) Kentico
4 16 (9.195%) Sitefinity
5 15 (8.621%) SharePoint
6 10 (5.747%) DotNetNuke
7 9 (5.172%) WordPress
7 9 (5.172%) Drupal
8 5 (2.874%) EPiServer CMS
9 4 (2.299%) Joomla!
10 3 (1.724%) Orchard CMS
10 3 (1.724%) ExpressionEngine
10 3 (1.724%) ColdFusion
10 3 (1.724%) IIS
11 2 (1.149%) Content Management Server
11 2 (1.149%) Documentum
11 2 (1.149%) Amazon AWS
11 2 (1.149%) Adobe CQ
11 2 (1.149%) Alfresco
11 2 (1.149%) Liferay
Applications
1 13 (7.471%) Photoshop
2 5 (2.874%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.149%) Fireworks
4 1 (0.575%) MS Project
4 1 (0.575%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.149%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.448%) Internet
2 3 (1.724%) HTTP
3 2 (1.149%) FTP
4 1 (0.575%) DNS
4 1 (0.575%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (47.13%) SQL Server
2 20 (11.49%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (6.322%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (4.598%) MySQL
5 7 (4.023%) MS Access
6 5 (2.874%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.874%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.299%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.149%) SQL Server 2012
9 1 (0.575%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.575%) MarkLogic
9 1 (0.575%) RavenDB
9 1 (0.575%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (19.54%) Visual Studio
2 27 (15.52%) Subversion
3 26 (14.94%) NUnit
4 8 (4.598%) Git (software)
5 5 (2.874%) NetBeans
6 2 (1.149%) Dreamweaver
6 2 (1.149%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.149%) Maven
6 2 (1.149%) CruiseControl
6 2 (1.149%) Rhino Mocks
6 2 (1.149%) Moq
6 2 (1.149%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.149%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.575%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.575%) Selenium
7 1 (0.575%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.575%) GitHub
7 1 (0.575%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.575%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.575%) Cucumber
General
1 15 (8.621%) Back Office
2 9 (5.172%) Retail
3 6 (3.448%) Marketing
4 3 (1.724%) Law
5 2 (1.149%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.149%) Finance
5 2 (1.149%) Games
5 2 (1.149%) Music
6 1 (0.575%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.575%) Local Government
6 1 (0.575%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 157 (90.23%) Developer
2 87 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 44 (25.29%) ASP.NET Developer
4 42 (24.14%) Web Developer
5 23 (13.22%) C# Developer
6 21 (12.07%) Umbraco Developer
6 21 (12.07%) C# .NET Developer
7 17 (9.770%) Senior Developer
8 14 (8.046%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 11 (6.322%) Senior Web Developer
9 11 (6.322%) .NET Web Developer
9 11 (6.322%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (4.023%) Front-End Developer
11 6 (3.448%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.448%) CMS Developer
12 4 (2.299%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
12 4 (2.299%) C# Web Developer
12 4 (2.299%) Senior .NET Web Developer
12 4 (2.299%) Front-End Web Developer
13 3 (1.724%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.172%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.874%) Social Media
3 4 (2.299%) Digital Media
4 3 (1.724%) Copywriting
5 2 (1.149%) NHS
5 2 (1.149%) Web 2.0
5 2 (1.149%) Open Source
5 2 (1.149%) Inversion of Control
5 2 (1.149%) Social Network
6 1 (0.575%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.575%) iPhone
6 1 (0.575%) iPad
6 1 (0.575%) SaaS
6 1 (0.575%) E-Learning
6 1 (0.575%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.575%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.471%) Windows
2 5 (2.874%) Linux
3 2 (1.149%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.575%) Windows Vista
4 1 (0.575%) Android
4 1 (0.575%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.575%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (48.28%) MVC
2 40 (22.99%) Scrum
3 37 (21.26%) E-Commerce
4 34 (19.54%) Agile Software Development
5 29 (16.67%) TDD
6 28 (16.09%) OO
7 24 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (12.07%) Content Management
8 21 (12.07%) BDD
9 20 (11.49%) Unit Testing
10 15 (8.621%) Web Development
10 15 (8.621%) OOD
11 11 (6.322%) SEO
12 10 (5.747%) Kanban
13 9 (5.172%) Domain-Driven Design
14 6 (3.448%) E-business
15 5 (2.874%) Business Development
15 5 (2.874%) ETL
16 4 (2.299%) Analytics
17 3 (1.724%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 107 (61.49%) C#
2 95 (54.60%) JavaScript
3 61 (35.06%) SQL
4 14 (8.046%) PHP
4 14 (8.046%) XPath
5 12 (6.897%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.747%) VB.NET
7 6 (3.448%) Java
8 5 (2.874%) VB
9 4 (2.299%) Ruby
10 3 (1.724%) C
11 1 (0.575%) XAML
Qualifications
1 15 (8.621%) Degree
1 15 (8.621%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.897%) QA
2 1 (0.575%) WCAG
2 1 (0.575%) WAI
Vendors
1 54 (31.03%) Sitecore
2 33 (18.97%) EPiServer
3 28 (16.09%) Microsoft
4 21 (12.07%) Google
5 8 (4.598%) Twitter
5 8 (4.598%) Zend
6 7 (4.023%) Facebook
7 5 (2.874%) Syncfusion
7 5 (2.874%) Oracle
7 5 (2.874%) Adobe
8 4 (2.299%) Ektron
9 3 (1.724%) ATG
10 2 (1.149%) SAP
10 2 (1.149%) Alterian
11 1 (0.575%) hybris
11 1 (0.575%) Venda
11 1 (0.575%) 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
Wolverhampton, West Midlands (County)
My leading client based in the West Midlands is looking for a talented Umbraco / .Net Web Developer for an initial 3 month requirement. You will be working in...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £225 to £300 per day
Posted: 14 May 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: 15 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
Ashford, Kent
net- .Net 4 - Visual studio - Web Services - SQL Server - Programmer - Developer - HTML - Javascript- JQuery - OOD - Contract -£200 - £250 per pday -Ashford, Kent ... Umbraco CMS - C# - MVC3 would be...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Rate: £200 - £250 per day + Highly likely to extend
Posted: 17 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
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: 14 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
Client is looking for a front end developer on a contractual basis. 3 months initially, however, this is a rolling contract.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Demonstrable knowledge of the MVC framework version 3. Sitecore 6.x. Umbraco 4.x. MS SQL. IIS 7. Teamcity & Cruise Control. Working with Version Control software, ideally SVN...
The Industry Club
Rate: From £360 to £400 per day Rate dependent upon experience
Posted: 14 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Computer Futures is currently looking for an experienced web content manager/ editor to re-write, edit and develop websites on behalf of our client who is a digital...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
About UsWe are a dynamic international asset management company dedicated to delivering the highest standards of investment performance and service to a wide-range of investors across four...
OPUS
Rate: GBP140 to GBP160 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
You will be working or have worked in a similar role within web content editing or production, as well as having extensive experience with Umbraco CMS and Document...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £100.00 - £200.00 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013