Watford CMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Content Management System (CMS) skills within the Watford region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Content Management System (CMS)
Location Abingdon Avon Banbury Basildon Bath Beckenham Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Inverness Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Street Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	16
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	6	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	14.63 %	37.74 %
Daily rates quoted	1	12
Average minimum daily rate	£120	£225
Average daily rate	£120	£227
% change on same period last year	-47.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£120	£229
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£294
% change on same period last year	+0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.39	£26.89
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Application Platforms Watford
Matching contract IT job ads	41	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.054 %
Daily rates quoted	14	15
Average minimum daily rate	£411	£248
Average daily rate	£419	£258
% change on same period last year	+62.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£428	£268
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.71	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£14.43	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-58.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.14	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
CMS Hertfordshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

CMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

CMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CMS across the Watford region.

CMS
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing CMS 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 CMS.

1 5 (62.50 %) HTML 1 5 (62.50 %) TeamSite 1 5 (62.50 %) Interwoven 2 4 (50.00 %) VBScript 2 4 (50.00 %) Solaris 2 4 (50.00 %) Windows NT 3 3 (37.50 %) Perl 3 3 (37.50 %) Games 3 3 (37.50 %) OpenDeploy 3 3 (37.50 %) Content Management 4 2 (25.00 %) Marketing 4 2 (25.00 %) Legal 5 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 5 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (12.50 %) VoIP

5 1 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 5 1 (12.50 %) Avaya 5 1 (12.50 %) DTV

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing CMS 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 CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (62.50 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 5 (62.50 %) TeamSite
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) VoIP	Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) OpenDeploy
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Games 2 2 (25.00 %) Marketing 2 2 (25.00 %) Legal 3 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Systems Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Contracts Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Coordinator 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) DTV	Operating Systems 1 4 (50.00 %) Solaris 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Content Management 2 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) VBScript 2 3 (37.50 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification	Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) Interwoven 2 1 (12.50 %) Avaya