The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sitecore products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sitecore 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 Vendors for the West Sussex region.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sitecore
Rank 34 - 51
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Sitecore 7 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 1.813% - 0.225%
As % of the Vendors category 3.448% - 0.457%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
Average daily rate £413 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £275 £316
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £10.00 -
All Vendors
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
203 275 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 52.59% 43.44% 49.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 94
Average daily rate £400 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £230 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £488 £477
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 23
Average hourly rate £26.00 £17.53 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.35% -12.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.75 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.60 £32.50 £21.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Sitecore
South East

Sitecore
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex Sitecore Daily Rate Trend

Sitecore
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 West Sussex region 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
Crawley - 1 - -
Sitecore
South East

Sitecore
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 9 (100.00%) CMS
1 9 (100.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 8 (88.89%) Umbraco
2 8 (88.89%) jQuery
2 8 (88.89%) Scrum
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
2 8 (88.89%) MVC
2 8 (88.89%) XHTML
2 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET MVC
3 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (77.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (77.78%) Back Office
3 7 (77.78%) NUnit
3 7 (77.78%) Subversion
3 7 (77.78%) Google Maps API
3 7 (77.78%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (77.78%) Google
4 6 (66.67%) Bing Maps
5 3 (33.33%) QA
6 1 (11.11%) RESTful
6 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (11.11%) Content Management
6 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
6 1 (11.11%) C#

Sitecore
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 8 (88.89%) XHTML
2 8 (88.89%) jQuery
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET MVC
3 7 (77.78%) Google Maps API
4 6 (66.67%) Bing Maps
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) HTML5
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) SOAP
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) XML
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) CMS
1 9 (100.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 8 (88.89%) Umbraco
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) NUnit
1 7 (77.78%) Subversion
General
1 7 (77.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Web Developer
2 4 (44.44%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) MVC
1 8 (88.89%) Scrum
1 8 (88.89%) TDD
2 7 (77.78%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Content Management
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
1 7 (77.78%) Google