The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMS 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 of the Application Platforms category for the Yorkshire 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 75 88 87
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -1
Contract jobs citing CMS 38 24 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.002% 1.047% 0.771%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.291% 5.442% 3.423%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 10
Average daily rate £310 £275 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -9.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £150 £162
10% offered a daily rate of more than £359 £348 £865
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £19.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-13.15% -2.56%
All Application Platforms
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
409 441 409
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 21.55% 19.24% 22.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 242 183
Average daily rate £308 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 30
Average hourly rate £22.50 £14.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.71% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.00 £10.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
CMS
England

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Yorkshire CMS Jobs Demand Trend

CMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire CMS Daily Rate Trend

CMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMS across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire CMS Daily Rate Histogram

CMS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CMS across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire CMS Hourly Rate Trend

CMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +24 35 £310 +12.72%
South Yorkshire +1 3 £266 -
North Yorkshire -2 1 £350 -
CMS
England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 34 (50.75%) .NET
2 29 (43.28%) C#
2 29 (43.28%) ASP.NET
2 29 (43.28%) CSS
3 28 (41.79%) JavaScript
4 25 (37.31%) HTML
5 21 (31.34%) jQuery
5 21 (31.34%) EPiServer
6 17 (25.37%) SQL Server
7 14 (20.90%) Content Management
7 14 (20.90%) EPiServer CMS
8 11 (16.42%) Web Development
9 10 (14.93%) Migration
10 9 (13.43%) Data Migration
10 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (13.43%) UML
11 8 (11.94%) MS Visio
11 8 (11.94%) RedDot
11 8 (11.94%) Agile Software Development
11 8 (11.94%) SQL Server 2008
12 7 (10.45%) MVC
12 7 (10.45%) SQL
13 6 (8.955%) SharePoint
13 6 (8.955%) XHTML
13 6 (8.955%) Ajax
14 5 (7.463%) Finance
14 5 (7.463%) E-Commerce
14 5 (7.463%) Avaya
14 5 (7.463%) Java
14 5 (7.463%) Oracle

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 34 (50.75%) .NET
2 29 (43.28%) ASP.NET
2 29 (43.28%) CSS
3 25 (37.31%) HTML
4 21 (31.34%) jQuery
5 6 (8.955%) XHTML
5 6 (8.955%) Ajax
6 5 (7.463%) XML
6 5 (7.463%) WCF
7 4 (5.970%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (4.478%) HTML5
8 3 (4.478%) CSS3
8 3 (4.478%) Web Services
8 3 (4.478%) ASP.NET MVC 2
9 2 (2.985%) JSTL
9 2 (2.985%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 2 (2.985%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (2.985%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (2.985%) Semantic HTML
9 2 (2.985%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 14 (20.90%) EPiServer CMS
2 6 (8.955%) SharePoint
3 5 (7.463%) Umbraco
4 3 (4.478%) IIS
4 3 (4.478%) DotNetNuke
5 2 (2.985%) Drupal
5 2 (2.985%) Adobe CQ
5 2 (2.985%) WordPress
5 2 (2.985%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (2.985%) Liferay
6 1 (1.493%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (1.493%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.493%) Joomla!
6 1 (1.493%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.493%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.985%) Fireworks
2 2 (2.985%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.493%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.985%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.493%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.985%) FTP
1 2 (2.985%) Extranet
2 1 (1.493%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.493%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.493%) SSL
2 1 (1.493%) DEFINITY
2 1 (1.493%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.37%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.94%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (4.478%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (4.478%) MySQL
4 1 (1.493%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (1.493%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (7.463%) Visual Studio
2 4 (5.970%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (4.478%) Subversion
4 2 (2.985%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.493%) JUnit
5 1 (1.493%) Maven
5 1 (1.493%) Selenium
General
1 5 (7.463%) Finance
2 1 (1.493%) Legal
2 1 (1.493%) Retail
2 1 (1.493%) Marketing
2 1 (1.493%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (62.69%) Developer
2 25 (37.31%) .NET Developer
3 18 (26.87%) Analyst
4 11 (16.42%) Business Analyst
5 10 (14.93%) CMS Developer
6 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (10.45%) C# Developer
6 7 (10.45%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (7.463%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (7.463%) Web Developer
8 3 (4.478%) Front-End Developer
8 3 (4.478%) Architect
8 3 (4.478%) Configuration Analyst
9 2 (2.985%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.985%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.985%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.985%) Programmer
9 2 (2.985%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.985%) Front-End Web Developer
9 2 (2.985%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.478%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.985%) Social Media
2 2 (2.985%) W3C
3 1 (1.493%) STB
3 1 (1.493%) Web 2.0
3 1 (1.493%) Data Integration
3 1 (1.493%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.493%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.493%) Windows
1 1 (1.493%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.90%) Content Management
2 11 (16.42%) Web Development
3 10 (14.93%) Migration
4 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (13.43%) Data Migration
4 9 (13.43%) UML
5 8 (11.94%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (10.45%) MVC
7 5 (7.463%) ITIL
7 5 (7.463%) E-Commerce
8 4 (5.970%) Asset Management
8 4 (5.970%) Unit Testing
9 3 (4.478%) Test Scripting
9 3 (4.478%) SEO
9 3 (4.478%) Configuration Management
9 3 (4.478%) Project Management
10 2 (2.985%) Service Management
10 2 (2.985%) SOA
10 2 (2.985%) CRM
10 2 (2.985%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.28%) C#
2 28 (41.79%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.45%) SQL
4 5 (7.463%) Java
5 3 (4.478%) PHP
6 2 (2.985%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.493%) VBA
7 1 (1.493%) XAML
7 1 (1.493%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.970%) Degree
2 1 (1.493%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.493%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.478%) WAI
2 2 (2.985%) WCAG
Vendors
1 21 (31.34%) EPiServer
2 8 (11.94%) RedDot
3 5 (7.463%) Avaya
3 5 (7.463%) Oracle
4 4 (5.970%) Adobe
4 4 (5.970%) Open Text
4 4 (5.970%) Verint
5 3 (4.478%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.985%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.493%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.493%) Vignette
7 1 (1.493%) Omniture
7 1 (1.493%) Zend
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