The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 41 35 59
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +24
Permanent jobs citing CMS 5 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.639% 0.602% 0.683%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.576% 2.564% 2.299%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 2
Average salary £37,500 £52,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% +23.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £52,500 £36,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £52,500 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -
All Application Platforms
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
66 39 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 21.64% 23.49% 29.69%
Number of salaries quoted 27 38 86
Average salary £35,250 £37,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.00% -2.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,300 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £47,400 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
CMS
Cheshire

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester CMS Jobs Demand Trend

CMS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CMS across the Chester region.

Chester CMS Salary Trend

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CMS.

1 20 (90.91%) SQL
2 18 (81.82%) .NET
2 18 (81.82%) C#
2 18 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 18 (81.82%) CSS
3 17 (77.27%) MVC
4 16 (72.73%) Web Services
4 16 (72.73%) XHTML
5 12 (54.55%) Sitecore CMS
5 12 (54.55%) Sitecore
6 11 (50.00%) .NET Framework
6 11 (50.00%) E-Commerce
6 11 (50.00%) MySQL
7 9 (40.91%) Digital Media
8 8 (36.36%) ASP.NET
9 5 (22.73%) Degree
9 5 (22.73%) jQuery
10 4 (18.18%) XML
11 3 (13.64%) Oracle
11 3 (13.64%) Java
11 3 (13.64%) Web Development
12 2 (9.091%) Web Application Development
12 2 (9.091%) Security Cleared
12 2 (9.091%) Life Science
12 2 (9.091%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (9.091%) Ajax
12 2 (9.091%) Content Management
12 2 (9.091%) HTML
12 2 (9.091%) OO
12 2 (9.091%) Documentum

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (81.82%) .NET
1 18 (81.82%) CSS
2 16 (72.73%) Web Services
2 16 (72.73%) XHTML
3 11 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 8 (36.36%) ASP.NET
5 5 (22.73%) jQuery
6 4 (18.18%) XML
7 2 (9.091%) Ajax
7 2 (9.091%) HTML
8 1 (4.545%) Hibernate
8 1 (4.545%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 12 (54.55%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (9.091%) Documentum
3 1 (4.545%) WordPress
3 1 (4.545%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (9.091%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (4.545%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) C# Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Web Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Programmer
4 5 (22.73%) C# Programmer
5 4 (18.18%) .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
6 3 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (9.091%) Product Specialist
8 1 (4.545%) Junior
8 1 (4.545%) Software Engineer
8 1 (4.545%) VB.NET Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (4.545%) Junior Developer
8 1 (4.545%) PHP Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Junior .NET Developer
8 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
8 1 (4.545%) PHP Web Developer
8 1 (4.545%) PHP Programmer
8 1 (4.545%) Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Digital Media
2 2 (9.091%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) MVC
2 11 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (13.64%) Web Development
4 2 (9.091%) Web Application Development
4 2 (9.091%) Content Management
4 2 (9.091%) OO
5 1 (4.545%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) SQL
2 18 (81.82%) C#
2 18 (81.82%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 1 (4.545%) PHP
4 1 (4.545%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 2 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Sitecore
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 1 (4.545%) Sony
Chester, Cheshire
Implement, customise, and manage CMS/ecommerce sites as well as bespoke applications 3... Very strong working knowledge of .NET4 using C# 2. Knowledge of MVC framework 3. Very...
Blueleaf Digital
Salary: Unspecified £Excellent Salary and Package on Offer!
Posted: 19 June 2013
Chester
Implement, customise, and manage CMS/ecommerce sites as well as bespoke applications 3... Very strong working knowledge of Object Orientated PHP5 2. Very strong working knowledge of SQL (...
Blue-Leaf Digital
Salary: £0 - £35,000 per year
Posted: 23 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Implement, customise, and manage CMS/ecommerce sites as well as bespoke applications... Very strong working knowledge of Object Orientated PHP5... Very strong working knowledge of SQL (in particular...
Blueleaf Digital
Salary: Unspecified £Excellent Remuneration
Posted: 19 June 2013