The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sitecore products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sitecore over the 3 months to 20 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 Leicester region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Sitecore.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sitecore
Rank 62 - 38
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Sitecore 1 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 0.253% - 1.767%
As % of the Vendors category 0.437% - 3.650%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
Average salary £35,000 - £26,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £32,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+10.76% -18.75%
All Vendors
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
229 140 137
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 57.97% 38.25% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 202 123 115
Average salary £37,500 £33,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.63% -12.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £22,650
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sitecore
Leicestershire

Sitecore
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester Sitecore Jobs Demand Trend

Sitecore
Salary Trend

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

Leicester Sitecore Salary Trend

Sitecore
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Sitecore.

1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) CMS
1 7 (100.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 6 (85.71%) Umbraco
2 6 (85.71%) HTML5
2 6 (85.71%) CSS3
2 6 (85.71%) MVC
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
3 5 (71.43%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 5 (71.43%) LAMP
3 5 (71.43%) Subversion
3 5 (71.43%) JSON
3 5 (71.43%) Apple iOS
3 5 (71.43%) Android
4 3 (42.86%) Project Management
4 3 (42.86%) C#
4 3 (42.86%) Digital Media
5 2 (28.57%) Advertising
5 2 (28.57%) Marketing
5 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
6 1 (14.29%) NHibernate
6 1 (14.29%) ReSharper
6 1 (14.29%) WCF
6 1 (14.29%) WF
6 1 (14.29%) LINQ
6 1 (14.29%) Finance

Sitecore
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Sitecore. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 6 (85.71%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) jQuery
2 6 (85.71%) HTML5
2 6 (85.71%) CSS3
3 5 (71.43%) JSON
3 5 (71.43%) LAMP
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 1 (14.29%) NHibernate
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) XSLT
5 1 (14.29%) XHTML
5 1 (14.29%) WCF
5 1 (14.29%) WF
5 1 (14.29%) LINQ
5 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (14.29%) LINQ to SQL
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) CMS
1 7 (100.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 6 (85.71%) Umbraco
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Subversion
1 5 (71.43%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) ReSharper
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) NCover
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
General
1 2 (28.57%) Advertising
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Developer
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Programmer
4 2 (28.57%) Web Programmer
5 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Digital Media
2 1 (14.29%) W3C
2 1 (14.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Android
1 5 (71.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) MVC
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft