The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sitecore products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Sitecore over the 3 months to 19 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 Vendors for the Manchester region.

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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sitecore
Rank 184 166 164
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -2
Permanent jobs citing Sitecore 3 10 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.071% 0.266% 0.025%
As % of the Vendors category 0.159% 0.580% 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 1
Average salary £45,000 £25,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+80.00% -33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -18.75%
All Vendors
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1892 1725 2021
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 44.99% 45.90% 50.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1586 1463 1830
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Sitecore
North West

Sitecore
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Sitecore Salary Trend

Sitecore
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 13 (100.00%) C#
1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 13 (100.00%) CSS
1 13 (100.00%) jQuery
2 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
2 12 (92.31%) MVC
2 12 (92.31%) .NET
2 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET MVC
3 11 (84.62%) Sitecore CMS
3 11 (84.62%) CMS
4 10 (76.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (76.92%) .NET Framework
4 10 (76.92%) CRM
4 10 (76.92%) SharePoint
4 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
4 10 (76.92%) SOAP
4 10 (76.92%) Web Services
4 10 (76.92%) HTML
4 10 (76.92%) WCF
4 10 (76.92%) REST
5 8 (61.54%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 8 (61.54%) Castle Windsor
5 8 (61.54%) NHibernate
6 3 (23.08%) CSS3
6 3 (23.08%) Umbraco
6 3 (23.08%) HTML5
7 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
7 2 (15.38%) SQL

Sitecore
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 13 (100.00%) CSS
1 13 (100.00%) jQuery
2 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
2 12 (92.31%) .NET
2 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET MVC
3 10 (76.92%) .NET Framework
3 10 (76.92%) SOAP
3 10 (76.92%) Web Services
3 10 (76.92%) HTML
3 10 (76.92%) WCF
3 10 (76.92%) REST
4 8 (61.54%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 8 (61.54%) Castle Windsor
4 8 (61.54%) NHibernate
5 3 (23.08%) CSS3
5 3 (23.08%) HTML5
6 1 (7.692%) JSON
6 1 (7.692%) Ajax
6 1 (7.692%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 11 (84.62%) Sitecore CMS
1 11 (84.62%) CMS
2 10 (76.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (23.08%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.692%) Tridion
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.692%) QUnit
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Junior
3 1 (7.692%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Junior Developer
3 1 (7.692%) CMS Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Head of Development
3 1 (7.692%) Umbraco Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) MVC
2 10 (76.92%) CRM
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.692%) OO
4 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Scrum
4 1 (7.692%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C#
1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) Java
3 1 (7.692%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
Manchester, North West
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