The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 119 117 150
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +33
Permanent jobs citing CMS 2486 2619 2252
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 2.251% 2.212% 1.746%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.80% 10.87% 9.392%
Number of salaries quoted 2191 2402 2000
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -
All Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
23011 24090 23978
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 20.83% 20.35% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19605 20902 20767
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

CMS Jobs Demand Trend

CMS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CMS within the UK.

CMS Salary Trend

CMS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CMS over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 within the UK.

CMS Salary Histogram

CMS
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMS within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -1 2369 £40,000 - 316
London 0 1223 £47,500 +11.76% 153
South East -22 417 £38,500 +3.35% 47
City of London +17 309 £50,000 +11.11% 42
North West +21 217 £34,000 +4.61% 37
Manchester +48 169 £35,000 +27.27% 27
Surrey +28 148 £40,000 +23.07% 13
East of England +20 145 £30,500 -20.77% 13
South West -8 106 £33,000 -1.49% 19
West Midlands 0 90 £31,000 -1.58% 7
Yorkshire -28 90 £28,754 -11.52% 19
East Midlands +35 81 £30,000 +9.09% 16
Berkshire -35 70 £42,500 -5.55% 8
Oxfordshire -21 54 £47,500 +41.79% 2
Hampshire -19 52 £30,500 -12.85% 10
West Yorkshire -29 50 £30,000 -7.69% 12
Hertfordshire -12 45 £43,500 +12.98% 5
Leeds -7 44 £30,000 -7.69% 8
Guildford +26 42 £40,000 +48.14% 2
Bristol -11 42 £32,500 +1.56% 5
Birmingham -11 37 £32,500 +8.33% 4
Buckinghamshire +1 35 £30,000 -25.00% 5
Scotland -22 34 £37,500 +10.29% 10
Bolton - 33 £32,500 - 1
Cambridgeshire +16 31 £31,000 -17.33% 1
South Yorkshire +5 30 £28,000 +1.81% 4
Woking +17 29 £22,000 -56.00% 1
Nottinghamshire +12 29 £37,000 +25.42% 4
Cheshire -3 28 £37,500 +3.44% 7
Wiltshire +23 27 £34,500 +4.54% 5

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 2701 (56.53%) CSS
2 2530 (52.95%) JavaScript
3 2252 (47.13%) HTML
4 1848 (38.68%) .NET
5 1771 (37.07%) jQuery
6 1534 (32.11%) PHP
7 1502 (31.44%) C#
8 1434 (30.01%) ASP.NET
9 1268 (26.54%) MVC
10 1227 (25.68%) SQL Server
11 1183 (24.76%) SQL
12 1153 (24.13%) E-Commerce
13 1104 (23.11%) MySQL
14 1063 (22.25%) Content Management
15 1053 (22.04%) HTML5
16 941 (19.69%) XML
17 819 (17.14%) Web Development
18 802 (16.79%) Ajax
19 788 (16.49%) Drupal
20 762 (15.95%) Web Services
21 747 (15.63%) Agile Software Development
22 738 (15.45%) Java
23 693 (14.50%) CSS3
24 661 (13.83%) OO
25 656 (13.73%) XHTML
26 649 (13.58%) Marketing
27 617 (12.91%) WordPress
27 617 (12.91%) Microsoft
28 595 (12.45%) Scrum
29 582 (12.18%) Finance

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 2701 (56.53%) CSS
2 2252 (47.13%) HTML
3 1848 (38.68%) .NET
4 1771 (37.07%) jQuery
5 1434 (30.01%) ASP.NET
6 1053 (22.04%) HTML5
7 941 (19.69%) XML
8 802 (16.79%) Ajax
9 762 (15.95%) Web Services
10 693 (14.50%) CSS3
11 656 (13.73%) XHTML
12 470 (9.837%) LAMP
13 465 (9.732%) ASP.NET MVC
14 349 (7.304%) .NET Framework
15 322 (6.739%) XSLT
16 307 (6.425%) JSON
17 286 (5.986%) WCF
18 254 (5.316%) Spring
19 247 (5.170%) J2EE
20 215 (4.500%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 788 (16.49%) Drupal
2 617 (12.91%) WordPress
3 571 (11.95%) Umbraco
4 447 (9.355%) Sitecore CMS
5 364 (7.618%) Apache
6 277 (5.797%) SharePoint
7 256 (5.358%) Joomla!
8 223 (4.667%) IIS
9 222 (4.646%) Magento
10 160 (3.349%) Tomcat
11 129 (2.700%) Kentico
12 84 (1.758%) DotNetNuke
13 76 (1.591%) Alfresco
14 75 (1.570%) Apache Solr
15 66 (1.381%) Liferay
16 60 (1.256%) Sitefinity
17 59 (1.235%) TeamSite
17 59 (1.235%) Adobe CQ
18 58 (1.214%) Documentum
19 53 (1.109%) ESB
Applications
1 438 (9.167%) Photoshop
2 334 (6.990%) MS Excel
3 157 (3.286%) Adobe Illustrator
4 90 (1.884%) MS Office
5 64 (1.339%) Fireworks
6 46 (0.963%) InDesign
7 41 (0.858%) MS PowerPoint
7 41 (0.858%) MS Visio
8 32 (0.670%) MS Project
9 16 (0.335%) Acrobat
10 13 (0.272%) Adobe Captivate
11 7 (0.147%) FrameMaker
11 7 (0.147%) RoboHelp
12 6 (0.126%) Spreadsheet
13 4 (0.084%) OmniGraffle
13 4 (0.084%) ImageReady
14 3 (0.063%) InfoPath
14 3 (0.063%) PaintShop Pro
14 3 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 163 (3.411%) Google Analytics
2 29 (0.607%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (0.440%) Visualfiles
4 16 (0.335%) WebTrends
5 15 (0.314%) Tridion
6 13 (0.272%) SAP CRM
7 8 (0.167%) Bond Adapt
8 7 (0.147%) assyst
9 6 (0.126%) SAP R/3
9 6 (0.126%) SAP Retail
10 4 (0.084%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.084%) Oracle BPM
11 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.063%) BusinessWorks
11 3 (0.063%) SAP ECC
12 2 (0.042%) SiteCatalyst
12 2 (0.042%) Agresso
12 2 (0.042%) Capstone
12 2 (0.042%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 1 (0.021%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 224 (4.688%) Internet
2 201 (4.207%) Intranet
3 120 (2.512%) HTTP
4 85 (1.779%) DNS
5 66 (1.381%) Extranet
6 61 (1.277%) TCP/IP
7 55 (1.151%) Firewall
8 35 (0.733%) VoIP
9 34 (0.712%) IP Telephony
10 25 (0.523%) LAN
11 23 (0.481%) DHCP
11 23 (0.481%) FTP
12 22 (0.460%) SSL
13 21 (0.440%) WAN
14 17 (0.356%) Unified Communications
15 15 (0.314%) VPN
15 15 (0.314%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (0.251%) CTI
16 12 (0.251%) DEFINITY
17 11 (0.230%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1227 (25.68%) SQL Server
2 1104 (23.11%) MySQL
3 390 (8.162%) SQL Server 2008
4 185 (3.872%) SQL Server 2005
5 108 (2.260%) NoSQL
6 80 (1.674%) PostgreSQL
7 75 (1.570%) Big Data
8 63 (1.319%) RDBMS
9 61 (1.277%) MarkLogic
10 60 (1.256%) MongoDB
11 54 (1.130%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 45 (0.942%) Crystal Reports
13 37 (0.774%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (0.733%) DB2
15 31 (0.649%) Data Warehouse
16 29 (0.607%) SQL Server 2000
17 27 (0.565%) BusinessObjects
18 24 (0.502%) SAP BW
19 23 (0.481%) Oracle 11g
19 23 (0.481%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 406 (8.497%) Visual Studio
2 391 (8.183%) Subversion
3 248 (5.190%) Git (software)
4 147 (3.077%) Team Foundation Server
5 131 (2.742%) NUnit
6 118 (2.470%) JIRA
7 104 (2.177%) Dreamweaver
8 95 (1.988%) JUnit
9 87 (1.821%) Maven
9 87 (1.821%) TeamCity
10 79 (1.653%) Selenium
11 65 (1.360%) MSBuild
12 64 (1.339%) Eclipse
13 60 (1.256%) Jenkins
14 57 (1.193%) GitHub
15 51 (1.067%) Ant
16 46 (0.963%) ReSharper
17 41 (0.858%) Rhino Mocks
18 39 (0.816%) Moq
19 30 (0.628%) SpecFlow
General
1 649 (13.58%) Marketing
2 582 (12.18%) Finance
3 239 (5.002%) Publishing
4 221 (4.625%) Retail
5 176 (3.684%) Back Office
6 124 (2.595%) Advertising
7 114 (2.386%) Telecoms
8 97 (2.030%) Banking
9 91 (1.905%) Multimedia
10 79 (1.653%) Legal
11 71 (1.486%) Law
12 68 (1.423%) Games
13 34 (0.712%) Investment Banking
14 31 (0.649%) Financial Institution
15 23 (0.481%) Automotive
15 23 (0.481%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (0.377%) Manufacturing
17 17 (0.356%) French Language
18 11 (0.230%) Electronics
19 10 (0.209%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 3156 (66.05%) Developer
2 924 (19.34%) Web Developer
3 852 (17.83%) .NET Developer
4 692 (14.48%) PHP Developer
5 537 (11.24%) Senior Developer
6 365 (7.639%) C# Developer
7 364 (7.618%) ASP.NET Developer
8 331 (6.928%) Front-End Developer
9 300 (6.279%) C# .NET Developer
10 274 (5.735%) Architect
11 227 (4.751%) Analyst
12 210 (4.395%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 197 (4.123%) Project Manager
14 191 (3.997%) PHP Web Developer
15 178 (3.725%) Junior
16 159 (3.328%) Lead Developer
16 159 (3.328%) Senior PHP Developer
17 155 (3.244%) Junior Developer
18 147 (3.077%) Designer
19 142 (2.972%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 400 (8.372%) Open Source
2 365 (7.639%) Social Media
3 308 (6.446%) Mobile App
4 261 (5.463%) Computer Science
5 201 (4.207%) Digital Media
6 198 (4.144%) W3C
7 132 (2.763%) Enterprise Software
8 105 (2.198%) Management Information System
9 98 (2.051%) SaaS
10 66 (1.381%) N-Tier
11 64 (1.339%) Web 2.0
11 64 (1.339%) New Media
11 64 (1.339%) iPhone
12 61 (1.277%) Inversion of Control
13 60 (1.256%) Graphic Design
14 59 (1.235%) Cloud Computing
15 49 (1.026%) iPad
16 44 (0.921%) Blog
17 43 (0.900%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 41 (0.858%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 504 (10.55%) Linux
2 337 (7.053%) Windows
3 189 (3.956%) UNIX
4 138 (2.888%) Android
5 101 (2.114%) Apple iOS
6 74 (1.549%) Ubuntu
7 68 (1.423%) Solaris
8 64 (1.339%) Windows Server 2008
9 40 (0.837%) Windows Server 2003
10 31 (0.649%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (0.419%) Windows 7
12 15 (0.314%) Windows Mobile
13 10 (0.209%) CentOS
13 10 (0.209%) Windows XP
14 9 (0.188%) Windows 8
14 9 (0.188%) Windows Phone
15 8 (0.167%) Fedora
16 7 (0.147%) Windows Server 2012
17 6 (0.126%) OpenVMS
18 5 (0.105%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1268 (26.54%) MVC
2 1153 (24.13%) E-Commerce
3 1063 (22.25%) Content Management
4 819 (17.14%) Web Development
5 747 (15.63%) Agile Software Development
6 661 (13.83%) OO
7 595 (12.45%) Scrum
8 517 (10.82%) TDD
9 430 (9.000%) OOP
10 426 (8.916%) SEO
11 379 (7.932%) Project Management
12 300 (6.279%) Analytics
13 284 (5.944%) CRM
14 235 (4.918%) Continuous Integration
15 205 (4.290%) Unit Testing
16 176 (3.684%) Web Design
16 176 (3.684%) BDD
17 173 (3.621%) UML
18 162 (3.391%) Web Application Development
19 144 (3.014%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2530 (52.95%) JavaScript
2 1534 (32.11%) PHP
3 1502 (31.44%) C#
4 1183 (24.76%) SQL
5 738 (15.45%) Java
6 242 (5.065%) PHP5
7 215 (4.500%) T-SQL
8 165 (3.453%) VB.NET
9 140 (2.930%) Python
10 127 (2.658%) Ruby
11 120 (2.512%) Perl
12 80 (1.674%) VB
13 73 (1.528%) XPath
14 40 (0.837%) Objective-C
14 40 (0.837%) C
15 38 (0.795%) C++
16 36 (0.753%) Groovy
16 36 (0.753%) VBA
17 35 (0.733%) ActionScript
18 34 (0.712%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 575 (12.03%) Degree
2 94 (1.967%) Microsoft Certification
3 70 (1.465%) Security Cleared
4 64 (1.339%) MCTS
5 46 (0.963%) SC Cleared
6 39 (0.816%) ISEB
7 38 (0.795%) MCP
8 36 (0.753%) MCAD
9 33 (0.691%) MCPD
10 31 (0.649%) MCSD
11 23 (0.481%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (0.481%) PMI Certification
12 22 (0.460%) CCNA
12 22 (0.460%) PMP
13 15 (0.314%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 15 (0.314%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.188%) MCSE
14 9 (0.188%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 9 (0.188%) Avaya Certification
15 7 (0.147%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (3.746%) QA
2 59 (1.235%) WAI
3 43 (0.900%) SLA
4 21 (0.440%) WCAG
4 21 (0.440%) ISO 9001
5 10 (0.209%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.167%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.042%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.042%) COBIT
8 1 (0.021%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.021%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.021%) Section 508
System Software
1 71 (1.486%) Active Directory
2 29 (0.607%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (0.586%) Varnish
4 4 (0.084%) XenApp
4 4 (0.084%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 4 (0.084%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (0.084%) NFS
4 4 (0.084%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (0.063%) VMware ESX
5 3 (0.063%) OpenSSO
5 3 (0.063%) vSphere
6 2 (0.042%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.042%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.021%) Samba
7 1 (0.021%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (0.440%) Puppet
2 13 (0.272%) Nagios
3 12 (0.251%) Plesk
3 12 (0.251%) Cisco IPCC
4 11 (0.230%) HP Quality Center
5 8 (0.167%) MOM
5 8 (0.167%) Business Desktop Deployment
6 2 (0.042%) CA Wily
6 2 (0.042%) Unicenter
7 1 (0.021%) WMI
7 1 (0.021%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.021%) YUM
7 1 (0.021%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 617 (12.91%) Microsoft
2 447 (9.355%) Sitecore
3 367 (7.681%) Zend
4 308 (6.446%) Oracle
5 306 (6.404%) Adobe
6 254 (5.316%) Google
7 219 (4.584%) EPiServer
8 204 (4.270%) Facebook
9 138 (2.888%) Twitter
10 92 (1.925%) hybris
11 86 (1.800%) Avaya
12 83 (1.737%) Ektron
13 72 (1.507%) ATG
14 62 (1.298%) Red Hat
15 56 (1.172%) Open Text
16 55 (1.151%) Alterian
17 53 (1.109%) JBoss
17 53 (1.109%) Vignette
18 49 (1.026%) SAP
19 48 (1.005%) FatWire
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Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum
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Salary: 25,000 - 30,000
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Salary: £27000 - £34000 per annum
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Salary: From £27,000 to £30,000 per annum
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Salary: Unspecified £Excellent Salary and Package on Offer!
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Salary: £24000 - £30000 per annum
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Mint
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
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Testing Circle Ltd
Salary: £25,000 per annum
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Salary: £200 - £250
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Salary: 28,000 - 35,000
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Manchester, Lancashire
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Salary: £28000 to £35000 per annum - + Benefits
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Manchester, Lancashire
Pertemps IT
Salary: £25000 to £32000 per annum - + Benefits
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Worcester, West Midlands
Mint
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + fantastic benefits
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City, London
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Salary: 25,000 to 30,000
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York, North Yorkshire
Senitor Associates
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
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Salary: £65000.00 - £70000.00 per annum
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Salary: 20-28k
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Lancashire
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Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum
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Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum
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Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
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