The first table below looks at the demand for CMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CMS over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Content Management System (CMS)
Rank 122 103 89
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -14
Permanent jobs citing CMS 82 87 96
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.631% 1.909% 2.301%
As % of the Application Platforms category 8.274% 10.66% 11.99%
Number of salaries quoted 78 80 94
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -
All Application Platforms
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
991 816 801
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.71% 17.90% 19.20%
Number of salaries quoted 839 704 731
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
CMS
England

CMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands CMS Salary Trend

CMS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CMS across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands CMS Salary Histogram

CMS
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Birmingham -33 28 £32,500 +8.33%
Warwickshire +12 14 £30,000 -7.69%
Staffordshire +1 13 £45,500 -4.21%
Coventry -23 6 £43,750 +16.66%
Walsall - 6 £30,000 -
Herefordshire +14 3 £19,126 -14.99%
Worcestershire +3 2 £24,250 -19.16%
Shropshire -8 1 £28,500 +35.71%
CMS
England

CMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 103 (68.67%) CSS
2 97 (64.67%) JavaScript
3 82 (54.67%) HTML
4 66 (44.00%) jQuery
5 54 (36.00%) HTML5
6 51 (34.00%) .NET
7 48 (32.00%) PHP
8 46 (30.67%) C#
9 44 (29.33%) CSS3
10 43 (28.67%) ASP.NET
10 43 (28.67%) Web Development
11 42 (28.00%) MVC
12 38 (25.33%) XHTML
13 37 (24.67%) SQL
14 36 (24.00%) Photoshop
15 33 (22.00%) E-Commerce
15 33 (22.00%) Degree
16 32 (21.33%) Content Management
17 29 (19.33%) SEO
18 28 (18.67%) SQL Server
19 27 (18.00%) Drupal
20 26 (17.33%) MySQL
21 24 (16.00%) Sitecore CMS
21 24 (16.00%) Sitecore
22 23 (15.33%) Marketing
22 23 (15.33%) Web Services
22 23 (15.33%) XML
22 23 (15.33%) Microsoft
23 22 (14.67%) Unit Testing
24 20 (13.33%) MS Excel

CMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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
1 103 (68.67%) CSS
2 82 (54.67%) HTML
3 66 (44.00%) jQuery
4 54 (36.00%) HTML5
5 51 (34.00%) .NET
6 44 (29.33%) CSS3
7 43 (28.67%) ASP.NET
8 38 (25.33%) XHTML
9 23 (15.33%) Web Services
9 23 (15.33%) XML
10 19 (12.67%) XSLT
10 19 (12.67%) Ajax
11 13 (8.667%) Flash
11 13 (8.667%) .NET Framework
12 9 (6.000%) LAMP
12 9 (6.000%) WCF
13 8 (5.333%) REST
14 7 (4.667%) NHibernate
14 7 (4.667%) LINQ
14 7 (4.667%) LINQ to SQL
Application Platforms
1 27 (18.00%) Drupal
2 24 (16.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 16 (10.67%) WordPress
4 15 (10.00%) Joomla!
5 14 (9.333%) Umbraco
5 14 (9.333%) SharePoint
6 11 (7.333%) Apache
7 6 (4.000%) Magento
8 4 (2.667%) Kentico
9 3 (2.000%) Tomcat
9 3 (2.000%) IIS
9 3 (2.000%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (1.333%) Lync
11 1 (0.667%) Documentum
11 1 (0.667%) EPiServer CMS
11 1 (0.667%) SilverStripe
11 1 (0.667%) Moodle
11 1 (0.667%) Windows Azure
11 1 (0.667%) Amazon AWS
11 1 (0.667%) Facebook Platform
Applications
1 36 (24.00%) Photoshop
2 20 (13.33%) MS Excel
3 15 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (4.000%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (4.000%) MS Office
5 4 (2.667%) Acrobat
5 4 (2.667%) InDesign
6 3 (2.000%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (1.333%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.667%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.667%) Internet
2 2 (1.333%) PABX
2 2 (1.333%) PBX
2 2 (1.333%) VoIP
2 2 (1.333%) FTP
3 1 (0.667%) Intranet
3 1 (0.667%) Extranet
3 1 (0.667%) HTTP
3 1 (0.667%) SMS
3 1 (0.667%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.667%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.67%) SQL Server
2 26 (17.33%) MySQL
3 4 (2.667%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (2.667%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (2.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.667%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.667%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 10 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (4.667%) NUnit
3 7 (4.667%) ReSharper
3 7 (4.667%) TeamCity
3 7 (4.667%) GitHub
3 7 (4.667%) NCover
4 6 (4.000%) Git (software)
4 6 (4.000%) Subversion
5 5 (3.333%) Dreamweaver
6 2 (1.333%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (0.667%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.667%) Ant
7 1 (0.667%) JUnit
7 1 (0.667%) Maven
General
1 23 (15.33%) Marketing
2 19 (12.67%) Finance
3 11 (7.333%) Retail
4 5 (3.333%) Publishing
5 4 (2.667%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.333%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.333%) Advertising
7 1 (0.667%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 99 (66.00%) Developer
2 52 (34.67%) Web Developer
3 27 (18.00%) PHP Developer
4 23 (15.33%) Front-End Developer
4 23 (15.33%) .NET Developer
5 19 (12.67%) Front-End Web Developer
6 10 (6.667%) Web Team Leader
6 10 (6.667%) .NET Team Leader
6 10 (6.667%) C# Developer
6 10 (6.667%) Team Leader
6 10 (6.667%) Development Team Leader
7 9 (6.000%) ASP.NET Developer
7 9 (6.000%) PHP Web Developer
7 9 (6.000%) C# .NET Developer
7 9 (6.000%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 7 (4.667%) Web Development Team Leader
9 6 (4.000%) Designer
9 6 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (4.000%) PHP Programmer
9 6 (4.000%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.000%) W3C
2 10 (6.667%) Social Media
2 10 (6.667%) N-Tier
3 7 (4.667%) Computer Science
3 7 (4.667%) Open Source
4 6 (4.000%) Digital Media
4 6 (4.000%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.333%) Smartcard
5 5 (3.333%) Graphic Design
6 3 (2.000%) EPoS
6 3 (2.000%) NHS
6 3 (2.000%) Statistics
7 2 (1.333%) FMCG
7 2 (1.333%) Inversion of Control
7 2 (1.333%) SaaS
8 1 (0.667%) Clustering
8 1 (0.667%) Blog
8 1 (0.667%) Life Science
8 1 (0.667%) Photography
8 1 (0.667%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.333%) Windows
2 7 (4.667%) Linux
3 5 (3.333%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.333%) Android
5 1 (0.667%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.667%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.667%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.667%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.67%) Web Development
2 42 (28.00%) MVC
3 33 (22.00%) E-Commerce
4 32 (21.33%) Content Management
5 29 (19.33%) SEO
6 22 (14.67%) Unit Testing
7 12 (8.000%) TDD
7 12 (8.000%) Web Application Development
8 11 (7.333%) SOA
9 10 (6.667%) Document Management
10 9 (6.000%) Integration Testing
10 9 (6.000%) Analytics
11 8 (5.333%) Test Scripting
11 8 (5.333%) Agile Software Development
11 8 (5.333%) Project Management
12 7 (4.667%) OO
13 6 (4.000%) User Experience Design
13 6 (4.000%) Web Design
14 5 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
14 5 (3.333%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 97 (64.67%) JavaScript
2 48 (32.00%) PHP
3 46 (30.67%) C#
4 37 (24.67%) SQL
5 14 (9.333%) VB.NET
6 9 (6.000%) Java
7 3 (2.000%) Objective-C
7 3 (2.000%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.000%) PHP5
8 2 (1.333%) Ruby
9 1 (0.667%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (22.00%) Degree
2 4 (2.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.000%) MCTS
3 3 (2.000%) MCPD
4 2 (1.333%) CCNA
4 2 (1.333%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.333%) QA
2 2 (1.333%) SLA
Vendors
1 24 (16.00%) Sitecore
2 23 (15.33%) Microsoft
3 20 (13.33%) Facebook
4 16 (10.67%) Adobe
5 11 (7.333%) hybris
6 10 (6.667%) Zend
7 6 (4.000%) Google
8 5 (3.333%) Sage
8 5 (3.333%) Oracle
8 5 (3.333%) EPiServer
9 4 (2.667%) Avaya
10 3 (2.000%) ATG
10 3 (2.000%) IBM
11 2 (1.333%) Appcelerator
11 2 (1.333%) Verint
11 2 (1.333%) Alterian
12 1 (0.667%) Pegasus
12 1 (0.667%) Mitel
12 1 (0.667%) Twitter
12 1 (0.667%) Xamarin
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