Content Management Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Content Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Content Management over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Content Management UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	260	233	225
Rank change year-on-year	-27	-8
Contract jobs citing Content Management	382	524	522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.90%	1.06%	1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.06%	1.27%	1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted	243	341	317
Median daily rate	£400	£420	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-4.76%	+12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£226	£250	£220
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£600	£529
UK excluding London median daily rate	£374	£365	£334
% change year-on-year	+2.39%	+9.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted	19	18	16
Median hourly rate	£22.50	£31.50	£38.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-28.57%	-18.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.80	£12.20	£17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£40.50	£53.84	£40.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£32.50	£35.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	-8.45%	-11.25%

Content Management is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	35981	41220	41210
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	84.73%	83.49%	80.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	23640	27663	26906
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+8.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£590
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	936	964	1142
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	+5.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.53	£12.58	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£49.05	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Content Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Content Management as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Content Management in England

Content Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Content Management in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Content Management in England

Content Management
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Content Management in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Content Management in England

Content Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Management in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Content Management in England

Content Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Content Management in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Content Management in England

Content Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Content Management within the England region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-47	183	£450	-	39
South East	-18	62	£375	-6.25%	23
South West	+6	39	£310	-17.33%	9
East of England	+11	24	£313	-26.47%	14
West Midlands	+28	21	£350	+7.69%	11
North East	+60	13	£275	-11.29%	1
East Midlands	-3	12	£425	+13.33%	1
North West	0	9	£476	+46.53%	7
Yorkshire	+6	4	£600	+26.31%	3
Midlands	+11	2	£513	+13.88%	13
Content Management UK

Content Management
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Content Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Content Management.

1	457 (59.58%)	CMS
2	261 (34.03%)	Agile Software Development
3	240 (31.29%)	HTML
4	230 (29.99%)	JavaScript
5	203 (26.47%)	CSS
6	167 (21.77%)	Java
7	140 (18.25%)	User Experience
8	130 (16.95%)	Web Services
8	130 (16.95%)	XML
9	124 (16.17%)	jQuery
10	123 (16.04%)	E-Commerce
11	117 (15.25%)	Marketing
12	114 (14.86%)	Adobe
13	113 (14.73%)	HTML5
14	105 (13.69%)	.NET

15	101 (13.17%)	Finance
16	100 (13.04%)	Oracle
17	97 (12.65%)	Microsoft
18	96 (12.52%)	Adobe Experience Manager
19	94 (12.26%)	Web Development
20	87 (11.34%)	Analytics
21	86 (11.21%)	SQL
22	80 (10.43%)	Front End Development
23	76 (9.91%)	SharePoint
23	76 (9.91%)	Scrum
24	75 (9.78%)	Retail
24	75 (9.78%)	Degree
24	75 (9.78%)	Project Management
24	75 (9.78%)	CSS3
25	74 (9.65%)	Migration

Content Management
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	457 (59.58%)	CMS
2	96 (12.52%)	Adobe Experience Manager
3	76 (9.91%)	SharePoint
4	65 (8.47%)	Sitecore CMS
5	40 (5.22%)	WebSphere
6	37 (4.82%)	Drupal
6	37 (4.82%)	Umbraco
7	35 (4.56%)	Confluence
8	34 (4.43%)	SharePoint 2013
9	31 (4.04%)	Documentum
10	30 (3.91%)	SharePoint 2010
11	26 (3.39%)	Oracle SOA Suite
12	25 (3.26%)	Apache
13	24 (3.13%)	IIS
14	18 (2.35%)	Skype for Business
15	17 (2.22%)	Apache Solr
16	16 (2.09%)	JBoss
16	16 (2.09%)	MS Exchange
17	15 (1.96%)	Exchange Server 2010
17	15 (1.96%)	Exchange Server 2013

Applications
1	49 (6.39%)	Microsoft Office
2	19 (2.48%)	Photoshop
3	14 (1.83%)	Microsoft Excel
4	12 (1.56%)	Microsoft Project
5	9 (1.17%)	MS Visio
6	5 (0.65%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
7	4 (0.52%)	Adobe Creative Suite
7	4 (0.52%)	Adobe Illustrator
7	4 (0.52%)	SPSS
8	3 (0.39%)	InDesign
9	2 (0.26%)	Mingle
10	1 (0.13%)	Fireworks
10	1 (0.13%)	InfoPath

Business Applications
1	19 (2.48%)	Payment Gateway
2	17 (2.22%)	Maximo
3	12 (1.56%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	10 (1.30%)	SAP Hybris
5	9 (1.17%)	Eloqua
6	6 (0.78%)	Dynamics CRM
6	6 (0.78%)	Unica
7	3 (0.39%)	SDL Web 8
7	3 (0.39%)	WebTrends
8	2 (0.26%)	Primavera
8	2 (0.26%)	Relativity
8	2 (0.26%)	SessionCam
9	1 (0.13%)	Cognos TM1
9	1 (0.13%)	Magento
9	1 (0.13%)	Oracle BPM
9	1 (0.13%)	Remedy ITSM
9	1 (0.13%)	SAP CO
9	1 (0.13%)	SAP cProjects
9	1 (0.13%)	SAP FI/CO
9	1 (0.13%)	Social Studio

Cloud Services
1	51 (6.65%)	Amazon AWS
2	38 (4.95%)	Office 365
3	30 (3.91%)	Microsoft Azure
4	27 (3.52%)	Google Analytics
5	19 (2.48%)	Adobe Analytics
6	17 (2.22%)	SaaS
7	14 (1.83%)	Oracle Service Cloud
8	10 (1.30%)	GitHub
9	6 (0.78%)	AdWords
9	6 (0.78%)	Amazon S3
9	6 (0.78%)	Cloud Computing
9	6 (0.78%)	Silverpop
10	5 (0.65%)	PaaS
11	4 (0.52%)	Amazon CloudWatch
11	4 (0.52%)	Amazon EC2
11	4 (0.52%)	Amazon ElastiCache
11	4 (0.52%)	Amazon SQS
11	4 (0.52%)	AWS Lambda
11	4 (0.52%)	CloudFront
11	4 (0.52%)	OneDrive

Communications & Networking
1	57 (7.43%)	Internet
2	27 (3.52%)	Intranet
3	19 (2.48%)	HTTP
4	16 (2.09%)	Skype
5	7 (0.91%)	DNS
6	6 (0.78%)	Extranet
6	6 (0.78%)	Network Security
7	5 (0.65%)	Firewall
7	5 (0.65%)	LDAP
8	4 (0.52%)	DHCP
8	4 (0.52%)	SSL
9	2 (0.26%)	FTP
9	2 (0.26%)	LAN
9	2 (0.26%)	Unified Communications
9	2 (0.26%)	WAN
10	1 (0.13%)	Cisco IOS
10	1 (0.13%)	NFC
10	1 (0.13%)	SMS
10	1 (0.13%)	SSH
10	1 (0.13%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	50 (6.52%)	SQL Server
2	30 (3.91%)	Endeca
3	17 (2.22%)	Relational Database
4	14 (1.83%)	Data Warehouse
4	14 (1.83%)	MongoDB
5	12 (1.56%)	MySQL
6	10 (1.30%)	EDRMS
7	8 (1.04%)	NoSQL
7	8 (1.04%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	7 (0.91%)	Big Data
8	7 (0.91%)	Hadoop
9	6 (0.78%)	Oracle Database
9	6 (0.78%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
9	6 (0.78%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
10	4 (0.52%)	Amazon DynamoDB
10	4 (0.52%)	Couchbase
10	4 (0.52%)	Mahout
10	4 (0.52%)	PostgreSQL
10	4 (0.52%)	Power BI
10	4 (0.52%)	SQL Server 2008

Development Applications
1	68 (8.87%)	JIRA
2	60 (7.82%)	Git (software)
3	57 (7.43%)	Team Foundation Server
4	53 (6.91%)	Jenkins
5	51 (6.65%)	Selenium
6	38 (4.95%)	Gradle
6	38 (4.95%)	Visual Studio
7	31 (4.04%)	Maven
8	30 (3.91%)	JUnit
9	20 (2.61%)	WebDriver
10	19 (2.48%)	Mockito
11	18 (2.35%)	Ant
11	18 (2.35%)	Bitbucket
11	18 (2.35%)	JMeter
11	18 (2.35%)	Spock
12	14 (1.83%)	Apache Ivy
12	14 (1.83%)	eggPlant
13	13 (1.69%)	Hudson
14	12 (1.56%)	Dreamweaver
15	11 (1.43%)	Gatling

General
1	117 (15.25%)	Marketing
2	101 (13.17%)	Finance
3	75 (9.78%)	Retail
4	69 (9.00%)	Publishing
5	48 (6.26%)	Banking
6	33 (4.30%)	Legal
7	24 (3.13%)	Advertising
8	21 (2.74%)	Telecoms
9	16 (2.09%)	Electronics
10	15 (1.96%)	Manufacturing
11	11 (1.43%)	Retail Banking
12	9 (1.17%)	Law
13	7 (0.91%)	Games
13	7 (0.91%)	Pharmaceutical
13	7 (0.91%)	Spanish Language
14	6 (0.78%)	Investment Banking
14	6 (0.78%)	Multimedia
15	5 (0.65%)	Billing
16	4 (0.52%)	German Language
16	4 (0.52%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	292 (38.07%)	Developer
2	107 (13.95%)	Architect
3	90 (11.73%)	Analyst
4	60 (7.82%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5	51 (6.65%)	Senior Developer
5	51 (6.65%)	Solutions Architect
6	48 (6.26%)	Business Analyst
7	32 (4.17%)	Designer
8	30 (3.91%)	Java Developer
9	28 (3.65%)	.NET Developer
10	27 (3.52%)	Sitecore Developer
11	26 (3.39%)	JavaScript Developer
11	26 (3.39%)	Web Developer
12	22 (2.87%)	Project Manager
13	20 (2.61%)	Content Designer
13	20 (2.61%)	SharePoint Developer
14	19 (2.48%)	Consultant
15	18 (2.35%)	Test Analyst
16	17 (2.22%)	HTML Developer
16	17 (2.22%)	Oracle Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	240 (31.29%)	HTML
2	203 (26.47%)	CSS
3	130 (16.95%)	Web Services
3	130 (16.95%)	XML
4	124 (16.17%)	jQuery
5	113 (14.73%)	HTML5
6	105 (13.69%)	.NET
7	75 (9.78%)	CSS3
8	71 (9.26%)	Spring
9	59 (7.69%)	Ajax
10	58 (7.56%)	AngularJS
10	58 (7.56%)	ASP.NET
11	57 (7.43%)	REST
12	48 (6.26%)	J2EE
13	42 (5.48%)	RESTful
13	42 (5.48%)	SOAP
14	38 (4.95%)	JSON
15	36 (4.69%)	JSP
16	35 (4.56%)	XHTML
16	35 (4.56%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	140 (18.25%)	User Experience
2	70 (9.13%)	Analytical Skills
3	65 (8.47%)	Management Information System
4	53 (6.91%)	Social Media
5	33 (4.30%)	iPad
6	27 (3.52%)	W3C
7	26 (3.39%)	Enterprise Software
8	20 (2.61%)	Computer Science
9	19 (2.48%)	Virtual Team
10	18 (2.35%)	Mobile App
11	15 (1.96%)	e-Learning
12	10 (1.30%)	Data Centre
13	8 (1.04%)	Digital Media
13	8 (1.04%)	Driving Licence
13	8 (1.04%)	PlayStation
14	7 (0.91%)	Cloud Native
14	7 (0.91%)	CMDB
14	7 (0.91%)	N-Tier
14	7 (0.91%)	Web 2.0
15	6 (0.78%)	Greenfield Project

Operating Systems
1	63 (8.21%)	Windows
2	32 (4.17%)	Linux
3	22 (2.87%)	Unix
4	19 (2.48%)	Windows Server
5	9 (1.17%)	Apple iOS
6	8 (1.04%)	Android
7	5 (0.65%)	Solaris
7	5 (0.65%)	Windows Server 2008
8	4 (0.52%)	Windows Server 2003
9	3 (0.39%)	CentOS
10	2 (0.26%)	Windows 10
10	2 (0.26%)	Windows Server 2012
11	1 (0.13%)	MVS
11	1 (0.13%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	261 (34.03%)	Agile Software Development
2	123 (16.04%)	E-Commerce
3	94 (12.26%)	Web Development
4	87 (11.34%)	Analytics
5	80 (10.43%)	Front End Development
6	76 (9.91%)	Scrum
7	75 (9.78%)	Project Management
8	74 (9.65%)	Migration
9	71 (9.26%)	MVC
10	65 (8.47%)	TDD
11	63 (8.21%)	ITIL
12	58 (7.56%)	SOA
13	56 (7.30%)	BDD
13	56 (7.30%)	SEO
14	55 (7.17%)	Stakeholder Management
15	54 (7.04%)	OO
16	52 (6.78%)	Asset Management
16	52 (6.78%)	Workflow
17	51 (6.65%)	Enterprise Content Management
18	50 (6.52%)	Test Automation

Programming Languages
1	230 (29.99%)	JavaScript
2	167 (21.77%)	Java
3	86 (11.21%)	SQL
4	74 (9.65%)	C#
5	19 (2.48%)	Python
6	18 (2.35%)	PHP
7	17 (2.22%)	Groovy
8	15 (1.96%)	Ruby
9	12 (1.56%)	ActionScript
10	11 (1.43%)	ES6
11	9 (1.17%)	PowerShell
12	8 (1.04%)	T-SQL
13	7 (0.91%)	ECMAScript
14	6 (0.78%)	SPARQL
14	6 (0.78%)	VBA
15	5 (0.65%)	C++
15	5 (0.65%)	R
16	4 (0.52%)	MATLAB
17	3 (0.39%)	Bash Shell
17	3 (0.39%)	C

Qualifications
1	75 (9.78%)	Degree
2	42 (5.48%)	Security Cleared
3	33 (4.30%)	SC Cleared
4	13 (1.69%)	Computer Science Degree
5	10 (1.30%)	ISEB
6	7 (0.91%)	PMI Certification
6	7 (0.91%)	PMP
7	5 (0.65%)	ISTQB
7	5 (0.65%)	PRINCE2 Certification
8	4 (0.52%)	BPSS Clearance
8	4 (0.52%)	Microsoft Certification
9	3 (0.39%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
9	3 (0.39%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
9	3 (0.39%)	Sun Certification
10	2 (0.26%)	APMP
10	2 (0.26%)	CAPM
10	2 (0.26%)	CISA
10	2 (0.26%)	CISM
10	2 (0.26%)	CTC Cleared
10	2 (0.26%)	Master's Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	35 (4.56%)	QA
2	7 (0.91%)	PCI DSS
3	6 (0.78%)	ISO 9001
3	6 (0.78%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	5 (0.65%)	PMO
4	5 (0.65%)	WCAG
5	4 (0.52%)	SLA
6	3 (0.39%)	Data Quality
6	3 (0.39%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	2 (0.26%)	FedRAMP
7	2 (0.26%)	ISO/IEC 20000

System Software
1	30 (3.91%)	Docker
2	9 (1.17%)	Active Directory
3	5 (0.65%)	Hyper-V
4	2 (0.26%)	Apache Flume
4	2 (0.26%)	HDFS
4	2 (0.26%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	1 (0.13%)	BitLocker
5	1 (0.13%)	Shibboleth
5	1 (0.13%)	VirtualBox

Systems Management
1	23 (3.00%)	Ansible
2	19 (2.48%)	HP Quality Center
3	9 (1.17%)	HP Fortify
4	7 (0.91%)	Puppet
5	5 (0.65%)	SCCM
6	4 (0.52%)	Kibana
6	4 (0.52%)	logstash
7	3 (0.39%)	Opscode Chef
7	3 (0.39%)	TeamSite
8	2 (0.26%)	Grafana
9	1 (0.13%)	Capistrano
9	1 (0.13%)	Nagios
9	1 (0.13%)	Piwik
9	1 (0.13%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)

Vendors
1	114 (14.86%)	Adobe
2	100 (13.04%)	Oracle
3	97 (12.65%)	Microsoft
4	68 (8.87%)	Sitecore
5	66 (8.60%)	IBM
6	35 (4.56%)	Google
7	33 (4.30%)	ATG
8	31 (4.04%)	SAP
9	21 (2.74%)	HP
10	20 (2.61%)	OpenText
11	18 (2.35%)	Apple
12	16 (2.09%)	Splunk
13	13 (1.69%)	Nintex
14	12 (1.56%)	FatWire
14	12 (1.56%)	hybris
15	11 (1.43%)	Atlassian
16	9 (1.17%)	Salesforce.com
16	9 (1.17%)	ServiceNow
17	7 (0.91%)	Omniture
18	6 (0.78%)	Pega