Who Won Sweden's CMS Battle?

One of the side benefits of our new job search tool is that it easy to use it to get a rough measure of the success of various content management systems in the competitive Swedish marketplace.

As an English technical writing and copywriting consultancy service, we at Straightforward AB are interested in the success of the big systems that are being used to manage content of various types, including web content, documents, user help, and marketing materials. Content management systems (CMSs) come in several flavours: some are more web-oriented, others are better at managing document content.

By feeding our job search tool with the product names, we can quickly get a "burgernomics" kind-of-feel for the success of some of the leading content management systems in the Swedish market, measured by the number of open positions requiring each product's skillset. This demand reflects, of course, both the success of the CMS vendor in penetrating the Swedish market and the success of the businesses that have adopted the technology.

Content Management System	Number of hits (Straightforward AB job search tool)
Drupal (open source web CMS)
Joomla (open source web CMS)
Escenic Wordpress (proprietary web CMS)
EpiServer (proprietary enterprise CMS)
SharePoint (proprietary enterprise CMS)
Tridion (proprietary enterprise CMS)
Polopoly (proprietary web CMS)
Senselogic Sitevision (proprietary web CMS)

Today's Swedish business market is dominated by high demand for people with EpiServer and Sharepoint skills, reflecting the local success of those two CMSs. Only Drupal and Polopoly CMSs are really showing any other sign of life in Sweden. No hits at all are currently found for Skribenta, Documentum, Interwoven TeamSite, or Wordpress.

If you want us to add data for more content management systems that you know are being used in the Swedish market, add a comment below.