The first table below looks at the demand for Drupal skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Drupal over the 3 months to 23 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 Bristol region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drupal
Rank 43 54 36
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -18
Contract jobs citing Drupal 9 11 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 1.761% 1.316% 3.058%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.895% 7.285% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 10
Average daily rate £250 £263 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £212 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £323 £328
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £236
% change year-on-year
- +16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.75 £12.50
% change year-on-year
- +202.00%
All Application Platforms
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
114 151 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 22.31% 18.06% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 98 56
Average daily rate £314 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.72% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £163 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 6
Average hourly rate £14.00 £23.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.13% +58.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £26.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Drupal
South West

Drupal
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Drupal across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Bristol Drupal Jobs Demand Trend

Drupal
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Drupal across the Bristol region.

Bristol Drupal Daily Rate Trend

Drupal
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Drupal across the Bristol region.

Bristol Drupal Hourly Rate Trend

Drupal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Drupal 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Drupal.

1 15 (78.95%) PHP
2 13 (68.42%) CSS
3 10 (52.63%) HTML
3 10 (52.63%) MySQL
4 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
5 6 (31.58%) XHTML
6 5 (26.32%) CMS
6 5 (26.32%) HTML5
6 5 (26.32%) Magento
6 5 (26.32%) Git (software)
6 5 (26.32%) CSS3
7 4 (21.05%) Digital Media
7 4 (21.05%) jQuery
7 4 (21.05%) WordPress
8 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
8 3 (15.79%) Apache
8 3 (15.79%) Apache Solr
8 3 (15.79%) Open Source
9 2 (10.53%) Flash
9 2 (10.53%) C#
9 2 (10.53%) Linux
9 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
9 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
9 2 (10.53%) MVC
10 1 (5.263%) Streaming Video
10 1 (5.263%) Scrum
10 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
10 1 (5.263%) TDD
10 1 (5.263%) Retail
10 1 (5.263%) Content Management

Drupal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Drupal also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Drupal. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (68.42%) CSS
2 10 (52.63%) HTML
3 6 (31.58%) XHTML
4 5 (26.32%) HTML5
4 5 (26.32%) CSS3
5 4 (21.05%) jQuery
6 2 (10.53%) Flash
7 1 (5.263%) Ajax
7 1 (5.263%) Symfony
7 1 (5.263%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (5.263%) Adobe AIR
7 1 (5.263%) .NET
7 1 (5.263%) Node.js
7 1 (5.263%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) CMS
1 5 (26.32%) Magento
2 4 (21.05%) WordPress
3 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 3 (15.79%) Apache
3 3 (15.79%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (5.263%) Retail
1 1 (5.263%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 13 (68.42%) Drupal Developer
3 9 (47.37%) PHP Developer
4 5 (26.32%) PHP Drupal Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Digital Media
2 3 (15.79%) Open Source
3 1 (5.263%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
1 2 (10.53%) MVC
2 1 (5.263%) Scrum
2 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (5.263%) TDD
2 1 (5.263%) Content Management
2 1 (5.263%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (5.263%) OOP
2 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
2 1 (5.263%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) PHP
2 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) C#
4 1 (5.263%) Ruby
4 1 (5.263%) PHP4
4 1 (5.263%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.263%) Zend
1 1 (5.263%) Adobe