The first table below looks at the demand for Drupal skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Drupal over the 3 months to 19 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 for the Buckinghamshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drupal
Rank 67 71 79
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +8
Contract jobs citing Drupal 8 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.876% 0.105% 0.275%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.128% 0.714% 1.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £313 £200 £245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% -18.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £200 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £200 £289
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £230
% change year-on-year
- +19.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
- +300.00%
All Application Platforms
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
156 140 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 17.09% 14.64% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 50 65
Average daily rate £370 £270 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.03% -18.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £148 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £350 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 14
Average hourly rate £13.50 £13.25 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.88% -8.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.60 £13.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.80 £17.61 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Drupal
South East

Drupal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Drupal Daily Rate Trend

Drupal
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Drupal across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Buckinghamshire Drupal Daily Rate Histogram

Drupal
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drupal within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Chalfont St Giles - 1 £225 - 1
Amersham - - - -
Aylesbury - - - -
Drupal
South East

Drupal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 9 (90.00%) PHP
2 7 (70.00%) MySQL
3 5 (50.00%) Web Services
4 4 (40.00%) CSS
4 4 (40.00%) HTML
4 4 (40.00%) Web Development
5 3 (30.00%) Open Source
5 3 (30.00%) CMS
5 3 (30.00%) LAMP
5 3 (30.00%) Joomla!
5 3 (30.00%) .NET
5 3 (30.00%) Apache
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) CA SiteMinder
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (20.00%) IIS
6 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (20.00%) Zend
6 2 (20.00%) Content Management
6 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
6 2 (20.00%) Social Media
6 2 (20.00%) Facebook
6 2 (20.00%) Twitter
7 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (10.00%) Varnish
7 1 (10.00%) HTML5
7 1 (10.00%) ESB
7 1 (10.00%) JSON

Drupal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 5 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) LAMP
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Ajax
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) CMS
1 3 (30.00%) Joomla!
1 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) IIS
3 1 (10.00%) ESB
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) PHP Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Open Source
2 2 (20.00%) Social Media
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Web Development
2 2 (20.00%) Content Management
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) PHP5
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Zend
1 2 (20.00%) Facebook
1 2 (20.00%) Twitter
2 1 (10.00%) Omniture
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