The first table below looks at the demand for Magento skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Magento 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 Cambridge 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Magento
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Magento 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.608% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.740% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £185
% change year-on-year
- +62.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
73 86 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.19% 20.28% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 30 14
Average daily rate £280 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £145 £175 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
Average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £35.00 £12.37
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £41.25 £19.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Magento
Cambridgeshire

Magento
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Magento Jobs Demand Trend

Magento
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Magento Daily Rate Trend

Magento
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Magento 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 Magento.

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Drupal
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) W3C
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) PHP5
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 2 (50.00%) Web Design
4 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) HTML

Magento
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Magento 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 Magento. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
2 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) PHP5
3 1 (25.00%) C#