The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridgeshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 44 53 50
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -3
Contract jobs citing WordPress 6 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.093% 1.302% 0.191%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.556% 6.923% 1.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £300 £200
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £135.37 £16.50 -
% change year-on-year
+720.42% -
All Application Platforms
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
108 130 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 19.67% 18.81% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 50 35
Average daily rate £300 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £175 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £444 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 11
Average hourly rate £26.20 £35.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.14% +191.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.55 £22.50 £10.11
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £40.25 £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
WordPress
East of England

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire WordPress Jobs Demand Trend

WordPress
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire WordPress Daily Rate Trend

WordPress
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WordPress across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire WordPress Daily Rate Histogram

WordPress
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Cambridge +4 3 £150 -
Peterborough - 1 £225 -
WordPress
East of England

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing WordPress 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 WordPress.

1 11 (100.00%) CSS
2 9 (81.82%) MySQL
2 9 (81.82%) PHP
2 9 (81.82%) HTML
3 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 8 (72.73%) jQuery
4 6 (54.55%) Ajax
4 6 (54.55%) JSON
4 6 (54.55%) XML
5 5 (45.45%) OO
5 5 (45.45%) CMS
5 5 (45.45%) Drupal
5 5 (45.45%) PHP5
5 5 (45.45%) Git (software)
5 5 (45.45%) Subversion
6 4 (36.36%) Apache
6 4 (36.36%) Linux
7 3 (27.27%) OOP
7 3 (27.27%) MVC
7 3 (27.27%) SEO
7 3 (27.27%) DHTML
7 3 (27.27%) Java
7 3 (27.27%) SQL
7 3 (27.27%) SOAP
7 3 (27.27%) RESTful
7 3 (27.27%) Symfony
7 3 (27.27%) Zend
7 3 (27.27%) CodeIgniter
7 3 (27.27%) Java EE
7 3 (27.27%) HTML5

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing WordPress 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 WordPress. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) CSS
2 9 (81.82%) HTML
3 8 (72.73%) jQuery
4 6 (54.55%) XML
4 6 (54.55%) Ajax
4 6 (54.55%) JSON
5 3 (27.27%) Symfony
5 3 (27.27%) CodeIgniter
5 3 (27.27%) Java EE
5 3 (27.27%) DHTML
5 3 (27.27%) SOAP
5 3 (27.27%) RESTful
5 3 (27.27%) HTML5
5 3 (27.27%) Memcached
5 3 (27.27%) Node.js
6 2 (18.18%) WAMP
7 1 (9.091%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) CMS
1 5 (45.45%) Drupal
2 4 (36.36%) Apache
3 3 (27.27%) concrete5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Subversion
1 5 (45.45%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (9.091%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) PHP Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (9.091%) UI Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Open Source
2 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) OO
2 3 (27.27%) MVC
2 3 (27.27%) SEO
2 3 (27.27%) OOP
3 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) PHP
2 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) PHP5
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Zend