The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry 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 Coventry 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 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WordPress 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 0.467% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.030% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
33 49 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 15.42% 19.29% 18.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 16
Average daily rate £108 £400 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-73.12% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £271 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £510 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
Average hourly rate £37.80 £11.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+228.69% -36.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
WordPress
West Midlands

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry WordPress Daily Rate Trend

WordPress
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) CMS
1 5 (100.00%) Joomla!
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 4 (80.00%) PHP5
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) Content Management
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Adobe
2 4 (80.00%) W3C
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience Design
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (20.00%) WCAG
4 1 (20.00%) Intranet
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) SQL

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
1 4 (80.00%) HTML5
1 4 (80.00%) CSS3
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) CMS
1 5 (100.00%) Joomla!
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Joomla! Developer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Joomla! Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Content Management
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) PHP5
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Google