The first table below looks at the demand for the Drupal Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Drupal Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Developer
Rank 52 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs requiring a Drupal Developer 4 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.487% 0.552% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.517% 0.589% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £325 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £270 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.77% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
773 1019 1249
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.15% 93.74% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 504 609
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £237 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 36
Average hourly rate £13.93 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.43% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.60 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Drupal Developer
Scotland

Drupal Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Drupal Developer across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Drupal Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Drupal Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Drupal Developer Daily Rate Trend

Drupal Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Drupal Developer across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh Drupal Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Drupal Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Drupal Developer in their job title 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 with Drupal Developer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Drupal
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) OOP
3 2 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) W3C
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) SEO
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) Ruby
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) PHP5
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) Google Maps API
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) CSS3
3 2 (40.00%) Twitter
3 2 (40.00%) WAI
3 2 (40.00%) Zend
3 2 (40.00%) Zend Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (20.00%) Sass

Drupal Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Drupal Developer in their job title 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 with Drupal Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Google Maps API
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) CSS3
2 2 (40.00%) Zend Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Drupal
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) W3C
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OOP
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) SEO
1 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Twitter
1 2 (40.00%) Zend