The first table below looks at the demand for Drupal skills 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drupal
Rank 49 57 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing Drupal 8 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.960% 0.552% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.369% 3.922% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
Average daily rate £275 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £231
% change year-on-year
- +18.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.75 £12.50
% change year-on-year
- +202.00%
All Application Platforms
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
149 153 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.89% 14.08% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 60 58
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £184 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £430 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
Average hourly rate £20.00 £13.75 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -21.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.75 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £14.00 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Drupal
Scotland

Drupal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh Drupal Daily Rate Histogram

Drupal
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Drupal Hourly Rate Trend

Drupal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 10 (66.67%) PHP
1 10 (66.67%) CSS
2 8 (53.33%) MySQL
2 8 (53.33%) jQuery
3 7 (46.67%) HTML
4 6 (40.00%) CMS
4 6 (40.00%) Google
5 4 (26.67%) Google Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) HTML5
5 4 (26.67%) CSS3
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Marketing
5 4 (26.67%) Zend
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
5 4 (26.67%) WebTrends
5 4 (26.67%) Service Management
6 3 (20.00%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) Google Maps API
7 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (13.33%) PHP5
7 2 (13.33%) Information Architecture
7 2 (13.33%) Twitter
7 2 (13.33%) C#
7 2 (13.33%) UNIX
7 2 (13.33%) Linux
7 2 (13.33%) OOP
7 2 (13.33%) Apache
7 2 (13.33%) Python

Drupal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 10 (66.67%) CSS
2 8 (53.33%) jQuery
3 7 (46.67%) HTML
4 4 (26.67%) HTML5
4 4 (26.67%) CSS3
5 2 (13.33%) Google Maps API
5 2 (13.33%) Zend Framework
5 2 (13.33%) CodeIgniter
5 2 (13.33%) Symfony
6 1 (6.667%) CakePHP
6 1 (6.667%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) CMS
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) Joomla!
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Google Analytics
1 4 (26.67%) WebTrends
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Subversion
General
1 4 (26.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Drupal Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
4 2 (13.33%) PHP Developer
5 1 (6.667%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Tester
5 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Front-End Web Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Web Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (13.33%) W3C
2 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.667%) Digital Media
2 1 (6.667%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Analytics
1 4 (26.67%) Migration
1 4 (26.67%) Service Management
2 3 (20.00%) Project Management
2 3 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Information Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) OOP
3 2 (13.33%) MVC
3 2 (13.33%) SEO
3 2 (13.33%) Web Development
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) TDD
4 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.667%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
4 1 (6.667%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 10 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (13.33%) PHP5
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) WAI
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Google
2 4 (26.67%) Zend
3 2 (13.33%) Twitter