The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WordPress 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 England 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
WordPress
Rank 379 413 525
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +112
Contract jobs citing WordPress 134 146 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.322% 0.274% 0.082%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.764% 1.667% 0.486%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 74 28
Average daily rate £300 £295 £211
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.69% +39.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £203 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £337 £308
UK excluding London average daily rate £221 £300 £175
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +71.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
Average hourly rate £76.61 £17.75 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+331.57% -21.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £135.37 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+720.42% -26.66%
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7597 8759 9463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 18.27% 16.42% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4350 4939 5121
Average daily rate £363 £350 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 407 529
Average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £38.00 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
WordPress
UK

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

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

England WordPress Daily Rate Histogram

WordPress
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England WordPress Hourly Rate Trend

WordPress
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WordPress across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England WordPress Hourly 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 England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +43 69 £313 +13.63%
South East +9 16 £210 -11.57%
North West +14 15 £275 -11.64%
South West +34 8 £250 +8.10%
East of England +13 8 £175 -41.66%
East Midlands +3 8 £338 -
West Midlands +2 5 - -
Yorkshire -6 5 £196 -39.61%
WordPress
UK

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 165 (78.20%) PHP
2 151 (71.56%) CSS
3 129 (61.14%) HTML
4 118 (55.92%) JavaScript
5 97 (45.97%) MySQL
6 83 (39.34%) jQuery
7 64 (30.33%) CMS
8 63 (29.86%) Drupal
9 56 (26.54%) HTML5
10 42 (19.91%) CSS3
11 39 (18.48%) Zend
12 34 (16.11%) Photoshop
13 31 (14.69%) Linux
13 31 (14.69%) Ajax
14 29 (13.74%) Marketing
14 29 (13.74%) Joomla!
14 29 (13.74%) XML
15 28 (13.27%) OO
15 28 (13.27%) MVC
15 28 (13.27%) CodeIgniter
16 27 (12.80%) .NET
17 26 (12.32%) SEO
18 25 (11.85%) Web Development
18 25 (11.85%) PHP5
19 24 (11.37%) Git (software)
19 24 (11.37%) SQL
20 21 (9.953%) Apache
20 21 (9.953%) JSON
21 20 (9.479%) Subversion
21 20 (9.479%) Content Management

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 151 (71.56%) CSS
2 129 (61.14%) HTML
3 83 (39.34%) jQuery
4 56 (26.54%) HTML5
5 42 (19.91%) CSS3
6 31 (14.69%) Ajax
7 29 (13.74%) XML
8 28 (13.27%) CodeIgniter
9 27 (12.80%) .NET
10 21 (9.953%) JSON
11 19 (9.005%) XHTML
12 15 (7.109%) Web Services
13 14 (6.635%) CakePHP
13 14 (6.635%) ASP.NET
14 12 (5.687%) LAMP
15 11 (5.213%) Zend Framework
15 11 (5.213%) Symfony
16 9 (4.265%) DHTML
17 8 (3.791%) XSLT
18 7 (3.318%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 64 (30.33%) CMS
2 63 (29.86%) Drupal
3 29 (13.74%) Joomla!
4 21 (9.953%) Apache
5 14 (6.635%) Magento
6 9 (4.265%) concrete5
6 9 (4.265%) IIS
6 9 (4.265%) Umbraco
7 5 (2.370%) ExpressionEngine
8 3 (1.422%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.422%) ColdFusion
8 3 (1.422%) nginx
8 3 (1.422%) Orchard CMS
9 2 (0.948%) SilverStripe
9 2 (0.948%) Kentico
9 2 (0.948%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.948%) Moodle
10 1 (0.474%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.474%) DotNetNuke
10 1 (0.474%) TYPO3
Applications
1 34 (16.11%) Photoshop
2 10 (4.739%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.896%) Fireworks
4 1 (0.474%) MS Excel
4 1 (0.474%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.370%) Google Analytics
2 3 (1.422%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.844%) Internet
2 4 (1.896%) Intranet
3 3 (1.422%) HTTP
4 2 (0.948%) Extranet
4 2 (0.948%) DNS
5 1 (0.474%) LDAP
5 1 (0.474%) SMS
5 1 (0.474%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (45.97%) MySQL
2 11 (5.213%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.265%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.370%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.896%) Redis
6 1 (0.474%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.474%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.474%) DB2
6 1 (0.474%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (11.37%) Git (software)
2 20 (9.479%) Subversion
3 9 (4.265%) Dreamweaver
4 8 (3.791%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.370%) NetBeans
6 3 (1.422%) JIRA
6 3 (1.422%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.948%) Trac
7 2 (0.948%) GitHub
7 2 (0.948%) Firebug
7 2 (0.948%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.474%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.474%) Xcode
8 1 (0.474%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.474%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.474%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.474%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.474%) Balsamiq Mockups
8 1 (0.474%) PhoneGap
8 1 (0.474%) Bitbucket
General
1 29 (13.74%) Marketing
2 8 (3.791%) Finance
3 6 (2.844%) Publishing
4 4 (1.896%) Manufacturing
4 4 (1.896%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.422%) Electronics
6 2 (0.948%) Banking
6 2 (0.948%) Multimedia
6 2 (0.948%) Local Government
6 2 (0.948%) Back Office
6 2 (0.948%) Legal
7 1 (0.474%) Games
7 1 (0.474%) Retail
Job Titles
1 177 (83.89%) Developer
2 83 (39.34%) PHP Developer
3 40 (18.96%) Web Developer
4 20 (9.479%) Front-End Developer
5 11 (5.213%) Drupal Developer
5 11 (5.213%) Project Manager
6 10 (4.739%) .NET Developer
7 9 (4.265%) PHP Web Developer
7 9 (4.265%) Digital Project Manager
8 8 (3.791%) Designer
9 7 (3.318%) ASP.NET Developer
9 7 (3.318%) PHP MySQL Developer
10 6 (2.844%) UI Programmer
10 6 (2.844%) UI Developer
11 5 (2.370%) Architect
11 5 (2.370%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.370%) Programmer
11 5 (2.370%) PHP Programmer
12 4 (1.896%) Web Programmer
13 3 (1.422%) Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.161%) Social Media
2 10 (4.739%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.791%) Blog
4 7 (3.318%) Open Source
4 7 (3.318%) Digital Media
5 6 (2.844%) W3C
6 4 (1.896%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.422%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.422%) DTV
7 3 (1.422%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.422%) Copywriting
7 3 (1.422%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.948%) Social Network
8 2 (0.948%) iDTV
9 1 (0.474%) NHS
9 1 (0.474%) Web 2.0
9 1 (0.474%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.474%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.474%) Animation
9 1 (0.474%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.69%) Linux
2 12 (5.687%) Windows
3 4 (1.896%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (1.422%) Android
4 3 (1.422%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.948%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.948%) UNIX
6 1 (0.474%) Windows 2000
6 1 (0.474%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.474%) CentOS
6 1 (0.474%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (13.27%) OO
1 28 (13.27%) MVC
2 26 (12.32%) SEO
3 25 (11.85%) Web Development
4 20 (9.479%) Content Management
5 19 (9.005%) Agile Software Development
5 19 (9.005%) E-Commerce
6 17 (8.057%) Scrum
6 17 (8.057%) Project Management
7 14 (6.635%) OOP
8 12 (5.687%) Web Design
8 12 (5.687%) Digital Marketing
9 9 (4.265%) Analytics
9 9 (4.265%) OOD
10 7 (3.318%) Time Management
11 5 (2.370%) Password Management
11 5 (2.370%) Business Development
11 5 (2.370%) Mobile Marketing
12 4 (1.896%) Information Architecture
12 4 (1.896%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 165 (78.20%) PHP
2 118 (55.92%) JavaScript
3 25 (11.85%) PHP5
4 24 (11.37%) SQL
5 16 (7.583%) C#
6 10 (4.739%) Java
7 9 (4.265%) Ruby
8 5 (2.370%) XPath
9 4 (1.896%) Objective-C
9 4 (1.896%) Python
10 3 (1.422%) Perl
10 3 (1.422%) PHP4
11 2 (0.948%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.474%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.474%) VB
12 1 (0.474%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.474%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.474%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (3.318%) Degree
2 2 (0.948%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.474%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.474%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.422%) QA
2 1 (0.474%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.474%) SLA
2 1 (0.474%) WCAG
2 1 (0.474%) WAI
System Software
1 2 (0.948%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.474%) VMware ESX
2 1 (0.474%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.474%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 1 (0.474%) SCOM
1 1 (0.474%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (18.48%) Zend
2 20 (9.479%) Facebook
2 20 (9.479%) Twitter
3 17 (8.057%) Adobe
4 15 (7.109%) Google
5 8 (3.791%) Oracle
6 5 (2.370%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.896%) Orchard
8 3 (1.422%) SAP
9 2 (0.948%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.948%) Progress
10 1 (0.474%) Salesforce.com
10 1 (0.474%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.474%) Apple
10 1 (0.474%) VMware
10 1 (0.474%) Omniture
10 1 (0.474%) Telerik
10 1 (0.474%) Ektron
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