The first table below looks at the demand for Drupal skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 - 34 39
Contract jobs citing Drupal 0 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 0.758% 0.331%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 4.545% 1.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £213 -
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
62 44 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 21.60% 16.67% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 44
Average daily rate £298 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £235 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £368 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £22.69 £27.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.49% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Drupal
South East

Drupal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Drupal Daily Rate Trend

Drupal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) CM System
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Insight
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JSTL
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Drupal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JSTL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CM System
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) Fireworks
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
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