The first table below looks at the demand for Drupal skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Drupal over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Leeds 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drupal
Rank 71 61 60
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -1
Contract jobs citing Drupal 7 12 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.884% 1.187% 0.295%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.929% 5.854% 1.212%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 1
Average daily rate £125 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-61.53% -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £230
% change year-on-year
- +19.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
- +300.00%
All Application Platforms
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
239 205 165
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 30.18% 20.28% 24.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 134 64
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £337 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 14
Average hourly rate £34.50 £12.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+176.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.70 £11.00 £11.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £30.00 £187.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Drupal
West Yorkshire

Drupal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Drupal Daily Rate Trend

Drupal
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Drupal Hourly Rate Trend

Drupal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (90.91%) CSS
2 8 (72.73%) PHP
3 7 (63.64%) MySQL
3 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
4 6 (54.55%) LAMP
5 5 (45.45%) Scrum
5 5 (45.45%) TDD
5 5 (45.45%) Apache
5 5 (45.45%) Ubuntu
5 5 (45.45%) HTML
5 5 (45.45%) Web Services
5 5 (45.45%) Linux
5 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
5 5 (45.45%) Internet
5 5 (45.45%) Project Management
5 5 (45.45%) Symfony
5 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (45.45%) Git (software)
5 5 (45.45%) nginx
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon S3
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon AWS
5 5 (45.45%) HTML5
5 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
5 5 (45.45%) CloudFront
5 5 (45.45%) CSS3
5 5 (45.45%) Percona
5 5 (45.45%) Route 53
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (36.36%) jQuery

Drupal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (90.91%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) LAMP
3 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 5 (45.45%) Web Services
3 5 (45.45%) Symfony
3 5 (45.45%) HTML5
3 5 (45.45%) CSS3
4 4 (36.36%) jQuery
5 2 (18.18%) XHTML
6 1 (9.091%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (9.091%) Ajax
6 1 (9.091%) JSON
6 1 (9.091%) XML
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Apache
1 5 (45.45%) nginx
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon S3
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon AWS
1 5 (45.45%) CloudFront
1 5 (45.45%) Route 53
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (18.18%) CMS
2 2 (18.18%) WordPress
3 1 (9.091%) Magento
3 1 (9.091%) Joomla!
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) MySQL
2 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Graduate
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Drupal Developer
3 2 (18.18%) PHP Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) Web Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.091%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Ubuntu
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Scrum
1 5 (45.45%) TDD
1 5 (45.45%) Project Management
1 5 (45.45%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Web Development
3 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (9.091%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.091%) MVC
3 1 (9.091%) UML
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PHP
2 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.091%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) WAI
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
1 5 (45.45%) Percona
2 1 (9.091%) Zend