The first table below looks at the demand for Magento 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 Magento 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Magento
Rank - 65 54
Contract jobs citing Magento 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - 0.341% 0.156%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 1.818% 0.617%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £160 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -46.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £185
% change year-on-year
- +62.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
203 165 162
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 27.66% 18.73% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 109 66
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £223 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 11
Average hourly rate £33.00 £11.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+186.95% -48.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Magento
West Yorkshire

Magento
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Magento Jobs Demand Trend

Magento
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Magento Daily Rate Trend

Magento
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Magento Hourly Rate Trend

Magento
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Magento 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 Magento.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Struts2
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) CSS

Magento
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Magento 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 Magento. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Struts2
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) Struts
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Hudson
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Zend
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
Leeds, Yorkshire
The company is currently enjoying a very successful period and as a result needs some additional development resource on the Magento platform... You will be required to add...
Real Staffing
Rate: £200 - £220 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013