The first table below looks at the demand for Magento skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Magento over the 3 months to 22 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 Liverpool 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Magento
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Magento 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.667% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
27 49 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 18.00% 26.06% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 22
Average daily rate £438 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.61% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £380 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £18.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% -8.96%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Magento
Merseyside

Magento
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool Magento Jobs Demand Trend

Magento
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 5 (83.33%) Retail
2 5 (83.33%) Zend
2 5 (83.33%) Zend Framework
2 5 (83.33%) PHP5
2 5 (83.33%) E-Commerce
2 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
2 5 (83.33%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax

Magento
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 5 (83.33%) Zend Framework
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) Ajax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
1 5 (83.33%) MySQL
General
1 5 (83.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Leader
2 5 (83.33%) Lead PHP Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Lead Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 5 (83.33%) PHP5
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Zend
Liverpool, North West
This is an exciting project using the latest technologies. An understanding of Magento is desirable but not essential... No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 11 May 2013