The first table below looks at the demand for ExpressionEngine skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ExpressionEngine 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 London 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
EllisLab ExpressionEngine
Rank 375 412 438
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +26
Contract jobs citing ExpressionEngine 2 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.011% 0.013%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.050% 0.069% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £338 £178
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +90.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £34.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.00 -
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4012 4358 5145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.53% 16.18% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2559 2703 3152
Average daily rate £400 £385 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.89% -9.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 128 175
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
ExpressionEngine
England

ExpressionEngine
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London ExpressionEngine Jobs Demand Trend

ExpressionEngine
Daily Rate Trend

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

London ExpressionEngine Daily Rate Trend

ExpressionEngine
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ExpressionEngine within the London 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
City of London - 1 - -
ExpressionEngine
England

ExpressionEngine
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ExpressionEngine 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 ExpressionEngine.

1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) CMS
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 2 (40.00%) Project Management
4 2 (40.00%) LAMP
4 2 (40.00%) Google
4 2 (40.00%) Drupal
4 2 (40.00%) WordPress
4 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) Twitter
5 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (20.00%) Social Media
5 1 (20.00%) CSS3
5 1 (20.00%) Open Graph
5 1 (20.00%) Facebook
5 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
5 1 (20.00%) Open Source
5 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 3.0
5 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (20.00%) jQuery
5 1 (20.00%) Web Development
5 1 (20.00%) Joomla!
5 1 (20.00%) QA
5 1 (20.00%) Symfony
5 1 (20.00%) Zend

ExpressionEngine
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ExpressionEngine 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 ExpressionEngine. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) LAMP
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) CSS3
4 1 (20.00%) Open Graph
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Symfony
4 1 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (20.00%) CakePHP
4 1 (20.00%) Django
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) DHTML
4 1 (20.00%) Flash
4 1 (20.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) CMS
2 2 (40.00%) Drupal
2 2 (40.00%) WordPress
3 1 (20.00%) Joomla!
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) FTP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) LAMP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Website Manager
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Social Media
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) SEO
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) PowerHouse
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Twitter
2 1 (20.00%) Facebook
2 1 (20.00%) Zend