The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 57 74 70
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -4
Contract jobs citing WordPress 12 11 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.224% 0.900% 0.097%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.797% 4.681% 0.676%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 1
Average daily rate £275 £275 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +83.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £215 £275 £225
% change year-on-year
-21.81% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £83.31 £24.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+247.12% +6.66%
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
207 235 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 21.12% 19.23% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 127 84
Average daily rate £300 £300 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £200 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 12
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.25 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.29% +75.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £12.45 £9.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.70 £25.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
WordPress
North West

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester WordPress Jobs Demand Trend

WordPress
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester WordPress Daily Rate Trend

WordPress
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester WordPress Hourly Rate Trend

WordPress
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham - - - -
Bury - - - - 2
Salford - - - -
WordPress
North West

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing WordPress 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 WordPress.

1 13 (100.00%) HTML
1 13 (100.00%) PHP
1 13 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 7 (53.85%) MySQL
2 7 (53.85%) Photoshop
2 7 (53.85%) Drupal
3 6 (46.15%) Apache
3 6 (46.15%) Dreamweaver
3 6 (46.15%) Linux
3 6 (46.15%) CodeIgniter
4 5 (38.46%) Web Development
5 4 (30.77%) Sass
5 4 (30.77%) Orchard
5 4 (30.77%) Adobe
6 3 (23.08%) Marketing
7 2 (15.38%) jQuery
7 2 (15.38%) CMS
7 2 (15.38%) .NET
8 1 (7.692%) IIS
8 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
8 1 (7.692%) OO
8 1 (7.692%) Windows
8 1 (7.692%) Umbraco
8 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (7.692%) C#
8 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
8 1 (7.692%) Joomla!
8 1 (7.692%) Open Source

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing WordPress 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 WordPress. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) CSS
1 13 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (46.15%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (30.77%) Sass
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) jQuery
5 1 (7.692%) HTML5
5 1 (7.692%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) Drupal
2 6 (46.15%) Apache
3 2 (15.38%) CMS
4 1 (7.692%) Joomla!
4 1 (7.692%) Umbraco
4 1 (7.692%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Dreamweaver
General
1 3 (23.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Drupal Developer
3 2 (15.38%) PHP Developer
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Open Source
1 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Web Development
2 1 (7.692%) OO
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.692%) C#
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Adobe
1 4 (30.77%) Orchard
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