The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WordPress 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.382% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £300 £200
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £135.37 £16.50 -
% change year-on-year
+720.42% -
All Application Platforms
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
30 63 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 13.82% 24.42% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 24
Average daily rate £425 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £183 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £355 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 4
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.16 £21.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.98% -20.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
WordPress
North West

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside WordPress Jobs Demand 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 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
Liverpool - 3 - -
WordPress
North West

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSD
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOD
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) SEO
1 5 (100.00%) CMS
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) NetBeans
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Web Development
1 5 (100.00%) Business Development
1 5 (100.00%) XPath
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Zend
1 5 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 5 (100.00%) CakePHP

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSD
1 5 (100.00%) XSLT
1 5 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 5 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) Google Maps API
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) CSS3
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) CMS
1 5 (100.00%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) NetBeans
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOD
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) SEO
1 5 (100.00%) Web Development
1 5 (100.00%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) Google
1 5 (100.00%) Zend
1 5 (100.00%) Facebook
1 5 (100.00%) Twitter