The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 19 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 Reading 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 72 78 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing WordPress 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.114% 0.261% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.552% 1.899% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £210 £275 £225
% change year-on-year
-23.63% +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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
181 158 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 20.57% 13.73% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 68 66
Average daily rate £425 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.43% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £214 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £500 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 10
Average hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.57% +118.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.20 £12.60 £12.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £35.00 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
WordPress
Berkshire

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading WordPress Daily Rate Trend

WordPress
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Online Games
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Media

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) UI Designer
2 1 (50.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Designer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Online Games
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Media
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Zend