The first table below looks at the demand for Drupal skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Drupal 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 Somerset 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
Drupal
Rank - 34 -
Contract jobs citing Drupal 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset - 0.588% -
As % of the Application Platforms category - 2.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £231
% change year-on-year
- +18.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.75 £12.50
% change year-on-year
- +202.00%
All Application Platforms
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
36 50 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 21.18% 29.41% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 31
Average daily rate £393 £358 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.79% +9.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £320 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £388 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £21.38 £25.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Drupal
South West

Drupal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset Drupal Jobs Demand Trend

Drupal
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset Drupal Daily Rate Trend

Drupal
Top 18 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Hyperion
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Joomla!
2 1 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) WordPress

Drupal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Hyperion
1 1 (50.00%) Zend