The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 20 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 South West 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 105 130 122
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -8
Contract jobs citing WordPress 5 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.245% 0.162% 0.197%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.416% 0.933% 1.141%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
Average daily rate £250 £201 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.68% -12.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £190 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £260 £257
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £275 £225
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
353 536 526
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 17.33% 17.39% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 329 271
Average daily rate £350 £358 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.09% +19.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 28 36
Average hourly rate £19.00 £23.88 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.41% +32.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £30.00 £32.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
WordPress
England

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West WordPress Daily Rate Trend

WordPress
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WordPress across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

South West WordPress Daily Rate Histogram

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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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Bristol +21 4 £213 -22.72% 1
Devon - 1 £300 - 1
Dorset - - - - 1
Gloucestershire - - - -
Somerset - - - -
Wiltshire - - - -
WordPress
England

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 17 (94.44%) PHP
2 12 (66.67%) CSS
3 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
4 8 (44.44%) HTML
5 7 (38.89%) MySQL
6 5 (27.78%) Drupal
6 5 (27.78%) Magento
7 4 (22.22%) HTML5
7 4 (22.22%) CSS3
7 4 (22.22%) jQuery
7 4 (22.22%) XHTML
7 4 (22.22%) Linux
8 3 (16.67%) .NET
8 3 (16.67%) C#
8 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
8 3 (16.67%) Adobe
8 3 (16.67%) MVC
8 3 (16.67%) SEO
8 3 (16.67%) Marketing
9 2 (11.11%) Windows
9 2 (11.11%) Back Office
9 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
9 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (11.11%) Google Analytics
9 2 (11.11%) Zend
9 2 (11.11%) CodeIgniter
9 2 (11.11%) CMS
9 2 (11.11%) OO
9 2 (11.11%) Apache
9 2 (11.11%) Python

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 12 (66.67%) CSS
2 8 (44.44%) HTML
3 4 (22.22%) HTML5
3 4 (22.22%) CSS3
3 4 (22.22%) jQuery
3 4 (22.22%) XHTML
4 3 (16.67%) .NET
5 2 (11.11%) CodeIgniter
5 2 (11.11%) Web Services
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 1 (5.556%) RESTful
6 1 (5.556%) Yii
6 1 (5.556%) SOAP
6 1 (5.556%) XML
6 1 (5.556%) CakePHP
6 1 (5.556%) LINQ
6 1 (5.556%) Adobe AIR
6 1 (5.556%) MooTools
6 1 (5.556%) Ajax
6 1 (5.556%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) Drupal
1 5 (27.78%) Magento
2 2 (11.11%) CMS
2 2 (11.11%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (5.556%) nginx
3 1 (5.556%) Kentico
3 1 (5.556%) Joomla!
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) MySQL
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.556%) Subversion
General
1 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Web Developer
4 2 (11.11%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Drupal Developer
4 2 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Designer
5 1 (5.556%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (5.556%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Website Designer
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Programmer
5 1 (5.556%) PHP Drupal Developer
5 1 (5.556%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Digital Media
1 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
1 1 (5.556%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
1 3 (16.67%) MVC
1 3 (16.67%) SEO
2 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) OO
2 2 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (5.556%) OOP
3 1 (5.556%) Internet Marketing
3 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) PHP
2 11 (61.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (5.556%) PHP5
5 1 (5.556%) PHP4
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.556%) BC Cleared
1 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) Zend
2 2 (11.11%) Google
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