The first table below looks at the demand for ExpressionEngine skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ExpressionEngine over the 3 months to 18 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.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EllisLab ExpressionEngine
Rank 542 576 581
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +5
Contract jobs citing ExpressionEngine 12 13 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.025% 0.022% 0.010%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.140% 0.138% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £188 £256 £228
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.82% +12.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £191 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £321 £266
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £19.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.00 -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8551 9448 10013
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 17.57% 16.27% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4832 5299 5430
Average daily rate £355 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 446 564
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.48 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%

ExpressionEngine
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ExpressionEngine within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

ExpressionEngine Jobs Demand Trend

ExpressionEngine
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ExpressionEngine within the UK.

ExpressionEngine Daily Rate Trend

ExpressionEngine
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ExpressionEngine within the UK.

ExpressionEngine Hourly Rate Trend

ExpressionEngine
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ExpressionEngine within the UK over the 3 months to 18 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
England +13 12 £188 -26.82% 7
South West +29 3 £175 - 1
London +20 3 £275 +7.31% 1
Bristol - 3 £175 - 1
South East +13 2 - - 5
City of London +8 2 £275 +57.14% 1
Berkshire +25 1 - -
Oxfordshire +5 1 - -
Surrey - - - -
Henley-on-Thames - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Dorset - - - -
East Sussex - - - -
Hampshire - - - - 4
Maidenhead - - - -
Milton Keynes - - - -
Reading - - - -
County Antrim - - - -
Basingstoke - - - - 4
Belfast - - - -
Bournemouth - - - -
Brighton - - - -
Northern Ireland - - - -

ExpressionEngine
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ExpressionEngine 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 ExpressionEngine.

1 17 (100.00%) PHP
2 15 (88.24%) JavaScript
3 13 (76.47%) CSS
4 10 (58.82%) MySQL
4 10 (58.82%) HTML
5 8 (47.06%) MVC
5 8 (47.06%) Zend
6 6 (35.29%) jQuery
6 6 (35.29%) WordPress
6 6 (35.29%) CMS
6 6 (35.29%) Google
6 6 (35.29%) HTML5
6 6 (35.29%) Twitter
7 5 (29.41%) Git (software)
7 5 (29.41%) Joomla!
7 5 (29.41%) Drupal
7 5 (29.41%) Symfony
7 5 (29.41%) CakePHP
7 5 (29.41%) Django
8 4 (23.53%) PHP5
8 4 (23.53%) OO
8 4 (23.53%) CodeIgniter
8 4 (23.53%) Facebook
9 3 (17.65%) Orchard CMS
9 3 (17.65%) Digital Media
9 3 (17.65%) ASP
9 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
9 3 (17.65%) SQL
9 3 (17.65%) .NET
9 3 (17.65%) Project Management

ExpressionEngine
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ExpressionEngine 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 ExpressionEngine. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (76.47%) CSS
2 10 (58.82%) HTML
3 6 (35.29%) jQuery
3 6 (35.29%) HTML5
4 5 (29.41%) CakePHP
4 5 (29.41%) Django
4 5 (29.41%) Symfony
5 4 (23.53%) CodeIgniter
6 3 (17.65%) Zend Framework
6 3 (17.65%) LAMP
6 3 (17.65%) Ruby on Rails
6 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
6 3 (17.65%) .NET
6 3 (17.65%) ASP
6 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
6 3 (17.65%) Google Maps API
7 2 (11.76%) CSS3
7 2 (11.76%) XML
7 2 (11.76%) Flash
7 2 (11.76%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) CMS
1 6 (35.29%) WordPress
2 5 (29.41%) Joomla!
2 5 (29.41%) Drupal
3 3 (17.65%) Umbraco
3 3 (17.65%) ColdFusion
3 3 (17.65%) Orchard CMS
4 1 (5.882%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.882%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) FTP
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
1 1 (5.882%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (5.882%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) PHP Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Web Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Programmer
4 3 (17.65%) PHP Programmer
4 3 (17.65%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (5.882%) UI Programmer
5 1 (5.882%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (5.882%) UI Developer
5 1 (5.882%) LAMP Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Website Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Digital Media
2 2 (11.76%) Open Source
3 1 (5.882%) Social Media
3 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.882%) UNIX
2 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) MVC
2 4 (23.53%) OO
3 3 (17.65%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Workflow
4 2 (11.76%) Validation
4 2 (11.76%) Web Development
4 2 (11.76%) Use Case
5 1 (5.882%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (5.882%) Analytics
5 1 (5.882%) Migration
5 1 (5.882%) Web Design
5 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.882%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) PHP
2 15 (88.24%) JavaScript
3 4 (23.53%) PHP5
4 3 (17.65%) Ruby
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) ActionScript
5 2 (11.76%) Python
5 2 (11.76%) ActionScript 3.0
5 2 (11.76%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (5.882%) PowerHouse
6 1 (5.882%) Objective-C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Plesk
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Zend
2 6 (35.29%) Google
2 6 (35.29%) Twitter
3 4 (23.53%) Facebook
4 1 (5.882%) Apple
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