The first table below looks at the demand for Magento skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Magento over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Magento
Rank 454 429 524
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +95
Contract jobs citing Magento 76 149 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.164% 0.256% 0.104%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.904% 1.570% 0.623%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 108 28
Average daily rate £320 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £375 £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £185
% change year-on-year
- +62.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8409 9490 10269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.12% 16.28% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4782 5232 5474
Average daily rate £353 £350 £378
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.71% -7.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 452 419 565
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.65 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -

Magento
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Magento Jobs Demand Trend

Magento
Daily Rate Trend

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

Magento Daily Rate Trend

Magento
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Magento within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Magento Daily Rate Histogram

Magento
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Magento Hourly Rate Trend

Magento
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Magento within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England -24 75 £320 -1.53%
London -16 43 £350 +6.87%
City of London +6 11 £325 -7.14%
North West +4 10 £270 -16.92%
South East +13 9 £300 -5.51%
Hampshire 0 6 £300 -
East of England +18 5 £320 -
Cambridgeshire - 4 £320 -
Southampton - 4 £285 -
Liverpool - 4 - -
Cambridge - 4 £320 -
Merseyside - 4 - -
East Midlands - 4 £338 -
Yorkshire -16 3 £218 -22.32%
South West +25 2 £250 -9.09%
Bristol +12 2 £250 -9.09%
East Sussex +8 2 £313 -
Cheshire +3 2 £278 -12.59%
Manchester -2 2 £258 -20.76%
Nottinghamshire - 2 £338 -
Nottingham - 2 £338 -
Brighton +8 1 £300 -
Crewe +4 1 £315 -0.78%
West Yorkshire -1 1 £250 -16.66%
South Yorkshire -1 1 - -
Sheffield -2 1 - -
North Yorkshire -6 1 £185 -22.91%
Essex - 1 - -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Portsmouth - 1 £300 -

Magento
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Magento 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 Magento.

1 132 (75.43%) PHP
2 88 (50.29%) E-Commerce
3 80 (45.71%) MySQL
4 79 (45.14%) CSS
5 62 (35.43%) HTML
6 50 (28.57%) Zend
7 49 (28.00%) JavaScript
8 45 (25.71%) OO
8 45 (25.71%) jQuery
9 43 (24.57%) PHP5
10 39 (22.29%) Retail
11 38 (21.71%) HTML5
12 29 (16.57%) MVC
13 25 (14.29%) CSS3
14 23 (13.14%) Subversion
15 20 (11.43%) Git (software)
15 20 (11.43%) Zend Framework
16 19 (10.86%) Drupal
17 17 (9.714%) Linux
18 16 (9.143%) OOP
18 16 (9.143%) XML
18 16 (9.143%) CMS
18 16 (9.143%) LAMP
18 16 (9.143%) Digital Media
19 15 (8.571%) WordPress
20 13 (7.429%) XHTML
21 12 (6.857%) Migration
21 12 (6.857%) Symfony
22 11 (6.286%) Agile Software Development
23 10 (5.714%) Ajax

Magento
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Magento 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 Magento. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 79 (45.14%) CSS
2 62 (35.43%) HTML
3 45 (25.71%) jQuery
4 38 (21.71%) HTML5
5 25 (14.29%) CSS3
6 20 (11.43%) Zend Framework
7 16 (9.143%) XML
7 16 (9.143%) LAMP
8 13 (7.429%) XHTML
9 12 (6.857%) Symfony
10 10 (5.714%) Web Services
10 10 (5.714%) Ajax
10 10 (5.714%) SOAP
11 9 (5.143%) RESTful
12 6 (3.429%) .NET
13 5 (2.857%) CodeIgniter
13 5 (2.857%) CakePHP
14 3 (1.714%) J2EE
15 2 (1.143%) Hibernate
15 2 (1.143%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 19 (10.86%) Drupal
2 16 (9.143%) CMS
3 15 (8.571%) WordPress
4 7 (4.000%) Amazon AWS
5 6 (3.429%) Apache
6 4 (2.286%) Joomla!
7 3 (1.714%) nginx
8 2 (1.143%) Apache Solr
8 2 (1.143%) Gunicorn
8 2 (1.143%) TeamSite
8 2 (1.143%) Zen Cart
9 1 (0.571%) Rackspace Cloud
9 1 (0.571%) concrete5
9 1 (0.571%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.571%) osCommerce
9 1 (0.571%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.571%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.571%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.571%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.571%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (5.143%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.143%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.571%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.143%) Internet
2 2 (1.143%) Intranet
3 1 (0.571%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (45.71%) MySQL
2 5 (2.857%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.286%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.714%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.143%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.571%) Redis
6 1 (0.571%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.571%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 23 (13.14%) Subversion
2 20 (11.43%) Git (software)
3 2 (1.143%) Ant
4 1 (0.571%) JUnit
4 1 (0.571%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.571%) Maven
4 1 (0.571%) Hudson
General
1 39 (22.29%) Retail
2 9 (5.143%) Marketing
3 4 (2.286%) Back Office
3 4 (2.286%) Finance
4 2 (1.143%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.571%) Music
5 1 (0.571%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.571%) Publishing
5 1 (0.571%) Banking
5 1 (0.571%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 144 (82.29%) Developer
2 76 (43.43%) PHP Developer
3 19 (10.86%) Senior Developer
4 18 (10.29%) Web Developer
5 16 (9.143%) Senior PHP Developer
6 14 (8.000%) PHP Web Developer
7 10 (5.714%) Project Manager
8 9 (5.143%) Lead Developer
9 8 (4.571%) Lead PHP Developer
10 7 (4.000%) Front-End Developer
10 7 (4.000%) Analyst
11 6 (3.429%) Senior Web Developer
11 6 (3.429%) E-Commerce Project Manager
11 6 (3.429%) E-Commerce Manager
11 6 (3.429%) PHP MySQL Developer
11 6 (3.429%) Senior PHP Web Developer
12 5 (2.857%) Technical Leader
12 5 (2.857%) Drupal Developer
12 5 (2.857%) Technical Developer
12 5 (2.857%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.143%) Digital Media
2 4 (2.286%) Open Source
3 3 (1.714%) W3C
4 2 (1.143%) SaaS
4 2 (1.143%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.143%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.571%) FMCG
5 1 (0.571%) iPhone
5 1 (0.571%) Social Media
5 1 (0.571%) iPad
5 1 (0.571%) BBC
5 1 (0.571%) Web 2.0
5 1 (0.571%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.714%) Linux
2 3 (1.714%) Windows
3 2 (1.143%) Debian
4 1 (0.571%) Android
4 1 (0.571%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.571%) Solaris
4 1 (0.571%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (50.29%) E-Commerce
2 45 (25.71%) OO
3 29 (16.57%) MVC
4 16 (9.143%) OOP
5 12 (6.857%) Migration
6 11 (6.286%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (4.571%) Web Development
7 8 (4.571%) Web Design
8 7 (4.000%) Unit Testing
9 6 (3.429%) CRM
9 6 (3.429%) ERP
10 5 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (2.857%) Scrum
10 5 (2.857%) B2B
10 5 (2.857%) B2C
10 5 (2.857%) Project Management
10 5 (2.857%) Integration Testing
10 5 (2.857%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (2.857%) Logistics
10 5 (2.857%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (75.43%) PHP
2 49 (28.00%) JavaScript
3 43 (24.57%) PHP5
4 7 (4.000%) SQL
4 7 (4.000%) Java
5 4 (2.286%) Python
6 3 (1.714%) PHP4
7 2 (1.143%) Bash shell
7 2 (1.143%) C#
8 1 (0.571%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (5.143%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.714%) QA
2 1 (0.571%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.571%) Varnish
Vendors
1 50 (28.57%) Zend
2 6 (3.429%) Adobe
3 4 (2.286%) Google
4 3 (1.714%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.143%) ATG
5 2 (1.143%) Demandware
6 1 (0.571%) Rackspace
6 1 (0.571%) hybris
6 1 (0.571%) VMware
6 1 (0.571%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.571%) Sage
6 1 (0.571%) EMC
6 1 (0.571%) Oracle
6 1 (0.571%) SAP
6 1 (0.571%) Cisco
6 1 (0.571%) Microsoft
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Posted: 11 May 2013
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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