The first table below looks at the demand for MediaWiki skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MediaWiki 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
MediaWiki
Rank - 577 582
Contract jobs citing MediaWiki 0 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.002% 0.010%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 0.011% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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% -

MediaWiki
Jobs Demand Trend

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

MediaWiki Jobs Demand Trend

MediaWiki
Daily Rate Trend

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

MediaWiki Daily Rate Trend

MediaWiki
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MediaWiki Hourly Rate Trend

MediaWiki
Top 14 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
1 1 (100.00%) Zend
1 1 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 1 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
1 1 (100.00%) Moodle
1 1 (100.00%) SilverStripe
1 1 (100.00%) Yii

MediaWiki
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
1 1 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 1 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (100.00%) CakePHP
1 1 (100.00%) Yii
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
1 1 (100.00%) Moodle
1 1 (100.00%) SilverStripe
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Zend