The first table below looks at the demand for SilverStripe skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SilverStripe over the 3 months to 17 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SilverStripe
Rank 551 576 601
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +25
Contract jobs citing SilverStripe 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.003%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.023% 0.021% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £213 £306 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.61% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £306 -
% change year-on-year
-30.61% -
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
8569 9418 9875
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 17.59% 16.21% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4838 5253 5343
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 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 446 554
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 £12.21 £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%

SilverStripe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SilverStripe Jobs Demand Trend

SilverStripe
Daily Rate Trend

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

SilverStripe Daily Rate Trend

SilverStripe
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SilverStripe within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +38 2 £213 -30.61%
South East +11 2 £213 -30.61%
West Midlands - - - -
East of England - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Cranleigh - - - -
Guildford - - - -
Ipswich - - - -
Oxford - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
Suffolk - - - -
Surrey - - - -

SilverStripe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SilverStripe 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 SilverStripe.

1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (80.00%) XHTML
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) B2C
4 2 (40.00%) CMS
4 2 (40.00%) Zend
4 2 (40.00%) WordPress
4 2 (40.00%) Drupal
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (20.00%) YUI
5 1 (20.00%) PHP5
5 1 (20.00%) Smarty
5 1 (20.00%) Open Source
5 1 (20.00%) HTML5
5 1 (20.00%) CSS3
5 1 (20.00%) Zend Framework
5 1 (20.00%) RIA
5 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (20.00%) Subversion
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) Marketing
5 1 (20.00%) SugarCRM
5 1 (20.00%) Internet
5 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery

SilverStripe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) XHTML
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 1 (20.00%) Flash
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) Zend Framework
4 1 (20.00%) YUI
4 1 (20.00%) Smarty
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) CSS3
4 1 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) CMS
1 2 (40.00%) Drupal
1 2 (40.00%) WordPress
2 1 (20.00%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) RIA
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) B2C
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (20.00%) PHP5
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Zend