WordPress Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 392 434 535
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +101
Contract jobs citing WordPress 139 150 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.300% 0.257% 0.080%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.656% 1.578% 0.480%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 75 28
Average daily rate £300 £295 £211
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.69% +39.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £204 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £336 £308
UK excluding London average daily rate £221 £300 £175
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +71.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
Average hourly rate £76.61 £16.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+364.27% -26.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £135.37 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+720.42% -26.66%
Search 107 WordPress jobs
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 8396 9507 10206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.10% 16.30% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4754 5212 5447
Average daily rate £359 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.64% -6.66%
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 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 431 562
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.85 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.75 £37.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

WordPress Daily Rate Trend

WordPress
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WordPress within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

WordPress Daily Rate Histogram

WordPress
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WordPress Hourly Rate Trend

WordPress
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WordPress within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

WordPress Hourly Rate Histogram

WordPress
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 WordPress within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +34 134 £300 +1.69%
London +43 69 £313 +13.63%
City of London +19 17 £350 +36.45%
South East +9 16 £210 -11.57%
North West +14 15 £275 -11.64%
Manchester +13 12 £275 -15.38%
South West +34 8 £250 +8.10%
East of England +13 8 £175 -41.66%
East Midlands +3 8 £338 -
Bristol +20 7 £250 -9.09%
Hampshire -5 7 £225 -
Cambridgeshire +9 6 £225 -
Southampton - 6 £225 -
West Midlands +2 5 - -
Yorkshire -6 5 £196 -39.61%
Buckinghamshire - 4 £210 -
Milton Keynes - 4 £210 -
Birmingham +14 3 - -
Berkshire +11 3 £250 +2.04%
Cambridge +8 3 £150 -
North Yorkshire - 3 £223 -
Hertfordshire +8 2 £175 -41.66%
Scotland -8 2 £309 +9.29%
Bedfordshire - 2 £175 -
Liverpool - 2 - -
Bedford - 2 £175 -
Luton - 2 £175 -
Nottingham - 2 £338 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £338 -
South Yorkshire - 2 £163 -

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 172 (77.48%) PHP
2 157 (70.72%) CSS
3 136 (61.26%) HTML
4 120 (54.05%) JavaScript
5 99 (44.59%) MySQL
6 86 (38.74%) jQuery
7 66 (29.73%) CMS
8 63 (28.38%) Drupal
9 58 (26.13%) HTML5
10 44 (19.82%) CSS3
11 39 (17.57%) Zend
12 35 (15.77%) Photoshop
13 32 (14.41%) Ajax
14 31 (13.96%) XML
14 31 (13.96%) Linux
15 30 (13.51%) .NET
15 30 (13.51%) Marketing
15 30 (13.51%) Joomla!
16 29 (13.06%) MVC
17 28 (12.61%) OO
17 28 (12.61%) CodeIgniter
18 27 (12.16%) SEO
19 26 (11.71%) PHP5
19 26 (11.71%) Web Development
20 24 (10.81%) Git (software)
20 24 (10.81%) SQL
21 23 (10.36%) Content Management
22 21 (9.459%) JSON
22 21 (9.459%) Apache
22 21 (9.459%) E-Commerce

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 157 (70.72%) CSS
2 136 (61.26%) HTML
3 86 (38.74%) jQuery
4 58 (26.13%) HTML5
5 44 (19.82%) CSS3
6 32 (14.41%) Ajax
7 31 (13.96%) XML
8 30 (13.51%) .NET
9 28 (12.61%) CodeIgniter
10 21 (9.459%) JSON
11 19 (8.559%) XHTML
12 17 (7.658%) Web Services
13 14 (6.306%) ASP.NET
13 14 (6.306%) CakePHP
14 13 (5.856%) LAMP
15 11 (4.955%) Symfony
15 11 (4.955%) Zend Framework
16 9 (4.054%) DHTML
17 8 (3.604%) RESTful
17 8 (3.604%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 66 (29.73%) CMS
2 63 (28.38%) Drupal
3 30 (13.51%) Joomla!
4 21 (9.459%) Apache
5 16 (7.207%) Magento
6 9 (4.054%) concrete5
6 9 (4.054%) IIS
6 9 (4.054%) Umbraco
7 5 (2.252%) ExpressionEngine
8 4 (1.802%) SharePoint
9 3 (1.351%) Orchard CMS
9 3 (1.351%) nginx
9 3 (1.351%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.901%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.901%) Moodle
10 2 (0.901%) Lync
10 2 (0.901%) Zen Cart
10 2 (0.901%) SilverStripe
10 2 (0.901%) Kentico
11 1 (0.450%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 35 (15.77%) Photoshop
2 11 (4.955%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (2.252%) Fireworks
4 2 (0.901%) Office 365
5 1 (0.450%) MS Excel
5 1 (0.450%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.252%) Google Analytics
2 3 (1.351%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.153%) Internet
2 5 (2.252%) Intranet
3 3 (1.351%) HTTP
4 2 (0.901%) Extranet
4 2 (0.901%) DNS
5 1 (0.450%) SMS
5 1 (0.450%) FTP
5 1 (0.450%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (44.59%) MySQL
2 14 (6.306%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.054%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.252%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.802%) Redis
6 1 (0.450%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.450%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.450%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.450%) DB2
Development Applications
1 24 (10.81%) Git (software)
2 20 (9.009%) Subversion
3 9 (4.054%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.054%) Dreamweaver
4 5 (2.252%) NetBeans
5 3 (1.351%) Mercurial
5 3 (1.351%) JIRA
6 2 (0.901%) Firebug
6 2 (0.901%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.901%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.901%) Trac
6 2 (0.901%) GitHub
7 1 (0.450%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.450%) PhoneGap
7 1 (0.450%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.450%) Balsamiq Mockups
7 1 (0.450%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.450%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.450%) Xcode
7 1 (0.450%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 30 (13.51%) Marketing
2 8 (3.604%) Finance
3 6 (2.703%) Publishing
4 4 (1.802%) Manufacturing
4 4 (1.802%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.351%) Electronics
5 3 (1.351%) Local Government
6 2 (0.901%) Multimedia
6 2 (0.901%) Banking
6 2 (0.901%) Back Office
6 2 (0.901%) Legal
7 1 (0.450%) Advertising
7 1 (0.450%) Games
7 1 (0.450%) Retail
Job Titles
1 182 (81.98%) Developer
2 86 (38.74%) PHP Developer
3 42 (18.92%) Web Developer
4 20 (9.009%) Front-End Developer
5 13 (5.856%) Project Manager
6 11 (4.955%) Drupal Developer
7 10 (4.505%) .NET Developer
8 9 (4.054%) PHP Web Developer
8 9 (4.054%) Digital Project Manager
8 9 (4.054%) Designer
9 7 (3.153%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 7 (3.153%) ASP.NET Developer
10 6 (2.703%) UI Developer
10 6 (2.703%) UI Programmer
11 5 (2.252%) Architect
11 5 (2.252%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.252%) Programmer
11 5 (2.252%) PHP Programmer
12 4 (1.802%) Web Programmer
12 4 (1.802%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.757%) Social Media
2 10 (4.505%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.054%) Digital Media
4 8 (3.604%) Blog
5 7 (3.153%) Open Source
6 6 (2.703%) W3C
7 5 (2.252%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.802%) Copywriting
9 3 (1.351%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.351%) N-Tier
9 3 (1.351%) DTV
9 3 (1.351%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.901%) Social Network
10 2 (0.901%) iDTV
11 1 (0.450%) iPad
11 1 (0.450%) SaaS
11 1 (0.450%) Kindle
11 1 (0.450%) VLE
11 1 (0.450%) NHS
11 1 (0.450%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.96%) Linux
2 12 (5.405%) Windows
3 4 (1.802%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (1.351%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.351%) Android
5 2 (0.901%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.901%) UNIX
6 1 (0.450%) Windows 2000
6 1 (0.450%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.450%) CentOS
6 1 (0.450%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (13.06%) MVC
2 28 (12.61%) OO
3 27 (12.16%) SEO
4 26 (11.71%) Web Development
5 23 (10.36%) Content Management
6 21 (9.459%) E-Commerce
7 20 (9.009%) Agile Software Development
8 19 (8.559%) Project Management
9 17 (7.658%) Scrum
10 15 (6.757%) OOP
11 14 (6.306%) Web Design
12 13 (5.856%) Digital Marketing
13 9 (4.054%) Analytics
13 9 (4.054%) OOD
14 7 (3.153%) Time Management
15 5 (2.252%) Information Architecture
15 5 (2.252%) Mobile Marketing
15 5 (2.252%) CRM
15 5 (2.252%) UML
15 5 (2.252%) Password Management
Programming Languages
1 172 (77.48%) PHP
2 120 (54.05%) JavaScript
3 26 (11.71%) PHP5
4 24 (10.81%) SQL
5 17 (7.658%) C#
6 10 (4.505%) Java
7 9 (4.054%) Ruby
8 5 (2.252%) XPath
9 4 (1.802%) Objective-C
9 4 (1.802%) Python
10 3 (1.351%) Perl
10 3 (1.351%) PHP4
11 2 (0.901%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.450%) Bash shell
12 1 (0.450%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.450%) VB
12 1 (0.450%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.450%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (4.955%) Degree
2 2 (0.901%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.450%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (0.450%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.450%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.351%) QA
2 1 (0.450%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.450%) SLA
2 1 (0.450%) WCAG
2 1 (0.450%) WAI
System Software
1 2 (0.901%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.450%) Shibboleth
2 1 (0.450%) VMware ESX
2 1 (0.450%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.450%) Puppet
1 1 (0.450%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (17.57%) Zend
2 21 (9.459%) Facebook
3 20 (9.009%) Twitter
4 18 (8.108%) Adobe
5 15 (6.757%) Google
6 9 (4.054%) Microsoft
7 8 (3.604%) Oracle
8 4 (1.802%) Orchard
9 3 (1.351%) SAP
10 2 (0.901%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.901%) Progress
11 1 (0.450%) Ektron
11 1 (0.450%) VMware
11 1 (0.450%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.450%) Apple
11 1 (0.450%) Salesforce.com
11 1 (0.450%) Telerik
11 1 (0.450%) Omniture
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