The first table below looks at the demand for Pressflow skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pressflow 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 for the West Midlands region.

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
Pressflow (Drupal Distribution)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Pressflow 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
253 358 312
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 15.49% 15.97% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 160 159
Average daily rate £300 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £205 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 23
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% +45.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £11.00 £10.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Pressflow
England

Pressflow
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Pressflow 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 Pressflow.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)

Pressflow
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Pressflow 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 Pressflow. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL