WordPress Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress 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 WordPress over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 92 94 99
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +5
Contract jobs citing WordPress 5 11 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.307% 0.489% 0.052%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.976% 3.064% 0.315%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £160 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £221 £300 £200
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £135.37 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+720.42% -26.66%
All Application Platforms
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 253 359 317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 15.51% 15.96% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 160 160
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 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 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 £13.40 £11.00 £10.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
WordPress
England

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands WordPress Daily Rate Trend

WordPress
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WordPress across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands WordPress Hourly Rate Trend

WordPress
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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
Birmingham +13 3 - -
Warwickshire -4 1 - -
Coventry - 1 - -
WordPress
England

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 8 (72.73%) PHP
2 7 (63.64%) CSS
2 7 (63.64%) CMS
3 6 (54.55%) Joomla!
3 6 (54.55%) Photoshop
4 5 (45.45%) MySQL
5 4 (36.36%) Adobe
5 4 (36.36%) W3C
5 4 (36.36%) Linux
5 4 (36.36%) HTML
5 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 4 (36.36%) Content Management
5 4 (36.36%) PHP5
5 4 (36.36%) jQuery
5 4 (36.36%) CSS3
5 4 (36.36%) HTML5
6 3 (27.27%) Drupal
6 3 (27.27%) SQL
7 2 (18.18%) Apache
7 2 (18.18%) Dreamweaver
7 2 (18.18%) CodeIgniter
7 2 (18.18%) SEO
7 2 (18.18%) Publishing
7 2 (18.18%) Google
7 2 (18.18%) Marketing
7 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) Social Media
7 2 (18.18%) Project Management
7 2 (18.18%) Time Management
8 1 (9.091%) User Experience Design

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 7 (63.64%) CSS
2 4 (36.36%) HTML
2 4 (36.36%) jQuery
2 4 (36.36%) CSS3
2 4 (36.36%) HTML5
3 2 (18.18%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) CMS
2 6 (54.55%) Joomla!
3 3 (27.27%) Drupal
4 2 (18.18%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Intranet
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (18.18%) Publishing
1 2 (18.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Web Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Web Editor
3 2 (18.18%) PHP Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Joomla! Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Joomla! Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Web Marketing Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) Web Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) W3C
2 2 (18.18%) Social Media
3 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Content Management
2 2 (18.18%) SEO
2 2 (18.18%) Scrum
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
2 2 (18.18%) Time Management
3 1 (9.091%) User Experience Design
3 1 (9.091%) Online Marketing
3 1 (9.091%) Web Marketing
3 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Internet Marketing
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PHP
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) PHP5
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Adobe
2 2 (18.18%) Google
3 1 (9.091%) Facebook
3 1 (9.091%) Twitter
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