The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 19 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 for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 183 224 195
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -29
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 25 3 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.471% 0.048% 0.223%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.388% 0.296% 1.462%
Number of salaries quoted 17 3 12
Average salary £42,500 £28,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+49.12% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,500 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £32,900 £29,500
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+5.00% +1.69%
All Application Platforms
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1047 1015 821
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 19.72% 16.35% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 844 893 703
Average salary £45,000 £44,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.27% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
WordPress
South East

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire WordPress Jobs Demand Trend

WordPress
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WordPress across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WordPress across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire WordPress Salary Histogram

WordPress
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WordPress within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bracknell - 10 £35,000 -
Slough +12 5 £50,000 +75.43%
Maidenhead - 4 £42,500 -
Newbury - 3 £32,500 -
Reading - 2 £42,500 -
Wokingham - 1 £27,500 -
WordPress
South East

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WordPress.

1 30 (81.08%) PHP
2 29 (78.38%) HTML
3 26 (70.27%) CMS
4 25 (67.57%) JavaScript
4 25 (67.57%) MySQL
4 25 (67.57%) CSS
5 24 (64.86%) jQuery
6 19 (51.35%) Web Development
7 17 (45.95%) Linux
8 15 (40.54%) Marketing
8 15 (40.54%) HTML5
9 14 (37.84%) CSS3
9 14 (37.84%) SEO
10 13 (35.14%) Digital Marketing
11 12 (32.43%) Drupal
12 11 (29.73%) Subversion
12 11 (29.73%) Ajax
13 9 (24.32%) Apache
14 8 (21.62%) VSS/SourceSafe
14 8 (21.62%) E-Commerce
14 8 (21.62%) Adobe
14 8 (21.62%) LAMP
14 8 (21.62%) ExpressionEngine
15 7 (18.92%) Open Source
15 7 (18.92%) Magento
15 7 (18.92%) MVC
15 7 (18.92%) ASP.NET
15 7 (18.92%) Photoshop
15 7 (18.92%) .NET
16 6 (16.22%) C#

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WordPress. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (78.38%) HTML
2 25 (67.57%) CSS
3 24 (64.86%) jQuery
4 15 (40.54%) HTML5
5 14 (37.84%) CSS3
6 11 (29.73%) Ajax
7 8 (21.62%) LAMP
8 7 (18.92%) ASP.NET
8 7 (18.92%) .NET
9 6 (16.22%) XML
9 6 (16.22%) .NET Framework
9 6 (16.22%) CodeIgniter
10 5 (13.51%) CakePHP
11 3 (8.108%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 2 (5.405%) JSON
13 1 (2.703%) XHTML
13 1 (2.703%) DOM
13 1 (2.703%) Apache Flex
13 1 (2.703%) Microformats
13 1 (2.703%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 26 (70.27%) CMS
2 12 (32.43%) Drupal
3 9 (24.32%) Apache
4 8 (21.62%) ExpressionEngine
5 7 (18.92%) Magento
6 6 (16.22%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (8.108%) Alfresco
8 2 (5.405%) Joomla!
9 1 (2.703%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Photoshop
2 4 (10.81%) MS Excel
3 2 (5.405%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (2.703%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.108%) iSCSI
1 3 (8.108%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (67.57%) MySQL
2 3 (8.108%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (8.108%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.108%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Subversion
2 8 (21.62%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (8.108%) Git (software)
General
1 15 (40.54%) Marketing
2 1 (2.703%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (78.38%) Developer
2 22 (59.46%) Web Developer
3 12 (32.43%) Front-End Developer
4 9 (24.32%) PHP Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Lead Web Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Front-End Web Developer
5 7 (18.92%) Lead Developer
6 5 (13.51%) PHP Web Developer
6 5 (13.51%) C# Web Developer
6 5 (13.51%) C# Developer
7 4 (10.81%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (10.81%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (10.81%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 3 (8.108%) Linux Support Engineer
8 3 (8.108%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (8.108%) Linux Support
8 3 (8.108%) Support Engineer
9 2 (5.405%) Senior PHP Developer
9 2 (5.405%) Senior Developer
10 1 (2.703%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Open Source
2 3 (8.108%) Social Media
3 1 (2.703%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 17 (45.95%) Linux
2 3 (8.108%) CentOS
2 3 (8.108%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.703%) Windows
3 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Web Development
2 14 (37.84%) SEO
3 13 (35.14%) Digital Marketing
4 8 (21.62%) E-Commerce
5 7 (18.92%) MVC
6 6 (16.22%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (16.22%) Content Management
7 4 (10.81%) Project Management
8 1 (2.703%) Web Accessibility
8 1 (2.703%) Market Research
8 1 (2.703%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 30 (81.08%) PHP
2 25 (67.57%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.22%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) SQL
5 3 (8.108%) Python
5 3 (8.108%) Perl
6 1 (2.703%) Java
6 1 (2.703%) Ruby
System Software
1 3 (8.108%) vSphere
1 3 (8.108%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (8.108%) NFS
1 3 (8.108%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (8.108%) Plesk
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Adobe
2 6 (16.22%) Sitecore
3 4 (10.81%) Zend
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) Twitter
4 3 (8.108%) NetApp
4 3 (8.108%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.108%) Google
4 3 (8.108%) VMware
5 1 (2.703%) Facebook