The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 113 112 105
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -7
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 6 14 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.352% 0.691% 0.858%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.813% 3.723% 5.357%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 17
Average salary £31,000 £35,000 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.42% +18.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £22,500 £28,100
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £37,500 £37,200
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+5.00% +1.69%
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
331 376 336
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 19.41% 18.55% 16.02%
Number of salaries quoted 301 343 290
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
WordPress
Cambridgeshire

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 6 (75.00%) CSS
1 6 (75.00%) HTML
1 6 (75.00%) CMS
2 5 (62.50%) Drupal
2 5 (62.50%) Content Management
2 5 (62.50%) PHP
3 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) VB
3 3 (37.50%) MySQL
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) JSP
3 3 (37.50%) SOAP
3 3 (37.50%) Web Services
3 3 (37.50%) XML
3 3 (37.50%) XSL
3 3 (37.50%) XSLT
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Apache
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (37.50%) Flash
3 3 (37.50%) WSDL
3 3 (37.50%) Tcl
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 6 (75.00%) CSS
1 6 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) JSP
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
2 3 (37.50%) XML
2 3 (37.50%) XSL
2 3 (37.50%) XSLT
2 3 (37.50%) Flash
2 3 (37.50%) WSDL
2 3 (37.50%) OpenID
2 3 (37.50%) HTML5
2 3 (37.50%) soapUI
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 3 (37.50%) CSS3
2 3 (37.50%) FastCGI
2 3 (37.50%) jQuery
2 3 (37.50%) OAuth
2 3 (37.50%) Ajax
2 3 (37.50%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) CMS
2 5 (62.50%) Drupal
3 3 (37.50%) Apache
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Intranet
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (37.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Web Manager
2 2 (25.00%) LAMP Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Content Management
2 3 (37.50%) Web Development
2 3 (37.50%) Workflow
2 3 (37.50%) Web Design
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PHP
2 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) VB
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) OpenSSO
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft