The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 3 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.890% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.660% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Application Platforms
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
53 41 85
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 15.73% 26.28% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 26 36 84
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £22,807 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £46,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WordPress
Cheshire

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 13 (100.00%) HTML
1 13 (100.00%) PHP
1 13 (100.00%) CSS
2 12 (92.31%) Magento
3 11 (84.62%) HTML5
4 9 (69.23%) Adobe
5 8 (61.54%) E-Commerce
6 6 (46.15%) Drupal
6 6 (46.15%) Apple iOS
6 6 (46.15%) CSS3
6 6 (46.15%) jQuery
6 6 (46.15%) Android
6 6 (46.15%) .NET
6 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
7 5 (38.46%) SQL
7 5 (38.46%) Flash
7 5 (38.46%) Internet Marketing
7 5 (38.46%) Marketing
7 5 (38.46%) MS Office
7 5 (38.46%) Internet
7 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
7 5 (38.46%) Mobile Application Development
8 4 (30.77%) Digital Media
8 4 (30.77%) MySQL
9 3 (23.08%) Photoshop
9 3 (23.08%) Ajax
9 3 (23.08%) Git (software)
9 3 (23.08%) Sass
9 3 (23.08%) HTML5 Canvas
10 1 (7.692%) Digital Marketing

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 13 (100.00%) HTML
1 13 (100.00%) CSS
2 11 (84.62%) HTML5
3 6 (46.15%) CSS3
3 6 (46.15%) jQuery
3 6 (46.15%) .NET
4 5 (38.46%) Flash
5 3 (23.08%) Ajax
5 3 (23.08%) Sass
5 3 (23.08%) HTML5 Canvas
Application Platforms
1 12 (92.31%) Magento
2 6 (46.15%) Drupal
3 1 (7.692%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MS Office
2 3 (23.08%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (38.46%) Marketing
2 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (76.92%) Web Developer
3 6 (46.15%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Front-End Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) PHP Developer
5 1 (7.692%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) PHP Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
2 4 (30.77%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Apple iOS
1 6 (46.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) E-Commerce
2 5 (38.46%) Internet Marketing
2 5 (38.46%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (7.692%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (7.692%) Web Application Development
3 1 (7.692%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Adobe
2 1 (7.692%) Sony
Chester, Cheshire
Very strong working knowledge of HTML / HTML5 2. Very strong working knowledge of CSS / CSS3 3. Very strong working knowledge of Javascript / jQuery 4. Strong working knowledge of...
Blueleaf
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Posted: 23 May 2013