The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT jobs advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 17 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 Dorset region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 52 49 58
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +9
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 12 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 1.987% 1.863% 0.348%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.947% 10.23% 1.961%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 2
Average salary £32,500 £27,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.18% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £20,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £30,300 £31,500
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Application Platforms
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
151 88 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 25.00% 18.22% 17.77%
Number of salaries quoted 125 72 83
Average salary £33,750 £32,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.46% -8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WordPress
South West

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset WordPress Salary Trend

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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bournemouth +5 12 £32,500 +7.43%
WordPress
South West

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 22 (100.00%) CSS
2 21 (95.45%) HTML
2 21 (95.45%) PHP
3 20 (90.91%) MySQL
4 19 (86.36%) Magento
5 18 (81.82%) CMS
6 14 (63.64%) JavaScript
7 13 (59.09%) Marketing
8 12 (54.55%) Subversion
8 12 (54.55%) Linux
8 12 (54.55%) OOP
8 12 (54.55%) OO
8 12 (54.55%) Plesk
8 12 (54.55%) Drupal
9 11 (50.00%) PHP5
9 11 (50.00%) LAMP
9 11 (50.00%) E-Commerce
9 11 (50.00%) Content Management
9 11 (50.00%) Web Development
9 11 (50.00%) Release Management
10 7 (31.82%) ExpressionEngine
11 5 (22.73%) HTML5
11 5 (22.73%) CSS3
11 5 (22.73%) Joomla!
11 5 (22.73%) QA
12 4 (18.18%) jQuery
13 2 (9.091%) Adobe
13 2 (9.091%) XHTML
13 2 (9.091%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (9.091%) Apache

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 22 (100.00%) CSS
2 21 (95.45%) HTML
3 11 (50.00%) LAMP
4 5 (22.73%) HTML5
4 5 (22.73%) CSS3
5 4 (18.18%) jQuery
6 2 (9.091%) XHTML
7 1 (4.545%) Flash
7 1 (4.545%) Symfony
7 1 (4.545%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (4.545%) Adobe AIR
Application Platforms
1 19 (86.36%) Magento
2 18 (81.82%) CMS
3 12 (54.55%) Drupal
4 7 (31.82%) ExpressionEngine
5 5 (22.73%) Joomla!
6 2 (9.091%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Photoshop
1 2 (9.091%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (4.545%) InDesign
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (90.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Subversion
2 1 (4.545%) Selenium
General
1 13 (59.09%) Marketing
2 1 (4.545%) Publishing
2 1 (4.545%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Developer
2 19 (86.36%) Web Developer
2 19 (86.36%) PHP Developer
3 18 (81.82%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Designer
4 1 (4.545%) Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) Photography
1 1 (4.545%) Blog
1 1 (4.545%) iPhone
1 1 (4.545%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.545%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.545%) Android
2 1 (4.545%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) OOP
1 12 (54.55%) OO
2 11 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 11 (50.00%) Content Management
2 11 (50.00%) Web Development
2 11 (50.00%) Release Management
3 1 (4.545%) Email Marketing
3 1 (4.545%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (4.545%) Unit Testing
3 1 (4.545%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) PHP
2 14 (63.64%) JavaScript
3 11 (50.00%) PHP5
4 1 (4.545%) PHP4
4 1 (4.545%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Plesk
Vendors
1 2 (9.091%) Adobe
2 1 (4.545%) Facebook
2 1 (4.545%) Microsoft