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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 90 92 96
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +4
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 2 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.189% 0.075% 0.324%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.704% 0.392% 2.326%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
Average salary £33,750 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.62% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Application Platforms
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
284 255 215
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.87% 19.03% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 178 193 157
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,600 £27,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WordPress
Scotland

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WordPress across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh WordPress Salary Histogram

WordPress
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Joomla!
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal
3 1 (25.00%) PHP5
3 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (25.00%) Magento
3 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) Ektron
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Finance

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
1 2 (50.00%) Joomla!
1 2 (50.00%) Drupal
2 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (25.00%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
1 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP5
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Ektron
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