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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 135 135 165
Rank change year-on-year
0 +30
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 9 15 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.367% 0.599% 0.061%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.852% 2.496% 0.308%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 2
Average salary £28,000 £30,000 £27,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +10.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,300 £25,000 £25,050
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £37,600 £29,450
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Application Platforms
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
486 601 650
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 19.80% 24.00% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 412 443 487
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,250 £28,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WordPress
East of England

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Salary Histogram

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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
Welwyn Garden City -16 3 £28,000 +12.00%
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £47,500 -
WordPress
East of England

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 15 (100.00%) PHP
2 11 (73.33%) Magento
3 10 (66.67%) HTML
3 10 (66.67%) CSS
4 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (60.00%) jQuery
5 8 (53.33%) MySQL
6 7 (46.67%) Photoshop
6 7 (46.67%) XHTML
6 7 (46.67%) Fireworks
6 7 (46.67%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (46.67%) HTML5
7 6 (40.00%) Web Design
7 6 (40.00%) LAMP
8 5 (33.33%) Replication
8 5 (33.33%) Clustering
8 5 (33.33%) SEO
8 5 (33.33%) Marketing
8 5 (33.33%) Xen
8 5 (33.33%) SSH
8 5 (33.33%) Time Management
8 5 (33.33%) CentOS
8 5 (33.33%) IMAP
8 5 (33.33%) Load Balancing
8 5 (33.33%) Joomla!
8 5 (33.33%) Cacti
8 5 (33.33%) Sendmail
8 5 (33.33%) nginx
8 5 (33.33%) Moodle
8 5 (33.33%) Apache

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (66.67%) HTML
1 10 (66.67%) CSS
2 9 (60.00%) jQuery
3 7 (46.67%) HTML5
3 7 (46.67%) XHTML
4 6 (40.00%) LAMP
5 5 (33.33%) XML
6 4 (26.67%) Ajax
7 3 (20.00%) CSS3
8 1 (6.667%) WAMP
8 1 (6.667%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 11 (73.33%) Magento
2 5 (33.33%) nginx
2 5 (33.33%) Moodle
2 5 (33.33%) Apache
2 5 (33.33%) Joomla!
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Photoshop
1 7 (46.67%) Fireworks
1 7 (46.67%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) POP3
1 5 (33.33%) SMTP
1 5 (33.33%) FTP
1 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 5 (33.33%) DNS
1 5 (33.33%) SSL
1 5 (33.33%) SAN
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
1 5 (33.33%) SSH
1 5 (33.33%) IMAP
2 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Dreamweaver
General
1 5 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Web Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) Administrator
3 4 (26.67%) Web Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Web Designer
4 3 (20.00%) Designer
5 2 (13.33%) Photoshop Designer
6 1 (6.667%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (6.667%) PHP Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) W3C
1 5 (33.33%) Replication
1 5 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
1 5 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Web Design
2 5 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 5 (33.33%) Time Management
2 5 (33.33%) SEO
3 2 (13.33%) Web Accessibility
3 2 (13.33%) Email Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Web Development
4 1 (6.667%) OO
4 1 (6.667%) CRM
4 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.667%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) PHP
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) Perl
3 5 (33.33%) Bash shell
4 4 (26.67%) C#
4 4 (26.67%) C++
5 1 (6.667%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Xen
1 5 (33.33%) Sendmail
1 5 (33.33%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Nagios
1 5 (33.33%) Cacti
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (26.67%) Adobe
3 3 (20.00%) Facebook