The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 24 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 85 69 94
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +25
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 2 3 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.173% 0.418% 0.753%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.881% 2.128% 3.791%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 7
Average salary £28,750 £34,000 £18,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.44% +88.88%
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Application Platforms
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
227 141 211
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 19.62% 19.67% 19.85%
Number of salaries quoted 182 129 193
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £40,750 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
WordPress
South East

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) Social Media
3 3 (60.00%) Marketing
4 2 (40.00%) Fireworks
4 2 (40.00%) Taxonomies
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
5 1 (20.00%) CSS3
5 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (20.00%) XSL
5 1 (20.00%) Flash
5 1 (20.00%) XHTML
5 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (20.00%) SSL
5 1 (20.00%) Sage
5 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (20.00%) CMS
5 1 (20.00%) LAMP
5 1 (20.00%) Web Design
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) .NET

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) CSS3
3 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (20.00%) XSL
3 1 (20.00%) Flash
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML
3 1 (20.00%) LAMP
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) WAMP
3 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (20.00%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
1 1 (20.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (20.00%) DotNetNuke
1 1 (20.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Fireworks
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Junior
3 2 (40.00%) Junior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Junior PHP Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Social Media
2 2 (40.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Web Design
2 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Sage