The first table below looks at the demand for Magento skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Magento over the 3 months to 22 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Magento
Rank 60 49 32
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -17
Permanent jobs citing Magento 4 3 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 1.018% 0.826% 3.273%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.878% 5.085% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 9
Average salary £36,000 - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £30,000 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +1.69%
All Application Platforms
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
82 59 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 20.87% 16.25% 17.09%
Number of salaries quoted 75 52 41
Average salary £35,000 £32,750 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.87% +12.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,600 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £41,396 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Magento
Leicestershire

Magento
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester Magento Jobs Demand Trend

Magento
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Magento across the Leicester region.

Leicester Magento Salary Trend

Magento
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester region citing Magento 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 Magento.

1 9 (100.00%) PHP
1 9 (100.00%) MySQL
2 5 (55.56%) Zend
2 5 (55.56%) E-Commerce
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) CSS
3 4 (44.44%) XML
3 4 (44.44%) CMS
3 4 (44.44%) LAMP
3 4 (44.44%) jQuery
3 4 (44.44%) Open Source
3 4 (44.44%) HTML5
3 4 (44.44%) CSS3
4 3 (33.33%) Joomla!
4 3 (33.33%) WordPress
4 3 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
4 3 (33.33%) CakePHP
4 3 (33.33%) Drupal
4 3 (33.33%) PHP5
4 3 (33.33%) MVC
4 3 (33.33%) Ajax
4 3 (33.33%) OOP
4 3 (33.33%) HTML
4 3 (33.33%) Photoshop
5 2 (22.22%) OO
5 2 (22.22%) XHTML
5 2 (22.22%) Linux
5 2 (22.22%) JSON
5 2 (22.22%) Zend Framework
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum

Magento
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester region citing Magento 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 Magento. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) XML
2 4 (44.44%) LAMP
2 4 (44.44%) jQuery
2 4 (44.44%) HTML5
2 4 (44.44%) CSS3
3 3 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
3 3 (33.33%) CakePHP
3 3 (33.33%) Ajax
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) XHTML
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) Zend Framework
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) CMS
2 3 (33.33%) Joomla!
2 3 (33.33%) WordPress
2 3 (33.33%) Drupal
3 1 (11.11%) SilverStripe
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (11.11%) InDesign
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Web Developer
4 3 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
5 2 (22.22%) Development Manager
5 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
5 2 (22.22%) Product Development Manager
6 1 (11.11%) Senior Web Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Senior PHP Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Senior PHP Web Developer
6 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Open Source
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
3 1 (11.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Android
1 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) E-Commerce
2 3 (33.33%) MVC
2 3 (33.33%) OOP
3 2 (22.22%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Content Management
3 2 (22.22%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (11.11%) Web Application Development
4 1 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) PHP5
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Zend
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Apple
2 1 (11.11%) Sage