The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 20 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 47 68 -
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 1 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.276% 0.394% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.563% 1.342% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
Average salary £25,000 £37,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.43% -
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Application Platforms
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
64 149 111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 17.68% 29.33% 34.91%
Number of salaries quoted 54 123 88
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,250 £29,500 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WordPress
Merseyside

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 (83.33%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) XML
3 3 (50.00%) PHP5
3 3 (50.00%) jQuery
3 3 (50.00%) Magento
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Smarty
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) CMS
4 2 (33.33%) Zend
5 1 (16.67%) CakePHP
5 1 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) NetBeans
5 1 (16.67%) Web Design
5 1 (16.67%) Joomla!
5 1 (16.67%) MVC
5 1 (16.67%) SEO
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (16.67%) iPad
5 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
5 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (16.67%) XSD

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) Smarty
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) CakePHP
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) XSD
4 1 (16.67%) XSLT
4 1 (16.67%) XHTML
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Magento
2 2 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (16.67%) Joomla!
3 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (16.67%) NetBeans
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) OO
1 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
1 1 (16.67%) MVC
1 1 (16.67%) SEO
1 1 (16.67%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PHP
2 3 (50.00%) PHP5
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Zend