The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 23 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 165 150 124
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -26
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 24 25 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.589% 0.686% 1.167%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.895% 3.209% 7.264%
Number of salaries quoted 16 25 33
Average salary £27,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,750 £23,700 £26,300
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £35,000 £63,000
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
829 779 647
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 20.35% 21.39% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 704 690 605
Average salary £36,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.76% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £61,500 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WordPress
North West

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WordPress across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 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
Altrincham - 2 £42,500 -
Salford - 1 - -
WordPress
North West

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 69 (90.79%) PHP
2 64 (84.21%) CSS
3 53 (69.74%) HTML
4 45 (59.21%) Magento
5 44 (57.89%) JavaScript
6 38 (50.00%) jQuery
7 33 (43.42%) MySQL
8 29 (38.16%) OO
8 29 (38.16%) PHP5
9 28 (36.84%) CSS3
9 28 (36.84%) CMS
10 26 (34.21%) Drupal
11 25 (32.89%) HTML5
12 24 (31.58%) OOP
13 22 (28.95%) Zend
13 22 (28.95%) Joomla!
14 21 (27.63%) E-Commerce
15 17 (22.37%) MVC
16 16 (21.05%) LAMP
16 16 (21.05%) SQL
17 14 (18.42%) .NET
18 13 (17.11%) Photoshop
19 12 (15.79%) SEO
20 11 (14.47%) Linux
20 11 (14.47%) Degree
21 10 (13.16%) Selenium
22 9 (11.84%) Web Development
22 9 (11.84%) Apple iOS
22 9 (11.84%) Unit Testing
22 9 (11.84%) Android

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 64 (84.21%) CSS
2 53 (69.74%) HTML
3 38 (50.00%) jQuery
4 28 (36.84%) CSS3
5 25 (32.89%) HTML5
6 16 (21.05%) LAMP
7 14 (18.42%) .NET
8 9 (11.84%) XML
9 8 (10.53%) XHTML
10 6 (7.895%) XSLT
11 5 (6.579%) XSL
11 5 (6.579%) ASP.NET
11 5 (6.579%) CodeIgniter
12 4 (5.263%) Razor View Engine
13 3 (3.947%) CakePHP
14 2 (2.632%) Sass
14 2 (2.632%) LESS
14 2 (2.632%) ASP.NET MVC
14 2 (2.632%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 2 (2.632%) Yii
Application Platforms
1 45 (59.21%) Magento
2 28 (36.84%) CMS
3 26 (34.21%) Drupal
4 22 (28.95%) Joomla!
5 7 (9.211%) Umbraco
6 5 (6.579%) Apache
6 5 (6.579%) Kentico
7 4 (5.263%) concrete5
8 2 (2.632%) Apache Solr
8 2 (2.632%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.632%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.316%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (2.632%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.632%) DNS
2 1 (1.316%) HTTP
2 1 (1.316%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (43.42%) MySQL
2 8 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.632%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (2.632%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.632%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (2.632%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.632%) GIS
3 2 (2.632%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Selenium
2 6 (7.895%) Dreamweaver
3 5 (6.579%) Behat
4 4 (5.263%) Subversion
5 3 (3.947%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.947%) Git (software)
6 1 (1.316%) JIRA
General
1 7 (9.211%) Marketing
2 6 (7.895%) Advertising
3 3 (3.947%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.947%) Games
4 1 (1.316%) Finance
4 1 (1.316%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (89.47%) Developer
2 38 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 26 (34.21%) Web Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Front-End Developer
5 5 (6.579%) Senior Developer
5 5 (6.579%) Senior PHP Developer
5 5 (6.579%) Front-End Web Developer
6 4 (5.263%) Head of Development
6 4 (5.263%) .NET Applications Developer
6 4 (5.263%) Applications Developer
6 4 (5.263%) .NET Developer
7 3 (3.947%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.947%) SEO Developer
8 2 (2.632%) Designer
8 2 (2.632%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 2 (2.632%) PHP Web Developer
8 2 (2.632%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.632%) Trainer
9 1 (1.316%) HTML Developer
9 1 (1.316%) Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.211%) Open Source
2 5 (6.579%) Computer Science
3 4 (5.263%) E-Learning
4 3 (3.947%) BBC
4 3 (3.947%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.947%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.632%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.316%) W3C
6 1 (1.316%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Linux
2 9 (11.84%) Apple iOS
2 9 (11.84%) Android
3 2 (2.632%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.632%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.16%) OO
2 24 (31.58%) OOP
3 21 (27.63%) E-Commerce
4 17 (22.37%) MVC
5 12 (15.79%) SEO
6 9 (11.84%) Web Development
6 9 (11.84%) Unit Testing
7 8 (10.53%) Web Design
8 7 (9.211%) TDD
9 5 (6.579%) Project Management
10 4 (5.263%) Responsive Web Design
10 4 (5.263%) Time Management
11 3 (3.947%) UML
11 3 (3.947%) Automated Testing
11 3 (3.947%) Pay per click
11 3 (3.947%) Mobile Application Development
12 2 (2.632%) Analytics
12 2 (2.632%) Usability Testing
12 2 (2.632%) Continuous Improvement
12 2 (2.632%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 69 (90.79%) PHP
2 44 (57.89%) JavaScript
3 29 (38.16%) PHP5
4 16 (21.05%) SQL
5 9 (11.84%) Java
6 5 (6.579%) C#
7 4 (5.263%) Python
7 4 (5.263%) Objective-C
7 4 (5.263%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.632%) Ruby
8 2 (2.632%) XPath
8 2 (2.632%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.632%) C++
9 1 (1.316%) PHP4
Qualifications
1 11 (14.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.632%) QA
Vendors
1 22 (28.95%) Zend
2 9 (11.84%) Adobe
3 6 (7.895%) Google
4 5 (6.579%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.263%) Oracle
6 2 (2.632%) ESRI
7 1 (1.316%) Apple
7 1 (1.316%) Facebook
7 1 (1.316%) Twitter
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AMsource Technology
Salary: From £25,000 to £30,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Award winning Digital Media Agency in Central Manchester looking to increase their development team by appointing a Junior Web Developer.Due to the growth of the company and...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £26000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Front End Developer / Web Developer - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Responsive DesignKey Words: ``Web Developer``, ``Front End Developer``, HTML, CSS, JavascriptMy client an international creative agency in the heart...
OPUS
Salary: GBP20000 to GBP28000 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, Wordpress oObject Orientated or Event Driven Programming, e.g. Java, C++ oDatabase Design and development, e.g. Oracle, SQL oGeneral computer hardware, network and...
Mint
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Integrate HTML, CSS and JS into CMS templates with editable regions and settings. We use Wordpress and Zend - but the ability to adapt to new PHP CMS backends...
Reason Digital
Salary: From £25,000 to £32,000 per annum depending upon experience.
Posted: 27 April 2013
Manchester, North West
Our client, an award winning design agency that specialises in great mobile design is currently looking for a Digital Designer. Their design is all about the user interaction...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Our client, an award winning design agency that specialises in great mobile design is currently looking for a Digital Designer. Their design is all about the user interaction...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013