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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Magento
Rank 57 73 59
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -14
Permanent jobs citing Magento 4 9 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.895% 1.337% 1.296%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.762% 4.523% 4.255%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 6
Average salary £22,250 £21,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.48% -28.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,500 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £27,200 £21,500 £36,250
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £30,000 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +1.69%
All Application Platforms
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
84 199 141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 18.79% 29.57% 30.45%
Number of salaries quoted 70 171 115
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,350 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
Magento
North West

Magento
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Magento Salary Trend

Magento
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Magento within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birkenhead - 2 £21,500 -
Liverpool +10 1 £29,000 +34.88%
St Helens - 1 £23,000 -
Magento
North West

Magento
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) PHP
3 5 (71.43%) MySQL
3 5 (71.43%) WordPress
4 3 (42.86%) PHP5
4 3 (42.86%) jQuery
5 2 (28.57%) XML
5 2 (28.57%) OO
6 1 (14.29%) XHTML
6 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 1 (14.29%) Adobe
6 1 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (14.29%) Subversion
6 1 (14.29%) Ajax
6 1 (14.29%) Joomla!
6 1 (14.29%) MVC
6 1 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
6 1 (14.29%) Smarty
6 1 (14.29%) HTML5

Magento
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) XHTML
5 1 (14.29%) Ajax
5 1 (14.29%) Smarty
5 1 (14.29%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) WordPress
2 1 (14.29%) Joomla!
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) PHP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP MySQL Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) OO
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) PHP
2 3 (42.86%) PHP5
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
Wirral, North West
You will also have the ability to edit and manipulate existing sites, in particular those created within Joomla, Wordpress and Magento... They seek a forward thinking developer that...
Salary: £18000 - £25000 per annum + pension, career progression
Posted: 10 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Magento developer , php developer, MySQL, Javascript, LAMP developer, programmer Magento PHP Developer Liverpool L19 , £30- 35 k D.O.E + bens/bonus 23 days holiday +bank holidays (8)...
Acceler-IT
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum +bens+bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013