The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 56 80 -
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 5 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.119% 0.297% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.952% 1.005% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
Average salary £23,000 £37,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.83% -
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
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% -
WordPress
North West

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WordPress across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Merseyside 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 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 -
St Helens - 1 £23,000 -
WordPress
North West

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 7 (63.64%) PHP
2 6 (54.55%) MySQL
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
3 5 (45.45%) Magento
3 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) MVC
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 4 (36.36%) XML
4 4 (36.36%) C#
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 3 (27.27%) XPath
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (27.27%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (27.27%) jQuery
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (27.27%) Windows
5 3 (27.27%) OO
5 3 (27.27%) Web Services
5 3 (27.27%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (27.27%) VB
5 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (27.27%) Legal
5 3 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (27.27%) WinForms
6 2 (18.18%) CMS
6 2 (18.18%) Photoshop
6 2 (18.18%) PHP5

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 4 (36.36%) XML
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
4 3 (27.27%) jQuery
4 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) WinForms
5 2 (18.18%) Ajax
6 1 (9.091%) CakePHP
6 1 (9.091%) Smarty
6 1 (9.091%) HTML5
6 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (9.091%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (9.091%) .NET
6 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
6 1 (9.091%) XHTML
6 1 (9.091%) XSD
6 1 (9.091%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Magento
2 2 (18.18%) CMS
3 1 (9.091%) Joomla!
3 1 (9.091%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Photoshop
2 1 (9.091%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (27.27%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (9.091%) Subversion
2 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.091%) NetBeans
2 1 (9.091%) Dreamweaver
General
1 3 (27.27%) Legal
1 3 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) PHP Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Web Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
5 2 (18.18%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (9.091%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Designer
6 1 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) MVC
2 3 (27.27%) OO
3 1 (9.091%) Web Design
3 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.091%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PHP
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) XPath
4 3 (27.27%) VB
5 2 (18.18%) PHP5
6 1 (9.091%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Zend
3 1 (9.091%) 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