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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 78 64 63
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -1
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 5 1 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.489% 0.154% 1.525%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.381% 1.163% 9.160%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 12
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £30,000 £30,250
10% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £30,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Application Platforms
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
210 86 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 20.53% 13.25% 16.65%
Number of salaries quoted 173 73 112
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £29,300 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
WordPress
Oxfordshire

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 17 (89.47%) JavaScript
2 16 (84.21%) HTML
3 15 (78.95%) CSS
4 14 (73.68%) jQuery
5 12 (63.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 12 (63.16%) Photoshop
6 10 (52.63%) Web Development
7 9 (47.37%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (47.37%) HTML5
7 9 (47.37%) Social Media
7 9 (47.37%) CSS3
8 7 (36.84%) Drupal
8 7 (36.84%) PHP
9 6 (31.58%) MySQL
9 6 (31.58%) CMS
9 6 (31.58%) Joomla!
10 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005
10 4 (21.05%) Content Management
10 4 (21.05%) DotNetNuke
10 4 (21.05%) iPad
10 4 (21.05%) Magento
10 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
10 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
10 4 (21.05%) RDBMS
10 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
10 4 (21.05%) Intranet
10 4 (21.05%) Internet
10 4 (21.05%) Extranet
10 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
10 4 (21.05%) C#

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 16 (84.21%) HTML
2 15 (78.95%) CSS
3 14 (73.68%) jQuery
4 9 (47.37%) HTML5
4 9 (47.37%) CSS3
5 4 (21.05%) .NET
5 4 (21.05%) ASP
5 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET
6 2 (10.53%) JSON
6 2 (10.53%) XHTML
6 2 (10.53%) XML
7 1 (5.263%) LAMP
7 1 (5.263%) Ajax
7 1 (5.263%) Zend Framework
7 1 (5.263%) YUI
7 1 (5.263%) Ext JS
7 1 (5.263%) Smarty
7 1 (5.263%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) Drupal
2 6 (31.58%) CMS
2 6 (31.58%) Joomla!
3 4 (21.05%) DotNetNuke
3 4 (21.05%) Magento
4 1 (5.263%) SugarCRM
4 1 (5.263%) SilverStripe
Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Adobe Illustrator
1 12 (63.16%) Photoshop
2 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Intranet
1 4 (21.05%) Internet
1 4 (21.05%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MySQL
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (21.05%) RDBMS
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (78.95%) Web Developer
3 10 (52.63%) Front-End Developer
3 10 (52.63%) Front-End Web Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Web Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Graduate
5 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Web Designer
6 1 (5.263%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Photoshop Designer
6 1 (5.263%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Social Media
2 4 (21.05%) iPad
3 3 (15.79%) Graphic Design
4 1 (5.263%) Economics
4 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Web Development
2 9 (47.37%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (21.05%) Content Management
3 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.79%) Web Design
5 2 (10.53%) MVC
6 1 (5.263%) OO
6 1 (5.263%) e-GIF
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) JavaScript
2 7 (36.84%) PHP
3 4 (21.05%) C#
3 4 (21.05%) VB
3 4 (21.05%) VB.NET
4 2 (10.53%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) Zend