The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Drupal skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Drupal over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

Drupal
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank311347410
Rank change year-on-year
Up+36Up+63
Matching permanent IT job ads932764400
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.769 %0.626 %0.420 %
As % of the Application Platforms category3.773 %3.289 %2.426 %
Number of salaries quoted845687332
Average salary£37,500£37,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+7.14 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£25,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£57,500£45,900
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£32,500£30,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69 %+8.33 %
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
246992323116485
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK20.38 %19.04 %17.31 %
Number of salaries quoted214752000213747
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£35,500
% change year-on-year
-+5.63 %

Drupal
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Drupal within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Drupal Demand Trend

Drupal
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Drupal within the UK.

Drupal Salary Trend

Drupal
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Drupal over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Drupal Salary Histogram

Drupal
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Drupal within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+43893£37,500-
LondonUp+14500£40,000-
South EastUp+25197£32,500-
East of EnglandUp+5176£37,500+25.00 %
City of LondonDown-961£50,000+25.00 %
HertfordshireUp+4738£37,500-16.66 %
West MidlandsUp+135£30,000-14.28 %
BerkshireDown-1835£26,500-5.35 %
South WestDown-4135£35,000+7.69 %
North WestNo change034£35,000+16.66 %
BuckinghamshireUp+533£31,500-3.07 %
SurreyUp+128£38,750-4.90 %
BirminghamUp+527£30,000+20.00 %
OxfordshireUp+2126£30,000-6.25 %
East SussexUp+524£27,500-21.42 %
BrightonUp+424£27,500-21.42 %
MaidenheadUp+1123£24,000-43.52 %
ManchesterUp+822£35,000+5.26 %
ScotlandUp+2220£37,500+7.14 %
EdinburghUp+2016£37,500+7.14 %
BathUp+716£35,000-
SomersetUp+516£35,000-
NorwichDown-215£29,500-1.66 %
NorfolkDown-515£29,500-1.66 %
HampshireDown-2115£32,750-6.42 %
BristolDown-1613£30,000+9.09 %
BuckinghamUp+312£30,000+0.84 %
CambridgeshireUp+211£32,500+8.33 %
GuildfordDown-1211£32,500+38.29 %
CambridgeUp+310£32,500-21.68 %

Drupal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Drupal 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 Drupal.

11520 (81.28 %)PHP
21149 (61.44 %)CSS
31139 (60.91 %)JavaScript
41017 (54.39 %)HTML
5995 (53.21 %)MySQL
6670 (35.83 %)CMS
7660 (35.29 %)jQuery
8503 (26.90 %)Linux
9500 (26.74 %)LAMP
9500 (26.74 %)Web Development
10458 (24.49 %)WordPress
11430 (22.99 %)Apache
12403 (21.55 %)Joomla!
13376 (20.11 %)PHP5
14358 (19.14 %)XHTML
15347 (18.56 %)E-Commerce
16346 (18.50 %)Zend
17338 (18.07 %)OO
18334 (17.86 %)Open Source
19313 (16.74 %)MVC
20292 (15.61 %)Subversion
21285 (15.24 %)Content Management
22267 (14.28 %)Ajax
23262 (14.01 %)HTML5
24245 (13.10 %)XML
25235 (12.57 %)SQL
26225 (12.03 %)Web Services
26225 (12.03 %)SEO
27216 (11.55 %)Git (software)
28214 (11.44 %)Marketing

Drupal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Drupal 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 Drupal. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11149 (61.44 %)CSS
21017 (54.39 %)HTML
3660 (35.29 %)jQuery
4500 (26.74 %)LAMP
5358 (19.14 %)XHTML
6267 (14.28 %)Ajax
7262 (14.01 %)HTML5
8245 (13.10 %)XML
9225 (12.03 %)Web Services
10209 (11.18 %).NET
11188 (10.05 %)CSS3
12145 (7.754 %)CodeIgniter
13143 (7.647 %)Flash
14125 (6.684 %)CakePHP
15123 (6.578 %)Symfony
1690 (4.813 %)YUI
1788 (4.706 %)ASP.NET
1788 (4.706 %)RESTful
1875 (4.011 %)Zend Framework
1974 (3.957 %)JSON
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1670 (35.83 %)CMS
2458 (24.49 %)WordPress
3430 (22.99 %)Apache
4403 (21.55 %)Joomla!
5140 (7.487 %)Magento
687 (4.652 %)SharePoint
782 (4.385 %)Apache Solr
848 (2.567 %)nginx
944 (2.353 %)Alfresco
1042 (2.246 %)Umbraco
1138 (2.032 %)WebLogic
1230 (1.604 %)Liferay
1323 (1.230 %)Movable Type
1422 (1.176 %)Documentum
1422 (1.176 %)WebLogic Portal
1520 (1.070 %)SharePoint Server
1520 (1.070 %)IIS
1619 (1.016 %)Commerce Server
1715 (0.802 %)Sitecore CMS
1814 (0.749 %)Amazon AWS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
196 (5.134 %)Photoshop
242 (2.246 %)MS Excel
327 (1.444 %)MS Office
423 (1.230 %)MS Visio
521 (1.123 %)Adobe Illustrator
613 (0.695 %)Fireworks
710 (0.535 %)MS PowerPoint
82 (0.107 %)GIMP
91 (0.053 %)QuarkXPress
91 (0.053 %)MS Project
91 (0.053 %)Mingle
91 (0.053 %)Final Cut Pro
91 (0.053 %)OmniGraffle
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
148 (2.567 %)Google Analytics
222 (1.176 %)SiteCatalyst
222 (1.176 %)Optimost
310 (0.535 %)Tridion
49 (0.481 %)Dynamics CRM
57 (0.374 %)Summit
62 (0.107 %)WebTrends
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1137 (7.326 %)Internet
252 (2.781 %)Intranet
343 (2.299 %)DNS
437 (1.979 %)FTP
535 (1.872 %)HTTP
632 (1.711 %)Firewall
726 (1.390 %)Extranet
816 (0.856 %)SSH
816 (0.856 %)TCP/IP
911 (0.588 %)SSL
911 (0.588 %)SMTP
911 (0.588 %)IMAP
109 (0.481 %)Broadband
109 (0.481 %)OpenVPN
117 (0.374 %)HTTPS
126 (0.321 %)NAS
126 (0.321 %)Junos
126 (0.321 %)iSCSI
126 (0.321 %)Reverse Proxy
126 (0.321 %)SAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1995 (53.21 %)MySQL
286 (4.599 %)SQL Server
341 (2.193 %)PostgreSQL
422 (1.176 %)SQL Server 2005
521 (1.123 %)SQL Server 2008
615 (0.802 %)NoSQL
711 (0.588 %)RDBMS
810 (0.535 %)MongoDB
99 (0.481 %)Redis
104 (0.214 %)Crystal Reports
104 (0.214 %)Oracle Reports
112 (0.107 %)Pentaho
112 (0.107 %)Oracle 11g
112 (0.107 %)Oracle 10g
112 (0.107 %)Data Mining
112 (0.107 %)ETL
112 (0.107 %)SQL Server 2000
121 (0.053 %)GIS
121 (0.053 %)Oracle 8/8i
121 (0.053 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1292 (15.61 %)Subversion
2216 (11.55 %)Git (software)
378 (4.171 %)Mercurial
470 (3.743 %)PHPUnit
539 (2.086 %)JIRA
636 (1.925 %)Hudson
724 (1.283 %)Eclipse
820 (1.070 %)Dreamweaver
918 (0.963 %)Visual Studio
1016 (0.856 %)Selenium
1112 (0.642 %)NUnit
128 (0.428 %)Ant
137 (0.374 %)Firebug
137 (0.374 %)PhoneGap
145 (0.267 %)Balsamiq Mockups
145 (0.267 %)PEAR
154 (0.214 %)Appcelerator Titanium
163 (0.160 %)Capistrano
172 (0.107 %)Redmine
172 (0.107 %)Maven
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1214 (11.44 %)Marketing
2108 (5.775 %)Finance
399 (5.294 %)Publishing
452 (2.781 %)Advertising
538 (2.032 %)Retail
637 (1.979 %)Games
734 (1.818 %)Telecoms
826 (1.390 %)Legal
917 (0.909 %)Music
109 (0.481 %)Multimedia
118 (0.428 %)Law
127 (0.374 %)Interactive Media
136 (0.321 %)Pharmaceutical
145 (0.267 %)Back Office
153 (0.160 %)Music Industry
153 (0.160 %)Local Government
162 (0.107 %)French Language
162 (0.107 %)Italian Language
171 (0.053 %)Automotive
171 (0.053 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11478 (79.04 %)Developer
2675 (36.10 %)PHP Developer
3466 (24.92 %)Web Developer
4455 (24.33 %)Drupal Developer
5166 (8.877 %)Senior Developer
6152 (8.128 %)PHP Drupal Developer
7135 (7.219 %)PHP Web Developer
8108 (5.775 %)Front-End Developer
977 (4.118 %)Lead Developer
1075 (4.011 %)PHP MySQL Developer
1168 (3.636 %)Junior Developer
1168 (3.636 %)Junior
1267 (3.583 %)Architect
1267 (3.583 %)Senior PHP Developer
1360 (3.209 %)Project Manager
1448 (2.567 %)Junior PHP Developer
1543 (2.299 %)Administrator
1543 (2.299 %)Development Manager
1640 (2.139 %)Consultant
1640 (2.139 %)Systems Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1334 (17.86 %)Open Source
2178 (9.519 %)Social Media
3128 (6.845 %)Computer Science
4111 (5.936 %)Digital Media
557 (3.048 %)iPhone
655 (2.941 %)W3C
753 (2.834 %)Web 2.0
844 (2.353 %)iPad
938 (2.032 %)Social Network
1034 (1.818 %)Replication
1131 (1.658 %)Management Information System
1131 (1.658 %)New Media
1226 (1.390 %)Blackberry
1319 (1.016 %)Taxonomies
1417 (0.909 %)Wiki
1514 (0.749 %)SaaS
1514 (0.749 %)Mathematics
1611 (0.588 %)Clustering
1611 (0.588 %)Online Games
1611 (0.588 %)PaaS
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1503 (26.90 %)Linux
264 (3.422 %)UNIX
361 (3.262 %)Android
452 (2.781 %)CentOS
550 (2.674 %)Windows
631 (1.658 %)Apple iOS
720 (1.070 %)Ubuntu
819 (1.016 %)webOS
911 (0.588 %)Mac OS X
1010 (0.535 %)Solaris
119 (0.481 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
126 (0.321 %)Debian
134 (0.214 %)Windows Server 2008
142 (0.107 %)FreeBSD
142 (0.107 %)Fedora
142 (0.107 %)SUSE
151 (0.053 %)Mac OS
151 (0.053 %)Windows Phone 7
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1500 (26.74 %)Web Development
2347 (18.56 %)E-Commerce
3338 (18.07 %)OO
4313 (16.74 %)MVC
5285 (15.24 %)Content Management
6225 (12.03 %)SEO
7191 (10.21 %)OOP
8180 (9.626 %)Agile Software Development
9172 (9.198 %)Scrum
10168 (8.984 %)Web Design
11120 (6.417 %)TDD
12113 (6.043 %)Continuous Integration
13106 (5.668 %)Project Management
1476 (4.064 %)Digital Marketing
1550 (2.674 %)Information Architecture
1647 (2.513 %)Unit Testing
1647 (2.513 %)Configuration Management
1744 (2.353 %)CRM
1744 (2.353 %)E-business
1838 (2.032 %)Web Application Development
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11520 (81.28 %)PHP
21139 (60.91 %)JavaScript
3376 (20.11 %)PHP5
4235 (12.57 %)SQL
5191 (10.21 %)Java
6147 (7.861 %)Python
7131 (7.005 %)Ruby
8110 (5.882 %)C#
960 (3.209 %)ActionScript
1054 (2.888 %)Perl
1143 (2.299 %)Bash shell
1240 (2.139 %)Shell Script
1333 (1.765 %)Objective-C
1429 (1.551 %)ActionScript 3.0
1521 (1.123 %)VB
1620 (1.070 %)PHP4
1719 (1.016 %)Groovy
1813 (0.695 %)C++
1911 (0.588 %)VB.NET
1911 (0.588 %)ActionScript 2.0
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1126 (6.738 %)Degree
214 (0.749 %)PMP
214 (0.749 %)PMI Certification
39 (0.481 %)PRINCE2 Certification
39 (0.481 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
47 (0.374 %)Security Cleared
55 (0.267 %)SC Cleared
62 (0.107 %)MySQL Certification
71 (0.053 %)BC Cleared
71 (0.053 %)CTC Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
141 (2.193 %)QA
223 (1.230 %)ISO 9001
316 (0.856 %)WAI
43 (0.160 %)WCAG
43 (0.160 %)PCI DSS
43 (0.160 %)ISO/IEC 27001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
134 (1.818 %)Varnish
221 (1.123 %)VMware Infrastructure
316 (0.856 %)NFS
415 (0.802 %)vSphere
513 (0.695 %)VirtualBox
69 (0.481 %)VMware ESX
69 (0.481 %)LiteSpeed
69 (0.481 %)Postfix
77 (0.374 %)OpenSSO
85 (0.267 %)VMware ESXi
94 (0.214 %)Samba
102 (0.107 %)vCloud
111 (0.053 %)Active Directory
111 (0.053 %)Novell eDirectory
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
158 (3.102 %)Puppet
218 (0.963 %)Nagios
315 (0.802 %)Plesk
49 (0.481 %)vCenter
56 (0.321 %)Backup Exec
64 (0.214 %)Cacti
72 (0.107 %)ZABBIX
81 (0.053 %)Tivoli
81 (0.053 %)OpenNMS
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1346 (18.50 %)Zend
2151 (8.075 %)Facebook
3130 (6.952 %)Google
480 (4.278 %)Microsoft
574 (3.957 %)Red Hat
669 (3.690 %)ATG
763 (3.369 %)Twitter
855 (2.941 %)Oracle
855 (2.941 %)Vignette
942 (2.246 %)Omniture
1039 (2.086 %)Sitecore
1137 (1.979 %)hybris
1236 (1.925 %)Symbian
1333 (1.765 %)IBM
1429 (1.551 %)VMware
1524 (1.283 %)Salesforce.com
1623 (1.230 %)Mercator
1720 (1.070 %)Adobe
1720 (1.070 %)Akamai
1817 (0.909 %)BT