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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank 142 211 183
Rank change year-on-year
+69 -28
Permanent jobs citing WordPress 71 5 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.302% 0.096% 0.316%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.007% 0.452% 1.406%
Number of salaries quoted 53 5 16
Average salary £25,000 £24,250 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.09% -13.39%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £22,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £30,750 £31,750
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £30,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
All Application Platforms
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1182 1107 1138
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 21.67% 21.33% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 952 932 970
Average salary £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.41% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £24,550 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
WordPress
England

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire WordPress Salary Trend

WordPress
Salary Histogram

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +43 48 £26,500 +17.77%
South Yorkshire +28 16 £26,000 +2.97%
North Yorkshire +2 7 £20,000 -44.44%
WordPress
England

WordPress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 84 (85.71%) CSS
2 82 (83.67%) PHP
3 69 (70.41%) HTML
4 61 (62.24%) MySQL
5 43 (43.88%) Marketing
6 41 (41.84%) CMS
6 41 (41.84%) JavaScript
7 33 (33.67%) Zend
8 32 (32.65%) SEO
9 26 (26.53%) Adobe
9 26 (26.53%) Magento
10 24 (24.49%) CSS3
11 23 (23.47%) E-Commerce
11 23 (23.47%) jQuery
12 22 (22.45%) Web Development
12 22 (22.45%) MVC
12 22 (22.45%) HTML5
13 21 (21.43%) Analytics
13 21 (21.43%) Zend Framework
14 19 (19.39%) SQL
14 19 (19.39%) .NET
15 18 (18.37%) Photoshop
16 17 (17.35%) Finance
16 17 (17.35%) XHTML
16 17 (17.35%) MS Excel
17 15 (15.31%) Linux
17 15 (15.31%) Pay per click
17 15 (15.31%) Drupal
18 14 (14.29%) LAMP
18 14 (14.29%) Web Design

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 84 (85.71%) CSS
2 69 (70.41%) HTML
3 24 (24.49%) CSS3
4 23 (23.47%) jQuery
5 22 (22.45%) HTML5
6 21 (21.43%) Zend Framework
7 19 (19.39%) .NET
8 17 (17.35%) XHTML
9 14 (14.29%) LAMP
9 14 (14.29%) ASP.NET
9 14 (14.29%) XML
10 10 (10.20%) Ajax
11 7 (7.143%) Web Services
12 5 (5.102%) Symfony
13 4 (4.082%) Flash
14 2 (2.041%) Semantic HTML
14 2 (2.041%) ASP.NET 2.0
14 2 (2.041%) Smarty
14 2 (2.041%) ASP.NET MVC
14 2 (2.041%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 41 (41.84%) CMS
2 26 (26.53%) Magento
3 15 (15.31%) Drupal
4 12 (12.24%) Moodle
4 12 (12.24%) Joomla!
5 9 (9.184%) Apache
6 8 (8.163%) SugarCRM
7 5 (5.102%) Sitefinity
8 3 (3.061%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 3 (3.061%) IIS
9 1 (1.020%) Umbraco
9 1 (1.020%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (1.020%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 18 (18.37%) Photoshop
2 17 (17.35%) MS Excel
3 11 (11.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (5.102%) InDesign
5 4 (4.082%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (3.061%) MS Visio
6 3 (3.061%) MS Office
7 2 (2.041%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 8 (8.163%) Google Analytics
2 1 (1.020%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.20%) Internet
2 6 (6.122%) DNS
3 4 (4.082%) Intranet
4 3 (3.061%) FTP
4 3 (3.061%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.061%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (62.24%) MySQL
2 12 (12.24%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.163%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (4.082%) Data Mining
4 4 (4.082%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.061%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 14 (14.29%) Subversion
2 11 (11.22%) Visual Studio
3 9 (9.184%) Git (software)
4 6 (6.122%) Dreamweaver
4 6 (6.122%) Xcode
5 5 (5.102%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 5 (5.102%) PhoneGap
6 3 (3.061%) Eclipse
General
1 43 (43.88%) Marketing
2 17 (17.35%) Finance
3 7 (7.143%) Retail
4 6 (6.122%) Legal
5 5 (5.102%) Back Office
6 2 (2.041%) Advertising
7 1 (1.020%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 61 (62.24%) Developer
2 29 (29.59%) PHP Developer
3 24 (24.49%) Designer
4 23 (23.47%) Web Developer
5 18 (18.37%) Web Designer
6 13 (13.27%) Front-End Developer
7 11 (11.22%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 8 (8.163%) PHP Web Developer
9 6 (6.122%) Digital Designer
9 6 (6.122%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.102%) Front-End Web Developer
11 4 (4.082%) Analyst
11 4 (4.082%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (4.082%) Data Analyst
11 4 (4.082%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.061%) Support Engineer
12 3 (3.061%) Junior Developer
12 3 (3.061%) IT Support Engineer
12 3 (3.061%) Graduate Developer
12 3 (3.061%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Social Media
2 7 (7.143%) W3C
2 7 (7.143%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.102%) Graphic Design
3 5 (5.102%) Blackberry
3 5 (5.102%) Open Source
4 4 (4.082%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.082%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.061%) Computer Science
5 3 (3.061%) iPad
6 2 (2.041%) iPhone
6 2 (2.041%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.020%) Animation
7 1 (1.020%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.31%) Linux
2 11 (11.22%) Windows
3 3 (3.061%) Windows XP
3 3 (3.061%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (3.061%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (3.061%) Windows 8
4 2 (2.041%) Windows Phone
4 2 (2.041%) Android
4 2 (2.041%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.020%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.65%) SEO
2 23 (23.47%) E-Commerce
3 22 (22.45%) Web Development
3 22 (22.45%) MVC
4 21 (21.43%) Analytics
5 15 (15.31%) Pay per click
6 14 (14.29%) Web Design
7 10 (10.20%) OO
8 9 (9.184%) Content Management
8 9 (9.184%) Digital Marketing
9 8 (8.163%) OOP
9 8 (8.163%) Data Analysis
10 7 (7.143%) Project Management
11 6 (6.122%) Online Marketing
12 4 (4.082%) Data Entry
12 4 (4.082%) Data Modelling
12 4 (4.082%) ETL
12 4 (4.082%) CRM
13 2 (2.041%) Test Automation
13 2 (2.041%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 82 (83.67%) PHP
2 41 (41.84%) JavaScript
3 19 (19.39%) SQL
4 12 (12.24%) C#
5 8 (8.163%) PHP5
6 7 (7.143%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.102%) Ruby
7 5 (5.102%) VB
7 5 (5.102%) VB.NET
8 3 (3.061%) Objective-C
8 3 (3.061%) Python
8 3 (3.061%) VBA
8 3 (3.061%) Perl
9 2 (2.041%) Java
9 2 (2.041%) VBScript
9 2 (2.041%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.184%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.082%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.041%) WAI
System Software
1 7 (7.143%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.020%) Plesk
Vendors
1 33 (33.67%) Zend
2 26 (26.53%) Adobe
3 8 (8.163%) Omniture
3 8 (8.163%) Google
4 4 (4.082%) Spiceworks
5 3 (3.061%) Citrix
5 3 (3.061%) CheckPoint
5 3 (3.061%) Sencha
6 2 (2.041%) EPiServer
6 2 (2.041%) Oracle
7 1 (1.020%) Sitecore
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
The PHP developer will be: A PHP developer with experience delivering CMS-driven sites... Experience developing with PHP5, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, Wordpress etc. Plesk and Unix knowledge would...
Nuepc
Salary: From £18,000 to £25,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Yorkshire
A Fantastic Creative and digital marketing agency based in Sheffield are looking for a PHP Developer to join their development team... As a PHP developer you will have...
Premier Group Recruitment
Salary: £23000.00 - £28000.00
Posted: 20 May 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
If you have a passion for anything digital, and the hunger to work/learn with the latest technologies such as Zend Framework, Mobile Applications and Adobe Creative Suite...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £33000 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
If you have a passion for anything digital, and the hunger to work/learn with the latest technologies such as Zend Framework, Mobile Applications and Adobe Creative Suite...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
This role is suited to Front End Developers with at least 3 years of experience in (x)HTML5, CSS3, Adobe Creative Suite and a good understanding of JavaScript/...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
To be considered for this unique role you'll have to following skills/Prince: Expert level hand coded XHTML/HTML and CSS websites, Adobe Creative suite, track record...
Hamlin Knight
Salary: From £20,000 to £30,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
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To be considered for this exciting opportunity you'll have the following experience/skills: Expert level PHP coding skills (Procedural and OOP), MySQL, JavaScript and JQuery, HTML, CSS,...
Hamlin Knight
Salary: From £20,000 to £30,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
The ideal candidate must have good experience/knowledge in PHP5, MySQL, HTML and CSS... If you have a passion for anything digital, and the hunger to work/learn...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013