Drupal Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Drupal skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Drupal over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Drupal UK / England
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	355	411	409
Rank change year-on-year	+56	-2
Contract jobs citing Drupal	241	214	229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.56%	0.43%	0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category	3.37%	2.42%	2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted	176	142	156
Median daily rate	£350	£375	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-6.66%	+7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£225	£216	£235
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£433	£450	£400
UK excluding London median daily rate	£325	£350	£300
% change year-on-year	-7.14%	+16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	1	5
Median hourly rate	£102.00	£11.00	£22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+827.27%	-50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£43.60	£11.00	£17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£160.40	£11.00	£57.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£29.00	£11.00	£57.00
% change year-on-year	+163.63%	-80.70%

Drupal is in the application platform skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract Application Platform Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	7160	8849	9069
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	16.65%	17.91%	17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	4614	6007	5779
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£270	£235
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.69%	+11.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	185	200	306
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£19.44	£20.60
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+28.63%	-5.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.20	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£44.50	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£23.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	+8.69%	+9.52%

Drupal
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Drupal as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Application Platforms category.

Drupal
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Drupal in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Drupal in England

Drupal
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Drupal in England over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Drupal in England

Drupal
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drupal in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Drupal in England

Drupal
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Drupal in England over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Drupal in England

Drupal
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drupal within the England region over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-5	105	£375	-	19
North West	+52	46	£325	-1.96%	11
South East	+28	45	£328	+9.16%	17
East Midlands	+9	16	£304	+6.57%	1
South West	0	10	£250	+17.64%	12
West Midlands	-	7	£340	-	5
North East	+64	3	£400	-	2
Yorkshire	+7	1	£275	-31.25%	2
East of England	-17	1	£250	-44.44%	2
Drupal UK

Drupal
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Drupal also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Drupal.

1	232 (52.49%)	HTML
2	224 (50.68%)	PHP
3	195 (44.12%)	CSS
4	149 (33.71%)	JavaScript
5	146 (33.03%)	MySQL
6	127 (28.73%)	Agile Software Development
7	116 (26.24%)	CMS
8	107 (24.21%)	jQuery
9	96 (21.72%)	HTML5
10	80 (18.10%)	Git (software)
11	64 (14.48%)	Symfony
12	55 (12.44%)	CSS3
13	54 (12.22%)	AngularJS
14	51 (11.54%)	Web Development
15	49 (11.09%)	Front End Development

16	48 (10.86%)	WordPress
17	46 (10.41%)	Microsoft
18	42 (9.50%)	Marketing
19	39 (8.82%)	SQL
19	39 (8.82%)	Linux
20	37 (8.37%)	Content Management
21	36 (8.14%)	Finance
22	35 (7.92%)	Jenkins
23	33 (7.47%)	Sass
23	33 (7.47%)	Business Intelligence
24	32 (7.24%)	E-Commerce
24	32 (7.24%)	Umbraco
25	30 (6.79%)	Laravel
25	30 (6.79%)	Python
26	29 (6.56%)	LAMP

Drupal
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	116 (26.24%)	CMS
2	48 (10.86%)	WordPress
3	32 (7.24%)	Umbraco
4	18 (4.07%)	Apache
5	13 (2.94%)	Apache Solr
5	13 (2.94%)	Sitecore CMS
6	8 (1.81%)	Alfresco
6	8 (1.81%)	Elasticsearch
6	8 (1.81%)	Liferay
6	8 (1.81%)	Oracle SOA Suite
6	8 (1.81%)	SharePoint
7	3 (0.68%)	Adobe Experience Manager
7	3 (0.68%)	SAS
8	2 (0.45%)	Kentico
8	2 (0.45%)	LiveLink
8	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Workflow
8	2 (0.45%)	SilverStripe
9	1 (0.23%)	DNN
9	1 (0.23%)	Joomla!
9	1 (0.23%)	TYPO3

Applications
1	5 (1.13%)	Photoshop
2	4 (0.90%)	Microsoft Excel
3	3 (0.68%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	2 (0.45%)	Adobe After Effects
4	2 (0.45%)	Adobe Premiere
4	2 (0.45%)	InDesign
4	2 (0.45%)	Microsoft Office
4	2 (0.45%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	2 (0.45%)	Microsoft Project
4	2 (0.45%)	MS Visio
5	1 (0.23%)	Adobe Creative Suite

Business Applications
1	22 (4.98%)	Magento
2	9 (2.04%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	4 (0.90%)	Dynamics CRM
3	4 (0.90%)	Salesforce.com CRM
4	2 (0.45%)	Dynamics AX
4	2 (0.45%)	Dynamics NAV
4	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Applications
4	2 (0.45%)	Siebel CRM
5	1 (0.23%)	Eloqua
5	1 (0.23%)	Oracle EBS
5	1 (0.23%)	Oracle Retail
5	1 (0.23%)	Payment Gateway
5	1 (0.23%)	WebTrends

Cloud Services
1	28 (6.33%)	Amazon AWS
2	14 (3.17%)	Oracle Service Cloud
3	13 (2.94%)	Google Analytics
4	12 (2.71%)	Microsoft Azure
5	9 (2.04%)	GitHub
5	9 (2.04%)	PaaS
6	6 (1.36%)	SaaS
7	3 (0.68%)	AdWords
7	3 (0.68%)	Office 365
8	2 (0.45%)	Dynamics 365
9	1 (0.23%)	AWS Lambda
9	1 (0.23%)	Dropbox
9	1 (0.23%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	1 (0.23%)	Google Tag Manager
9	1 (0.23%)	IaaS
9	1 (0.23%)	MailChimp
9	1 (0.23%)	OneDrive
9	1 (0.23%)	Slack
9	1 (0.23%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	8 (1.81%)	Intranet
2	7 (1.58%)	Internet
3	2 (0.45%)	SSL
4	1 (0.23%)	LDAP
4	1 (0.23%)	Network Security
4	1 (0.23%)	Skype

Database & Business Intelligence
1	146 (33.03%)	MySQL
2	17 (3.85%)	SQL Server
3	12 (2.71%)	Power BI
4	11 (2.49%)	MongoDB
5	8 (1.81%)	NoSQL
6	7 (1.58%)	PostgreSQL
7	4 (0.90%)	Data Warehouse
7	4 (0.90%)	Relational Database
8	3 (0.68%)	Apache Cassandra
8	3 (0.68%)	Oracle BI EE
9	2 (0.45%)	Big Data
9	2 (0.45%)	MOLAP
9	2 (0.45%)	OLAP
9	2 (0.45%)	OLAP Cube
9	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Discoverer
9	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Reports
9	2 (0.45%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
9	2 (0.45%)	SQL Server Integration Services
9	2 (0.45%)	SQLPlus
10	1 (0.23%)	GIS

Development Applications
1	80 (18.10%)	Git (software)
2	35 (7.92%)	Jenkins
3	19 (4.30%)	Grunt
4	14 (3.17%)	PHPUnit
5	11 (2.49%)	Selenium
6	8 (1.81%)	gulp
6	8 (1.81%)	Jasmine
6	8 (1.81%)	Vagrant
7	7 (1.58%)	Atlassian Bamboo
8	6 (1.36%)	Hudson
8	6 (1.36%)	JIRA
9	5 (1.13%)	Octopus Deploy
9	5 (1.13%)	PhantomJS
10	4 (0.90%)	Bitbucket
11	3 (0.68%)	Cucumber
11	3 (0.68%)	Mercurial
11	3 (0.68%)	Subversion
12	2 (0.45%)	JMeter
12	2 (0.45%)	Mocha
12	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Forms

General
1	42 (9.50%)	Marketing
2	36 (8.14%)	Finance
3	16 (3.62%)	Retail
4	13 (2.94%)	Telecoms
5	10 (2.26%)	Publishing
6	9 (2.04%)	Electronics
6	9 (2.04%)	Manufacturing
7	7 (1.58%)	Legal
8	6 (1.36%)	Banking
9	4 (0.90%)	Spanish Language
10	3 (0.68%)	Automotive
10	3 (0.68%)	Pharmaceutical
11	2 (0.45%)	Advertising
11	2 (0.45%)	Games
11	2 (0.45%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	347 (78.51%)	Developer
2	256 (57.92%)	Drupal Developer
3	74 (16.74%)	PHP Developer
4	49 (11.09%)	PHP Drupal Developer
5	39 (8.82%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6	21 (4.75%)	MySQL Developer
7	18 (4.07%)	Web Developer
8	17 (3.85%)	Architect
8	17 (3.85%)	Senior Developer
8	17 (3.85%)	Support Engineer
9	15 (3.39%)	PHP MySQL Developer
9	15 (3.39%)	Project Manager
10	14 (3.17%)	JavaScript Developer
11	13 (2.94%)	Cloud Engineer
11	13 (2.94%)	HTML Developer
11	13 (2.94%)	Oracle Developer
11	13 (2.94%)	Solutions Architect
11	13 (2.94%)	Symfony Developer
12	12 (2.71%)	Full Stack Developer
13	11 (2.49%)	PHP Symfony Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	232 (52.49%)	HTML
2	195 (44.12%)	CSS
3	107 (24.21%)	jQuery
4	96 (21.72%)	HTML5
5	64 (14.48%)	Symfony
6	55 (12.44%)	CSS3
7	54 (12.22%)	AngularJS
8	33 (7.47%)	Sass
9	30 (6.79%)	Laravel
10	29 (6.56%)	LAMP
11	24 (5.43%)	Node.js
11	24 (5.43%)	XML
12	23 (5.20%)	RESTful
13	22 (4.98%)	JSON
14	18 (4.07%)	.NET
14	18 (4.07%)	REST
15	16 (3.62%)	Ajax
16	15 (3.39%)	React
17	14 (3.17%)	Twitter Bootstrap
18	11 (2.49%)	YAML

Miscellaneous
1	22 (4.98%)	Greenfield Project
2	20 (4.52%)	User Experience
3	18 (4.07%)	Analytical Skills
4	12 (2.71%)	e-Learning
5	7 (1.58%)	Mobile App
6	6 (1.36%)	Digital Media
6	6 (1.36%)	Management Information System
7	4 (0.90%)	Algorithms
7	4 (0.90%)	Computer Science
7	4 (0.90%)	NHS
8	3 (0.68%)	iPad
8	3 (0.68%)	Social Media
8	3 (0.68%)	Virtual Team
9	2 (0.45%)	Data Structures
9	2 (0.45%)	Enterprise Software
9	2 (0.45%)	EPoS
9	2 (0.45%)	Graphic Design
9	2 (0.45%)	Motion Graphics
9	2 (0.45%)	Public Cloud
9	2 (0.45%)	Video Editing

Operating Systems
1	39 (8.82%)	Linux
2	13 (2.94%)	Windows
3	10 (2.26%)	Windows Server 2008
4	4 (0.90%)	SUSE
4	4 (0.90%)	Ubuntu
5	3 (0.68%)	Apple iOS
6	2 (0.45%)	Android
7	1 (0.23%)	Windows 10

Processes & Methodologies
1	127 (28.73%)	Agile Software Development
2	51 (11.54%)	Web Development
3	49 (11.09%)	Front End Development
4	37 (8.37%)	Content Management
5	33 (7.47%)	Business Intelligence
6	32 (7.24%)	E-Commerce
7	29 (6.56%)	DevOps
7	29 (6.56%)	Scrum
8	24 (5.43%)	Migration
8	24 (5.43%)	TDD
9	21 (4.75%)	Analytics
10	20 (4.52%)	MVC
10	20 (4.52%)	Open Source
11	19 (4.30%)	CRM
12	18 (4.07%)	BDD
13	17 (3.85%)	Continuous Integration
14	16 (3.62%)	Continuous Delivery
14	16 (3.62%)	Project Management
14	16 (3.62%)	Time Management
15	15 (3.39%)	Data Modelling

Programming Languages
1	224 (50.68%)	PHP
2	149 (33.71%)	JavaScript
3	39 (8.82%)	SQL
4	30 (6.79%)	Python
5	14 (3.17%)	Java
5	14 (3.17%)	PowerShell
6	13 (2.94%)	C#
7	11 (2.49%)	Bash Shell
8	9 (2.04%)	R
9	3 (0.68%)	Ruby
10	2 (0.45%)	Apple Swift
10	2 (0.45%)	PL/SQL
10	2 (0.45%)	VBA
11	1 (0.23%)	ES6
11	1 (0.23%)	Perl
11	1 (0.23%)	PHP 5
11	1 (0.23%)	PHP 7
11	1 (0.23%)	TypeScript
11	1 (0.23%)	VB

Qualifications
1	10 (2.26%)	Degree
2	7 (1.58%)	Security Cleared
3	4 (0.90%)	CCA
4	3 (0.68%)	BC Cleared
5	2 (0.45%)	BPSS Clearance
5	2 (0.45%)	Computer Science Degree
5	2 (0.45%)	ISEB
5	2 (0.45%)	PRINCE2 Certification
5	2 (0.45%)	SC Cleared
6	1 (0.23%)	DBS Check
6	1 (0.23%)	Master's Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	9 (2.04%)	QA
2	2 (0.45%)	Data Quality
3	1 (0.23%)	WCAG

System Software
1	12 (2.71%)	Active Directory
2	3 (0.68%)	Docker
3	2 (0.45%)	Varnish
4	1 (0.23%)	BitLocker

Systems Management
1	20 (4.52%)	Ansible
1	20 (4.52%)	Opscode Chef
1	20 (4.52%)	Puppet
2	2 (0.45%)	Kibana
2	2 (0.45%)	logstash
2	2 (0.45%)	Piwik
3	1 (0.23%)	Microsoft Intune
3	1 (0.23%)	Plesk
3	1 (0.23%)	TeamSite

Vendors
1	46 (10.41%)	Microsoft
2	24 (5.43%)	Oracle
3	16 (3.62%)	Google
4	15 (3.39%)	Sitecore
5	13 (2.94%)	IBM
6	12 (2.71%)	Zend
7	10 (2.26%)	Adobe
8	9 (2.04%)	SAP
9	8 (1.81%)	OpenText
9	8 (1.81%)	Salesforce.com
10	6 (1.36%)	Atlassian
11	5 (1.13%)	Gigya
12	3 (0.68%)	Apigee
12	3 (0.68%)	Panasonic
13	2 (0.45%)	Apple
13	2 (0.45%)	hybris
13	2 (0.45%)	MuleSoft
13	2 (0.45%)	Splunk
13	2 (0.45%)	Tableau
13	2 (0.45%)	WSO2