The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP 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 Programming Languages category for the Bath region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 8 4 13
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +9
Contract jobs citing PHP 2 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath 5.263% 19.57% 4.082%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 34.62% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £260 £240 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -12.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
Bath
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
14 26 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath 36.84% 56.52% 61.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 13
Average daily rate £260 £319 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.43% +38.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £459 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £29.50 - £32.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 - £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
Somerset

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP across the Bath region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Bath PHP Jobs Demand Trend

PHP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP across the Bath region.

Bath PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP across the Bath region.

Bath PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath region citing PHP 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited PHP.

1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) WordPress
3 3 (42.86%) Zend
3 3 (42.86%) CodeIgniter
3 3 (42.86%) MySQL
3 3 (42.86%) MVC
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
4 2 (28.57%) Symfony
5 1 (14.29%) Joomla!
5 1 (14.29%) Drupal
5 1 (14.29%) jQuery
5 1 (14.29%) CMS
5 1 (14.29%) Linux
5 1 (14.29%) Apache

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath region citing PHP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PHP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) Symfony
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) WordPress
2 1 (14.29%) Joomla!
2 1 (14.29%) Drupal
2 1 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 3 (42.86%) PHP Web Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Web Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Applications Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Web Applications Developer
3 2 (28.57%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (14.29%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Programmer
4 1 (14.29%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Zend
Bath, South West
PHP web applications developer (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) Opus Recruitment Solutions are seeking an experienced PHP web applications developer (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for an initial...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP320 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013