Bedfordshire PHP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PHP skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Avon Barnstaple Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire City of London Clapham Cleckheaton County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Runcorn Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wimbledon Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	25
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	2	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	4.255 %	6.870 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£265
% change on same period last year	+5.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.10	£28.16
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
Programming Languages Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	47	131
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.133 %
Daily rates quoted	12	26
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£280
Average daily rate	£311	£286
% change on same period last year	+8.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.33	£31.14
Average hourly rate	£30.81	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-6.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.28	£34.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
PHP East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PHP across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	-3	1	-	-

PHP East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 3 (100.00 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) Web Development 2 2 (66.67 %) MySQL 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) CSS 2 2 (66.67 %) Apache 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) ClearCase 3 1 (33.33 %) WSDL 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Mapinfo 3 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices

3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) Degree 3 1 (33.33 %) Mathematics 3 1 (33.33 %) Physics 3 1 (33.33 %) Computer Science 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) Google 3 1 (33.33 %) Marketing 3 1 (33.33 %) Electronics

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 3 (100.00 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) WSDL 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) MySQL 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) ClearCase
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Electronics 1 1 (33.33 %) Construction 1 1 (33.33 %) Education 1 1 (33.33 %) Electric 1 1 (33.33 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) PHP Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Java Web Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Java Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Mathematics 1 1 (33.33 %) Physics 1 1 (33.33 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Web Development 2 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Mapinfo 1 1 (33.33 %) Google