The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 23 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 Bradford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 22 24 23
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -1
Contract jobs citing PHP 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 1.266% 1.987% 1.667%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.255% 11.11% 8.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £325 £213 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.94% -1.16%
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
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
47 27 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 29.75% 17.88% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 9
Average daily rate £285 £210 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.71% -2.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £150 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £338 £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
Average hourly rate £12.42 £12.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.64% -10.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
West Yorkshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) WordPress
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) XHTML
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) W3C
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Plone
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Joomla!
2 1 (33.33%) Symfony
2 1 (33.33%) Zend
2 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (33.33%) Django

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) XHTML
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) Symfony
2 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (33.33%) Django
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Plone
1 1 (33.33%) Joomla!
1 1 (33.33%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Web Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Zend