The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 21 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 Brighton 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 7 19 14
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -5
Contract jobs citing PHP 26 19 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 18.31% 7.451% 8.462%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.14% 18.45% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 4
Average daily rate £210 £231 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.18% -2.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £190 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £338 £261
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
74 103 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 52.11% 40.39% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 26
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £182 £205 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
East Sussex

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Brighton PHP Daily Rate Histogram

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Brighton PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 26 (78.79%) JavaScript
2 21 (63.64%) HTML
3 19 (57.58%) CSS
4 17 (51.52%) MySQL
4 17 (51.52%) LAMP
5 14 (42.42%) MVC
6 11 (33.33%) OO
6 11 (33.33%) jQuery
7 10 (30.30%) OOP
8 8 (24.24%) PHP5
9 7 (21.21%) HTML5
10 6 (18.18%) XHR
10 6 (18.18%) JSON
10 6 (18.18%) XML
11 5 (15.15%) Photoshop
11 5 (15.15%) Drupal
12 4 (12.12%) XHTML
12 4 (12.12%) E-Commerce
13 3 (9.091%) CSS3
13 3 (9.091%) Digital Media
13 3 (9.091%) Moodle
14 1 (3.030%) Magento
14 1 (3.030%) Amazon AWS
14 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
14 1 (3.030%) Zend
14 1 (3.030%) CodeIgniter
14 1 (3.030%) Agile Software Development
14 1 (3.030%) ERP
14 1 (3.030%) CRM
14 1 (3.030%) Web Services

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 21 (63.64%) HTML
2 19 (57.58%) CSS
3 17 (51.52%) LAMP
4 11 (33.33%) jQuery
5 7 (21.21%) HTML5
6 6 (18.18%) XHR
6 6 (18.18%) JSON
6 6 (18.18%) XML
7 4 (12.12%) XHTML
8 3 (9.091%) CSS3
9 1 (3.030%) CodeIgniter
9 1 (3.030%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (15.15%) Drupal
2 3 (9.091%) Moodle
3 1 (3.030%) Magento
3 1 (3.030%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (3.030%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (51.52%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 30 (90.91%) Developer
2 22 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Web Developer
4 3 (9.091%) LAMP Developer
5 1 (3.030%) Drupal Developer
5 1 (3.030%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) MVC
2 11 (33.33%) OO
3 10 (30.30%) OOP
4 4 (12.12%) E-Commerce
5 1 (3.030%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.030%) ERP
5 1 (3.030%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) JavaScript
2 8 (24.24%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (3.030%) Zend