The first table below looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP Developer
Rank 53 66 71
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +5
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 16 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.970% 0.698% 0.284%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.122% 0.745% 0.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 1
Average daily rate £210 £250 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £250 £250
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
- +25.80%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
754 939 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.86% 93.62% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 408 378
Average daily rate £315 £315 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £163 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 72 109
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.29 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
PHP Developer
South East

PHP Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP Developer across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Buckinghamshire PHP Developer Jobs Demand Trend

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire PHP Developer Daily Rate Trend

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP Developer across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire PHP Developer Daily Rate Histogram

PHP Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire PHP Developer Hourly Rate Trend

PHP Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +8 7 £210 -23.63%
High Wycombe - 2 £294 -
Bletchley 0 1 - -
Aylesbury - 1 £350 -
PHP Developer
South East

PHP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited PHP Developer in their job title 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 with PHP Developer in their job title.

1 19 (100.00%) PHP
2 14 (73.68%) HTML
2 14 (73.68%) CSS
3 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
4 10 (52.63%) MySQL
5 7 (36.84%) jQuery
6 6 (31.58%) HTML5
7 5 (26.32%) concrete5
7 5 (26.32%) WordPress
7 5 (26.32%) Ajax
7 5 (26.32%) Web Development
7 5 (26.32%) MVC
7 5 (26.32%) OO
8 4 (21.05%) Linux
8 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
8 4 (21.05%) CakePHP
8 4 (21.05%) CSS3
9 3 (15.79%) Marketing
9 3 (15.79%) Zend
9 3 (15.79%) XHTML
9 3 (15.79%) LAMP
9 3 (15.79%) XML
10 2 (10.53%) SQL
10 2 (10.53%) UNIX
10 2 (10.53%) OOP
10 2 (10.53%) SOAP
10 2 (10.53%) Web Services
10 2 (10.53%) Subversion
10 2 (10.53%) CMS
10 2 (10.53%) PHP5

PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited PHP Developer in their job title 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 with PHP Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (73.68%) HTML
1 14 (73.68%) CSS
2 7 (36.84%) jQuery
3 6 (31.58%) HTML5
4 5 (26.32%) Ajax
5 4 (21.05%) CakePHP
5 4 (21.05%) CSS3
6 3 (15.79%) XHTML
6 3 (15.79%) LAMP
6 3 (15.79%) XML
7 2 (10.53%) SOAP
7 2 (10.53%) Web Services
7 2 (10.53%) Smarty
7 2 (10.53%) Symfony
8 1 (5.263%) MooTools
8 1 (5.263%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) concrete5
1 5 (26.32%) WordPress
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
3 1 (5.263%) SilverStripe
3 1 (5.263%) Drupal
3 1 (5.263%) TYPO3
3 1 (5.263%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) MySQL
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Subversion
1 2 (10.53%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (15.79%) Marketing
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.263%) Games
2 1 (5.263%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Social Media
1 1 (5.263%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Web Development
1 5 (26.32%) MVC
1 5 (26.32%) OO
2 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
3 2 (10.53%) OOP
4 1 (5.263%) B2C
4 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) PHP
2 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) PHP5
4 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Zend
2 1 (5.263%) Twitter
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle