The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills 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 over the 3 months to 20 June 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 52 63 65
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +2
Contract jobs citing PHP 24 11 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.586% 1.176% 1.284%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.219% 4.029% 4.516%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 8
Average daily rate £211 £275 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.18% -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £306 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £19.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year
+19.26% -14.22%
All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
292 273 310
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 31.47% 29.20% 28.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 130 135
Average daily rate £335 £313 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.20% -9.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 16
Average hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £33.51
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +4.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £35.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.20 £42.00 £37.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
South East

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes +3 10 £210 -23.98% 5
High Wycombe -2 2 £294 - 3
Beaconsfield - 2 - -
Chalfont St Giles - 1 £225 -
Marlow - - - -
Aylesbury - - - -
PHP
South East

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 21 (58.33%) CSS
2 19 (52.78%) MySQL
3 18 (50.00%) HTML
4 16 (44.44%) JavaScript
5 10 (27.78%) jQuery
6 9 (25.00%) Web Development
6 9 (25.00%) Drupal
7 8 (22.22%) HTML5
8 6 (16.67%) CSS3
8 6 (16.67%) WordPress
8 6 (16.67%) Web Services
8 6 (16.67%) Linux
9 5 (13.89%) XML
9 5 (13.89%) XHTML
9 5 (13.89%) E-Commerce
9 5 (13.89%) OO
9 5 (13.89%) Ajax
9 5 (13.89%) MVC
9 5 (13.89%) CMS
9 5 (13.89%) LAMP
9 5 (13.89%) Open Source
9 5 (13.89%) .NET
9 5 (13.89%) Zend
9 5 (13.89%) concrete5
10 4 (11.11%) Social Media
10 4 (11.11%) CakePHP
10 4 (11.11%) Marketing
10 4 (11.11%) Apache
10 4 (11.11%) SQL
11 3 (8.333%) PL/SQL

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (58.33%) CSS
2 18 (50.00%) HTML
3 10 (27.78%) jQuery
4 8 (22.22%) HTML5
5 6 (16.67%) CSS3
5 6 (16.67%) Web Services
6 5 (13.89%) XML
6 5 (13.89%) XHTML
6 5 (13.89%) Ajax
6 5 (13.89%) LAMP
6 5 (13.89%) .NET
7 4 (11.11%) CakePHP
8 2 (5.556%) Smarty
8 2 (5.556%) Symfony
8 2 (5.556%) SOAP
8 2 (5.556%) XSLT
9 1 (2.778%) Flash
9 1 (2.778%) ASP
9 1 (2.778%) ASP.NET
9 1 (2.778%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 9 (25.00%) Drupal
2 6 (16.67%) WordPress
3 5 (13.89%) CMS
3 5 (13.89%) concrete5
4 4 (11.11%) Apache
5 3 (8.333%) Joomla!
5 3 (8.333%) Moodle
5 3 (8.333%) SilverStripe
6 2 (5.556%) IIS
7 1 (2.778%) TYPO3
7 1 (2.778%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.778%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.778%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (52.78%) MySQL
2 3 (8.333%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.778%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (8.333%) Git (software)
2 2 (5.556%) Subversion
3 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (2.778%) Investment Banking
2 1 (2.778%) Finance
2 1 (2.778%) Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (77.78%) Developer
2 24 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 10 (27.78%) Web Developer
4 9 (25.00%) PHP Web Developer
5 4 (11.11%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Programmer
5 4 (11.11%) PHP Programmer
6 3 (8.333%) Architect
7 2 (5.556%) Moodle Developer
7 2 (5.556%) CSS Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Lead Architect
7 2 (5.556%) Integration Architect
7 2 (5.556%) Web Programmer
8 1 (2.778%) MySQL Developer
8 1 (2.778%) HTML Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.778%) Junior
8 1 (2.778%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.778%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Open Source
2 4 (11.11%) Social Media
3 1 (2.778%) E-Learning
3 1 (2.778%) RIA
3 1 (2.778%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (5.556%) UNIX
3 1 (2.778%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Web Development
2 5 (13.89%) E-Commerce
2 5 (13.89%) OO
2 5 (13.89%) MVC
3 2 (5.556%) Load Balancing
3 2 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (5.556%) Content Management
3 2 (5.556%) B2C
3 2 (5.556%) OOP
4 1 (2.778%) ITIL
4 1 (2.778%) Project Management
4 1 (2.778%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (2.778%) Service Delivery
4 1 (2.778%) Web Design
4 1 (2.778%) Performance Testing
4 1 (2.778%) Unit Testing
4 1 (2.778%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (11.11%) SQL
3 3 (8.333%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.556%) PHP5
5 1 (2.778%) C#
5 1 (2.778%) Perl
5 1 (2.778%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.778%) ISEB
1 1 (2.778%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (2.778%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.778%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (5.556%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Zend
2 3 (8.333%) Twitter
3 2 (5.556%) Facebook
3 2 (5.556%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.778%) Oracle
4 1 (2.778%) Omniture
4 1 (2.778%) VMware
Buckinghamshire
Roc Search are seeking a PHP Developer of a Senior level to join a large scale Digital Agency based near Uxbridge... Knowledge of C# or ASP.Net is...
Roc Search
Posted: 14 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
From front-end configuration through to report development, you will utilise SQL/Oracle in most of your work... You’ll bring to the role knowledge and experience spanning...
Network Rail
Rate: £25,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013