The first table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP5 over the 3 months to 18 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 Cambridgeshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 5
Rank 52 49 58
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +9
Contract jobs citing PHP5 4 14 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.686% 1.955% 0.162%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.481% 3.784% 0.313%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £150 £303 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.41% +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £281 £250
% change year-on-year
-2.22% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
- +44.44%
All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
270 370 319
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 46.31% 51.68% 51.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 195 146
Average daily rate £325 £313 £334
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -6.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £205 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 41 40
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +13.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £35.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £60.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP5
East of England

PHP5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP5 across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Cambridgeshire PHP5 Jobs Demand Trend

PHP5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP5 across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire PHP5 Daily Rate Trend

PHP5
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP5 across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire PHP5 Daily Rate Histogram

PHP5
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP5 across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire PHP5 Hourly Rate Trend

PHP5
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP5 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Cambridge +2 4 £150 -50.41%
Ely - - - -
PHP5
East of England

PHP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing PHP5 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 PHP5.

1 11 (100.00%) PHP
1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
1 11 (100.00%) CSS
2 9 (81.82%) CMS
3 8 (72.73%) OO
3 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 8 (72.73%) Drupal
4 6 (54.55%) Subversion
4 6 (54.55%) Linux
4 6 (54.55%) HTML
4 6 (54.55%) jQuery
4 6 (54.55%) WordPress
4 6 (54.55%) Git (software)
5 5 (45.45%) SQL
5 5 (45.45%) OOP
5 5 (45.45%) Apache
6 4 (36.36%) Java
6 4 (36.36%) SOAP
6 4 (36.36%) XML
6 4 (36.36%) MVC
6 4 (36.36%) SEO
6 4 (36.36%) Ajax
6 4 (36.36%) Java EE
6 4 (36.36%) JSON
6 4 (36.36%) Symfony
6 4 (36.36%) Zend
6 4 (36.36%) CodeIgniter
6 4 (36.36%) RESTful
6 4 (36.36%) Open Source
6 4 (36.36%) Memcached

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing PHP5 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 PHP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) jQuery
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
3 4 (36.36%) RESTful
3 4 (36.36%) Memcached
3 4 (36.36%) Node.js
3 4 (36.36%) SOAP
3 4 (36.36%) XML
3 4 (36.36%) Ajax
3 4 (36.36%) Java EE
3 4 (36.36%) JSON
3 4 (36.36%) Symfony
3 4 (36.36%) CodeIgniter
4 3 (27.27%) HTML5
5 2 (18.18%) XHTML
5 2 (18.18%) LAMP
6 1 (9.091%) CakePHP
6 1 (9.091%) Smarty
Application Platforms
1 9 (81.82%) CMS
2 8 (72.73%) Drupal
3 6 (54.55%) WordPress
4 5 (45.45%) Apache
5 4 (36.36%) concrete5
6 2 (18.18%) Magento
7 1 (9.091%) Joomla!
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 4 (36.36%) Redis
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Subversion
1 6 (54.55%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) PHP Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Drupal Developer
3 2 (18.18%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior PHP Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Open Source
2 2 (18.18%) W3C
3 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) OO
2 5 (45.45%) OOP
3 4 (36.36%) MVC
3 4 (36.36%) SEO
4 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
5 2 (18.18%) OOD
5 2 (18.18%) Web Design
5 2 (18.18%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) PHP
2 8 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) Java
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Zend