The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheltenham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank - 41 20
Contract jobs citing PHP 0 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham - 1.476% 3.000%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 2.030% 6.977%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £358 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.58 £17.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+29.02% -22.22%
All Programming Languages
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
24 197 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 32.43% 72.69% 43.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 105 20
Average daily rate £325 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 £288 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 11
Average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +7.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
Gloucestershire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (100.00%) Zend
1 1 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Programmer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Zend