The first table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP5 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 Cheshire 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 5
Rank 62 63 74
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +11
Contract jobs citing PHP5 1 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.136% 0.373% 0.206%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.476% 1.200% 0.637%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £315 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £293 £263
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £12.50
All Programming Languages
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
210 250 314
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 28.57% 31.06% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 135 175
Average daily rate £350 £305 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.75% -12.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £251 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
Average hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% +57.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £13.50 £15.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £36.00 £30.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP5
North West

PHP5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire PHP5 Daily 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Crewe - 1 £315 -
PHP5
North West

PHP5
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (100.00%) PHP
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) CMS
2 6 (85.71%) Retail
2 6 (85.71%) Subversion
2 6 (85.71%) OO
2 6 (85.71%) E-Commerce
2 6 (85.71%) MySQL
2 6 (85.71%) Magento
2 6 (85.71%) RESTful
2 6 (85.71%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) Joomla!
3 1 (14.29%) WordPress
3 1 (14.29%) LAMP

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (100.00%) Web Services
2 6 (85.71%) RESTful
2 6 (85.71%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) CMS
2 6 (85.71%) Magento
3 1 (14.29%) Joomla!
3 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Subversion
General
1 6 (85.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) PHP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) OO
1 6 (85.71%) E-Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript