The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP 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 Chester 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
Rank 23 - 20
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PHP 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.222% - 0.694%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.895% - 2.439%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £255
% change year-on-year
- +7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+19.26% -15.55%
All Programming Languages
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
38 23 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 28.15% 20.35% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 14
Average daily rate £343 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £269 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £439
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
Average hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £46.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +8.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £50.00 £20.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £50.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
Cheshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Legal
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (60.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Security
3 2 (40.00%) Web 2.0
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) HTML

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (60.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) SAP