PHP Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 88 88 147
Rank change year-on-year
0 +59
Contract jobs citing PHP 126 152 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 2.002% 1.954% 1.006%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.800% 5.388% 2.399%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 98 60
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
Average hourly rate £25.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 2625 2821 4126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.70% 36.26% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2029 2110 3122
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 35
Average hourly rate £40.75 £25.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.00% -10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.56 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
London

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London PHP Daily Rate Histogram

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP across the City of London region.

City of London PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 125 (52.08%) CSS
2 112 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 110 (45.83%) HTML
4 95 (39.58%) MySQL
5 60 (25.00%) jQuery
5 60 (25.00%) HTML5
6 56 (23.33%) Linux
7 55 (22.92%) Zend
8 45 (18.75%) Drupal
9 42 (17.50%) CSS3
10 41 (17.08%) SQL
11 39 (16.25%) Apache
12 38 (15.83%) OO
13 37 (15.42%) Java
14 34 (14.17%) E-Commerce
15 32 (13.33%) XML
16 31 (12.92%) MVC
16 31 (12.92%) Agile Software Development
17 28 (11.67%) XHTML
18 27 (11.25%) Symfony
18 27 (11.25%) LAMP
19 26 (10.83%) PHP5
20 25 (10.42%) Open Source
21 24 (10.00%) Web Development
21 24 (10.00%) TDD
22 23 (9.583%) Web Services
22 23 (9.583%) Git (software)
23 22 (9.167%) CMS
24 21 (8.750%) Subversion
25 20 (8.333%) UNIX

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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
1 125 (52.08%) CSS
2 110 (45.83%) HTML
3 60 (25.00%) jQuery
3 60 (25.00%) HTML5
4 42 (17.50%) CSS3
5 32 (13.33%) XML
6 28 (11.67%) XHTML
7 27 (11.25%) LAMP
7 27 (11.25%) Symfony
8 23 (9.583%) Web Services
9 20 (8.333%) .NET
10 16 (6.667%) Zend Framework
11 15 (6.250%) CodeIgniter
11 15 (6.250%) SOAP
11 15 (6.250%) Ajax
12 14 (5.833%) JSON
13 12 (5.000%) CakePHP
14 11 (4.583%) REST
15 10 (4.167%) RESTful
16 9 (3.750%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 45 (18.75%) Drupal
2 39 (16.25%) Apache
3 22 (9.167%) CMS
4 13 (5.417%) WordPress
5 12 (5.000%) Magento
6 6 (2.500%) Moodle
7 5 (2.083%) IIS
7 5 (2.083%) Lotus Notes
8 3 (1.250%) nginx
8 3 (1.250%) CloudStack
8 3 (1.250%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.833%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.833%) Amazon AWS
9 2 (0.833%) Confluence
9 2 (0.833%) Joomla!
9 2 (0.833%) Liferay
9 2 (0.833%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.833%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.833%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.833%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.583%) MS Excel
2 10 (4.167%) Photoshop
3 3 (1.250%) Fireworks
4 1 (0.417%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.417%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.417%) Google Apps
4 1 (0.417%) MS Office
4 1 (0.417%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.833%) WebTrends
1 2 (0.833%) Google Analytics
1 2 (0.833%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.417%) SiteCatalyst
2 1 (0.417%) RMDS
2 1 (0.417%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.417%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.833%) Internet
2 11 (4.583%) HTTP
3 9 (3.750%) SAN
4 8 (3.333%) Firewall
4 8 (3.333%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.667%) VoIP
5 4 (1.667%) Extranet
5 4 (1.667%) Intranet
5 4 (1.667%) DNS
5 4 (1.667%) SSL
5 4 (1.667%) NAS
6 3 (1.250%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (1.250%) FWSM
6 3 (1.250%) IPsec
6 3 (1.250%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.250%) DHCP
6 3 (1.250%) FTP
7 2 (0.833%) LDAP
7 2 (0.833%) Broadband
7 2 (0.833%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (39.58%) MySQL
2 6 (2.500%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.500%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.083%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.250%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.833%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.833%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.833%) MS Access
6 1 (0.417%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.417%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.417%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.417%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.417%) HBase
6 1 (0.417%) Redis
6 1 (0.417%) Big Data
6 1 (0.417%) Hypertable
Development Applications
1 23 (9.583%) Git (software)
2 21 (8.750%) Subversion
3 11 (4.583%) Selenium
4 7 (2.917%) GitHub
4 7 (2.917%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.500%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.083%) Hudson
7 4 (1.667%) Maven
7 4 (1.667%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.667%) CruiseControl
8 3 (1.250%) JUnit
8 3 (1.250%) PHPUnit
9 2 (0.833%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.833%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.833%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.833%) JIRA
9 2 (0.833%) RSpec
10 1 (0.417%) FogBugz
10 1 (0.417%) Trac
10 1 (0.417%) PhoneGap
General
1 18 (7.500%) Marketing
2 15 (6.250%) Finance
3 11 (4.583%) Retail
4 8 (3.333%) Banking
4 8 (3.333%) Advertising
5 6 (2.500%) Games
6 5 (2.083%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.667%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.667%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.250%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.250%) Publishing
9 1 (0.417%) Electronics
9 1 (0.417%) Automotive
9 1 (0.417%) Legal
9 1 (0.417%) Music
9 1 (0.417%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.417%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 183 (76.25%) Developer
2 95 (39.58%) PHP Developer
3 28 (11.67%) Drupal Developer
4 26 (10.83%) Front-End Developer
4 26 (10.83%) Senior Developer
5 18 (7.500%) PHP Drupal Developer
6 17 (7.083%) Web Developer
7 15 (6.250%) Senior PHP Developer
8 12 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (4.167%) Lead Developer
9 10 (4.167%) Administrator
9 10 (4.167%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (4.167%) Linux Administrator
10 8 (3.333%) Analyst
11 7 (2.917%) Junior
11 7 (2.917%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (2.917%) JavaScript Developer
12 6 (2.500%) Programmer
12 6 (2.500%) Java Developer
13 5 (2.083%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.42%) Open Source
2 7 (2.917%) Digital Media
3 6 (2.500%) Social Media
3 6 (2.500%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.083%) Clustering
4 5 (2.083%) Computer Science
4 5 (2.083%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.083%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.667%) Kindle
5 4 (1.667%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.250%) W3C
6 3 (1.250%) CLARiiON
7 2 (0.833%) Replication
7 2 (0.833%) Equities
7 2 (0.833%) VLE
7 2 (0.833%) Video on Demand
7 2 (0.833%) New Media
8 1 (0.417%) IaaS
8 1 (0.417%) SaaS
8 1 (0.417%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.33%) Linux
2 20 (8.333%) UNIX
3 13 (5.417%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.583%) Apple iOS
4 11 (4.583%) Windows
5 9 (3.750%) Android
6 7 (2.917%) CentOS
7 3 (1.250%) Gentoo
8 2 (0.833%) VMS
8 2 (0.833%) Windows Phone
8 2 (0.833%) Windows Phone 7
9 1 (0.417%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (15.83%) OO
2 34 (14.17%) E-Commerce
3 31 (12.92%) MVC
3 31 (12.92%) Agile Software Development
4 24 (10.00%) TDD
4 24 (10.00%) Web Development
5 17 (7.083%) Scrum
6 16 (6.667%) BDD
7 15 (6.250%) Content Management
7 15 (6.250%) OOP
8 10 (4.167%) Web Design
8 10 (4.167%) SEO
8 10 (4.167%) Unit Testing
9 9 (3.750%) Analytics
10 7 (2.917%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (2.500%) Asset Management
11 6 (2.500%) SOA
11 6 (2.500%) Configuration Management
12 5 (2.083%) B2B
12 5 (2.083%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 112 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 41 (17.08%) SQL
3 37 (15.42%) Java
4 26 (10.83%) PHP5
5 19 (7.917%) Ruby
6 13 (5.417%) C#
7 12 (5.000%) Perl
7 12 (5.000%) Python
8 10 (4.167%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.750%) Objective-C
10 6 (2.500%) C++
11 5 (2.083%) VB
11 5 (2.083%) ActionScript
12 4 (1.667%) VBA
12 4 (1.667%) C
12 4 (1.667%) Bash shell
13 3 (1.250%) ActionScript 3.0
14 2 (0.833%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.833%) Scala
14 2 (0.833%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (4.583%) Degree
2 3 (1.250%) RHCE
3 2 (0.833%) CCNA
3 2 (0.833%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.417%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.417%) ISEB
4 1 (0.417%) PMP
4 1 (0.417%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.417%) RHCT
4 1 (0.417%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.417%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.417%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.417%) QA
2 4 (1.667%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (2.500%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.667%) NFS
2 4 (1.667%) Samba
2 4 (1.667%) Varnish
3 3 (1.250%) vSphere
3 3 (1.250%) vCloud
4 2 (0.833%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.417%) qmail
5 1 (0.417%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.417%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (5.417%) Puppet
2 8 (3.333%) Nagios
3 3 (1.250%) Zenoss
4 2 (0.833%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 55 (22.92%) Zend
2 14 (5.833%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.417%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.583%) Cisco
5 10 (4.167%) Google
6 8 (3.333%) Adobe
7 7 (2.917%) VMware
7 7 (2.917%) Facebook
7 7 (2.917%) Twitter
8 6 (2.500%) F5
8 6 (2.500%) Oracle
9 5 (2.083%) Lotus
10 4 (1.667%) EMC
10 4 (1.667%) Juniper
10 4 (1.667%) NetApp
11 3 (1.250%) HP
11 3 (1.250%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.833%) Salesforce.com
12 2 (0.833%) ATG
12 2 (0.833%) ION Trading
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