The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior PHP Developer role 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 Senior PHP Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Senior PHP Developer
Rank 191 207 244
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 10 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.159% 0.077% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.172% 0.084% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 1
Average daily rate £300 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5827 7127 9041
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.57% 91.61% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4285 5101 6595
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 180 188
Average hourly rate £19.44 £19.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.31% -2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Senior PHP Developer
London

Senior PHP Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Senior PHP Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior PHP Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Senior PHP Developer across the City of London region.

City of London Senior PHP Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Senior PHP Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior PHP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior PHP Developer in their job title 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 with Senior PHP Developer in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) PHP
2 9 (60.00%) HTML
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 8 (53.33%) CSS
4 7 (46.67%) MySQL
4 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
4 7 (46.67%) Zend
5 6 (40.00%) MVC
5 6 (40.00%) Java
5 6 (40.00%) SQL
5 6 (40.00%) OO
6 5 (33.33%) Internet
6 5 (33.33%) CakePHP
6 5 (33.33%) HTML5
6 5 (33.33%) Semantic HTML
7 4 (26.67%) Facebook
7 4 (26.67%) Twitter
7 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
7 4 (26.67%) iOS SDK
7 4 (26.67%) CSS3
7 4 (26.67%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (26.67%) jQuery
7 4 (26.67%) Google Maps API
7 4 (26.67%) Android
7 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
7 4 (26.67%) Objective-C
7 4 (26.67%) Google
7 4 (26.67%) Marketing
7 4 (26.67%) XHTML
7 4 (26.67%) UNIX

Senior PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior PHP Developer in their job title 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 with Senior PHP Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (60.00%) HTML
2 8 (53.33%) CSS
3 5 (33.33%) CakePHP
3 5 (33.33%) HTML5
3 5 (33.33%) Semantic HTML
4 4 (26.67%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (26.67%) iOS SDK
4 4 (26.67%) CSS3
4 4 (26.67%) jQuery
4 4 (26.67%) Google Maps API
4 4 (26.67%) XHTML
5 3 (20.00%) Symfony
6 2 (13.33%) XML
7 1 (6.667%) LAMP
7 1 (6.667%) Ajax
7 1 (6.667%) Zend Framework
7 1 (6.667%) Gherkin
7 1 (6.667%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Drupal
2 2 (13.33%) Magento
3 1 (6.667%) Apache Solr
3 1 (6.667%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) MySQL
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
3 1 (6.667%) Behat
General
1 4 (26.67%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Data Extraction
1 1 (6.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Android
2 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
2 4 (26.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) MVC
1 6 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (13.33%) B2B
2 2 (13.33%) Web Development
2 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Online Marketing
3 1 (6.667%) Software Architecture
3 1 (6.667%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (6.667%) SEO
3 1 (6.667%) Scrum
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) TDD
3 1 (6.667%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (40.00%) Java
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) Objective-C
5 2 (13.33%) PHP5
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Varnish
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Zend
2 4 (26.67%) Facebook
2 4 (26.67%) Twitter
2 4 (26.67%) Adobe
2 4 (26.67%) Google
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle
City, London
Key Skills & Background *Highly skilled in OO PHP programming around 5-7+ years of experience required. *Must be skilled in using Zend framework 2+ years of experience. *Experienced...
Eutopia Solutions Ltd
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013