Derbyshire PHP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for PHP skills within the Derbyshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Amersham Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Cirencester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grampian Gravesend Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Hull Kendal Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rotherham Ruislip Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	31
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	11	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	14.86 %	8.271 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£279
% change on same period last year	-11.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.50	-
Average hourly rate	£19.67	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.83	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£28.56
% change on same period last year	-11.59 %
Programming Languages Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	74	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.146 %
Daily rates quoted	8	22
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£346
Average daily rate	£354	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£330
% change on same period last year	-4.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.92	£26.76
Average hourly rate	£29.09	£29.04
% change on same period last year	+0.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.26	£31.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.08	£32.56
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
PHP East Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PHP across the Derbyshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP across the Derbyshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP across the Derbyshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Derby	+3	6	-	-

PHP East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 11 (78.57 %) MySQL 2 9 (64.29 %) Joomla! 3 8 (57.14 %) PHP5 4 4 (28.57 %) Web Development 4 4 (28.57 %) E-Learning 4 4 (28.57 %) HTML 4 4 (28.57 %) JavaScript 5 3 (21.43 %) CSS 5 3 (21.43 %) Education 5 3 (21.43 %) VLE 6 2 (14.29 %) OO 6 2 (14.29 %) XHTML 7 1 (7.143 %) W3C 7 1 (7.143 %) Flash 7 1 (7.143 %) Games

7 1 (7.143 %) XML 7 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (7.143 %) SQL 7 1 (7.143 %) ActionScript 7 1 (7.143 %) .NET 7 1 (7.143 %) Ruby 7 1 (7.143 %) AJAX 7 1 (7.143 %) Ruby on Rails 7 1 (7.143 %) Web 2.0 7 1 (7.143 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (7.143 %) Content Management 7 1 (7.143 %) Degree 7 1 (7.143 %) Computer Science 7 1 (7.143 %) Drupal 7 1 (7.143 %) MooTools

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 4 (28.57 %) HTML 2 3 (21.43 %) CSS 3 2 (14.29 %) XHTML 4 1 (7.143 %) AJAX 4 1 (7.143 %) Ruby on Rails 4 1 (7.143 %) Drupal 4 1 (7.143 %) MooTools 4 1 (7.143 %) XML 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET 4 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 9 (64.29 %) Joomla!
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (78.57 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Flash
General 1 3 (21.43 %) Education 2 1 (7.143 %) Games	Job Titles 1 14 (100.00 %) Developer 2 11 (78.57 %) PHP Developer 3 3 (21.43 %) MySQL Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Flash Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Web Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (28.57 %) E-Learning 2 3 (21.43 %) VLE 3 1 (7.143 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (7.143 %) Computer Science 3 1 (7.143 %) W3C	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (28.57 %) Web Development 2 2 (14.29 %) OO 3 1 (7.143 %) Content Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 8 (57.14 %) PHP5 2 4 (28.57 %) JavaScript 3 1 (7.143 %) SQL 3 1 (7.143 %) ActionScript 3 1 (7.143 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) Degree