PHP Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP 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 East of England 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
Rank 51 59 87
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +28
Contract jobs citing PHP 77 77 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 3.532% 2.622% 1.509%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.575% 6.255% 3.955%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 36 16
Average daily rate £285 £300 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £375 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
Average hourly rate £22.66 £60.00 £22.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.23% +169.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 898 1231 986
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 41.19% 41.91% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 603 422
Average daily rate £316 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 107 129
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.52 £26.28 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
England

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
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 East of England 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
Cambridgeshire -9 26 £285 -5.00%
Norfolk +15 19 £300 +20.00%
Essex +6 13 £425 +70.00%
Hertfordshire +14 11 £294 -12.96%
Bedfordshire +6 7 £175 -22.22%
Suffolk +11 4 £250 -23.07%
PHP
England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 119 (73.01%) CSS
2 101 (61.96%) JavaScript
3 91 (55.83%) HTML
4 78 (47.85%) jQuery
5 71 (43.56%) MySQL
5 71 (43.56%) Drupal
6 38 (23.31%) CSS3
7 37 (22.70%) HTML5
8 35 (21.47%) Linux
9 31 (19.02%) Photoshop
9 31 (19.02%) Apache
10 30 (18.40%) XHTML
11 28 (17.18%) Unit Testing
12 25 (15.34%) OO
12 25 (15.34%) XML
13 20 (12.27%) Web Development
13 20 (12.27%) TDD
13 20 (12.27%) Publishing
14 19 (11.66%) Java
15 18 (11.04%) CMS
15 18 (11.04%) LAMP
15 18 (11.04%) JSON
16 17 (10.43%) Ajax
17 16 (9.816%) Subversion
17 16 (9.816%) Git (software)
17 16 (9.816%) SQL
18 15 (9.202%) Web Services
18 15 (9.202%) Code Coverage
18 15 (9.202%) Zend
19 14 (8.589%) Symfony

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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
1 119 (73.01%) CSS
2 91 (55.83%) HTML
3 78 (47.85%) jQuery
4 38 (23.31%) CSS3
5 37 (22.70%) HTML5
6 30 (18.40%) XHTML
7 25 (15.34%) XML
8 18 (11.04%) LAMP
8 18 (11.04%) JSON
9 17 (10.43%) Ajax
10 15 (9.202%) Web Services
11 14 (8.589%) Symfony
11 14 (8.589%) .NET
12 13 (7.975%) SOAP
13 10 (6.135%) Memcached
14 8 (4.908%) CodeIgniter
14 8 (4.908%) RESTful
15 7 (4.294%) XSLT
16 6 (3.681%) Ruby on Rails
17 5 (3.067%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 71 (43.56%) Drupal
2 31 (19.02%) Apache
3 18 (11.04%) CMS
4 13 (7.975%) WordPress
5 8 (4.908%) SharePoint
6 7 (4.294%) concrete5
7 6 (3.681%) Magento
8 5 (3.067%) nginx
9 3 (1.840%) Facebook Platform
10 2 (1.227%) IIS
11 1 (0.613%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.613%) osCommerce
11 1 (0.613%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.613%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.613%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (19.02%) Photoshop
2 5 (3.067%) GIMP
3 3 (1.840%) Fireworks
4 1 (0.613%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (1.227%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (1.227%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.227%) DNS
1 2 (1.227%) SMTP
1 2 (1.227%) FTP
1 2 (1.227%) SNMP
2 1 (0.613%) NAS
2 1 (0.613%) BIG-IP
2 1 (0.613%) Internet
2 1 (0.613%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.613%) DHCP
2 1 (0.613%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (43.56%) MySQL
2 13 (7.975%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.294%) Redis
4 5 (3.067%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.227%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.227%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (1.227%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.613%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.613%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.613%) SQLite
6 1 (0.613%) GIS
6 1 (0.613%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.613%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (9.816%) Subversion
1 16 (9.816%) Git (software)
2 4 (2.454%) Xcode
2 4 (2.454%) PhoneGap
2 4 (2.454%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 3 (1.840%) Selenium
4 1 (0.613%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.613%) Eclipse
General
1 20 (12.27%) Publishing
2 9 (5.521%) Marketing
3 6 (3.681%) Finance
4 4 (2.454%) Advertising
5 2 (1.227%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.227%) Billing
5 2 (1.227%) Retail
6 1 (0.613%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.613%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.613%) Banking
6 1 (0.613%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 139 (85.28%) Developer
2 72 (44.17%) PHP Developer
3 35 (21.47%) Drupal Developer
4 25 (15.34%) Front-End Developer
5 22 (13.50%) Web Developer
5 22 (13.50%) PHP Drupal Developer
6 12 (7.362%) PHP Web Developer
7 9 (5.521%) UI Developer
7 9 (5.521%) Software Developer
8 8 (4.908%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.908%) UI Programmer
8 8 (4.908%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 7 (4.294%) LAMP Developer
9 7 (4.294%) Administrator
10 6 (3.681%) Analyst
11 5 (3.067%) PHP Programmer
11 5 (3.067%) Programmer
12 4 (2.454%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.454%) Systems Administrator
12 4 (2.454%) MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.681%) Open Source
2 5 (3.067%) iPhone
3 3 (1.840%) New Media
3 3 (1.840%) iPad
3 3 (1.840%) Semantic Web
3 3 (1.840%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.227%) W3C
4 2 (1.227%) Social Media
4 2 (1.227%) Digital Media
4 2 (1.227%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.613%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.613%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.47%) Linux
2 6 (3.681%) Windows
2 6 (3.681%) Android
3 4 (2.454%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.840%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (1.840%) Debian
5 2 (1.227%) UNIX
5 2 (1.227%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.227%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.227%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (17.18%) Unit Testing
2 25 (15.34%) OO
3 20 (12.27%) Web Development
3 20 (12.27%) TDD
4 15 (9.202%) Code Coverage
5 12 (7.362%) Content Management
5 12 (7.362%) E-Commerce
5 12 (7.362%) MVC
6 8 (4.908%) SEO
7 7 (4.294%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (4.294%) Web Design
8 6 (3.681%) OOP
9 5 (3.067%) Compatibility Testing
10 4 (2.454%) Project Management
10 4 (2.454%) Waterfall
11 3 (1.840%) Multithreading
11 3 (1.840%) Workflow
11 3 (1.840%) Process Management
11 3 (1.840%) RDF
12 2 (1.227%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 101 (61.96%) JavaScript
2 19 (11.66%) Java
3 16 (9.816%) SQL
4 13 (7.975%) PHP5
5 12 (7.362%) Ruby
6 8 (4.908%) C#
7 5 (3.067%) Perl
7 5 (3.067%) Python
8 3 (1.840%) SPARQL
8 3 (1.840%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.227%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.227%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.613%) VB
10 1 (0.613%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (3.067%) Degree
2 1 (0.613%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.613%) ISTQB
2 1 (0.613%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.613%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.613%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.454%) Varnish
2 3 (1.840%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.227%) NFS
3 2 (1.227%) Samba
3 2 (1.227%) Postfix
4 1 (0.613%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.227%) Nagios
1 2 (1.227%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (9.202%) Zend
2 9 (5.521%) Mercator
2 9 (5.521%) Oracle
3 4 (2.454%) Twitter
4 3 (1.840%) Facebook
4 3 (1.840%) Sencha
4 3 (1.840%) Google
4 3 (1.840%) Apple
5 2 (1.227%) NetApp
5 2 (1.227%) Adobe
5 2 (1.227%) FatWire
5 2 (1.227%) Omniture
6 1 (0.613%) VMware
6 1 (0.613%) JBoss
6 1 (0.613%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.613%) Red Hat
Application Developer/C#/PHP/SQL Cambridgeshire £250-350 p/d
Cambridge, East Anglia
For an ambitious, creative, confident, self-motivated team player this is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference to this already high-achieving organisation. This role is...
greywood
Rate: £250 - £350 per day + Benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
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