East of England PHP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PHP skills within the East of England 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Avon Barnstaple Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Runcorn Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	95	95
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	44	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.059 %
As % of the category below	3.726 %	3.162 %
Daily rates quoted	18	13
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£222
Average daily rate	£308	£228
% change on same period last year	+35.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£234
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£251
% change on same period last year	+12.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.75	£22.33
Average hourly rate	£26.38	£24.83
% change on same period last year	+6.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	£27.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.86	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-10.20 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1181	1866
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.574 %	1.861 %
Daily rates quoted	360	471
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£322
Average daily rate	£347	£340
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	118	270
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.89	£30.78
Average hourly rate	£34.28	£32.24
% change on same period last year	+6.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.67	£33.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
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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 East of England 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 East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 29 August 2008.

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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 East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 29 August 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
Hertfordshire	+14	19	£372	+85.18 %
Cambridgeshire	+20	13	£285	-
Norfolk	+1	4	£177	-35.81 %
Bedfordshire	+15	3	-	-
Essex	-9	3	£350	-6.66 %
Suffolk	-	1	-	-
East Anglia	0	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 71 (68.27 %) MySQL 2 34 (32.69 %) JavaScript 3 31 (29.81 %) CSS 4 30 (28.85 %) XML 4 30 (28.85 %) Apache 5 28 (26.92 %) HTML 6 27 (25.96 %) Linux 7 21 (20.19 %) .NET 8 19 (18.27 %) Java 8 19 (18.27 %) AJAX 9 18 (17.31 %) SQL 10 16 (15.38 %) Windows 10 16 (15.38 %) XHTML 11 15 (14.42 %) UNIX 11 15 (14.42 %) Oracle

11 15 (14.42 %) Photoshop 11 15 (14.42 %) ASP 12 14 (13.46 %) ASP.NET 12 14 (13.46 %) WebServices 12 14 (13.46 %) Perl 13 13 (12.50 %) LAMP 14 12 (11.54 %) Degree 14 12 (11.54 %) SQL Server 14 12 (11.54 %) ActionScript 15 11 (10.58 %) IIS 15 11 (10.58 %) C 15 11 (10.58 %) C++ 16 10 (9.615 %) TCP/IP 16 10 (9.615 %) Adobe 17 9 (8.654 %) Web Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 31 (29.81 %) CSS 2 30 (28.85 %) XML 3 28 (26.92 %) HTML 4 21 (20.19 %) .NET 5 19 (18.27 %) AJAX 6 16 (15.38 %) XHTML 7 15 (14.42 %) ASP 8 14 (13.46 %) ASP.NET 8 14 (13.46 %) WebServices 9 13 (12.50 %) LAMP 10 9 (8.654 %) JSP 11 6 (5.769 %) J2EE 12 5 (4.808 %) Apache Axis 12 5 (4.808 %) Symfony 13 4 (3.846 %) XSL 14 3 (2.885 %) XSLT 14 3 (2.885 %) DOM 15 2 (1.923 %) J2SE 15 2 (1.923 %) WSDL 15 2 (1.923 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 30 (28.85 %) Apache 2 11 (10.58 %) IIS 3 7 (6.731 %) Joomla! 4 6 (5.769 %) Tomcat 5 5 (4.808 %) WebLogic 5 5 (4.808 %) ColdFusion 5 5 (4.808 %) Resin 6 3 (2.885 %) Mambo 6 3 (2.885 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (0.962 %) TeamSite 7 1 (0.962 %) CMS 7 1 (0.962 %) SharePoint 7 1 (0.962 %) JBoss
Applications 1 15 (14.42 %) Photoshop 2 6 (5.769 %) MS Office 3 5 (4.808 %) Acrobat 4 1 (0.962 %) Fireworks 4 1 (0.962 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (0.962 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (0.962 %) MS Excel 4 1 (0.962 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 3 (2.885 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 10 (9.615 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (6.731 %) SMPP 2 7 (6.731 %) Wi-Fi 3 6 (5.769 %) Internet 4 5 (4.808 %) SMTP 5 3 (2.885 %) FTP 5 3 (2.885 %) HTTP 5 3 (2.885 %) Firewall 5 3 (2.885 %) SSH 6 1 (0.962 %) RTSP 6 1 (0.962 %) Cisco IOS 6 1 (0.962 %) Wireless 6 1 (0.962 %) SMS 6 1 (0.962 %) VoIP 6 1 (0.962 %) RTP 6 1 (0.962 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 71 (68.27 %) MySQL 2 12 (11.54 %) SQL Server 3 4 (3.846 %) RDBMS 3 4 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (2.885 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (0.962 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.962 %) DTS 5 1 (0.962 %) DB2 5 1 (0.962 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.962 %) PostgreSQL 5 1 (0.962 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.962 %) SQLite
Development Applications 1 9 (8.654 %) Flash 2 5 (4.808 %) Dreamweaver 3 3 (2.885 %) JDeveloper 3 3 (2.885 %) Bugzilla 3 3 (2.885 %) Subversion 3 3 (2.885 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (0.962 %) JUnit 4 1 (0.962 %) ClearCase 4 1 (0.962 %) Firebug	General 1 9 (8.654 %) Telecoms 2 4 (3.846 %) Publishing 2 4 (3.846 %) Games 2 4 (3.846 %) Retail 2 4 (3.846 %) Multimedia 2 4 (3.846 %) Graphic Design 3 3 (2.885 %) Education 3 3 (2.885 %) Finance 4 2 (1.923 %) Marketing 4 2 (1.923 %) Advertising 5 1 (0.962 %) Electric 5 1 (0.962 %) Interactive Media 5 1 (0.962 %) Construction 5 1 (0.962 %) Back Office 5 1 (0.962 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 80 (76.92 %) Developer 2 36 (34.62 %) PHP Developer 3 23 (22.12 %) Web Developer 4 10 (9.615 %) Oracle Developer 5 6 (5.769 %) Software Engineer 6 4 (3.846 %) .NET Developer 6 4 (3.846 %) Java Developer 6 4 (3.846 %) MySQL Developer 6 4 (3.846 %) PHP Web Developer 6 4 (3.846 %) Linux Engineer 7 3 (2.885 %) IT Support Engineer 7 3 (2.885 %) Support Engineer 7 3 (2.885 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 3 (2.885 %) Analyst 7 3 (2.885 %) Software Developer 8 2 (1.923 %) Architect 8 2 (1.923 %) Project Manager 8 2 (1.923 %) Junior 8 2 (1.923 %) Consultant 8 2 (1.923 %) Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 5 (4.808 %) W3C 1 5 (4.808 %) Computer Science 2 3 (2.885 %) Web 2.0 2 3 (2.885 %) Replication 3 2 (1.923 %) E-Learning 3 2 (1.923 %) SCORM 4 1 (0.962 %) Mathematics 4 1 (0.962 %) Physics 4 1 (0.962 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 27 (25.96 %) Linux 2 16 (15.38 %) Windows 3 15 (14.42 %) UNIX 4 8 (7.692 %) Windows CE 5 5 (4.808 %) Solaris 6 3 (2.885 %) SUSE 6 3 (2.885 %) CentOS 6 3 (2.885 %) Red Hat Linux 6 3 (2.885 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 1 (0.962 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (0.962 %) HPUX 7 1 (0.962 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.962 %) Symbian OS 7 1 (0.962 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (8.654 %) Web Development 2 7 (6.731 %) OO 2 7 (6.731 %) SOA 3 5 (4.808 %) Project Planning 4 3 (2.885 %) OOP 5 2 (1.923 %) Web Design 5 2 (1.923 %) Content Management 5 2 (1.923 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (0.962 %) UML 6 1 (0.962 %) Workflow Management 6 1 (0.962 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (0.962 %) Security Testing 6 1 (0.962 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (0.962 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (0.962 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (0.962 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (0.962 %) RAD 6 1 (0.962 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (0.962 %) HOOD 6 1 (0.962 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 34 (32.69 %) JavaScript 2 19 (18.27 %) Java 3 18 (17.31 %) SQL 4 14 (13.46 %) Perl 5 12 (11.54 %) ActionScript 6 11 (10.58 %) C 6 11 (10.58 %) C++ 7 8 (7.692 %) PL/SQL 8 6 (5.769 %) C# 8 6 (5.769 %) PHP5 9 5 (4.808 %) PHP4 9 5 (4.808 %) Python 9 5 (4.808 %) Shell Script 10 4 (3.846 %) VB 10 4 (3.846 %) VB.NET 10 4 (3.846 %) DHTML 11 3 (2.885 %) VB6 11 3 (2.885 %) XPath 12 1 (0.962 %) Ruby 12 1 (0.962 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 12 (11.54 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.885 %) WCAG 1 3 (2.885 %) WAI	System Software 1 3 (2.885 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 15 (14.42 %) Oracle 2 10 (9.615 %) Adobe 3 7 (6.731 %) Microsoft 4 4 (3.846 %) Zend 5 3 (2.885 %) Red Hat 5 3 (2.885 %) webMethods 5 3 (2.885 %) Sun 6 2 (1.923 %) Google 7 1 (0.962 %) Mapinfo 7 1 (0.962 %) HP 7 1 (0.962 %) Intel 7 1 (0.962 %) Alcatel 7 1 (0.962 %) Siemens 7 1 (0.962 %) Sybase 7 1 (0.962 %) Symbian 7 1 (0.962 %) Cisco