The first table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP5 over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Edinburgh 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 5
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PHP5 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.217% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.823% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £275 £263
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
- +44.44%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
243 204 295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.38% 19.58% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 72 108
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
Average hourly rate £24.00 £32.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +1.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £16.00 £18.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.60 £32.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP5
Scotland

PHP5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP5 across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Edinburgh PHP5 Jobs Demand Trend

PHP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing PHP5 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 PHP5.

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Drupal
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) Twitter
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) SEO
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (50.00%) Zend
3 2 (50.00%) Zend Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Google Maps API
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) W3C
3 2 (50.00%) Ruby
3 2 (50.00%) Google
3 2 (50.00%) WAI
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Ext JS
4 1 (25.00%) CodeIgniter

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing PHP5 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 PHP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) Zend Framework
3 2 (50.00%) Google Maps API
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) Ext JS
4 1 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Drupal Developer
3 2 (50.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) SEO
2 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Twitter
1 2 (50.00%) Zend
1 2 (50.00%) Google
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