The first table below looks at the demand for the PHP Web Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP Web Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP Web Developer
Rank 479 521 542
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +21
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Web Developer 39 41 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.094% 0.077% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.102% 0.083% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 12
Average daily rate £240 £230 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £188 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £300 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £211 £230 £219
% change year-on-year
-8.15% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £19.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -24.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.63%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38380 49421 52947
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.44% 92.55% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22598 27956 29382
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1965 2419 2806
Average hourly rate £18.88 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.02% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
PHP Web Developer
UK

PHP Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England PHP Web Developer Jobs Demand Trend

PHP Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP Web Developer across the England region.

England PHP Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

PHP Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP Web Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England PHP Web Developer Daily Rate Histogram

PHP Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP Web Developer across the England region.

England PHP Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

PHP Web Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Web Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
London +42 14 £260 -
South East +23 9 £210 -
South West +31 5 £260 +13.04%
Yorkshire 0 5 £200 +7.38%
East Midlands 0 5 £253 +12.22%
East of England +19 4 £175 -30.00%
North West +6 2 £213 +12.58%
West Midlands +2 1 - -
PHP Web Developer
UK

PHP Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited PHP Web 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 PHP Web Developer in their job title.

1 71 (100.00%) PHP
2 45 (63.38%) CSS
3 44 (61.97%) MySQL
4 39 (54.93%) HTML
5 32 (45.07%) JavaScript
6 31 (43.66%) jQuery
7 25 (35.21%) MVC
8 24 (33.80%) PHP5
9 20 (28.17%) OO
10 19 (26.76%) E-Commerce
11 16 (22.54%) Zend
12 15 (21.13%) Drupal
12 15 (21.13%) LAMP
12 15 (21.13%) Ajax
13 14 (19.72%) CMS
13 14 (19.72%) Magento
13 14 (19.72%) CSS3
14 13 (18.31%) HTML5
15 12 (16.90%) Linux
16 10 (14.08%) Symfony
16 10 (14.08%) Degree
16 10 (14.08%) Retail
17 9 (12.68%) Web Development
17 9 (12.68%) CodeIgniter
17 9 (12.68%) WordPress
18 7 (9.859%) Amazon AWS
18 7 (9.859%) XML
19 6 (8.451%) Web Services
19 6 (8.451%) XHTML
19 6 (8.451%) Agile Software Development

PHP Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited PHP Web 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 PHP Web Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 45 (63.38%) CSS
2 39 (54.93%) HTML
3 31 (43.66%) jQuery
4 15 (21.13%) LAMP
4 15 (21.13%) Ajax
5 14 (19.72%) CSS3
6 13 (18.31%) HTML5
7 10 (14.08%) Symfony
8 9 (12.68%) CodeIgniter
9 7 (9.859%) XML
10 6 (8.451%) Web Services
10 6 (8.451%) XHTML
10 6 (8.451%) JSON
11 4 (5.634%) SOAP
12 3 (4.225%) REST
13 1 (1.408%) CakePHP
13 1 (1.408%) Zend Framework
13 1 (1.408%) Google Maps API
13 1 (1.408%) Node.js
13 1 (1.408%) XML-RPC
Application Platforms
1 15 (21.13%) Drupal
2 14 (19.72%) CMS
2 14 (19.72%) Magento
3 9 (12.68%) WordPress
4 7 (9.859%) Amazon AWS
5 5 (7.042%) concrete5
6 3 (4.225%) Joomla!
6 3 (4.225%) Apache
7 1 (1.408%) nginx
7 1 (1.408%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.408%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.408%) Route 53
7 1 (1.408%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.042%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.408%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.817%) Intranet
1 2 (2.817%) HTTP
1 2 (2.817%) DNS
2 1 (1.408%) IMAP
2 1 (1.408%) POP3
2 1 (1.408%) SMTP
2 1 (1.408%) Internet
2 1 (1.408%) Extranet
2 1 (1.408%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (61.97%) MySQL
2 5 (7.042%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.408%) SimpleDB
3 1 (1.408%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.408%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.408%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.408%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.408%) Redis
3 1 (1.408%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (8.451%) Git (software)
2 4 (5.634%) Subversion
3 2 (2.817%) PHPUnit
General
1 10 (14.08%) Retail
2 3 (4.225%) Marketing
3 2 (2.817%) Games
4 1 (1.408%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.042%) Digital Media
2 2 (2.817%) Web 2.0
3 1 (1.408%) SaaS
3 1 (1.408%) Open Source
3 1 (1.408%) Social Network
3 1 (1.408%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.408%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.408%) Streaming Media
3 1 (1.408%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.90%) Linux
2 2 (2.817%) Windows
3 1 (1.408%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.21%) MVC
2 20 (28.17%) OO
3 19 (26.76%) E-Commerce
4 9 (12.68%) Web Development
5 6 (8.451%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (7.042%) Refactoring
6 5 (7.042%) Kanban
7 4 (5.634%) B2C
8 3 (4.225%) TDD
8 3 (4.225%) SEO
9 2 (2.817%) Migration
10 1 (1.408%) Continuous Integration
10 1 (1.408%) Software Architecture
10 1 (1.408%) Content Management
10 1 (1.408%) Scrum
10 1 (1.408%) CRM
10 1 (1.408%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) PHP
2 32 (45.07%) JavaScript
3 24 (33.80%) PHP5
4 4 (5.634%) SQL
5 2 (2.817%) Python
5 2 (2.817%) Bash shell
6 1 (1.408%) Ruby
6 1 (1.408%) C++
6 1 (1.408%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (14.08%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (1.408%) Plesk
1 1 (1.408%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Zend
2 4 (5.634%) Adobe
3 2 (2.817%) Google
3 2 (2.817%) Facebook
4 1 (1.408%) Twitter
4 1 (1.408%) Microsoft
Aldershot, Hampshire
Magento PHP Web Developer required for initial 3 month contract to build websites for one of Europe's largest suppliers of office equipment... Currently the sites are in...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Rate: £200 - £300 per day + negotiable DOE
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bath, South West
PHP web applications developer (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) Opus Recruitment Solutions are seeking an experienced PHP web applications developer (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for an initial...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP320 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
Derby, East Midlands
The skills and experience needed to fulfill the role, you must: Essentials: - PHP - HTML5 -CSS3 -Sql Desirables: - Version control systems such as SVN is an advantage - An understanding...
Computer Futures
Rate: £180 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013