The first table below looks at the demand for PHP4 skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP4 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 of the Programming Languages category 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 4
Rank 510 524 553
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +29
Contract jobs citing PHP4 8 38 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.019% 0.071% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.051% 0.201% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 29 9
Average daily rate £288 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £350 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £303 £218
% change year-on-year
+17.76% +39.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £22.50
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15538 18950 21870
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.42% 35.49% 38.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9802 11431 12902
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 687 886
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.70 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP4
UK

PHP4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP4 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

England PHP4 Jobs Demand Trend

PHP4
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP4 across the England region.

England PHP4 Daily Rate Trend

PHP4
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP4 across the England region.

England PHP4 Hourly Rate Trend

PHP4
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP4 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
South East +21 4 - -
London +26 2 £288 -17.85%
East Midlands +1 1 £338 -
Yorkshire -3 1 £275 -
PHP4
UK

PHP4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing PHP4 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 PHP4.

1 12 (100.00%) PHP
2 9 (75.00%) MySQL
2 9 (75.00%) PHP5
3 7 (58.33%) jQuery
3 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (50.00%) HTML
5 5 (41.67%) CSS
5 5 (41.67%) XHTML
6 4 (33.33%) Drupal
6 4 (33.33%) HTML5
7 3 (25.00%) Magento
7 3 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
7 3 (25.00%) WordPress
7 3 (25.00%) XML
7 3 (25.00%) Symfony
7 3 (25.00%) SQL
8 2 (16.67%) W3C
8 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
8 2 (16.67%) Zend
8 2 (16.67%) CMS
8 2 (16.67%) LAMP
8 2 (16.67%) Linux
8 2 (16.67%) OOP
8 2 (16.67%) SOAP
8 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
8 2 (16.67%) CSS3
9 1 (8.333%) Digital Media
9 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
9 1 (8.333%) SaaS

PHP4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing PHP4 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 PHP4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (58.33%) jQuery
2 6 (50.00%) HTML
3 5 (41.67%) CSS
3 5 (41.67%) XHTML
4 4 (33.33%) HTML5
5 3 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
5 3 (25.00%) XML
5 3 (25.00%) Symfony
6 2 (16.67%) LAMP
6 2 (16.67%) SOAP
6 2 (16.67%) CSS3
7 1 (8.333%) Adobe AIR
7 1 (8.333%) YUI
7 1 (8.333%) XSLT
7 1 (8.333%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Drupal
2 3 (25.00%) Magento
2 3 (25.00%) WordPress
3 2 (16.67%) CMS
4 1 (8.333%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Subversion
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
1 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (75.00%) PHP Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (8.333%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) W3C
2 1 (8.333%) Digital Media
2 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.333%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Apple iOS
2 1 (8.333%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (8.333%) OO
2 1 (8.333%) ERP
2 1 (8.333%) OOD
2 1 (8.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PHP
2 9 (75.00%) PHP5
3 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 1 (8.333%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Zend
2 1 (8.333%) Adobe