The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 20 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 Essex 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 35 47 45
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -2
Contract jobs citing PHP 13 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 3.155% 0.733% 1.023%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.558% 2.256% 3.101%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
Average daily rate £425 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £22.66 - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -26.31%
All Programming Languages
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
172 133 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 41.75% 32.52% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 61 57
Average daily rate £265 £265 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £172 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 24
Average hourly rate £27.73 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.83% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.17 £26.00 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.50 £40.00 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
East of England

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 20 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
Brentwood - 3 - -
Witham - 3 £425 -
Harlow - 2 - -
Basildon - 1 £250 -
PHP
East of England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 10 (50.00%) CSS
2 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (40.00%) HTML
4 7 (35.00%) Photoshop
4 7 (35.00%) jQuery
5 6 (30.00%) Marketing
5 6 (30.00%) OO
5 6 (30.00%) E-Commerce
6 5 (25.00%) Web Design
7 4 (20.00%) Advertising
7 4 (20.00%) Web Services
7 4 (20.00%) MySQL
8 3 (15.00%) SQL
8 3 (15.00%) Java
8 3 (15.00%) ASP
8 3 (15.00%) Process Management
8 3 (15.00%) Apple
8 3 (15.00%) Fireworks
8 3 (15.00%) Cocoa
8 3 (15.00%) Xcode
8 3 (15.00%) Objective-C
8 3 (15.00%) CMS
8 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (15.00%) Ajax
8 3 (15.00%) Multithreading
8 3 (15.00%) JSON
8 3 (15.00%) New Media
8 3 (15.00%) CSS3
8 3 (15.00%) Facebook
8 3 (15.00%) Facebook Platform

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 10 (50.00%) CSS
2 8 (40.00%) HTML
3 7 (35.00%) jQuery
4 4 (20.00%) Web Services
5 3 (15.00%) Cocoa
5 3 (15.00%) Ajax
5 3 (15.00%) JSON
5 3 (15.00%) HTML5
5 3 (15.00%) CSS3
5 3 (15.00%) Cocoa Touch
5 3 (15.00%) UIKit
5 3 (15.00%) ASP
6 2 (10.00%) Sass
6 2 (10.00%) LESS
6 2 (10.00%) MooTools
6 2 (10.00%) Dojo
6 2 (10.00%) JSP
6 2 (10.00%) XHTML
6 2 (10.00%) XML
6 2 (10.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) CMS
1 3 (15.00%) Facebook Platform
2 1 (5.000%) Apache
2 1 (5.000%) WordPress
2 1 (5.000%) osCommerce
2 1 (5.000%) Magento
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (15.00%) Fireworks
3 1 (5.000%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Xcode
General
1 6 (30.00%) Marketing
2 4 (20.00%) Advertising
3 1 (5.000%) Banking
3 1 (5.000%) Retail
3 1 (5.000%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) UI Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior UI Developer
3 4 (20.00%) UI Programmer
3 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Designer
5 2 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Developer Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) MySQL Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
5 2 (10.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 2 (10.00%) iOS Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Digital Designer
6 1 (5.000%) LAMP Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) iPhone
1 3 (15.00%) iPad
1 3 (15.00%) New Media
2 1 (5.000%) Open Source
2 1 (5.000%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Android
1 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) OO
1 6 (30.00%) E-Commerce
2 5 (25.00%) Web Design
3 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (15.00%) Process Management
3 3 (15.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (10.00%) Image Processing
4 2 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (10.00%) Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (10.00%) MVC
4 2 (10.00%) SEO
4 2 (10.00%) Content Management
5 1 (5.000%) Web Development
5 1 (5.000%) Validation
5 1 (5.000%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (15.00%) Java
3 1 (5.000%) C#
3 1 (5.000%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
1 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Apple
1 3 (15.00%) Facebook
1 3 (15.00%) Twitter
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe
2 2 (10.00%) FatWire
2 2 (10.00%) Omniture
2 2 (10.00%) Google