The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 24 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 Exeter 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank - 17 18
Contract jobs citing PHP 0 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter - 1.754% 6.024%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 2.941% 9.259%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £200 £105
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +90.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
34 34 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 33.33% 59.65% 65.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 26
Average daily rate £325 £330 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% -16.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £200 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £10.00 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+225.00% -67.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
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PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Exeter PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 3 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Joomla!
3 1 (33.33%) Symfony
3 1 (33.33%) Zend
3 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (33.33%) Drupal
3 1 (33.33%) PHP5
3 1 (33.33%) iPhone
3 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) iPad
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 1 (33.33%) Symfony
1 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) XSL
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Joomla!
1 1 (33.33%) Drupal
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) iPhone
1 1 (33.33%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PHP5
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Zend