The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 20 17 20
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +3
Contract jobs citing PHP 12 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 5.505% 4.132% 0.752%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 11.11% 2.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
Average daily rate £213 £238 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -5.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
96 45 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 44.04% 37.19% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 20 25
Average daily rate £320 £335 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +19.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 5
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
Surrey

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 9 (56.25%) .NET
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) C#
2 8 (50.00%) IIS
3 7 (43.75%) Games
4 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (31.25%) CSS
5 5 (31.25%) HTML5
6 4 (25.00%) CSS3
6 4 (25.00%) HTML
6 4 (25.00%) MySQL
7 3 (18.75%) Linux
7 3 (18.75%) jQuery
8 2 (12.50%) CentOS
8 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (12.50%) Marketing
8 2 (12.50%) OOP
8 2 (12.50%) Apache
8 2 (12.50%) Broadband
8 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
8 2 (12.50%) Publishing
8 2 (12.50%) CMS
9 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
9 1 (6.250%) Content Management
9 1 (6.250%) Web Analytics
9 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
9 1 (6.250%) SEO
9 1 (6.250%) W3C
9 1 (6.250%) Internet
9 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 9 (56.25%) .NET
2 5 (31.25%) CSS
2 5 (31.25%) HTML5
3 4 (25.00%) CSS3
3 4 (25.00%) HTML
4 3 (18.75%) jQuery
5 1 (6.250%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Broadband
2 1 (6.250%) Internet
2 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (43.75%) Games
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 11 (68.75%) PHP Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Support
4 1 (6.250%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Lead Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.250%) W3C
1 1 (6.250%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) CentOS
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) OOP
2 1 (6.250%) Content Management
2 1 (6.250%) Web Analytics
2 1 (6.250%) SEO
2 1 (6.250%) Web Development
2 1 (6.250%) Game Development
2 1 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (6.250%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.250%) Perl
3 1 (6.250%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
1 1 (6.250%) WAI
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
Guildford, Surrey
We currently require the services of a Web Developer with Squiz to work for a well respected client based in Guildford.
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 22 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
The ideal candidate will have good skills in PHP development and is comfortable working with CentOS/RedHat Linux environment... Essential knowledge and experience - PHP coding - MySQL databases - JAVA...
SEC Recruitment Limited
Rate: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013