The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Harrow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 21 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 Harrow 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 4 2 3
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing PHP 3 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Harrow 14.29% 29.41% 11.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.00% 100.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £228 - £165
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
Harrow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
10 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Harrow 47.62% 29.41% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
Average daily rate £275 - £165
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
London

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harrow 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 Harrow region.

Harrow PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Harrow 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 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) SMS
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) EPoS
3 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Harrow 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 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SMS
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) EPoS
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Web Development
1 1 (16.67%) Release Management
1 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
1 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
1 1 (16.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) TIBCO