PHP Contracts in Kent
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 32 32 33
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Contract jobs citing PHP 6 4 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.961% 1.509% 3.762%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.085% 5.000% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
Average daily rate £245 £213 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.29% -29.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.58 £17.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+29.02% -22.22%
All Programming Languages
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 118 80 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 38.56% 30.19% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 35 65
Average daily rate £300 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £213 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £325 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 3
Average hourly rate £35.79 £17.50 £93.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+104.48% -81.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.37 £17.50 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £90.00 £30.00 £170.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
South East

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 17 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
Maidstone -1 1 - -
Canterbury - 1 - -
PHP
South East

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 12 (63.16%) MySQL
2 8 (42.11%) HTML
3 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
3 7 (36.84%) CSS
4 6 (31.58%) Linux
4 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
5 5 (26.32%) jQuery
6 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
6 4 (21.05%) Zend
6 4 (21.05%) Bourne shell
6 4 (21.05%) Python
6 4 (21.05%) Perl
6 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
6 4 (21.05%) Replication
7 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (10.53%) Git (software)
8 2 (10.53%) nginx
8 2 (10.53%) Open Source
8 2 (10.53%) Drupal
8 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (10.53%) UNIX
8 2 (10.53%) ETL
8 2 (10.53%) MVC
8 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
8 2 (10.53%) LAMP
8 2 (10.53%) OpenBSD
8 2 (10.53%) Subversion
8 2 (10.53%) VMware
8 2 (10.53%) Web Development
8 2 (10.53%) Red Hat

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 8 (42.11%) HTML
2 7 (36.84%) CSS
3 5 (26.32%) jQuery
4 2 (10.53%) XML
4 2 (10.53%) LAMP
5 1 (5.263%) JSTL
5 1 (5.263%) Zend Framework
5 1 (5.263%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (5.263%) XSLT
5 1 (5.263%) Flash
5 1 (5.263%) EDIFACT
5 1 (5.263%) Memcached
5 1 (5.263%) Node.js
5 1 (5.263%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Drupal
1 2 (10.53%) nginx
2 1 (5.263%) CM System
2 1 (5.263%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Photoshop
1 1 (5.263%) MS Office
1 1 (5.263%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (5.263%) DNS
2 1 (5.263%) SSL
2 1 (5.263%) SAN
2 1 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (5.263%) VRRP
2 1 (5.263%) Firewall
2 1 (5.263%) IPsec
2 1 (5.263%) VLAN
2 1 (5.263%) iSCSI
2 1 (5.263%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) MySQL
2 1 (5.263%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Subversion
1 2 (10.53%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.263%) PHPUnit
2 1 (5.263%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.263%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.263%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.263%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) PHP Developer
3 3 (15.79%) DBA
3 3 (15.79%) MySQL DBA
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (5.263%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) MySQL Developer
5 1 (5.263%) UNIX Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Senior UNIX Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Linux Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Linux Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Web Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Replication
2 2 (10.53%) Open Source
3 1 (5.263%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) FreeBSD
2 2 (10.53%) UNIX
2 2 (10.53%) OpenBSD
3 1 (5.263%) Fedora
3 1 (5.263%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.263%) CentOS
3 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.263%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (10.53%) MVC
2 2 (10.53%) OO
2 2 (10.53%) ETL
2 2 (10.53%) Web Development
3 1 (5.263%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.263%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
3 1 (5.263%) Customer Insight
3 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.263%) Project Management
3 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.263%) Scrum
3 1 (5.263%) Content Management
3 1 (5.263%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) Perl
2 4 (21.05%) Bourne shell
2 4 (21.05%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.53%) Java
4 1 (5.263%) SQL
4 1 (5.263%) Ruby
4 1 (5.263%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.263%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.263%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.263%) Squid
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Zend
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.263%) Adobe
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