The first table below looks at the demand for the PHP Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the Liverpool 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP Programmer
Rank 22 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Programmer 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.667% 2.128% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.680% 2.222% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £188 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £190 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.89% -45.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.00 -
All Job Titles
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
147 180 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 98.00% 95.74% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 98 86
Average daily rate £325 £300 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £215 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £475 £472
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 13
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £16.61
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% -0.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.87 £9.64 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £100.00 £29.50 £22.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
PHP Programmer
Merseyside

PHP Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP Programmer across the Liverpool region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Liverpool PHP Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

PHP Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP Programmer across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool PHP Programmer Daily Rate Trend

PHP Programmer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region that cited PHP Programmer in their job title 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 with PHP Programmer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Plesk
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Facebook

PHP Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region that cited PHP Programmer in their job title 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 with PHP Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Facebook