The first table below looks at the demand for PHPUnit skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHPUnit 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 Development Applications category for the London 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
PHPUnit
Rank 375 387 414
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +27
Contract jobs citing PHPUnit 14 18 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.064% 0.067% 0.052%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.525% 0.694% 0.460%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 10
Average daily rate £325 £365 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.95% +11.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £281 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £325 £225
% change year-on-year
-13.84% +44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £190.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
- +783.72%
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2665 2592 3475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.10% 9.606% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1975 1760 2375
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £285 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 29
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +27.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.20 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
PHPUnit
England

PHPUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHPUnit across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

London PHPUnit Jobs Demand Trend

PHPUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

London PHPUnit Daily Rate Trend

PHPUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHPUnit across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London PHPUnit Daily Rate Histogram

PHPUnit
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHPUnit within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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
City of London +13 2 £413 +50.00%
PHPUnit
England

PHPUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing PHPUnit 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 PHPUnit.

1 31 (96.88%) PHP
2 17 (53.13%) MySQL
3 16 (50.00%) Zend
4 14 (43.75%) PHP5
4 14 (43.75%) JavaScript
4 14 (43.75%) CSS
5 12 (37.50%) jQuery
6 11 (34.38%) Git (software)
7 10 (31.25%) Zend Framework
7 10 (31.25%) Drupal
7 10 (31.25%) OO
7 10 (31.25%) Apache
7 10 (31.25%) HTML
7 10 (31.25%) Scrum
8 9 (28.13%) SOA
9 8 (25.00%) Web Design
9 8 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (25.00%) GitHub
9 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
10 7 (21.88%) Symfony
10 7 (21.88%) Publishing
10 7 (21.88%) Selenium
10 7 (21.88%) OOP
11 6 (18.75%) MVC
11 6 (18.75%) Subversion
11 6 (18.75%) HTML5
12 5 (15.63%) Waterfall
12 5 (15.63%) RESTful
12 5 (15.63%) Phing
12 5 (15.63%) REST

PHPUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing PHPUnit 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 PHPUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (43.75%) CSS
2 12 (37.50%) jQuery
3 10 (31.25%) Zend Framework
3 10 (31.25%) HTML
4 7 (21.88%) Symfony
5 6 (18.75%) HTML5
6 5 (15.63%) RESTful
6 5 (15.63%) REST
6 5 (15.63%) Ajax
6 5 (15.63%) Web Services
6 5 (15.63%) J2EE
7 4 (12.50%) Backbone.js
7 4 (12.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (12.50%) Gearman
8 3 (9.375%) CSS3
9 2 (6.250%) LAMP
10 1 (3.125%) YUI
10 1 (3.125%) CodeIgniter
10 1 (3.125%) CakePHP
10 1 (3.125%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 10 (31.25%) Drupal
1 10 (31.25%) Apache
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Solr
2 4 (12.50%) nginx
3 1 (3.125%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) Intranet
1 1 (3.125%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (53.13%) MySQL
2 3 (9.375%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.125%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.125%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.125%) Redis
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.125%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Git (software)
2 8 (25.00%) GitHub
2 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (21.88%) Selenium
4 6 (18.75%) Subversion
5 5 (15.63%) Phing
6 4 (12.50%) Hudson
6 4 (12.50%) Capistrano
7 2 (6.250%) Behat
7 2 (6.250%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.125%) RSpec
8 1 (3.125%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (3.125%) JMeter
8 1 (3.125%) Cactus
8 1 (3.125%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 7 (21.88%) Publishing
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (81.25%) Developer
2 17 (53.13%) PHP Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Drupal Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.50%) PHP Drupal Developer
5 3 (9.375%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.375%) Web Developer
6 2 (6.250%) Architect
7 1 (3.125%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Programmer
7 1 (3.125%) Administrator
7 1 (3.125%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.125%) QA Tester
7 1 (3.125%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.125%) Web Administrator
7 1 (3.125%) Senior PHP Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Web Programmer
7 1 (3.125%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.125%) Tester
7 1 (3.125%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.375%) Digital Media
2 2 (6.250%) Open Source
3 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) UNIX
2 3 (9.375%) VMS
2 3 (9.375%) Linux
3 2 (6.250%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.125%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.125%) Gentoo
4 1 (3.125%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.125%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) OO
1 10 (31.25%) Scrum
2 9 (28.13%) SOA
3 8 (25.00%) Web Design
3 8 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (21.88%) OOP
5 6 (18.75%) MVC
6 5 (15.63%) Waterfall
6 5 (15.63%) E-Commerce
7 4 (12.50%) Automated Testing
7 4 (12.50%) TDD
7 4 (12.50%) Unit Testing
8 3 (9.375%) Refactoring
9 2 (6.250%) Project Planning
9 2 (6.250%) Web Development
9 2 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
9 2 (6.250%) BDD
10 1 (3.125%) Investment Management
10 1 (3.125%) Kanban
10 1 (3.125%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (96.88%) PHP
2 14 (43.75%) PHP5
2 14 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.63%) C#
3 5 (15.63%) Shell Script
4 4 (12.50%) Ruby
5 3 (9.375%) tcsh
5 3 (9.375%) Bash shell
6 1 (3.125%) SQL
6 1 (3.125%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (3.125%) Facebook
2 1 (3.125%) Twitter
2 1 (3.125%) Yahoo!
2 1 (3.125%) Google
2 1 (3.125%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.125%) Adobe
2 1 (3.125%) Red Hat
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