Luton PHP Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT contracts within the Luton region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cirencester City of London County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Enfield England Epsom Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Poole Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wimbledon Wirral Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.247 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£237	£208
% change on same period last year	+14.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.58	£27.24
% change on same period last year	-2.43 %
Job Titles Luton
Matching contract IT job ads	89	175
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.117 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	42	56
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£326
Average daily rate	£334	£350
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.32	£21.12
Average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.91
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.97	£26.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PHP Developer across the Luton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP Developer across the Luton region.

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton region that cited PHP Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 6 (100.00 %) PHP 1 6 (100.00 %) PHP5 2 5 (83.33 %) OOP 3 4 (66.67 %) CSS 4 3 (50.00 %) JavaScript 4 3 (50.00 %) PHP4 4 3 (50.00 %) MySQL 5 2 (33.33 %) HTML 5 2 (33.33 %) SQL 5 2 (33.33 %) XHTML 5 2 (33.33 %) LAMP 5 2 (33.33 %) Zend 5 2 (33.33 %) Zend Framework 6 1 (16.67 %) Interactive Media 6 1 (16.67 %) W3C

6 1 (16.67 %) SEO 6 1 (16.67 %) Linux 6 1 (16.67 %) OO 6 1 (16.67 %) Apache

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton region that cited PHP Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (66.67 %) CSS 2 2 (33.33 %) HTML 2 2 (33.33 %) XHTML 2 2 (33.33 %) LAMP 2 2 (33.33 %) Zend Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (50.00 %) MySQL	General 1 1 (16.67 %) Interactive Media
Miscellaneous 1 1 (16.67 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 1 (16.67 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (83.33 %) OOP 2 1 (16.67 %) SEO 2 1 (16.67 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 6 (100.00 %) PHP 1 6 (100.00 %) PHP5 2 3 (50.00 %) JavaScript 2 3 (50.00 %) PHP4 3 2 (33.33 %) SQL
Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Zend