Manchester PHP Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT contracts within the Manchester 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Sevenoaks Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wimbledon Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	51
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	17	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	1.378 %	1.631 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£206	-
Average daily rate	£214	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£222	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£231	£212
% change on same period last year	+8.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£17.50
Average hourly rate	-	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.64	£25.21
% change on same period last year	+5.69 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1234	1042
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.645 %	1.054 %
Daily rates quoted	230	212
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£313
Average daily rate	£333	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	182	116
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.04	£17.86
Average hourly rate	£20.90	£19.30
% change on same period last year	+8.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.77	£20.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
PHP Developer North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP Developer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP Developer across the Manchester region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	-2	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 23 (100.00 %) PHP 2 19 (82.61 %) MySQL 3 10 (43.48 %) AJAX 4 8 (34.78 %) CSS 5 7 (30.43 %) JavaScript 5 7 (30.43 %) PHP5 6 5 (21.74 %) HTML 6 5 (21.74 %) XML 6 5 (21.74 %) XHTML 7 4 (17.39 %) CRM 7 4 (17.39 %) E-Commerce 7 4 (17.39 %) OO 7 4 (17.39 %) Apache 7 4 (17.39 %) SQL Server 8 3 (13.04 %) SQL

8 3 (13.04 %) Education 8 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel 8 3 (13.04 %) LAMP 9 2 (8.696 %) Linux 9 2 (8.696 %) Joomla! 9 2 (8.696 %) PHP4 9 2 (8.696 %) Drupal 10 1 (4.348 %) Web Development 10 1 (4.348 %) Social Network 10 1 (4.348 %) Adobe Flex 10 1 (4.348 %) Zend 10 1 (4.348 %) Zend Framework 10 1 (4.348 %) UML 10 1 (4.348 %) OOP 10 1 (4.348 %) Flash

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 10 (43.48 %) AJAX 2 8 (34.78 %) CSS 3 5 (21.74 %) XML 3 5 (21.74 %) XHTML 3 5 (21.74 %) HTML 4 3 (13.04 %) LAMP 5 2 (8.696 %) Drupal 6 1 (4.348 %) .NET 6 1 (4.348 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (4.348 %) Adobe Flex 6 1 (4.348 %) Zend Framework	Application Platforms 1 4 (17.39 %) Apache 2 2 (8.696 %) Joomla! 3 1 (4.348 %) CMS
Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.348 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (4.348 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (82.61 %) MySQL 2 4 (17.39 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) Flash	General 1 3 (13.04 %) Education 2 1 (4.348 %) Retail 2 1 (4.348 %) Multimedia
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.348 %) Social Network	Operating Systems 1 2 (8.696 %) Linux 2 1 (4.348 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (17.39 %) OO 1 4 (17.39 %) CRM 1 4 (17.39 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (4.348 %) OOD 2 1 (4.348 %) Content Management 2 1 (4.348 %) Web Development 2 1 (4.348 %) UML 2 1 (4.348 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 23 (100.00 %) PHP 2 7 (30.43 %) PHP5 2 7 (30.43 %) JavaScript 3 3 (13.04 %) SQL 4 2 (8.696 %) PHP4 5 1 (4.348 %) ActionScript
Vendors 1 1 (4.348 %) Zend