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

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 27 40
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +13
Contract jobs citing PHP 44 67 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 4.814% 5.150% 2.989%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.41% 14.08% 9.688%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 53 21
Average daily rate £225 £290 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.41% +36.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £400 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
Average hourly rate £77.50 - £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.58 £17.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+29.02% -22.22%
All Programming Languages
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 328 476 320
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 35.89% 36.59% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 283 178
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.41% +9.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £439
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 27 16
Average hourly rate £36.50 £27.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.72% +22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.45 £14.26 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £146.10 £37.00 £35.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
North West

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester PHP Daily Rate Histogram

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester PHP Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Manchester 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
Oldham - 6 £170 -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Bolton - 2 £163 -
Stockport - 1 £163 -
Altrincham - 1 £250 -
PHP
North West

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 58 (55.77%) CSS
2 53 (50.96%) JavaScript
3 51 (49.04%) HTML
4 46 (44.23%) MySQL
5 28 (26.92%) SQL
6 27 (25.96%) Linux
6 27 (25.96%) Drupal
7 23 (22.12%) jQuery
7 23 (22.12%) LAMP
8 22 (21.15%) Apache
8 22 (21.15%) XML
9 18 (17.31%) HTML5
9 18 (17.31%) OOP
10 17 (16.35%) JSON
10 17 (16.35%) CSS3
11 16 (15.38%) Zend
12 15 (14.42%) Java
13 14 (13.46%) Photoshop
13 14 (13.46%) Web Services
14 13 (12.50%) Ajax
15 12 (11.54%) MVC
16 11 (10.58%) CMS
16 11 (10.58%) E-Commerce
16 11 (10.58%) WordPress
16 11 (10.58%) Mobile App
17 10 (9.615%) Android
17 10 (9.615%) Apple iOS
17 10 (9.615%) Red Hat
17 10 (9.615%) XSL
17 10 (9.615%) OO

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 58 (55.77%) CSS
2 51 (49.04%) HTML
3 23 (22.12%) LAMP
3 23 (22.12%) jQuery
4 22 (21.15%) XML
5 18 (17.31%) HTML5
6 17 (16.35%) CSS3
6 17 (16.35%) JSON
7 14 (13.46%) Web Services
8 13 (12.50%) Ajax
9 10 (9.615%) XSL
10 8 (7.692%) RESTful
11 6 (5.769%) CodeIgniter
11 6 (5.769%) XSLT
11 6 (5.769%) XHTML
11 6 (5.769%) .NET
12 5 (4.808%) CakePHP
13 4 (3.846%) Zend Framework
13 4 (3.846%) Sass
14 3 (2.885%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 27 (25.96%) Drupal
2 22 (21.15%) Apache
3 11 (10.58%) CMS
3 11 (10.58%) WordPress
4 4 (3.846%) Magento
5 3 (2.885%) Jadu
5 3 (2.885%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.962%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.962%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.962%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (13.46%) Photoshop
2 5 (4.808%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.962%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.962%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.923%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.692%) HTTP
2 2 (1.923%) DNS
2 2 (1.923%) Intranet
2 2 (1.923%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (44.23%) MySQL
2 2 (1.923%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.923%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 8 (7.692%) Dreamweaver
2 7 (6.731%) Subversion
3 4 (3.846%) Git (software)
4 3 (2.885%) QUnit
5 2 (1.923%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.923%) Ant
6 1 (0.962%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.962%) Xcode
6 1 (0.962%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.962%) Mercurial
General
1 10 (9.615%) Marketing
2 3 (2.885%) Retail
3 2 (1.923%) Games
3 2 (1.923%) Back Office
4 1 (0.962%) Automotive
4 1 (0.962%) Advertising
4 1 (0.962%) Publishing
4 1 (0.962%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 89 (85.58%) Developer
2 35 (33.65%) PHP Developer
3 21 (20.19%) Drupal Developer
4 14 (13.46%) Web Developer
5 6 (5.769%) Front-End Developer
5 6 (5.769%) Android Developer
6 5 (4.808%) Junior
6 5 (4.808%) Analyst
6 5 (4.808%) Junior Developer
7 4 (3.846%) LAMP Developer
7 4 (3.846%) PHP Web Developer
7 4 (3.846%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.885%) Software Developer
8 3 (2.885%) Java Developer
8 3 (2.885%) Web Designer
8 3 (2.885%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (2.885%) Junior PHP Developer
8 3 (2.885%) Perl Developer
8 3 (2.885%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 3 (2.885%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.58%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.885%) Social Media
2 3 (2.885%) BBC
3 2 (1.923%) Blackberry
3 2 (1.923%) Smartphone
3 2 (1.923%) Derivative
3 2 (1.923%) Semantic Web
3 2 (1.923%) Kindle
3 2 (1.923%) Linked Data
3 2 (1.923%) Open Source
4 1 (0.962%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.962%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.962%) iPad
4 1 (0.962%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.962%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.962%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.962%) Social Network
4 1 (0.962%) iPhone
4 1 (0.962%) W3C
4 1 (0.962%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.96%) Linux
2 10 (9.615%) Android
2 10 (9.615%) Apple iOS
3 6 (5.769%) Windows
4 5 (4.808%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.885%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.923%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (1.923%) UNIX
6 2 (1.923%) CentOS
7 1 (0.962%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (17.31%) OOP
2 12 (11.54%) MVC
3 11 (10.58%) E-Commerce
4 10 (9.615%) OO
4 10 (9.615%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (9.615%) Content Management
4 10 (9.615%) Web Development
5 9 (8.654%) TDD
6 8 (7.692%) BDD
7 7 (6.731%) Scrum
8 5 (4.808%) Web Design
8 5 (4.808%) SEO
9 4 (3.846%) Migration
9 4 (3.846%) CRM
9 4 (3.846%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (2.885%) Change Control
10 3 (2.885%) Pair Programming
10 3 (2.885%) RDF
10 3 (2.885%) Kanban
11 2 (1.923%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 53 (50.96%) JavaScript
2 28 (26.92%) SQL
3 15 (14.42%) Java
4 9 (8.654%) PHP5
5 7 (6.731%) Objective-C
6 5 (4.808%) Ruby
7 3 (2.885%) C#
7 3 (2.885%) Perl
8 2 (1.923%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.923%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.923%) Python
9 1 (0.962%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.962%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 4 (3.846%) Sun Certification
2 3 (2.885%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.962%) A+ Certification
3 1 (0.962%) MCTS
3 1 (0.962%) MCITP
3 1 (0.962%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.923%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.962%) WAI
System Software
1 3 (2.885%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (0.962%) Plesk
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Zend
2 10 (9.615%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.769%) Apple
4 5 (4.808%) Oracle
4 5 (4.808%) Adobe
5 3 (2.885%) Google
5 3 (2.885%) Twitter
6 2 (1.923%) Orchard
6 2 (1.923%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.962%) Sage
7 1 (0.962%) Facebook
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Rate: £200 - £250 per day
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Manchester, North West
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Manchester, North West
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Rate: £250 - £300 per day
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Contract Developer
Manchester, North West
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Rate: £150 - £170 per day
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