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

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Merseyside 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
Rank 24 26 29
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Contract jobs citing PHP 10 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 4.651% 3.745% 1.205%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.16% 9.434% 4.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
Average daily rate £194 £260 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.48% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £169 £217 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £315 £336
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £17.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+16.90% -29.00%
All Programming Languages
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 76 106 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 35.35% 39.70% 26.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 51 31
Average daily rate £350 £325 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +15.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £260 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 1
Average hourly rate £16.72 £17.51 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.51% +16.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
PHP
North West

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside PHP Hourly Rate Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 22 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
Liverpool +9 9 £163 -37.50%
Wirral -4 1 - -
PHP
North West

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 17 (70.83%) MySQL
1 17 (70.83%) CSS
2 16 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 16 (66.67%) Zend
2 16 (66.67%) CSS3
3 15 (62.50%) HTML5
4 12 (50.00%) OO
4 12 (50.00%) MVC
5 11 (45.83%) CodeIgniter
5 11 (45.83%) jQuery
6 10 (41.67%) Mobile App
7 6 (25.00%) SEO
7 6 (25.00%) RDBMS
7 6 (25.00%) XML
7 6 (25.00%) Facebook
7 6 (25.00%) Magento
7 6 (25.00%) Git (software)
8 5 (20.83%) PHP5
8 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (20.83%) WordPress
8 5 (20.83%) Google Maps API
8 5 (20.83%) Umbraco
8 5 (20.83%) Twitter
8 5 (20.83%) Razor View Engine
8 5 (20.83%) XSD
8 5 (20.83%) XSLT
8 5 (20.83%) Windows
8 5 (20.83%) Linux
8 5 (20.83%) .NET
8 5 (20.83%) Visual Studio

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 17 (70.83%) CSS
2 16 (66.67%) CSS3
3 15 (62.50%) HTML5
4 11 (45.83%) CodeIgniter
4 11 (45.83%) jQuery
5 6 (25.00%) XML
6 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (20.83%) Google Maps API
6 5 (20.83%) Razor View Engine
6 5 (20.83%) XSD
6 5 (20.83%) XSLT
6 5 (20.83%) .NET
6 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
6 5 (20.83%) CakePHP
6 5 (20.83%) Zend Framework
6 5 (20.83%) Ajax
7 4 (16.67%) JSON
7 4 (16.67%) HTML
8 2 (8.333%) Backbone.js
8 2 (8.333%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) Magento
2 5 (20.83%) WordPress
2 5 (20.83%) Umbraco
2 5 (20.83%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.167%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (70.83%) MySQL
2 6 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
3 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.167%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 5 (20.83%) Visual Studio
2 5 (20.83%) NetBeans
3 1 (4.167%) Maven
General
1 5 (20.83%) Retail
2 2 (8.333%) Games
3 1 (4.167%) Marketing
3 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) PHP Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Lead PHP Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Lead Developer
4 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (20.83%) .NET Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Leader
5 4 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Web Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Front-End Web Developer
7 2 (8.333%) Software Developer
7 2 (8.333%) Programmer
8 1 (4.167%) Java Analyst Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Analyst Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Java Developer
8 1 (4.167%) Java Analyst Programmer
8 1 (4.167%) Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (16.67%) Social Media
3 2 (8.333%) Mobile Games
4 1 (4.167%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) OO
1 12 (50.00%) MVC
2 6 (25.00%) SEO
3 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
3 5 (20.83%) OOD
3 5 (20.83%) Web Development
3 5 (20.83%) Business Development
4 3 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (12.50%) OOP
5 1 (4.167%) Game Development
5 1 (4.167%) Web Application Development
5 1 (4.167%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (4.167%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.83%) PHP5
2 5 (20.83%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) XPath
3 2 (8.333%) Java
4 1 (4.167%) Perl
4 1 (4.167%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Plesk
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Zend
2 6 (25.00%) Facebook
3 5 (20.83%) Twitter
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle
3 5 (20.83%) Google
4 1 (4.167%) Adobe
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