Middlesex PHP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PHP skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Avon Barnstaple Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Runcorn Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tring Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wimbledon Wirral Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	53
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.813 %	0.775 %
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	£279	£242
% change on same period last year	+15.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.74	£29.99
% change on same period last year	-10.85 %
Programming Languages Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	123	129
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.162 %	0.128 %
Daily rates quoted	32	49
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£267
Average daily rate	£333	£278
% change on same period last year	+19.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.08	£26.57
Average hourly rate	£31.92	£28.45
% change on same period last year	+12.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.77	£30.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
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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 across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages 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 across the Middlesex region.

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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 across the Middlesex region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) HTML 1 3 (37.50 %) MySQL 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL 2 2 (25.00 %) OO 2 2 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (25.00 %) C 2 2 (25.00 %) C++ 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (12.50 %) PDA 3 1 (12.50 %) Marketing 3 1 (12.50 %) PHP5 3 1 (12.50 %) Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Subversion

3 1 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (12.50 %) Linux 3 1 (12.50 %) UML 3 1 (12.50 %) OOP 3 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (12.50 %) WSDL 3 1 (12.50 %) TOAD 3 1 (12.50 %) RDBMS 3 1 (12.50 %) IBM 3 1 (12.50 %) Assembly Language 3 1 (12.50 %) Lotus 3 1 (12.50 %) Synon 3 1 (12.50 %) COOL2E 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows CE 3 1 (12.50 %) MVS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (37.50 %) HTML 2 1 (12.50 %) WSDL 2 1 (12.50 %) Middleware 2 1 (12.50 %) Swing 2 1 (12.50 %) EDI 2 1 (12.50 %) .NET 2 1 (12.50 %) J2EE 2 1 (12.50 %) Servlets 2 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 2 1 (12.50 %) XML 2 1 (12.50 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes
Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (12.50 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) MySQL 2 1 (12.50 %) TOAD 2 1 (12.50 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Subversion 1 1 (12.50 %) Synon 1 1 (12.50 %) COOL2E 1 1 (12.50 %) Rational Rose 1 1 (12.50 %) Eclipse 1 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Marketing 1 1 (12.50 %) Banking 1 1 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 1 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) PHP Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) MySQL Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) PHP Web Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Synon Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Consultant 4 1 (12.50 %) HTML Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Development Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Web Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 4 1 (12.50 %) Applications Support 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile 2 1 (12.50 %) Linux 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows CE 2 1 (12.50 %) MVS 2 1 (12.50 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) OO 2 1 (12.50 %) UML 2 1 (12.50 %) OOP 2 1 (12.50 %) CRM 2 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL 1 2 (25.00 %) C 1 2 (25.00 %) C++ 2 1 (12.50 %) PHP5 2 1 (12.50 %) Assembly Language 2 1 (12.50 %) VC++ 2 1 (12.50 %) VB 2 1 (12.50 %) VB.NET 2 1 (12.50 %) Java 2 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 2 1 (12.50 %) RPG	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) IBM 2 1 (12.50 %) Lotus 2 1 (12.50 %) Cognos