The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 26 31 34
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +3
Contract jobs citing PHP 2 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.952% 0.629% 1.488%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.774% 3.226% 5.682%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
Average daily rate £275 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -22.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £17.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+16.90% -29.00%
All Programming Languages
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
53 62 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 25.24% 19.50% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 24 41
Average daily rate £350 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 7
Average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +34.48%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
PHP
South East

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Fireworks
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Zend
2 1 (33.33%) Zend Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 1 (33.33%) Zend Framework
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Fireworks
1 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Web Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Zend