The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Norfolk 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 15 27 35
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +8
Contract jobs citing PHP 16 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 8.000% 3.019% 0.362%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.78% 7.767% 1.351%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 0
Average daily rate £300 £240 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £19.00 £21.80
% change year-on-year
+19.26% -12.84%
All Programming Languages
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
77 103 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 38.50% 38.87% 26.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 63 20
Average daily rate £300 £300 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £440 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 2
Average hourly rate £21.75 £19.63 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.82% -24.51%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
East of England

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Norwich +14 16 £300 +25.00% 6
Thetford - - - -
PHP
East of England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 41 (93.18%) JavaScript
1 41 (93.18%) Drupal
2 40 (90.91%) CSS
3 33 (75.00%) jQuery
4 22 (50.00%) CSS3
5 21 (47.73%) HTML5
5 21 (47.73%) HTML
6 16 (36.36%) Photoshop
6 16 (36.36%) XHTML
6 16 (36.36%) Publishing
7 14 (31.82%) Unit Testing
8 13 (29.55%) Code Coverage
9 12 (27.27%) TDD
10 9 (20.45%) Content Management
10 9 (20.45%) Mercator
11 5 (11.36%) SharePoint
12 4 (9.091%) Web Development
13 3 (6.818%) Semantic Web
13 3 (6.818%) Waterfall
13 3 (6.818%) SPARQL
13 3 (6.818%) RDF
13 3 (6.818%) Windows
14 2 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (4.545%) Active Directory
14 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (4.545%) MySQL
14 2 (4.545%) SQL Server
14 2 (4.545%) SQL
14 2 (4.545%) T-SQL
14 2 (4.545%) XML

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 40 (90.91%) CSS
2 33 (75.00%) jQuery
3 22 (50.00%) CSS3
4 21 (47.73%) HTML5
4 21 (47.73%) HTML
5 16 (36.36%) XHTML
6 2 (4.545%) XML
7 1 (2.273%) Django
7 1 (2.273%) REST
7 1 (2.273%) .NET
7 1 (2.273%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.273%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 41 (93.18%) Drupal
2 5 (11.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.273%) nginx
3 1 (2.273%) CMS
3 1 (2.273%) Apache
Applications
1 16 (36.36%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (4.545%) MySQL
1 2 (4.545%) SQL Server
1 2 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Selenium
1 1 (2.273%) Git (software)
1 1 (2.273%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (36.36%) Publishing
2 1 (2.273%) Finance
Job Titles
1 41 (93.18%) Developer
2 21 (47.73%) Drupal Developer
3 18 (40.91%) PHP Developer
4 17 (38.64%) Front-End Developer
5 13 (29.55%) PHP Drupal Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.545%) Administrator
7 2 (4.545%) Technical Administrator
8 1 (2.273%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (2.273%) Business Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.273%) Django Developer
8 1 (2.273%) Python/Django Developer
8 1 (2.273%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.273%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.818%) Semantic Web
2 1 (2.273%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.273%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.818%) Windows
2 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.273%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Unit Testing
2 13 (29.55%) Code Coverage
3 12 (27.27%) TDD
4 9 (20.45%) Content Management
5 4 (9.091%) Web Development
6 3 (6.818%) Waterfall
6 3 (6.818%) RDF
7 1 (2.273%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.273%) Information Security
7 1 (2.273%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 41 (93.18%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.818%) SPARQL
3 2 (4.545%) SQL
3 2 (4.545%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.273%) VB
4 1 (2.273%) Java
4 1 (2.273%) Python
System Software
1 2 (4.545%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Mercator