North East PHP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for PHP skills within the North East 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Avon Aylesbury Barnstaple Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheadle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire 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 East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tonbridge Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wimbledon Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	59
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	28	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	12.90 %	0.667 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£200	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£200	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£277	£256
% change on same period last year	+8.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.63	-
Average hourly rate	£29.13	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.63	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.80	£28.79
% change on same period last year	-6.90 %
Programming Languages North East
Matching contract IT job ads	217	300
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.293 %	0.296 %
Daily rates quoted	32	35
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£358
Average daily rate	£336	£366
% change on same period last year	-8.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.91	£37.20
Average hourly rate	£30.30	£40.26
% change on same period last year	-24.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.68	£43.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.30	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
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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 North East 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 North East 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 North East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the North East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 North East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	+32	18	£200	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 47 (72.31 %) Linux 2 42 (64.62 %) Apache 3 40 (61.54 %) LAMP 4 36 (55.38 %) Dreamweaver 5 35 (53.85 %) COBOL 6 32 (49.23 %) MySQL 7 27 (41.54 %) Macromedia 8 21 (32.31 %) Web Development 9 8 (12.31 %) CSS 10 6 (9.231 %) HTML 10 6 (9.231 %) JavaScript 10 6 (9.231 %) Flash 10 6 (9.231 %) AJAX 11 5 (7.692 %) XHTML 11 5 (7.692 %) XSL

11 5 (7.692 %) Oracle 12 4 (6.154 %) Photoshop 12 4 (6.154 %) XML 12 4 (6.154 %) Oracle Financials 12 4 (6.154 %) Finance 12 4 (6.154 %) Police 13 3 (4.615 %) Adobe Illustrator 13 3 (4.615 %) W3C 13 3 (4.615 %) Internet 13 3 (4.615 %) Microsoft 13 3 (4.615 %) SQL Server 14 2 (3.077 %) ASP.NET 14 2 (3.077 %) SQL 14 2 (3.077 %) VB 14 2 (3.077 %) ActionScript

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (61.54 %) LAMP 2 8 (12.31 %) CSS 3 6 (9.231 %) HTML 3 6 (9.231 %) AJAX 4 5 (7.692 %) XSL 4 5 (7.692 %) XHTML 5 4 (6.154 %) XML 6 2 (3.077 %) RSS 6 2 (3.077 %) .NET 6 2 (3.077 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (1.538 %) SOAP 7 1 (1.538 %) WebServices 7 1 (1.538 %) MVC 7 1 (1.538 %) Ruby on Rails 7 1 (1.538 %) Adobe Flex 7 1 (1.538 %) CakePHP 7 1 (1.538 %) MonoRail 7 1 (1.538 %) Fusebox 7 1 (1.538 %) Mach-II	Application Platforms 1 42 (64.62 %) Apache 2 2 (3.077 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.538 %) ColdFusion 3 1 (1.538 %) CMS 3 1 (1.538 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (6.154 %) Photoshop 2 3 (4.615 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (1.538 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.538 %) Fireworks 3 1 (1.538 %) Paint Shop Pro	Business Applications 1 4 (6.154 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.615 %) Internet 2 2 (3.077 %) SSL 2 2 (3.077 %) FTP 3 1 (1.538 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (49.23 %) MySQL 2 3 (4.615 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 36 (55.38 %) Dreamweaver 2 6 (9.231 %) Flash	General 1 4 (6.154 %) Finance 1 4 (6.154 %) Police 2 2 (3.077 %) Banking 2 2 (3.077 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (1.538 %) Local Government 3 1 (1.538 %) Education 3 1 (1.538 %) Government
Job Titles 1 61 (93.85 %) Developer 2 34 (52.31 %) Web Developer 3 24 (36.92 %) PHP Developer 4 11 (16.92 %) LAMP Developer 5 5 (7.692 %) PHP Web Developer 6 3 (4.615 %) MySQL Developer 7 2 (3.077 %) VB Developer 7 2 (3.077 %) COBOL Developer 8 1 (1.538 %) Senior PHP Developer 8 1 (1.538 %) Systems Developer 8 1 (1.538 %) Access Developer 8 1 (1.538 %) Senior Developer 8 1 (1.538 %) Lead Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.615 %) W3C 2 2 (3.077 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (3.077 %) Photography 3 1 (1.538 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 47 (72.31 %) Linux 2 1 (1.538 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.538 %) UNIX 2 1 (1.538 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (32.31 %) Web Development 2 1 (1.538 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (1.538 %) Web Design 2 1 (1.538 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 35 (53.85 %) COBOL 2 6 (9.231 %) JavaScript 3 2 (3.077 %) PHP5 3 2 (3.077 %) PHP4 3 2 (3.077 %) SQL 3 2 (3.077 %) VB 3 2 (3.077 %) ActionScript 4 1 (1.538 %) VB6 4 1 (1.538 %) Ruby 4 1 (1.538 %) PL/SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.538 %) WCAG 1 1 (1.538 %) WAI
System Software 1 1 (1.538 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 27 (41.54 %) Macromedia 2 5 (7.692 %) Oracle 3 3 (4.615 %) Microsoft 4 1 (1.538 %) Adobe