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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the North East region.

 PHP
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank233653
Rank change year-on-year
Up+13Up+17
Matching contract IT job ads896
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East2.589 %1.867 %0.746 %
As % of the Programming Languages category8.989 %5.696 %2.479 %
Daily rates quoted800
Average daily rate£300--
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£275£270
% change year-on-year
-9.090 %+1.850 %
Hourly rates quoted033
Average hourly rate-£15.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--50.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£22.50£27.50
% change year-on-year
+8.880 %-18.18 %
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
89158242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East28.80 %32.78 %30.10 %
Daily rates quoted264851
Average daily rate£300£250£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00 %-28.57 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£185£160£243
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£350£400£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted202337
Average hourly rate£26.50£20.00£34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.50 %-41.17 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.38£10.00£25.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.20£30.00£47.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %-10.00 %
PHP EnglandPHP
England

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.

PHP
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.

North East PHP Demand Trend

PHP
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.

North East PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
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.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
DurhamUp+87£300-
Tyne and WearUp+102£305-
PHP EnglandPHP
England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, 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.

114 (77.78 %)JavaScript
212 (66.67 %)MySQL
39 (50.00 %)OO
39 (50.00 %)CSS
47 (38.89 %)Zend
47 (38.89 %)MooTools
47 (38.89 %)RESTful
56 (33.33 %)XHTML
65 (27.78 %)XML
65 (27.78 %)HTML
74 (22.22 %)Apache
74 (22.22 %)XSLT
74 (22.22 %)Linux
83 (16.67 %)Telecoms
83 (16.67 %)OOP
83 (16.67 %)Java
83 (16.67 %)SQL
92 (11.11 %)T-SQL
92 (11.11 %)XSL
92 (11.11 %)SQL Server
92 (11.11 %)ASP
92 (11.11 %)UNIX
92 (11.11 %)Windows
92 (11.11 %)Web Development
92 (11.11 %)Drupal
92 (11.11 %).NET
92 (11.11 %)CMS
92 (11.11 %)LAMP
92 (11.11 %)Content Management
101 (5.556 %)Spring

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, 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.

North East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
19 (50.00 %)CSS
27 (38.89 %)MooTools
27 (38.89 %)RESTful
36 (33.33 %)XHTML
45 (27.78 %)HTML
45 (27.78 %)XML
54 (22.22 %)XSLT
62 (11.11 %)XSL
62 (11.11 %).NET
62 (11.11 %)ASP
62 (11.11 %)LAMP
71 (5.556 %)Cocoon
71 (5.556 %)Spring
71 (5.556 %).NET Framework
71 (5.556 %)CodeIgniter
71 (5.556 %)jQuery
71 (5.556 %)J2SE
71 (5.556 %)JSP
71 (5.556 %)Flash
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (22.22 %)Apache
22 (11.11 %)CMS
22 (11.11 %)Drupal
31 (5.556 %)Tomcat
31 (5.556 %)Oracle HTTP Server
31 (5.556 %)ColdFusion
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (5.556 %)HTTP
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
112 (66.67 %)MySQL
22 (11.11 %)SQL Server
North East IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (16.67 %)Telecoms
21 (5.556 %)Marketing
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
116 (88.89 %)Developer
211 (61.11 %)Web Developer
34 (22.22 %)Senior Developer
34 (22.22 %)PHP Developer
43 (16.67 %)Senior Web Developer
52 (11.11 %)Drupal Developer
52 (11.11 %)PHP Drupal Developer
61 (5.556 %)Junior Developer
61 (5.556 %)ColdFusion Developer
61 (5.556 %)Junior Web Developer
61 (5.556 %)Senior PHP Developer
61 (5.556 %)Analyst Programmer
61 (5.556 %)Programmer
61 (5.556 %)Analyst
61 (5.556 %)Trainer
61 (5.556 %)Junior
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (5.556 %)Streaming Video
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14 (22.22 %)Linux
22 (11.11 %)UNIX
22 (11.11 %)Windows
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
19 (50.00 %)OO
23 (16.67 %)OOP
32 (11.11 %)Content Management
32 (11.11 %)Web Development
41 (5.556 %)DSDM
41 (5.556 %)SEO
41 (5.556 %)Scrum
41 (5.556 %)Agile Software Development
41 (5.556 %)TDD
41 (5.556 %)Pair Programming
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
114 (77.78 %)JavaScript
23 (16.67 %)Java
23 (16.67 %)SQL
32 (11.11 %)T-SQL
41 (5.556 %)VBScript
41 (5.556 %)VB
41 (5.556 %)PHP5
41 (5.556 %)Perl
41 (5.556 %)PL/SQL
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
17 (38.89 %)Zend
21 (5.556 %)Oracle