The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 28 29 22
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -7
Contract jobs citing PHP 7 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 2.303% 0.897% 3.292%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.333% 2.564% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
Average daily rate £220 £200 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £200 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £200 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £8.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £19.00 £21.80
% change year-on-year
+19.26% -12.84%
All Programming Languages
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
75 78 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 24.67% 34.98% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 55 35
Average daily rate £290 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.86% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £378 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
Average hourly rate £13.00 £8.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.94% -67.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
Nottinghamshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (60.00%) MySQL
2 5 (50.00%) jQuery
2 5 (50.00%) HTML5
3 4 (40.00%) CSS3
3 4 (40.00%) Ajax
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) CSS
3 4 (40.00%) Web Services
3 4 (40.00%) OO
3 4 (40.00%) CMS
4 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 3 (30.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) JSON
4 3 (30.00%) Web Application Development
4 3 (30.00%) Sass
4 3 (30.00%) OOP
5 2 (20.00%) Symfony
5 2 (20.00%) Magento
5 2 (20.00%) WordPress
5 2 (20.00%) PHP5
5 2 (20.00%) Back Office
5 2 (20.00%) LAMP
6 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (10.00%) Web Design
6 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (10.00%) TDD
6 1 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (10.00%) SEO
6 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (50.00%) jQuery
1 5 (50.00%) HTML5
2 4 (40.00%) CSS3
2 4 (40.00%) Ajax
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
3 3 (30.00%) JSON
3 3 (30.00%) Sass
4 2 (20.00%) Symfony
4 2 (20.00%) LAMP
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (10.00%) XHTML
5 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (10.00%) Modernizr
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) CMS
2 2 (20.00%) Magento
2 2 (20.00%) WordPress
3 1 (10.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (20.00%) Back Office
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) PHP Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) C# Application Developer
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Applications Developer
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Programmer
5 1 (10.00%) PHP Programmer
5 1 (10.00%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) OO
2 3 (30.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (30.00%) OOP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Design
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) SEO
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Development
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) PHP5
4 1 (10.00%) PHP4
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Zend
1 1 (10.00%) Facebook
1 1 (10.00%) Twitter