Oxford PHP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PHP skills within the Oxford 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Avon Barnstaple Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire City of London Clapham Cleckheaton County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Runcorn Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wimbledon Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	35
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	12	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	8.571 %	1.613 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£265
% change on same period last year	+5.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.10	£28.16
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
Programming Languages Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	140	124
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.187 %	0.125 %
Daily rates quoted	47	24
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£297
Average daily rate	£351	£322
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.50	£31.26
Average hourly rate	£22.40	£32.93
% change on same period last year	-31.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.29	£34.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
PHP Oxfordshire

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 Oxford 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 Oxford 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 Oxford region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 19 (79.17 %) MySQL 2 8 (33.33 %) HTML 2 8 (33.33 %) PHP5 3 5 (20.83 %) CSS 3 5 (20.83 %) XML 3 5 (20.83 %) OO 4 4 (16.67 %) C# 4 4 (16.67 %) .NET 4 4 (16.67 %) Zend 5 3 (12.50 %) SugarCRM 5 3 (12.50 %) Web Development 5 3 (12.50 %) XPath 5 3 (12.50 %) AJAX 5 3 (12.50 %) Symfony 5 3 (12.50 %) PHP4

5 3 (12.50 %) jQuery 5 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 5 3 (12.50 %) Apache 5 3 (12.50 %) CRM 5 3 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (12.50 %) Eclipse 5 3 (12.50 %) XQuery 5 3 (12.50 %) Web Design 5 3 (12.50 %) Construction 5 3 (12.50 %) PostgreSQL 6 2 (8.333 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 2 (8.333 %) XHTML 6 2 (8.333 %) ActionScript 6 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 6 2 (8.333 %) Photoshop

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 8 (33.33 %) HTML 2 5 (20.83 %) CSS 2 5 (20.83 %) XML 3 4 (16.67 %) .NET 4 3 (12.50 %) AJAX 4 3 (12.50 %) Symfony 4 3 (12.50 %) jQuery 4 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (8.333 %) XHTML 6 1 (4.167 %) LAMP 6 1 (4.167 %) ASP 6 1 (4.167 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 3 (12.50 %) Apache 1 3 (12.50 %) SugarCRM
Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) Photoshop 1 2 (8.333 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (4.167 %) Fireworks	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (79.17 %) MySQL 2 3 (12.50 %) PostgreSQL 3 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) Eclipse 2 1 (4.167 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (4.167 %) Flash	General 1 3 (12.50 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 17 (70.83 %) Developer 2 8 (33.33 %) PHP Developer 3 5 (20.83 %) Web Developer 4 4 (16.67 %) Web Editor 4 4 (16.67 %) Web Content Editor 4 4 (16.67 %) Content Editor 5 1 (4.167 %) MySQL Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Applications Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Flash Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) OO 2 3 (12.50 %) CRM 2 3 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (12.50 %) Web Design 2 3 (12.50 %) Web Development 3 2 (8.333 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (4.167 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 8 (33.33 %) PHP5 2 4 (16.67 %) C# 3 3 (12.50 %) PHP4 3 3 (12.50 %) XQuery 3 3 (12.50 %) XPath 4 2 (8.333 %) ActionScript 5 1 (4.167 %) JavaScript 5 1 (4.167 %) SQL 5 1 (4.167 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (4.167 %) VB 5 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) WAI
Vendors 1 4 (16.67 %) Zend