The first table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP5 over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Oxford 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 5
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PHP5 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.855% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.175% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £285 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £298 £250
% change year-on-year
-3.36% +19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year
- +160.00%
All Programming Languages
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
63 126 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 26.92% 37.95% 43.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 80 43
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £220 £182
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 3
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +37.93%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP5
Oxfordshire

PHP5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP5 across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Oxford PHP5 Jobs Demand Trend

PHP5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP5 across the Oxford region.

Oxford PHP5 Daily Rate Trend

PHP5
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP5 across the Oxford region.

Oxford PHP5 Hourly Rate Trend

PHP5
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing PHP5 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 PHP5.

1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) LAMP
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Drupal
2 2 (66.67%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing PHP5 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 PHP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP Web Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Drupal Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL