PHP Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 20 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 Reading 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 57 76 72
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -4
Contract jobs citing PHP 14 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.657% 0.375% 0.774%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.622% 1.569% 2.192%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £350 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £350 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -26.31%
All Programming Languages
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 249 255 365
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 29.47% 23.92% 35.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 106 162
Average daily rate £350 £371 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.72% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 15
Average hourly rate £17.00 £44.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.36% +83.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.20 £14.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £44.00 £38.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
Berkshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Reading PHP Daily Rate Histogram

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 14 (63.64%) HTML
1 14 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 13 (59.09%) MySQL
3 9 (40.91%) CSS
3 9 (40.91%) Java
4 8 (36.36%) CMS
5 7 (31.82%) jQuery
5 7 (31.82%) HTML5
6 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
6 6 (27.27%) Perl
6 6 (27.27%) UNIX
6 6 (27.27%) XHTML
7 5 (22.73%) Apache
7 5 (22.73%) Windows
7 5 (22.73%) Oracle
7 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
7 5 (22.73%) Internet
8 4 (18.18%) WebLogic Portal
8 4 (18.18%) WebLogic
8 4 (18.18%) Ericsson
8 4 (18.18%) 3G
8 4 (18.18%) .NET
8 4 (18.18%) HTTP
8 4 (18.18%) Digital Media
9 3 (13.64%) Mobile App
9 3 (13.64%) CSS3
9 3 (13.64%) Drupal
9 3 (13.64%) SQL
10 2 (9.091%) C++
10 2 (9.091%) Photoshop

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 14 (63.64%) HTML
2 9 (40.91%) CSS
3 7 (31.82%) jQuery
3 7 (31.82%) HTML5
4 6 (27.27%) XHTML
5 4 (18.18%) .NET
6 3 (13.64%) CSS3
7 2 (9.091%) Ajax
7 2 (9.091%) JSP
7 2 (9.091%) XML
8 1 (4.545%) XSL
8 1 (4.545%) XSLT
8 1 (4.545%) Flash
8 1 (4.545%) J2EE
8 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
8 1 (4.545%) JSON
8 1 (4.545%) Velocity
8 1 (4.545%) Zend Framework
8 1 (4.545%) FreeMarker
8 1 (4.545%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) CMS
2 5 (22.73%) Apache
3 4 (18.18%) WebLogic Portal
3 4 (18.18%) WebLogic
4 3 (13.64%) Drupal
5 2 (9.091%) WordPress
6 1 (4.545%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (4.545%) Umbraco
6 1 (4.545%) Joomla!
6 1 (4.545%) ArcGIS
6 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.545%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) TCP/IP
1 5 (22.73%) Internet
2 4 (18.18%) 3G
2 4 (18.18%) HTTP
3 1 (4.545%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) MySQL
2 1 (4.545%) GIS
2 1 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Subversion
General
1 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.091%) Marketing
3 1 (4.545%) Automotive
3 1 (4.545%) Games
3 1 (4.545%) Retail
3 1 (4.545%) Music
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) PHP Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Web Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Programmer
4 3 (13.64%) Web Programmer
4 3 (13.64%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 2 (9.091%) PHP Web Developer
5 2 (9.091%) PHP Programmer
5 2 (9.091%) CMS Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Database Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Flash Developer
6 1 (4.545%) GIS Developer
6 1 (4.545%) HTML Developer
6 1 (4.545%) MySQL Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (4.545%) PHP Drupal Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Designer
6 1 (4.545%) CSS Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Digital Media
2 3 (13.64%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.091%) Open Source
3 2 (9.091%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.545%) E-Learning
4 1 (4.545%) STB
4 1 (4.545%) IPTV
4 1 (4.545%) Streaming Music
4 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.545%) Flash Lite
4 1 (4.545%) Online Games
4 1 (4.545%) N-Tier
4 1 (4.545%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) UNIX
2 5 (22.73%) Windows
3 1 (4.545%) AIX
3 1 (4.545%) HPUX
3 1 (4.545%) Solaris
3 1 (4.545%) Linux
3 1 (4.545%) FreeBSD
3 1 (4.545%) OpenBSD
3 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (9.091%) UML
1 2 (9.091%) OOP
1 2 (9.091%) Web Development
2 1 (4.545%) Operations Management
2 1 (4.545%) Change Control
2 1 (4.545%) Test Strategy
2 1 (4.545%) OO
2 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
2 1 (4.545%) SOA
2 1 (4.545%) Mobile Commerce
2 1 (4.545%) Migration
2 1 (4.545%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) JavaScript
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) Perl
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.091%) C++
6 1 (4.545%) C#
6 1 (4.545%) VB
6 1 (4.545%) ActionScript
6 1 (4.545%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.545%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) RHCE
1 1 (4.545%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (4.545%) SCSA
1 1 (4.545%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (4.545%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Xen
1 1 (4.545%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.545%) Postfix
1 1 (4.545%) Sendmail
1 1 (4.545%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (4.545%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) OpenView
1 1 (4.545%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Ericsson
3 1 (4.545%) Veritas
3 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.545%) Mapinfo
3 1 (4.545%) Remedy
3 1 (4.545%) ESRI
3 1 (4.545%) ATG
3 1 (4.545%) VMware
3 1 (4.545%) Zend
3 1 (4.545%) Egenera
3 1 (4.545%) Sitecore
3 1 (4.545%) hybris
3 1 (4.545%) Venda
3 1 (4.545%) JBoss
3 1 (4.545%) IBM
3 1 (4.545%) Adobe
3 1 (4.545%) Sun
3 1 (4.545%) HP
3 1 (4.545%) Intel
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