The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford 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 Salford 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 - 5 -
Contract jobs citing PHP 0 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - 20.00% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 57.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 0
Average daily rate - £288 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -26.31%
All Programming Languages
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
10 14 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 41.67% 35.00% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 0
Average daily rate £323 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
Manchester

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) RDF
4 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) Flash
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) RDF
3 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby