PHP Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 73 94 107
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +13
Contract jobs citing PHP 49 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.982% 0.568% 0.329%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.623% 2.315% 1.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 9 2
Average daily rate £300 £210 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £197 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £360 £291
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 1060 648 808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 42.88% 24.52% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 299 407
Average daily rate £356 £313 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.00% -9.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 20
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.00 £14.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £32.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
UK

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +15 16 £281 +29.31%
Stirling - 12 £475 -
Glasgow -13 11 £260 +4.00%
Dundee - 6 £238 -
Aberdeen +1 1 £250 +25.00%
West Lothian - 1 £375 -
PHP
UK

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 43 (57.33%) CSS
2 36 (48.00%) JavaScript
2 36 (48.00%) MySQL
3 28 (37.33%) HTML
4 27 (36.00%) Linux
5 21 (28.00%) jQuery
6 20 (26.67%) Drupal
7 18 (24.00%) Java
8 17 (22.67%) SQL
8 17 (22.67%) .NET
9 15 (20.00%) OO
9 15 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
9 15 (20.00%) HTML5
10 12 (16.00%) CSS3
10 12 (16.00%) OOP
11 11 (14.67%) Apache
11 11 (14.67%) Web Services
11 11 (14.67%) C#
12 10 (13.33%) Scrum
12 10 (13.33%) TDD
12 10 (13.33%) Ruby
12 10 (13.33%) Web Application Development
13 9 (12.00%) Ruby on Rails
13 9 (12.00%) Python
14 8 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
15 7 (9.333%) Ext JS
15 7 (9.333%) Web Development
15 7 (9.333%) Degree
15 7 (9.333%) Flash
15 7 (9.333%) XML

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 43 (57.33%) CSS
2 28 (37.33%) HTML
3 21 (28.00%) jQuery
4 17 (22.67%) .NET
5 15 (20.00%) HTML5
6 12 (16.00%) CSS3
7 11 (14.67%) Web Services
8 9 (12.00%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (9.333%) Ext JS
9 7 (9.333%) Flash
9 7 (9.333%) XML
10 6 (8.000%) ASP.NET
10 6 (8.000%) GWT
11 5 (6.667%) ASP
12 3 (4.000%) CakePHP
12 3 (4.000%) JSON
12 3 (4.000%) LAMP
12 3 (4.000%) XHTML
13 2 (2.667%) REST
13 2 (2.667%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 20 (26.67%) Drupal
2 11 (14.67%) Apache
3 7 (9.333%) CMS
4 3 (4.000%) nginx
5 2 (2.667%) Jadu
5 2 (2.667%) Joomla!
6 1 (1.333%) ESB
Business Applications
1 4 (5.333%) WebTrends
1 4 (5.333%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.000%) TACACS
1 3 (4.000%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (48.00%) MySQL
2 6 (8.000%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (5.333%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (4.000%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.667%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.667%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.333%) FileMaker
6 1 (1.333%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (5.333%) Subversion
2 2 (2.667%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.333%) Selenium
3 1 (1.333%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (8.000%) Marketing
2 5 (6.667%) Interactive Media
2 5 (6.667%) Games
3 2 (2.667%) Advertising
3 2 (2.667%) Music
4 1 (1.333%) Banking
4 1 (1.333%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (1.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (82.67%) Developer
2 20 (26.67%) PHP Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Web Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Software Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Drupal Developer
4 9 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.000%) UI Developer
5 6 (8.000%) Senior UI Developer
5 6 (8.000%) UI Programmer
6 5 (6.667%) Interactive Developer
6 5 (6.667%) Senior Interactive Developer
6 5 (6.667%) Senior Software Developer
7 4 (5.333%) Consultant
7 4 (5.333%) PHP Drupal Developer
8 3 (4.000%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 3 (4.000%) Front-End Developer
8 3 (4.000%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.000%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.000%) Programmer
8 3 (4.000%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.667%) Interactive TV
1 5 (6.667%) IPTV
2 3 (4.000%) Social Media
3 2 (2.667%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.667%) W3C
3 2 (2.667%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.667%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.333%) Telematics
4 1 (1.333%) Streaming Media
4 1 (1.333%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.333%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 27 (36.00%) Linux
2 6 (8.000%) Windows
3 2 (2.667%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.667%) UNIX
3 2 (2.667%) Debian
3 2 (2.667%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.667%) Android
4 1 (1.333%) Solaris
4 1 (1.333%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.00%) OO
1 15 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (16.00%) OOP
3 10 (13.33%) Scrum
3 10 (13.33%) TDD
3 10 (13.33%) Web Application Development
4 8 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (9.333%) Web Development
6 5 (6.667%) Analytics
6 5 (6.667%) Refactoring
6 5 (6.667%) Migration
6 5 (6.667%) MVC
7 4 (5.333%) Service Management
8 3 (4.000%) Release Management
8 3 (4.000%) Project Management
8 3 (4.000%) E-Commerce
8 3 (4.000%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (4.000%) Performance Improvement
9 2 (2.667%) Information Architecture
9 2 (2.667%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (24.00%) Java
3 17 (22.67%) SQL
4 11 (14.67%) C#
5 10 (13.33%) Ruby
6 9 (12.00%) Python
7 7 (9.333%) ActionScript
8 6 (8.000%) C++
8 6 (8.000%) PHP5
9 3 (4.000%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.667%) PHP4
11 1 (1.333%) VB6
11 1 (1.333%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.333%) VB
11 1 (1.333%) Perl
11 1 (1.333%) ActionScript 3.0
11 1 (1.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (9.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.667%) WAI
Systems Management
1 2 (2.667%) Puppet
1 2 (2.667%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (8.000%) Google
2 5 (6.667%) Oracle
3 4 (5.333%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.000%) Zend
5 2 (2.667%) Twitter
6 1 (1.333%) Alterian
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