Scotland PHP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PHP skills within the Scotland 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Avon Barnstaple Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Runcorn Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough 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 Tring Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wimbledon Wirral Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	102
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	29	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	4.056 %	2.391 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£250
Average daily rate	£340	£275
% change on same period last year	+23.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£278	£242
% change on same period last year	+15.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.80	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£27.90	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+59.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.73	£29.99
% change on same period last year	-10.87 %
Programming Languages Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	715	1213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.944 %	1.208 %
Daily rates quoted	154	265
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£313
Average daily rate	£328	£329
% change on same period last year	-0.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.58	£29.13
Average hourly rate	£29.56	£31.20
% change on same period last year	-5.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.54	£33.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
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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 Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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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 Scotland region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+23	13	-	-
Edinburgh	+4	7	£375	-
Dundee	-	2	£200	-
North Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-
South Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 39 (59.09 %) MySQL 2 17 (25.76 %) JavaScript 2 17 (25.76 %) SQL Server 3 16 (24.24 %) CSS 3 16 (24.24 %) .NET 4 13 (19.70 %) HTML 5 12 (18.18 %) SQL 6 10 (15.15 %) OO 7 9 (13.64 %) VB.NET 7 9 (13.64 %) PHP5 8 8 (12.12 %) Informix 8 8 (12.12 %) XML 9 7 (10.61 %) Linux 10 6 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 10 6 (9.091 %) Web Development

10 6 (9.091 %) Subversion 11 5 (7.576 %) Project Planning 11 5 (7.576 %) Dreamweaver 11 5 (7.576 %) Flash 11 5 (7.576 %) OOP 11 5 (7.576 %) Perl 11 5 (7.576 %) C 12 4 (6.061 %) C# 12 4 (6.061 %) Oracle 12 4 (6.061 %) MS Access 12 4 (6.061 %) Government 12 4 (6.061 %) AJAX 12 4 (6.061 %) FrontPage 13 3 (4.545 %) XHTML 13 3 (4.545 %) C++

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 16 (24.24 %) CSS 1 16 (24.24 %) .NET 2 13 (19.70 %) HTML 3 8 (12.12 %) XML 4 6 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (6.061 %) AJAX 6 3 (4.545 %) XHTML 7 2 (3.030 %) WebServices 7 2 (3.030 %) XSLT 7 2 (3.030 %) LAMP 8 1 (1.515 %) Drupal 8 1 (1.515 %) JSF 8 1 (1.515 %) MVC 8 1 (1.515 %) JSP 8 1 (1.515 %) SOAP 8 1 (1.515 %) ASP 8 1 (1.515 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.030 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.515 %) CMS 2 1 (1.515 %) Apache 2 1 (1.515 %) JBoss
Applications 1 1 (1.515 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.515 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.515 %) Microsoft CRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 39 (59.09 %) MySQL 2 17 (25.76 %) SQL Server 3 8 (12.12 %) Informix 4 4 (6.061 %) MS Access 5 1 (1.515 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (1.515 %) Microsoft Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 6 (9.091 %) Subversion 2 5 (7.576 %) Dreamweaver 2 5 (7.576 %) Flash 3 4 (6.061 %) FrontPage
General 1 4 (6.061 %) Government 2 1 (1.515 %) Marketing 2 1 (1.515 %) Games 2 1 (1.515 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 56 (84.85 %) Developer 2 37 (56.06 %) PHP Developer 3 8 (12.12 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (10.61 %) Programmer 5 6 (9.091 %) Web Developer 6 4 (6.061 %) Analyst 6 4 (6.061 %) VB.NET Developer 6 4 (6.061 %) SQL Developer 6 4 (6.061 %) Access Developer 6 4 (6.061 %) C Developer 7 3 (4.545 %) MySQL Developer 8 2 (3.030 %) Systems Administrator 8 2 (3.030 %) UNIX Administrator 8 2 (3.030 %) Analyst Programmer 8 2 (3.030 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 8 2 (3.030 %) Administrator 8 2 (3.030 %) PHP Programmer 9 1 (1.515 %) C++/C# Developer 9 1 (1.515 %) Web Programmer 9 1 (1.515 %) Web Analyst
Operating Systems 1 7 (10.61 %) Linux 2 2 (3.030 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.515 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (15.15 %) OO 2 6 (9.091 %) Web Development 3 5 (7.576 %) Project Planning 3 5 (7.576 %) OOP 4 2 (3.030 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (3.030 %) Web Design 4 2 (3.030 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (1.515 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (1.515 %) ERP 5 1 (1.515 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 17 (25.76 %) JavaScript 2 12 (18.18 %) SQL 3 9 (13.64 %) VB.NET 3 9 (13.64 %) PHP5 4 5 (7.576 %) Perl 4 5 (7.576 %) C 5 4 (6.061 %) C# 6 3 (4.545 %) C++ 6 3 (4.545 %) Java 7 1 (1.515 %) XPath 7 1 (1.515 %) Python 7 1 (1.515 %) DHTML 7 1 (1.515 %) ActionScript 7 1 (1.515 %) Transact-SQL	Vendors 1 4 (6.061 %) Oracle 2 2 (3.030 %) Microsoft