The first table below looks at the demand for PHP5 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 PHP5 over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 5
Rank 115 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PHP5 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.205% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.473% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £338 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £295 £263
% change year-on-year
+1.69% +12.38%
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1056 641 827
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.26% 24.29% 29.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 289 413
Average daily rate £360 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.20% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
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 19 29 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £18.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £33.90 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP5
UK

PHP5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland PHP5 Daily Rate Trend

PHP5
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP5 across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland PHP5 Daily Rate Histogram

PHP5
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland PHP5 Hourly Rate Trend

PHP5
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP5 within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Glasgow - 3 £375 -
Edinburgh - 2 £300 -
PHP5
UK

PHP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) Drupal
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
4 3 (50.00%) MVC
4 3 (50.00%) HTML5
4 3 (50.00%) CSS3
5 2 (33.33%) Twitter
5 2 (33.33%) Information Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) PHP4
5 2 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (33.33%) Google Maps API
5 2 (33.33%) Ruby
5 2 (33.33%) Google
5 2 (33.33%) WAI
5 2 (33.33%) Zend
5 2 (33.33%) Zend Framework
5 2 (33.33%) Apache
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) W3C
5 2 (33.33%) SEO
5 2 (33.33%) UNIX
5 2 (33.33%) OOP
6 1 (16.67%) OO
6 1 (16.67%) Linux
6 1 (16.67%) CMS

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
3 3 (50.00%) HTML5
3 3 (50.00%) CSS3
4 2 (33.33%) Google Maps API
4 2 (33.33%) Zend Framework
5 1 (16.67%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (16.67%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) Drupal
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Drupal Developer
3 4 (66.67%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 3 (50.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (33.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Information Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) SEO
2 2 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) PHP4
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby
3 2 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) WAI
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Twitter
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Zend
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