Sheffield PHP Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT contracts within the Sheffield region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PHP Developer
Location Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Cirencester City of London Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Kettering Lancashire Leeds Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	31
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	5	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	2.273 %	2.906 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£240
Average daily rate	-	£240
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£236	£240
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.35	£26.06
% change on same period last year	+1.14 %
Job Titles Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	220	413
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.313 %	0.417 %
Daily rates quoted	35	81
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£276
Average daily rate	£322	£290
% change on same period last year	+10.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£305
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	84
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.46	£24.45
Average hourly rate	£27.13	£25.86
% change on same period last year	+4.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.79	£27.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
PHP Developer South Yorkshire

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 Developer across the Sheffield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Developer across the Sheffield region.

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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 Developer across the Sheffield region.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region that cited PHP Developer in their job title 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 with PHP Developer in their job title.

1 8 (100.00 %) PHP 2 5 (62.50 %) LAMP 3 2 (25.00 %) MVC 3 2 (25.00 %) HTML 3 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 3 2 (25.00 %) XML 4 1 (12.50 %) Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) OO 4 1 (12.50 %) Apache 4 1 (12.50 %) Flash 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Mining 4 1 (12.50 %) Internet 4 1 (12.50 %) CSS 4 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 4 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript

4 1 (12.50 %) Education 4 1 (12.50 %) E-Learning 4 1 (12.50 %) Degree 4 1 (12.50 %) RIA 4 1 (12.50 %) PHP5

PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region that cited PHP Developer in their job title 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 with PHP Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (62.50 %) LAMP 2 2 (25.00 %) HTML 2 2 (25.00 %) XML 2 2 (25.00 %) MVC 3 1 (12.50 %) CSS 3 1 (12.50 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Flash	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) E-Learning 1 1 (12.50 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) PHP 2 1 (12.50 %) PHP5 2 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree