The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield 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 Sheffield 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 22 10 19
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +9
Contract jobs citing PHP 2 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.333% 8.633% 4.667%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.636% 19.05% 9.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 2
Average daily rate - £240 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.94%
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 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
55 63 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 36.67% 45.32% 50.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 34 33
Average daily rate £296 £400 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.93% +45.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £123 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £545 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
Average hourly rate £13.50 - £40.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 - £30.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
South Yorkshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sheffield PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 22 (91.67%) Symfony
1 22 (91.67%) PHPUnit
2 14 (58.33%) OO
3 10 (41.67%) MVC
3 10 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (29.17%) jQuery
4 7 (29.17%) HTML
4 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 7 (29.17%) MySQL
4 7 (29.17%) CSS
5 6 (25.00%) XML
5 6 (25.00%) XSLT
5 6 (25.00%) Linux
5 6 (25.00%) Apache
5 6 (25.00%) Web Development
5 6 (25.00%) HTML5
5 6 (25.00%) CSS3
5 6 (25.00%) LAMP
6 3 (12.50%) SQL
6 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (8.333%) J2EE
7 2 (8.333%) Java
8 1 (4.167%) CMS
8 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
8 1 (4.167%) Retail
8 1 (4.167%) Zend
8 1 (4.167%) CodeIgniter
8 1 (4.167%) Drupal
8 1 (4.167%) Joomla!
8 1 (4.167%) WordPress

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 22 (91.67%) Symfony
2 7 (29.17%) jQuery
2 7 (29.17%) HTML
2 7 (29.17%) CSS
3 6 (25.00%) XML
3 6 (25.00%) XSLT
3 6 (25.00%) HTML5
3 6 (25.00%) CSS3
3 6 (25.00%) LAMP
4 2 (8.333%) J2EE
5 1 (4.167%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.167%) CMS
2 1 (4.167%) Drupal
2 1 (4.167%) Joomla!
2 1 (4.167%) WordPress
2 1 (4.167%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (91.67%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (4.167%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (83.33%) PHP Developer
1 20 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.333%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (8.333%) PHP Programmer
4 2 (8.333%) Web Programmer
4 2 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Programmer
5 1 (4.167%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) OO
2 10 (41.67%) MVC
2 10 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (8.333%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (4.167%) Zend