Shropshire PHP Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Shropshire region.

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Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cheshire Chichester Cirencester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falmouth Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Harborough Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Ditton Tring Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	13	19	29
Rank change year-on-year	+6 +10
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1	2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire	3.390 %	0.813 %	1.290 %
As % of the Programming Languages category	10.53 %	3.226 %	3.509 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0	0
Average daily rate	£220	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	£273	£264
% change year-on-year	-8.250 % +3.310 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1	0
Average hourly rate	-	£7.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£22.50	£27.50
% change year-on-year	-6.660 % -18.18 %
All Programming Languages Shropshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Programming Languages category	19	31	57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Shropshire	32.20 %	25.20 %	36.77 %
Daily rates quoted	11	6	28
Average daily rate	£400	£216	£315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+84.97 % -31.34 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£220	£198	£188
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£360	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2	2
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£14.50	£55.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+124.13 % -73.63 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.25	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-5.780 % -13.57 %
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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.

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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 Shropshire 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 Shropshire 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 across the Shropshire region.

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 12 (100.00 %) HTML 1 12 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 12 (100.00 %) MySQL 1 12 (100.00 %) CSS 1 12 (100.00 %) OO 1 12 (100.00 %) AJAX 2 7 (58.33 %) WordPress 3 3 (25.00 %) CMS 4 2 (16.67 %) Zend 5 1 (8.333 %) Zend Framework 5 1 (8.333 %) Drupal 5 1 (8.333 %) Magento 5 1 (8.333 %) Joomla!

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire 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 12 (100.00 %) HTML 1 12 (100.00 %) CSS 1 12 (100.00 %) AJAX 2 1 (8.333 %) Zend Framework	Application Platforms 1 7 (58.33 %) WordPress 2 3 (25.00 %) CMS 3 1 (8.333 %) Drupal 3 1 (8.333 %) Magento 3 1 (8.333 %) Joomla!
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (100.00 %) MySQL	Job Titles 1 2 (16.67 %) PHP Developer 1 2 (16.67 %) Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (100.00 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 12 (100.00 %) JavaScript
Vendors 1 2 (16.67 %) Zend