The first table below looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the Somerset 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP Developer
Rank 34 27 33
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +6
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 2 8 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 1.087% 4.762% 1.227%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.190% 4.908% 1.290%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
Average daily rate £260 £240 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -12.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £250 £250
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
- +25.80%
All Job Titles
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
168 163 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 91.30% 97.02% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 91 69
Average daily rate £310 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £433 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 22
Average hourly rate £10.00 £13.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.52% -11.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
PHP Developer
South West

PHP Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP Developer across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Somerset PHP Developer Jobs Demand Trend

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP Developer across the Somerset region.

Somerset PHP Developer Daily Rate Trend

PHP Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset PHP Developer Hourly Rate Trend

PHP Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bath -4 2 £260 +8.33%
PHP Developer
South West

PHP Developer
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) PHP
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) WordPress
3 3 (42.86%) Zend
3 3 (42.86%) CodeIgniter
3 3 (42.86%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) MySQL
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
4 2 (28.57%) Symfony
5 1 (14.29%) Joomla!
5 1 (14.29%) Drupal
5 1 (14.29%) jQuery
5 1 (14.29%) CMS
5 1 (14.29%) Linux
5 1 (14.29%) Apache

PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) Symfony
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) WordPress
2 1 (14.29%) Joomla!
2 1 (14.29%) Drupal
2 1 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Zend
Bath, South West
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OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP320 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013