The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills 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 over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 27 27 31
Rank change year-on-year
0 +4
Contract jobs citing PHP 5 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.732% 5.848% 1.266%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.246% 11.36% 2.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 1
Average daily rate £260 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -9.09%
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 £22.58 £17.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+29.02% -22.22%
All Programming Languages
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
69 88 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 37.70% 51.46% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 36
Average daily rate £310 £333 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.76% +14.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £248 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £450 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £32.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.05 - £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
South West

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 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 -2 2 £260 +8.33%
PHP
South West

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 13 (86.67%) HTML
1 13 (86.67%) JavaScript
1 13 (86.67%) CSS
2 6 (40.00%) Publishing
2 6 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
3 5 (33.33%) MySQL
3 5 (33.33%) C#
3 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Data Management
3 5 (33.33%) MCTS
3 5 (33.33%) Animation
3 5 (33.33%) Project Management
3 5 (33.33%) WordPress
3 5 (33.33%) User Experience Design
3 5 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (20.00%) Zend
4 3 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
4 3 (20.00%) Drupal
4 3 (20.00%) MVC
5 2 (13.33%) Apache
5 2 (13.33%) Web Services
5 2 (13.33%) Refactoring
5 2 (13.33%) Symfony
6 1 (6.667%) Open Source
6 1 (6.667%) Joomla!
6 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 13 (86.67%) HTML
1 13 (86.67%) CSS
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
2 6 (40.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
4 2 (13.33%) Symfony
4 2 (13.33%) Web Services
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.667%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 5 (33.33%) WordPress
1 5 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (20.00%) Drupal
3 2 (13.33%) Apache
4 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
4 1 (6.667%) CMS
4 1 (6.667%) Joomla!
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (40.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) PHP Developer
3 5 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Web Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Applications Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Web Applications Developer
5 2 (13.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (6.667%) PHP Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) Web Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) Support Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Applications Support
6 1 (6.667%) Applications Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Animation
2 1 (6.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) UNIX
1 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Project Management
1 5 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 5 (33.33%) Data Management
1 5 (33.33%) User Experience Design
2 3 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (13.33%) Refactoring
4 1 (6.667%) Migration
4 1 (6.667%) Service Management
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) MCTS
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Zend
2 1 (6.667%) Hyperion
2 1 (6.667%) ATG
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