The first table below looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 24 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 South East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP Developer
Rank 129 157 150
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -7
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 98 83 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.257% 0.818% 0.993%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.359% 0.886% 1.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 44 54
Average daily rate £250 £250 £250
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £213 £158
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £317 £361
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £250 £250
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
- +25.80%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7211 9367 9611
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.52% 92.32% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3605 4207 4140
Average daily rate £350 £350 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -0.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 716 825
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East PHP Developer Daily Rate Trend

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East PHP Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Surrey +15 20 £213 -13.26%
East Sussex +16 18 £210 -6.66%
Hampshire -11 18 £288 +9.52%
Berkshire +17 14 £315 +28.57%
Buckinghamshire +15 14 £210 -11.57%
Oxfordshire +13 13 £313 -
Home Counties +3 2 £210 -
Middlesex +7 1 £250 -
Kent -2 1 - -
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 157 (100.00%) PHP
2 104 (66.24%) MySQL
3 98 (62.42%) CSS
4 97 (61.78%) JavaScript
5 80 (50.96%) jQuery
6 77 (49.04%) HTML
7 55 (35.03%) MVC
8 40 (25.48%) HTML5
9 38 (24.20%) OO
10 34 (21.66%) OOP
11 33 (21.02%) LAMP
11 33 (21.02%) Zend
12 31 (19.75%) PHP5
13 28 (17.83%) E-Commerce
13 28 (17.83%) CSS3
14 24 (15.29%) Linux
15 20 (12.74%) CMS
15 20 (12.74%) Agile Software Development
16 17 (10.83%) Subversion
16 17 (10.83%) Ajax
17 16 (10.19%) Drupal
18 15 (9.554%) Zend Framework
19 14 (8.917%) XML
19 14 (8.917%) XHTML
20 12 (7.643%) Web Development
20 12 (7.643%) CakePHP
20 12 (7.643%) WordPress
20 12 (7.643%) Magento
20 12 (7.643%) Git (software)
21 11 (7.006%) Symfony

PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 98 (62.42%) CSS
2 80 (50.96%) jQuery
3 77 (49.04%) HTML
4 40 (25.48%) HTML5
5 33 (21.02%) LAMP
6 28 (17.83%) CSS3
7 17 (10.83%) Ajax
8 15 (9.554%) Zend Framework
9 14 (8.917%) XML
9 14 (8.917%) XHTML
10 12 (7.643%) CakePHP
11 11 (7.006%) Symfony
12 10 (6.369%) CodeIgniter
13 7 (4.459%) .NET
13 7 (4.459%) JSON
14 6 (3.822%) XHR
15 4 (2.548%) Flash
16 3 (1.911%) SOAP
16 3 (1.911%) Web Services
16 3 (1.911%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 20 (12.74%) CMS
2 16 (10.19%) Drupal
3 12 (7.643%) WordPress
3 12 (7.643%) Magento
4 9 (5.732%) Apache
5 7 (4.459%) IIS
6 5 (3.185%) concrete5
7 4 (2.548%) Moodle
7 4 (2.548%) Joomla!
8 3 (1.911%) MODX
8 3 (1.911%) ExpressionEngine
9 1 (0.637%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.637%) TYPO3
9 1 (0.637%) SilverStripe
9 1 (0.637%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 4 (2.548%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.637%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.911%) Broadband
2 2 (1.274%) HTTP
2 2 (1.274%) Intranet
2 2 (1.274%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (66.24%) MySQL
2 8 (5.096%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.274%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.637%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.637%) JasperReports
4 1 (0.637%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 17 (10.83%) Subversion
2 12 (7.643%) Git (software)
3 5 (3.185%) PHPUnit
4 1 (0.637%) Ant
4 1 (0.637%) Phing
4 1 (0.637%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (7.006%) Marketing
2 8 (5.096%) Games
3 3 (1.911%) Finance
4 2 (1.274%) Automotive
5 1 (0.637%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.637%) Music
5 1 (0.637%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.637%) Banking
5 1 (0.637%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.369%) Digital Media
2 6 (3.822%) iPhone
2 6 (3.822%) Blackberry
2 6 (3.822%) iPad
2 6 (3.822%) Open Source
3 3 (1.911%) W3C
4 2 (1.274%) Data Extraction
4 2 (1.274%) Online Games
5 1 (0.637%) E-Learning
5 1 (0.637%) VLE
5 1 (0.637%) Streaming Music
5 1 (0.637%) IPTV
5 1 (0.637%) RIA
5 1 (0.637%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.637%) Kindle
5 1 (0.637%) Social Media
5 1 (0.637%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.29%) Linux
2 3 (1.911%) Windows
2 3 (1.911%) CentOS
2 3 (1.911%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.274%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.274%) Android
3 2 (1.274%) UNIX
4 1 (0.637%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.03%) MVC
2 38 (24.20%) OO
3 34 (21.66%) OOP
4 28 (17.83%) E-Commerce
5 20 (12.74%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (7.643%) Web Development
7 6 (3.822%) Unit Testing
8 4 (2.548%) Scrum
8 4 (2.548%) OOD
9 3 (1.911%) TDD
9 3 (1.911%) Data Protection
9 3 (1.911%) Change Control
10 2 (1.274%) Digital Marketing
10 2 (1.274%) ETL
11 1 (0.637%) UML
11 1 (0.637%) SOA
11 1 (0.637%) CRM
11 1 (0.637%) B2C
11 1 (0.637%) SEO
11 1 (0.637%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 157 (100.00%) PHP
2 97 (61.78%) JavaScript
3 31 (19.75%) PHP5
4 10 (6.369%) SQL
5 7 (4.459%) C#
6 3 (1.911%) Java
6 3 (1.911%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.274%) ActionScript 3.0
7 2 (1.274%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (1.274%) PHP4
7 2 (1.274%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 5 (3.185%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.274%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.637%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (1.274%) Plesk
2 1 (0.637%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 33 (21.02%) Zend
2 7 (4.459%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.185%) Twitter
4 3 (1.911%) Oracle
4 3 (1.911%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.911%) Google
4 3 (1.911%) Facebook
5 2 (1.274%) Adobe
Hampshire
PHP Developer required for an exiting project based in Hampshire. Looking for a seasoned PHP developer working on a LAMP stack and also working closely with HTML/CSS.
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
UK South, South East
A large digital agency with multiple offices are currently looking to take on a PHP developer on a temp-perm basis.There growing rapidly and need extra resource...
Premier Group
Rate: £150.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
South East
A large digital agency with multiple offices are currently looking to take on a PHP developer on a temp-perm basis. There growing rapidly and need extra resource...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £150.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Berkshire
The successful PHP Developer will be developing new and existing systems with PHP5. The PHP Developer should be confident building a MySQL backend, as all systems have a...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Digital Media Agency based just outside of Reading seek PHP Developer with a focus on back end technologies less front end JavaScript, HTML and CSS stuff... PHP, MySQL,...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Aldershot, Hampshire
Magento PHP Web Developer required for initial 3 month contract to build websites for one of Europe's largest suppliers of office equipment... Currently the sites are in...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Rate: £200 - £300 per day + negotiable DOE
Posted: 22 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
PHP/Drupal developer Opus Recruitment Solutions are urgently seeking a PHP/Drupal developer for an initial 3 month contract in Oxfordshire- The successful PHP/Drupal developer will work...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP300 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
The ideal candidate will have good skills in PHP development and is comfortable working with CentOS/RedHat Linux environment... Essential knowledge and experience - PHP coding - MySQL databases - JAVA...
SEC Recruitment Limited
Rate: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
The successful Contract PHP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The PHP Developer will also develop and test reliable...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Contract PHP Developer - Hampshire Coast - circa £300pd... The successful Contract PHP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The PHP...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
We are currently seeking experienced Front End Developers to undertake Development, Design and Testing initiatives using PHP, Drupal, XHTML, CSS and JQuery... - Translate Photoshop designs into accessible and...
SLS Services Ltd
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
Ashford, Kent
PHP Drupal Developer PHP Web Developer - Web Programmer - Drupal - MYSQL Server - LAMP - WAMP - HTML - CSS - Web Services - Soap - XML - AJAX - Software House - Programming - WordPress - Ashford Kent... client side...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Rate: Good Chance it will roll
Posted: 23 May 2013