PHP Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills 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 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 55 80 82
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +2
Contract jobs citing PHP 228 207 211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 2.878% 2.038% 2.056%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.646% 6.823% 6.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 90 105
Average daily rate £300 £275 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £187 £205 £128
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £369
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 4
Average hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.40 £17.70 £28.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £37.50 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 2637 3034 3475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.29% 29.87% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1295 1477 1507
Average daily rate £342 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.23% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 202 294
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.91 £20.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
England

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East PHP Daily Rate Histogram

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East PHP Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Hampshire -9 50 £325 +18.18%
Berkshire +9 43 £350 +27.27%
Surrey +14 35 £283 +2.72%
Oxfordshire +7 32 £275 -8.33%
East Sussex +12 27 £218 +2.35%
Buckinghamshire +14 23 £230 -12.38%
West Sussex +25 11 £585 +95.00%
Kent -1 6 £245 +15.29%
Home Counties +3 3 £220 -
Middlesex +4 2 £275 -21.42%
PHP
England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 187 (52.38%) JavaScript
2 174 (48.74%) CSS
3 172 (48.18%) MySQL
4 162 (45.38%) HTML
5 132 (36.97%) jQuery
6 74 (20.73%) Linux
7 72 (20.17%) MVC
8 70 (19.61%) HTML5
9 59 (16.53%) OO
10 57 (15.97%) Drupal
11 56 (15.69%) Apache
11 56 (15.69%) Java
12 53 (14.85%) LAMP
13 50 (14.01%) CMS
14 46 (12.89%) XML
14 46 (12.89%) PHP5
15 43 (12.04%) OOP
16 41 (11.48%) Web Development
16 41 (11.48%) Zend
17 40 (11.20%) Perl
18 39 (10.92%) .NET
18 39 (10.92%) E-Commerce
18 39 (10.92%) CSS3
19 36 (10.08%) XHTML
19 36 (10.08%) Microsoft
20 34 (9.524%) SQL
21 32 (8.964%) Oracle
22 28 (7.843%) Windows
22 28 (7.843%) JSON
22 28 (7.843%) Ajax

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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
1 174 (48.74%) CSS
2 162 (45.38%) HTML
3 132 (36.97%) jQuery
4 70 (19.61%) HTML5
5 53 (14.85%) LAMP
6 46 (12.89%) XML
7 39 (10.92%) .NET
7 39 (10.92%) CSS3
8 36 (10.08%) XHTML
9 28 (7.843%) JSON
9 28 (7.843%) Ajax
10 20 (5.602%) Zend Framework
11 19 (5.322%) Web Services
12 15 (4.202%) CodeIgniter
12 15 (4.202%) CakePHP
13 12 (3.361%) Symfony
13 12 (3.361%) SAML
14 11 (3.081%) Flash
14 11 (3.081%) XSLT
14 11 (3.081%) REST
Application Platforms
1 57 (15.97%) Drupal
2 56 (15.69%) Apache
3 50 (14.01%) CMS
4 24 (6.723%) WordPress
5 18 (5.042%) Magento
6 14 (3.922%) Tomcat
7 13 (3.641%) IIS
8 11 (3.081%) GlassFish
8 11 (3.081%) Joomla!
9 8 (2.241%) SharePoint 2010
9 8 (2.241%) SharePoint
9 8 (2.241%) OpenEdge
10 7 (1.961%) Moodle
11 5 (1.401%) WebLogic
11 5 (1.401%) ColdFusion
11 5 (1.401%) concrete5
11 5 (1.401%) Amazon AWS
12 4 (1.120%) ExpressionEngine
12 4 (1.120%) OpenStack
12 4 (1.120%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 25 (7.003%) Photoshop
2 10 (2.801%) MS Excel
3 7 (1.961%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (1.120%) Fireworks
5 3 (0.840%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.560%) MS Office
7 1 (0.280%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 8 (2.241%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (1.961%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.882%) Internet
2 13 (3.641%) LAN
3 12 (3.361%) WAN
3 12 (3.361%) SSL
3 12 (3.361%) LDAP
3 12 (3.361%) IPsec
4 11 (3.081%) SAN
4 11 (3.081%) HTTP
5 10 (2.801%) Intranet
6 8 (2.241%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.401%) DNS
8 4 (1.120%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (1.120%) 3G
8 4 (1.120%) Firewall
9 3 (0.840%) DVB
10 2 (0.560%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.560%) Network Security
10 2 (0.560%) VLAN
10 2 (0.560%) GSM
10 2 (0.560%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (48.18%) MySQL
2 27 (7.563%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.081%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (1.120%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.120%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.840%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.840%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.280%) GIS
6 1 (0.280%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.280%) Redis
6 1 (0.280%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.280%) JasperReports
6 1 (0.280%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 25 (7.003%) Subversion
2 22 (6.162%) Git (software)
3 6 (1.681%) PHPUnit
4 4 (1.120%) LabVIEW
5 3 (0.840%) ClearCase
5 3 (0.840%) Ant
6 2 (0.560%) Phing
6 2 (0.560%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.560%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.280%) JMeter
7 1 (0.280%) Xcode
7 1 (0.280%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.280%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.280%) JUnit
7 1 (0.280%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.280%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.280%) Hudson
7 1 (0.280%) FrontPage
7 1 (0.280%) Selenium
General
1 21 (5.882%) Marketing
2 18 (5.042%) Telecoms
3 11 (3.081%) Games
4 6 (1.681%) French Language
4 6 (1.681%) German Language
5 5 (1.401%) Finance
5 5 (1.401%) Publishing
6 3 (0.840%) Automotive
6 3 (0.840%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.560%) Electronics
8 1 (0.280%) Advertising
8 1 (0.280%) Legal
8 1 (0.280%) Military
8 1 (0.280%) Billing
8 1 (0.280%) Banking
8 1 (0.280%) Retail
8 1 (0.280%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.280%) Music
Job Titles
1 261 (73.11%) Developer
2 161 (45.10%) PHP Developer
3 40 (11.20%) Web Developer
4 21 (5.882%) Front-End Developer
5 18 (5.042%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 17 (4.762%) Drupal Developer
7 14 (3.922%) Programmer
8 13 (3.641%) PHP Web Developer
9 12 (3.361%) Architect
9 12 (3.361%) Senior Developer
10 10 (2.801%) Analyst
11 9 (2.521%) PHP Programmer
11 9 (2.521%) LAMP Developer
12 8 (2.241%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 7 (1.961%) Project Manager
13 7 (1.961%) Software Engineer
13 7 (1.961%) Consultant
14 6 (1.681%) Web Manager
14 6 (1.681%) Web Programmer
14 6 (1.681%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.283%) Open Source
2 12 (3.361%) Digital Media
3 9 (2.521%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.521%) W3C
4 8 (2.241%) Clustering
5 7 (1.961%) Social Media
6 6 (1.681%) Blackberry
7 5 (1.401%) iPad
7 5 (1.401%) iPhone
8 4 (1.120%) IaaS
8 4 (1.120%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.120%) STB
8 4 (1.120%) Replication
9 3 (0.840%) E-Learning
9 3 (0.840%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (0.840%) SaaS
9 3 (0.840%) Computer Science
10 2 (0.560%) Data Extraction
10 2 (0.560%) RIA
10 2 (0.560%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 74 (20.73%) Linux
2 28 (7.843%) Windows
3 27 (7.563%) UNIX
4 14 (3.922%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.241%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (1.961%) CentOS
7 5 (1.401%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.401%) Android
8 4 (1.120%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (1.120%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.120%) Windows XP
9 3 (0.840%) OpenBSD
9 3 (0.840%) Solaris
9 3 (0.840%) FreeBSD
10 2 (0.560%) Debian
11 1 (0.280%) Fedora
11 1 (0.280%) AIX
11 1 (0.280%) HPUX
11 1 (0.280%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.280%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (20.17%) MVC
2 59 (16.53%) OO
3 43 (12.04%) OOP
4 41 (11.48%) Web Development
5 39 (10.92%) E-Commerce
6 27 (7.563%) Agile Software Development
7 21 (5.882%) Content Management
8 17 (4.762%) PRINCE2
9 13 (3.641%) Scrum
9 13 (3.641%) Unit Testing
10 12 (3.361%) Configuration Management
10 12 (3.361%) Project Management
11 11 (3.081%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (2.801%) Analytics
12 10 (2.801%) SEO
13 9 (2.521%) Identity Management
13 9 (2.521%) Web Analytics
14 8 (2.241%) TDD
15 7 (1.961%) ITIL
15 7 (1.961%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 187 (52.38%) JavaScript
2 56 (15.69%) Java
3 46 (12.89%) PHP5
4 40 (11.20%) Perl
5 34 (9.524%) SQL
6 21 (5.882%) C#
7 17 (4.762%) C++
8 11 (3.081%) Python
9 10 (2.801%) C
10 8 (2.241%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.961%) VB
12 5 (1.401%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.120%) PHP4
13 4 (1.120%) Ruby
13 4 (1.120%) Bourne shell
13 4 (1.120%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.120%) VB6
14 3 (0.840%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.840%) ActionScript 3.0
15 2 (0.560%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 21 (5.882%) Security Cleared
2 17 (4.762%) SC Cleared
3 7 (1.961%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (1.961%) Degree
4 6 (1.681%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (0.560%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.560%) ISEB
6 1 (0.280%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.280%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.280%) SCSA
6 1 (0.280%) MCP
6 1 (0.280%) HPUX Certification
6 1 (0.280%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.280%) RHCE
6 1 (0.280%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.280%) MCDST
6 1 (0.280%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.120%) WAI
2 3 (0.840%) SLA
2 3 (0.840%) QA
System Software
1 18 (5.042%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.202%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.241%) vSphere
3 8 (2.241%) VMware ESX
4 5 (1.401%) Shibboleth
5 4 (1.120%) XenApp
6 3 (0.840%) Squid
6 3 (0.840%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.280%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.280%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.280%) Varnish
7 1 (0.280%) Xen
7 1 (0.280%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.280%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (0.560%) Plesk
1 2 (0.560%) CA SiteMinder
2 1 (0.280%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.280%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.280%) OpenView
2 1 (0.280%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 41 (11.48%) Zend
2 36 (10.08%) Microsoft
3 32 (8.964%) Oracle
4 27 (7.563%) VMware
5 24 (6.723%) Red Hat
6 12 (3.361%) Cisco
7 10 (2.801%) Google
8 9 (2.521%) NetApp
9 8 (2.241%) Twitter
9 8 (2.241%) Juniper
10 7 (1.961%) JBoss
11 6 (1.681%) Facebook
11 6 (1.681%) Interwoven
11 6 (1.681%) Ericsson
12 4 (1.120%) Adobe
13 3 (0.840%) Sun
14 2 (0.560%) Nokia Siemens Networks
14 2 (0.560%) Nortel
14 2 (0.560%) McAfee
14 2 (0.560%) Progress
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