The first table below looks at the demand for PHP4 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 PHP4 over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 4
Rank 221 245 237
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -8
Contract jobs citing PHP4 4 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.051% 0.020% 0.068%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.153% 0.066% 0.200%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £209 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £303 £260
% change year-on-year
+17.76% +16.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2606 3031 3494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.32% 29.97% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1277 1481 1502
Average daily rate £340 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -
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 200 202 294
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 £18.87 £21.75 £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%
PHP4
England

PHP4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP4 across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

South East PHP4 Jobs Demand Trend

PHP4
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP4 across the South East region.

South East PHP4 Daily Rate Trend

PHP4
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP4 across the South East region.

South East PHP4 Hourly Rate Trend

PHP4
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP4 within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Oxfordshire - 4 - -
PHP4
England

PHP4
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing PHP4 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 PHP4.

1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) XHTML
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal
2 2 (50.00%) PHP5
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) W3C
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript

PHP4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing PHP4 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 PHP4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) XHTML
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
1 2 (50.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PHP5
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript