South West PHP Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT contracts within the South West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PHP Developer
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Cirencester City of London County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Reigate Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	100
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	33	63
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.068 %
As % of the category below	0.835 %	1.173 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum daily rate	£205	£249
Average daily rate	£213	£274
% change on same period last year	-22.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£222	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£221	£259
% change on same period last year	-14.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£55.00	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£55.00	£24.58
% change on same period last year	+123.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£55.00	£26.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.52	£27.30
% change on same period last year	+0.79 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	3950	5371
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.222 %	5.755 %
Daily rates quoted	1138	1373
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£342
Average daily rate	£367	£362
% change on same period last year	+1.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	557	675
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.34	£25.38
Average hourly rate	£24.90	£27.00
% change on same period last year	-7.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.46	£28.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
PHP Developer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PHP Developer across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP Developer across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bristol	+6	9	-	-
Devon	-	6	-	-
Gloucestershire	+4	4	£201	-21.17 %
Somerset	-16	4	£275	-4.76 %
Wiltshire	-7	3	-	-
Dorset	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 62 (100.00 %) PHP 2 38 (61.29 %) MySQL 3 23 (37.10 %) HTML 4 20 (32.26 %) CSS 5 15 (24.19 %) XHTML 5 15 (24.19 %) CMS 5 15 (24.19 %) Drupal 6 12 (19.35 %) PHP5 7 10 (16.13 %) JavaScript 8 9 (14.52 %) SQL 8 9 (14.52 %) XML 8 9 (14.52 %) LAMP 9 7 (11.29 %) AJAX 9 7 (11.29 %) Linux 10 6 (9.677 %) E-Commerce

11 5 (8.065 %) Finance 11 5 (8.065 %) Migration 11 5 (8.065 %) Marketing 11 5 (8.065 %) Zend 12 4 (6.452 %) Internet Marketing 12 4 (6.452 %) WordPress 12 4 (6.452 %) Web Development 12 4 (6.452 %) Windows 13 3 (4.839 %) XSLT 13 3 (4.839 %) UNIX 13 3 (4.839 %) Oracle 13 3 (4.839 %) OOP 13 3 (4.839 %) OO 13 3 (4.839 %) Apache 13 3 (4.839 %) Flash

PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 23 (37.10 %) HTML 2 20 (32.26 %) CSS 3 15 (24.19 %) XHTML 3 15 (24.19 %) Drupal 4 9 (14.52 %) XML 4 9 (14.52 %) LAMP 5 7 (11.29 %) AJAX 6 3 (4.839 %) XSLT 6 3 (4.839 %) Symfony 7 2 (3.226 %) CakePHP 7 2 (3.226 %) RSS 7 2 (3.226 %) CGI 7 2 (3.226 %) SOAP 7 2 (3.226 %) WebServices 8 1 (1.613 %) ASP 8 1 (1.613 %) ASP.NET 8 1 (1.613 %) .NET 8 1 (1.613 %) Java RMI 8 1 (1.613 %) Zend Framework 8 1 (1.613 %) jQuery	Application Platforms 1 15 (24.19 %) CMS 2 4 (6.452 %) WordPress 3 3 (4.839 %) Apache 3 3 (4.839 %) Joomla! 4 1 (1.613 %) Mambo
Applications 1 2 (3.226 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.613 %) ImageReady	Database & Business Intelligence 1 38 (61.29 %) MySQL 2 1 (1.613 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 3 (4.839 %) Flash 2 1 (1.613 %) Eclipse	General 1 5 (8.065 %) Finance 1 5 (8.065 %) Marketing 2 2 (3.226 %) Games 3 1 (1.613 %) Multimedia 3 1 (1.613 %) Billing 3 1 (1.613 %) Flash Games
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.613 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 7 (11.29 %) Linux 2 4 (6.452 %) Windows 3 3 (4.839 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (9.677 %) E-Commerce 2 5 (8.065 %) Migration 3 4 (6.452 %) Internet Marketing 3 4 (6.452 %) Web Development 4 3 (4.839 %) OOP 4 3 (4.839 %) OO 4 3 (4.839 %) Content Management 5 2 (3.226 %) SEO 6 1 (1.613 %) UML 6 1 (1.613 %) CRM 6 1 (1.613 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 62 (100.00 %) PHP 2 12 (19.35 %) PHP5 3 10 (16.13 %) JavaScript 4 9 (14.52 %) SQL 5 3 (4.839 %) PHP4 6 1 (1.613 %) C# 6 1 (1.613 %) Python 6 1 (1.613 %) Ruby
Vendors 1 5 (8.065 %) Zend 2 3 (4.839 %) Oracle