South West PHP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PHP skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bletchley Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Cleckheaton County Londonderry Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pontypridd Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Runcorn Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wimbledon Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	90	98
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	43	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.066 %
As % of the category below	3.704 %	3.321 %
Daily rates quoted	4	13
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£192
Average daily rate	£206	£213
% change on same period last year	-3.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£213	£233
UK excluding London average daily rate	£282	£265
% change on same period last year	+6.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.22	£21.50
Average hourly rate	£32.28	£25.33
% change on same period last year	+27.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.33	£29.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.21	£26.99
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Programming Languages South West
Matching contract IT job ads	1161	1867
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.531 %	1.980 %
Daily rates quoted	243	313
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£313
Average daily rate	£322	£337
% change on same period last year	-4.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	204	307
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.13	£30.20
Average hourly rate	£34.27	£32.63
% change on same period last year	+5.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.42	£35.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
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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 across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages 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 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 across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing PHP within the South West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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	+8	18	£183	-34.05 %
Devon	+9	6	-	-
Dorset	+6	4	£275	-
Gloucestershire	+4	2	-	-
Somerset	0	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 46 (44.66 %) MySQL 2 45 (43.69 %) HTML 3 43 (41.75 %) CSS 4 33 (32.04 %) XHTML 5 26 (25.24 %) JavaScript 6 22 (21.36 %) PHP5 7 21 (20.39 %) XML 8 20 (19.42 %) Apache 8 20 (19.42 %) AJAX 9 17 (16.50 %) Linux 10 16 (15.53 %) PHP4 10 16 (15.53 %) Drupal 11 14 (13.59 %) Web Development 12 13 (12.62 %) OO 12 13 (12.62 %) Flash

12 13 (12.62 %) E-Commerce 13 11 (10.68 %) Unix 14 9 (8.738 %) LAMP 14 9 (8.738 %) Java 14 9 (8.738 %) ActionScript 14 9 (8.738 %) .NET 14 9 (8.738 %) SQL Server 15 8 (7.767 %) WebServices 15 8 (7.767 %) Finance 15 8 (7.767 %) Marketing 16 7 (6.796 %) Content Management 16 7 (6.796 %) Internet 16 7 (6.796 %) ASP.NET 17 6 (5.825 %) OOP 17 6 (5.825 %) ASP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 45 (43.69 %) HTML 2 43 (41.75 %) CSS 3 33 (32.04 %) XHTML 4 21 (20.39 %) XML 5 20 (19.42 %) AJAX 6 16 (15.53 %) Drupal 7 9 (8.738 %) LAMP 7 9 (8.738 %) .NET 8 8 (7.767 %) WebServices 9 7 (6.796 %) ASP.NET 10 6 (5.825 %) ASP 11 4 (3.883 %) SOAP 12 3 (2.913 %) XSLT 13 2 (1.942 %) WSDL 13 2 (1.942 %) NetBeans 13 2 (1.942 %) JSP 13 2 (1.942 %) CakePHP 14 1 (0.971 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 1 (0.971 %) Ruby on Rails 14 1 (0.971 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 20 (19.42 %) Apache 2 6 (5.825 %) CMS 3 2 (1.942 %) Plone 3 2 (1.942 %) Tomcat 4 1 (0.971 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 5 (4.854 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.971 %) Fireworks 2 1 (0.971 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 7 (6.796 %) Internet 2 1 (0.971 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (44.66 %) MySQL 2 9 (8.738 %) SQL Server 3 2 (1.942 %) PostgreSQL 3 2 (1.942 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 13 (12.62 %) Flash 2 2 (1.942 %) Eclipse 2 2 (1.942 %) Subversion 2 2 (1.942 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 8 (7.767 %) Finance 1 8 (7.767 %) Marketing 2 4 (3.883 %) Insurance 3 3 (2.913 %) Pensions 4 1 (0.971 %) Construction 4 1 (0.971 %) Games 4 1 (0.971 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (0.971 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 97 (94.17 %) Developer 2 50 (48.54 %) PHP Developer 3 34 (33.01 %) Web Developer 4 11 (10.68 %) MySQL Developer 5 10 (9.709 %) PHP Web Developer 6 5 (4.854 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 5 (4.854 %) .NET Developer 6 5 (4.854 %) C# Developer 6 5 (4.854 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (2.913 %) JavaScript Developer 7 3 (2.913 %) Flash Developer 8 2 (1.942 %) Java Developer 8 2 (1.942 %) Perl Developer 8 2 (1.942 %) Web Designer 8 2 (1.942 %) Delphi Developer 8 2 (1.942 %) Programmer 9 1 (0.971 %) Service Manager 9 1 (0.971 %) Graduate 9 1 (0.971 %) Junior 9 1 (0.971 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.825 %) W3C 2 1 (0.971 %) Computer Science 2 1 (0.971 %) N-Tier 2 1 (0.971 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 17 (16.50 %) Linux 2 11 (10.68 %) Unix 3 1 (0.971 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (13.59 %) Web Development 2 13 (12.62 %) OO 2 13 (12.62 %) E-Commerce 3 7 (6.796 %) Content Management 4 6 (5.825 %) OOP 5 4 (3.883 %) Change Management 6 3 (2.913 %) SEO 6 3 (2.913 %) Web Design 7 2 (1.942 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (1.942 %) Migration 7 2 (1.942 %) Direct Marketing 8 1 (0.971 %) Information Management 8 1 (0.971 %) OOD 8 1 (0.971 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 26 (25.24 %) JavaScript 2 22 (21.36 %) PHP5 3 16 (15.53 %) PHP4 4 9 (8.738 %) ActionScript 4 9 (8.738 %) Java 5 5 (4.854 %) C# 6 4 (3.883 %) Perl 7 3 (2.913 %) SQL 8 2 (1.942 %) Delphi 9 1 (0.971 %) C++ 9 1 (0.971 %) VBScript 9 1 (0.971 %) VB 9 1 (0.971 %) Python 9 1 (0.971 %) Shell Script 9 1 (0.971 %) VB6 9 1 (0.971 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 3 (2.913 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.971 %) WAI
Vendors 1 2 (1.942 %) Oracle 1 2 (1.942 %) Red Hat 2 1 (0.971 %) Apple 2 1 (0.971 %) BT 2 1 (0.971 %) Google 2 1 (0.971 %) Zend 2 1 (0.971 %) Microsoft 2 1 (0.971 %) Adobe 2 1 (0.971 %) Macromedia