The first table below looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton 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 17 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 Southampton 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP Developer
Rank 24 - 27
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 11 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 3.729% - 0.546%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.915% - 0.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £260 £250
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £15.75
% change year-on-year
+57.89% +20.63%
All Job Titles
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
281 218 175
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 95.25% 95.20% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 113 75
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £250 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 53 29
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -15.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £41.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
PHP Developer
Hampshire

PHP Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton PHP Developer Hourly Rate Trend

PHP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 20 (100.00%) PHP
2 14 (70.00%) jQuery
3 13 (65.00%) MySQL
3 13 (65.00%) CSS
4 11 (55.00%) HTML5
4 11 (55.00%) CSS3
5 9 (45.00%) OOP
5 9 (45.00%) MVC
6 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (40.00%) Subversion
6 8 (40.00%) PHP5
7 7 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (35.00%) Magento
8 5 (25.00%) WordPress
8 5 (25.00%) HTML
9 4 (20.00%) Drupal
9 4 (20.00%) Zend
10 3 (15.00%) CakePHP
10 3 (15.00%) CMS
11 2 (10.00%) XHTML
11 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
11 2 (10.00%) Ajax
11 2 (10.00%) Web Development
11 2 (10.00%) Intranet
11 2 (10.00%) Symfony
11 2 (10.00%) Git (software)
11 2 (10.00%) Yii
12 1 (5.000%) REST
12 1 (5.000%) Twitter
12 1 (5.000%) Amazon S3

PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 14 (70.00%) jQuery
2 13 (65.00%) CSS
3 11 (55.00%) HTML5
3 11 (55.00%) CSS3
4 5 (25.00%) HTML
5 3 (15.00%) CakePHP
6 2 (10.00%) Yii
6 2 (10.00%) XHTML
6 2 (10.00%) Ajax
6 2 (10.00%) Symfony
7 1 (5.000%) XML
7 1 (5.000%) REST
Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) Magento
2 5 (25.00%) WordPress
3 4 (20.00%) Drupal
4 3 (15.00%) CMS
5 1 (5.000%) Joomla!
5 1 (5.000%) Apache
5 1 (5.000%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Intranet
2 1 (5.000%) Broadband
2 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Subversion
2 2 (10.00%) Git (software)
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Linux
1 1 (5.000%) CentOS
1 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) OOP
1 9 (45.00%) MVC
2 7 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (10.00%) Web Development
3 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.000%) OO
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) PHP
2 8 (40.00%) PHP5
2 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Zend
2 1 (5.000%) Twitter
2 1 (5.000%) Red Hat