The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Surrey 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
Rank 43 61 48
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -13
Contract jobs citing PHP 34 39 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.985% 2.369% 2.987%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.232% 5.936% 8.511%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 38
Average daily rate £283 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.72% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £205 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £346 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.58 £17.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+29.02% -22.22%
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
413 657 658
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 36.26% 39.91% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 345 346
Average daily rate £345 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £260 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 46 31
Average hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £25.50 £23.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £44.60 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
South East

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey PHP Hourly Rate Trend

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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
Guildford -5 12 £213 -11.45%
Staines 0 2 £375 +36.36%
Walton-on-Thames - 1 £380 -
Weybridge - 1 £290 -
Leatherhead - 1 - -
Redhill - 1 - -
Addlestone - 1 £350 -
Cobham - 1 £245 -
PHP
South East

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 53 (67.95%) JavaScript
2 41 (52.56%) CSS
3 40 (51.28%) jQuery
4 35 (44.87%) MySQL
5 31 (39.74%) HTML
6 19 (24.36%) Linux
7 17 (21.79%) HTML5
8 16 (20.51%) XML
9 14 (17.95%) .NET
9 14 (17.95%) MVC
10 13 (16.67%) CMS
11 12 (15.38%) Ajax
11 12 (15.38%) Java
12 11 (14.10%) C#
13 10 (12.82%) Zend
13 10 (12.82%) Drupal
13 10 (12.82%) SQL
13 10 (12.82%) XHTML
13 10 (12.82%) OO
14 9 (11.54%) SQL Server
14 9 (11.54%) E-Commerce
14 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
14 9 (11.54%) JSON
14 9 (11.54%) CSS3
15 8 (10.26%) Zend Framework
15 8 (10.26%) IIS
15 8 (10.26%) Games
16 7 (8.974%) Apache
17 6 (7.692%) OOP
17 6 (7.692%) Configuration Management

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 41 (52.56%) CSS
2 40 (51.28%) jQuery
3 31 (39.74%) HTML
4 17 (21.79%) HTML5
5 16 (20.51%) XML
6 14 (17.95%) .NET
7 12 (15.38%) Ajax
8 10 (12.82%) XHTML
9 9 (11.54%) JSON
9 9 (11.54%) CSS3
10 8 (10.26%) Zend Framework
11 6 (7.692%) CodeIgniter
11 6 (7.692%) LAMP
12 5 (6.410%) Dojo
12 5 (6.410%) XSLT
12 5 (6.410%) Flash
12 5 (6.410%) JSP
13 4 (5.128%) Web Services
14 3 (3.846%) Symfony
15 2 (2.564%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 13 (16.67%) CMS
2 10 (12.82%) Drupal
3 8 (10.26%) IIS
4 7 (8.974%) Apache
5 6 (7.692%) WordPress
6 5 (6.410%) Joomla!
7 4 (5.128%) ColdFusion
8 3 (3.846%) Amazon AWS
8 3 (3.846%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.846%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.410%) Internet
2 2 (2.564%) NetScreen
2 2 (2.564%) Firewall
2 2 (2.564%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.564%) DNS
2 2 (2.564%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.282%) Network Security
3 1 (1.282%) Broadband
3 1 (1.282%) CDMA
3 1 (1.282%) GSM
3 1 (1.282%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (44.87%) MySQL
2 9 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.846%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.692%) Subversion
2 5 (6.410%) Git (software)
3 4 (5.128%) PHPUnit
4 2 (2.564%) Ant
4 2 (2.564%) Phing
5 1 (1.282%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.282%) JUnit
5 1 (1.282%) JMeter
5 1 (1.282%) Selenium
5 1 (1.282%) Hudson
5 1 (1.282%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (10.26%) Games
2 5 (6.410%) Marketing
3 4 (5.128%) Publishing
4 3 (3.846%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.564%) Automotive
5 2 (2.564%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.564%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 64 (82.05%) Developer
2 35 (44.87%) PHP Developer
3 11 (14.10%) Front-End Developer
4 9 (11.54%) Web Developer
5 6 (7.692%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.410%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 3 (3.846%) ColdFusion Developer
7 3 (3.846%) Development Manager
7 3 (3.846%) Administrator
7 3 (3.846%) Senior Web Developer
8 2 (2.564%) Software Development Manager
8 2 (2.564%) Development Project Manager
8 2 (2.564%) Software Project Manager
8 2 (2.564%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (2.564%) MySQL Developer
8 2 (2.564%) Lead Developer
8 2 (2.564%) Programmer
8 2 (2.564%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.564%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.564%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.410%) Blackberry
1 5 (6.410%) iPhone
1 5 (6.410%) Open Source
1 5 (6.410%) iPad
2 4 (5.128%) W3C
3 3 (3.846%) IaaS
4 2 (2.564%) Data Extraction
4 2 (2.564%) SaaS
4 2 (2.564%) Social Media
4 2 (2.564%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.282%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.282%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.282%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.36%) Linux
2 5 (6.410%) Windows
3 4 (5.128%) CentOS
4 2 (2.564%) Solaris
4 2 (2.564%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.282%) Android
5 1 (1.282%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.282%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.95%) MVC
2 10 (12.82%) OO
3 9 (11.54%) E-Commerce
4 6 (7.692%) Configuration Management
4 6 (7.692%) OOP
4 6 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (6.410%) Web Development
5 5 (6.410%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (5.128%) Unit Testing
7 3 (3.846%) Content Management
7 3 (3.846%) TDD
8 2 (2.564%) Extreme Programming
8 2 (2.564%) SEO
8 2 (2.564%) ERP
8 2 (2.564%) Web Analytics
8 2 (2.564%) Time Management
8 2 (2.564%) Analytics
9 1 (1.282%) Mobile Application Development
9 1 (1.282%) ISMS
9 1 (1.282%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 53 (67.95%) JavaScript
2 12 (15.38%) Java
3 11 (14.10%) C#
4 10 (12.82%) SQL
5 5 (6.410%) C++
6 4 (5.128%) PHP5
7 3 (3.846%) Python
7 3 (3.846%) C
7 3 (3.846%) Perl
8 2 (2.564%) VB
8 2 (2.564%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.564%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (2.564%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.564%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.282%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.846%) WAI
2 1 (1.282%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.564%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 10 (12.82%) Zend
2 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.410%) Oracle
4 4 (5.128%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.564%) McAfee
5 2 (2.564%) Progress
5 2 (2.564%) Cisco
5 2 (2.564%) Sun
5 2 (2.564%) Juniper
5 2 (2.564%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.282%) NetApp
6 1 (1.282%) Perforce
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