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The first part of the 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Surrey region.

 PHP
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank223044
Rank change year-on-year
Up+8Up+14
Matching contract IT job ads583162
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey5.156 %3.388 %2.743 %
As % of the Programming Languages category13.00 %9.627 %7.390 %
Daily rates quoted361412
Average daily rate£350£250£290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00 %-13.79 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£227£203
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£314£380
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£273£264
% change year-on-year
-8.250 %+3.310 %
Hourly rates quoted007
Average hourly rate--£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£22.50£27.50
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-18.18 %
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
446322839
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey39.64 %35.19 %37.12 %
Daily rates quoted198127274
Average daily rate£333£280£320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£235£212£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£400£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4030112
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-13.33 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£23.00£12.50£25.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£50.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.780 %-13.57 %
PHP South EastPHP
South East

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.

PHP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PHP across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Surrey PHP Demand Trend

PHP
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Surrey PHP Daily Rate Histogram

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
WokingDown-711£375+36.36 %
GuildfordUp+145£350+65.09 %
StainesNew entry-2--
Thames DittonNew entry-1--
WeybridgeNew entry-1--
PHP South EastPHP
South East

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

143 (55.84 %)Oracle
235 (45.45 %)SQL
333 (42.86 %)PL/SQL
431 (40.26 %)HTML
530 (38.96 %)PHP5
628 (36.36 %)CSS
727 (35.06 %)Linux
821 (27.27 %)XHTML
920 (25.97 %)JavaScript
1018 (23.38 %)PHP4
1116 (20.78 %)jQuery
1116 (20.78 %)MySQL
1213 (16.88 %)OO
1312 (15.58 %)Home Office
1312 (15.58 %)Games
1411 (14.29 %)XML
1510 (12.99 %)UNIX
1510 (12.99 %)RDBMS
169 (11.69 %)Oracle 10g
178 (10.39 %)CMS
178 (10.39 %)Drupal
178 (10.39 %)Apache
187 (9.091 %)OOP
187 (9.091 %)E-Commerce
187 (9.091 %)Internet
187 (9.091 %)Oracle RAC
196 (7.792 %)TYPO3
196 (7.792 %)LAMP
196 (7.792 %)W3C
196 (7.792 %)Windows

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
131 (40.26 %)HTML
228 (36.36 %)CSS
321 (27.27 %)XHTML
416 (20.78 %)jQuery
511 (14.29 %)XML
66 (7.792 %)LAMP
66 (7.792 %)SOAP
74 (5.195 %).NET
83 (3.896 %)Symfony
92 (2.597 %)Zend Framework
92 (2.597 %)Silverlight
92 (2.597 %)VXML
92 (2.597 %)ASP.NET
101 (1.299 %)Web Services
101 (1.299 %)CGI
101 (1.299 %)Flash
101 (1.299 %)CPAN
101 (1.299 %)AJAX
101 (1.299 %)Ruby on Rails
101 (1.299 %)JSON
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
18 (10.39 %)CMS
18 (10.39 %)Drupal
18 (10.39 %)Apache
26 (7.792 %)TYPO3
34 (5.195 %)Joomla!
41 (1.299 %)Moodle
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (1.299 %)Photoshop
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
17 (9.091 %)Internet
24 (5.195 %)SAN
33 (3.896 %)HTTP
42 (2.597 %)TCP/IP
51 (1.299 %)SMTP
51 (1.299 %)FTP
51 (1.299 %)SSH
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
116 (20.78 %)MySQL
210 (12.99 %)RDBMS
39 (11.69 %)Oracle 10g
44 (5.195 %)Oracle 9i
51 (1.299 %)Oracle 8/8i
51 (1.299 %)SQL Server
51 (1.299 %)GIS
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (2.597 %)Subversion
21 (1.299 %)PEAR
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
112 (15.58 %)Home Office
112 (15.58 %)Games
22 (2.597 %)Education
22 (2.597 %)Manufacturing
31 (1.299 %)Marketing
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
157 (74.03 %)Developer
241 (53.25 %)PHP Developer
313 (16.88 %)Programmer
49 (11.69 %)Oracle Developer
57 (9.091 %)Web Developer
66 (7.792 %)PHP Programmer
75 (6.494 %)Analyst
75 (6.494 %)Systems Administrator
75 (6.494 %)Analyst Programmer
75 (6.494 %)Administrator
75 (6.494 %)Linux Systems Administrator
75 (6.494 %)Linux Administrator
75 (6.494 %)Front-End Developer
84 (5.195 %)Designer
93 (3.896 %)Applications Developer
93 (3.896 %)Web Designer
93 (3.896 %)Drupal Developer
102 (2.597 %)PHP Drupal Developer
102 (2.597 %)PHP Web Developer
102 (2.597 %)Perl Developer
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (7.792 %)W3C
25 (6.494 %)Open Source
31 (1.299 %)VLE
31 (1.299 %)Computer Science
31 (1.299 %)Remote Sensing
31 (1.299 %)iPhone
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
127 (35.06 %)Linux
210 (12.99 %)UNIX
36 (7.792 %)Windows
45 (6.494 %)AIX
45 (6.494 %)Red Hat Linux
54 (5.195 %)CentOS
61 (1.299 %)Solaris
61 (1.299 %)Android
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
113 (16.88 %)OO
27 (9.091 %)OOP
27 (9.091 %)E-Commerce
34 (5.195 %)Content Management
34 (5.195 %)Web Development
43 (3.896 %)MVC
52 (2.597 %)Web Design
52 (2.597 %)TDD
52 (2.597 %)ITIL
61 (1.299 %)SEO
61 (1.299 %)Data Management
61 (1.299 %)Cost-Benefit Analysis
61 (1.299 %)Enterprise Architecture
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
135 (45.45 %)SQL
233 (42.86 %)PL/SQL
330 (38.96 %)PHP5
420 (25.97 %)JavaScript
518 (23.38 %)PHP4
65 (6.494 %)Perl
65 (6.494 %)Shell Script
72 (2.597 %)Java
72 (2.597 %)C
72 (2.597 %)Bash shell
81 (1.299 %)C#
81 (1.299 %)C++
81 (1.299 %)VB.NET
81 (1.299 %)Ruby
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14 (5.195 %)RHCT
14 (5.195 %)RHCE
22 (2.597 %)Degree
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17 (9.091 %)Oracle RAC
24 (5.195 %)VMware ESX
31 (1.299 %)VMware Infrastructure
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (5.195 %)Cacti
14 (5.195 %)Nagios
Surrey IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
143 (55.84 %)Oracle
25 (6.494 %)Red Hat
25 (6.494 %)IBM
34 (5.195 %)Zend
34 (5.195 %)VMware
34 (5.195 %)HP
42 (2.597 %)Kerridge
42 (2.597 %)Adobe
42 (2.597 %)Sybase
51 (1.299 %)Cisco
51 (1.299 %)ESRI