PHP Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT contracts across the UK 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PHP Developer
Location Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Cirencester City of London Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Kettering Leeds Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	198	289
Rank change on same period last year	+91
Matching contract IT job ads	522	521
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.735 %	0.527 %
As % of the category below	0.829 %	0.576 %
Daily rates quoted	138	91
Average minimum daily rate	£236	£209
Average daily rate	£258	£225
% change on same period last year	+14.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£280	£242
UK excluding London average daily rate	£242	£240
% change on same period last year	+0.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.61	£24.86
Average hourly rate	£27.34	£27.81
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.06	£30.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.20	£28.66
% change on same period last year	-8.56 %
Job Titles UK
Matching contract IT job ads	62938	90413
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	88.61 %	91.37 %
Daily rates quoted	20390	27188
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£388
Average daily rate	£397	£413
% change on same period last year	-3.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	5734	7929
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.77	£23.81
Average hourly rate	£24.29	£25.37
% change on same period last year	-4.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.81	£26.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %

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.

PHP Developer
Demand Trend

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

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 10 October 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 within the UK.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 10 October 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
England	+65	500	£260	+15.95 %
London	+55	214	£266	+24.74 %
South East	+37	102	£244	+1.43 %
Yorkshire	+26	51	£268	-8.37 %
North West	+28	42	£254	-
South West	+15	38	£294	+20.71 %
West Yorkshire	+26	33	£268	-40.44 %
Surrey	+23	32	£231	+9.32 %
Manchester	+9	30	£271	-
City of London	+10	28	£287	-
Leeds	+19	27	£268	-40.44 %
Oxfordshire	-	25	£278	-
East Midlands	+15	22	-	-
Berkshire	+37	18	£304	-28.52 %
Camberley	-	16	£224	-
West Midlands	+10	13	£225	-2.32 %
East of England	+16	11	£100	-33.33 %
Buckinghamshire	+9	10	£187	-53.54 %
Reading	+16	10	£225	-
Hampshire	+11	9	£275	-15.38 %
Bristol	+15	9	-	-
Scotland	+33	9	£162	-
Cheshire	+11	8	£150	-
South Yorkshire	0	8	-	-
Derbyshire	0	8	-	-
Gloucestershire	-1	7	£325	+34.71 %
Oxford	-	6	£275	-
Sheffield	+4	5	-	-
Derby	-3	5	-	-
Devon	-	5	-	-

PHP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 1141 (100.00 %) PHP 2 788 (69.06 %) MySQL 3 521 (45.66 %) CSS 4 425 (37.25 %) JavaScript 5 409 (35.85 %) PHP5 6 390 (34.18 %) HTML 7 303 (26.56 %) XHTML 8 299 (26.21 %) XML 9 264 (23.14 %) AJAX 10 224 (19.63 %) LAMP 11 223 (19.54 %) Linux 12 177 (15.51 %) OO 13 165 (14.46 %) PHP4 14 164 (14.37 %) CMS 15 155 (13.58 %) Apache

16 149 (13.06 %) SQL 17 122 (10.69 %) OOP 18 106 (9.290 %) Zend 18 106 (9.290 %) Drupal 19 102 (8.940 %) E-Commerce 20 82 (7.187 %) Oracle 21 79 (6.924 %) Flash 22 72 (6.310 %) Web Development 22 72 (6.310 %) MVC 23 60 (5.259 %) Zend Framework 24 57 (4.996 %) Content Management 24 57 (4.996 %) SQL Server 25 53 (4.645 %) Dreamweaver 25 53 (4.645 %) Subversion 26 49 (4.294 %) .NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 1 521 (45.66 %) CSS 2 390 (34.18 %) HTML 3 303 (26.56 %) XHTML 4 299 (26.21 %) XML 5 264 (23.14 %) AJAX 6 224 (19.63 %) LAMP 7 106 (9.290 %) Drupal 8 72 (6.310 %) MVC 9 60 (5.259 %) Zend Framework 10 49 (4.294 %) Symfony 10 49 (4.294 %) .NET 11 43 (3.769 %) WebServices 12 39 (3.418 %) ASP 13 33 (2.892 %) XSLT 14 26 (2.279 %) CakePHP 15 23 (2.016 %) SOAP 16 22 (1.928 %) ASP.NET 17 18 (1.578 %) jQuery 18 17 (1.490 %) RSS 19 16 (1.402 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 164 (14.37 %) CMS 2 155 (13.58 %) Apache 3 39 (3.418 %) Joomla! 4 16 (1.402 %) ColdFusion 5 14 (1.227 %) WordPress 6 11 (0.964 %) IIS 7 10 (0.876 %) Tomcat 8 5 (0.438 %) SugarCRM 9 1 (0.088 %) TYPO3 9 1 (0.088 %) Plone 9 1 (0.088 %) WebLogic 9 1 (0.088 %) Mambo
Applications 1 32 (2.805 %) Photoshop 2 12 (1.052 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 7 (0.613 %) MS Office 3 7 (0.613 %) MS Excel 4 5 (0.438 %) Acrobat 5 4 (0.351 %) Fireworks 6 2 (0.175 %) MS Project 6 2 (0.175 %) MS Visio 7 1 (0.088 %) ImageReady 7 1 (0.088 %) QuarkXPress 7 1 (0.088 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 4 (0.351 %) Oracle Financials 2 2 (0.175 %) Navision 3 1 (0.088 %) WebTrends 3 1 (0.088 %) ResourceLink 3 1 (0.088 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 28 (2.454 %) Internet 2 13 (1.139 %) Intranet 2 13 (1.139 %) Firewall 3 6 (0.526 %) HTTP 4 5 (0.438 %) SSL 5 4 (0.351 %) Extranet 5 4 (0.351 %) SNMP 6 3 (0.263 %) HTTPS 6 3 (0.263 %) SMTP 6 3 (0.263 %) SSH 7 2 (0.175 %) FTP 7 2 (0.175 %) Broadband 7 2 (0.175 %) Wireless 8 1 (0.088 %) LAN 8 1 (0.088 %) SMS 8 1 (0.088 %) LDAP 8 1 (0.088 %) TCP/IP 8 1 (0.088 %) Network Security 8 1 (0.088 %) Wi-Fi	Database & Business Intelligence 1 788 (69.06 %) MySQL 2 57 (4.996 %) SQL Server 3 7 (0.613 %) Informix 3 7 (0.613 %) PostgreSQL 4 5 (0.438 %) SQL Server 2005 4 5 (0.438 %) RDBMS 5 2 (0.175 %) DTS 5 2 (0.175 %) Data Mining 5 2 (0.175 %) TOAD 5 2 (0.175 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (0.175 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.088 %) GIS 6 1 (0.088 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (0.088 %) MS Access 6 1 (0.088 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 79 (6.924 %) Flash 2 53 (4.645 %) Dreamweaver 2 53 (4.645 %) Subversion 3 3 (0.263 %) Eclipse 4 2 (0.175 %) Oracle APEX 4 2 (0.175 %) Zend Studio 5 1 (0.088 %) Ant	General 1 47 (4.119 %) Marketing 2 24 (2.103 %) Finance 3 20 (1.753 %) Education 4 14 (1.227 %) Games 5 12 (1.052 %) Advertising 6 10 (0.876 %) Publishing 7 7 (0.613 %) Retail 8 6 (0.526 %) Multimedia 9 5 (0.438 %) Telecoms 10 4 (0.351 %) Insurance 10 4 (0.351 %) Online Games 11 3 (0.263 %) Construction 11 3 (0.263 %) Graphic Design 11 3 (0.263 %) Interactive Media 11 3 (0.263 %) Government 12 2 (0.175 %) Automotive 13 1 (0.088 %) Aerospace 13 1 (0.088 %) Health 13 1 (0.088 %) Law 13 1 (0.088 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 34 (2.980 %) Social Network 2 23 (2.016 %) W3C 2 23 (2.016 %) Web 2.0 3 15 (1.315 %) Replication 4 13 (1.139 %) Clustering 5 9 (0.789 %) E-Learning 6 7 (0.613 %) Computer Science 7 6 (0.526 %) Streaming Video 8 5 (0.438 %) Blog 9 4 (0.351 %) Statistics 9 4 (0.351 %) Management Information System 9 4 (0.351 %) RIA 10 3 (0.263 %) VLE 11 2 (0.175 %) Derivative 11 2 (0.175 %) EPoS 11 2 (0.175 %) SCORM 12 1 (0.088 %) Equities 12 1 (0.088 %) Tandem 12 1 (0.088 %) Wiki 12 1 (0.088 %) Flash Lite	Operating Systems 1 223 (19.54 %) Linux 2 37 (3.243 %) UNIX 3 16 (1.402 %) Windows 4 13 (1.139 %) Debian 4 13 (1.139 %) Red Hat Linux 5 5 (0.438 %) FreeBSD 6 4 (0.351 %) Windows CE 7 1 (0.088 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.088 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 177 (15.51 %) OO 2 122 (10.69 %) OOP 3 102 (8.940 %) E-Commerce 4 72 (6.310 %) Web Development 5 57 (4.996 %) Content Management 6 27 (2.366 %) CRM 6 27 (2.366 %) Migration 7 22 (1.928 %) SEO 8 20 (1.753 %) OOD 9 15 (1.315 %) Web Design 10 11 (0.964 %) B2B 11 10 (0.876 %) Scrum 11 10 (0.876 %) UML 12 8 (0.701 %) Project Planning 13 7 (0.613 %) Data Migration 13 7 (0.613 %) B2C 14 6 (0.526 %) OOA/OOD 14 6 (0.526 %) Agile Software Development 15 3 (0.263 %) Requirements Analysis 15 3 (0.263 %) Software Engineering	Programming Languages 1 1141 (100.00 %) PHP 2 425 (37.25 %) JavaScript 3 409 (35.85 %) PHP5 4 165 (14.46 %) PHP4 5 149 (13.06 %) SQL 6 49 (4.294 %) Perl 7 34 (2.980 %) Java 8 32 (2.805 %) PL/SQL 8 32 (2.805 %) Python 9 31 (2.717 %) ActionScript 10 29 (2.542 %) DHTML 11 17 (1.490 %) Ruby 12 15 (1.315 %) COBOL 13 12 (1.052 %) Shell Script 14 10 (0.876 %) C 14 10 (0.876 %) C++ 14 10 (0.876 %) VB 15 9 (0.789 %) C# 16 6 (0.526 %) VB6 17 4 (0.351 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 15 (1.315 %) Degree 2 2 (0.175 %) MySQL Certification 3 1 (0.088 %) SCJA 3 1 (0.088 %) Postgraduate 3 1 (0.088 %) PhD 3 1 (0.088 %) SCJP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (0.351 %) WAI 2 2 (0.175 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (0.088 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 106 (9.290 %) Zend 2 82 (7.187 %) Oracle 3 17 (1.490 %) Adobe 4 15 (1.315 %) Red Hat 5 14 (1.227 %) Microsoft 6 12 (1.052 %) Google 7 8 (0.701 %) Macromedia 8 3 (0.263 %) Sony 9 2 (0.175 %) HP 9 2 (0.175 %) Motorola 10 1 (0.088 %) Apple 10 1 (0.088 %) Agresso 10 1 (0.088 %) Quark 10 1 (0.088 %) Mercator 10 1 (0.088 %) Northgate 10 1 (0.088 %) Yahoo! 10 1 (0.088 %) Cognos