The first table below looks at the demand for the PHP Web Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP Web 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 currently tracked.

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 Web Developer
Rank 488 534 556
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +22
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Web Developer 42 44 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.091% 0.076% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.081% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 21 11
Average daily rate £233 £230 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.08% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £188 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £382 £300 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £230 £225
% change year-on-year
-7.60% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £19.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -24.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year
- -12.64%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

PHP Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

PHP Web Developer Jobs Demand Trend

PHP Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

PHP Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

PHP Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP Web Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

PHP Web Developer Daily Rate Histogram

PHP Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP Web Developer within the UK.

PHP Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

PHP Web Developer
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 Web Developer within the UK 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
England +46 41 £240 +4.34%
London +28 13 £250 -10.71%
South East +29 11 £248 -
Buckinghamshire - 8 £210 -
Yorkshire +2 6 £200 +7.38%
South West +25 5 £260 +13.04%
East of England +16 5 £175 -30.00%
East Midlands +1 5 £253 +12.22%
Milton Keynes - 5 £210 -
South Yorkshire - 4 £200 -
West Yorkshire +4 3 £195 +4.69%
Leeds -6 3 £195 +21.87%
Luton - 3 £175 -
Bedford - 3 £175 -
Bedfordshire - 3 £175 -
Hertfordshire - 3 £175 -
City of London - 3 £410 -
Cambridgeshire +12 2 £188 -16.66%
Oxfordshire +10 2 £295 -
North West +10 2 £213 +12.58%
Manchester +9 2 £213 -13.26%
Bath +4 2 £260 +13.04%
Somerset +4 2 £260 +13.04%
Leicestershire -4 2 £253 -
Oxford - 2 £295 -
Sheffield - 2 - -
Watford - 2 £175 -
Berkshire +14 1 - -
Derbyshire +14 1 - -
Northamptonshire +13 1 - -

PHP Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited PHP Web 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 Web Developer in their job title.

1 75 (100.00%) PHP
2 49 (65.33%) CSS
3 46 (61.33%) MySQL
4 42 (56.00%) HTML
5 37 (49.33%) JavaScript
6 35 (46.67%) jQuery
7 25 (33.33%) PHP5
7 25 (33.33%) MVC
8 20 (26.67%) OO
9 19 (25.33%) E-Commerce
10 18 (24.00%) Drupal
11 17 (22.67%) Zend
12 16 (21.33%) CSS3
12 16 (21.33%) CMS
13 15 (20.00%) Ajax
13 15 (20.00%) HTML5
14 14 (18.67%) Magento
14 14 (18.67%) LAMP
14 14 (18.67%) Linux
15 11 (14.67%) Degree
16 10 (13.33%) Web Development
16 10 (13.33%) Retail
16 10 (13.33%) Symfony
17 9 (12.00%) CodeIgniter
17 9 (12.00%) WordPress
18 8 (10.67%) XML
19 7 (9.333%) Web Services
19 7 (9.333%) JSON
19 7 (9.333%) Agile Software Development
20 6 (8.000%) XHTML

PHP Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited PHP Web 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 Web Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 49 (65.33%) CSS
2 42 (56.00%) HTML
3 35 (46.67%) jQuery
4 16 (21.33%) CSS3
5 15 (20.00%) HTML5
5 15 (20.00%) Ajax
6 14 (18.67%) LAMP
7 10 (13.33%) Symfony
8 9 (12.00%) CodeIgniter
9 8 (10.67%) XML
10 7 (9.333%) Web Services
10 7 (9.333%) JSON
11 6 (8.000%) XHTML
12 4 (5.333%) SOAP
13 3 (4.000%) REST
14 2 (2.667%) Flash
15 1 (1.333%) .NET
15 1 (1.333%) XML-RPC
15 1 (1.333%) CakePHP
15 1 (1.333%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 18 (24.00%) Drupal
2 16 (21.33%) CMS
3 14 (18.67%) Magento
4 9 (12.00%) WordPress
5 6 (8.000%) Amazon AWS
6 5 (6.667%) concrete5
7 3 (4.000%) Joomla!
7 3 (4.000%) Apache
8 1 (1.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.667%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.333%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.667%) Intranet
2 1 (1.333%) Internet
2 1 (1.333%) Extranet
2 1 (1.333%) IMAP
2 1 (1.333%) POP3
2 1 (1.333%) SMTP
2 1 (1.333%) HTTP
2 1 (1.333%) DNS
2 1 (1.333%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (61.33%) MySQL
2 6 (8.000%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.333%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (8.000%) Git (software)
2 5 (6.667%) Subversion
3 2 (2.667%) PHPUnit
General
1 10 (13.33%) Retail
2 3 (4.000%) Marketing
3 2 (2.667%) Games
4 1 (1.333%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.667%) Digital Media
2 2 (2.667%) Web 2.0
3 1 (1.333%) Social Network
3 1 (1.333%) Semantic Web
3 1 (1.333%) Open Source
3 1 (1.333%) SaaS
3 1 (1.333%) Linked Data
3 1 (1.333%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.333%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.333%) E-Learning
3 1 (1.333%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Linux
2 2 (2.667%) Windows
3 1 (1.333%) UNIX
3 1 (1.333%) FreeBSD
3 1 (1.333%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.33%) MVC
2 20 (26.67%) OO
3 19 (25.33%) E-Commerce
4 10 (13.33%) Web Development
5 7 (9.333%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (6.667%) Refactoring
7 4 (5.333%) Kanban
7 4 (5.333%) B2C
8 3 (4.000%) TDD
8 3 (4.000%) SEO
9 2 (2.667%) Migration
9 2 (2.667%) Content Management
10 1 (1.333%) CRM
10 1 (1.333%) Software Architecture
10 1 (1.333%) BDD
10 1 (1.333%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 75 (100.00%) PHP
2 37 (49.33%) JavaScript
3 25 (33.33%) PHP5
4 4 (5.333%) SQL
5 1 (1.333%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.333%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.333%) Python
5 1 (1.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (1.333%) Plesk
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Zend
2 4 (5.333%) Adobe
3 2 (2.667%) Google
3 2 (2.667%) Facebook
4 1 (1.333%) Twitter
4 1 (1.333%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.333%) Red Hat
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My client based in Liverpool. are currently recruiting for a number of PHP Web Developers. You will be writing code for a web enabled commercial website in a...
The Bridge Ltd
Rate: Up to £35,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bath, South West
PHP web applications developer (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) Opus Recruitment Solutions are seeking an experienced PHP web applications developer (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for an initial...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP320 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
Derby, East Midlands
The skills and experience needed to fulfill the role, you must: Essentials: - PHP - HTML5 -CSS3 -Sql Desirables: - Version control systems such as SVN is an advantage - An understanding...
Computer Futures
Rate: £180 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
working in a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - developing software to use TCP, DNS and HTTP... - NoSQL solutions (Mongo DB, Simple DB, Membase, Redis) - RDBMS technologies (MySQL) -...
Hotfoot Resourcing.
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013