PHP5 Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP5 over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 5
Rank 401 396 419
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +23
Contract jobs citing PHP5 130 192 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.280% 0.329% 0.272%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.752% 0.953% 0.725%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 122 102
Average daily rate £307 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £298 £250
% change year-on-year
-3.36% +19.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +44.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year
- +160.00%
Search 149 PHP5 jobs
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 17282 20138 22889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.25% 34.53% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10652 11878 13292
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 718 916
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £17.50 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%

PHP5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PHP5 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

PHP5 Jobs Demand Trend

PHP5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP5 within the UK.

PHP5 Daily Rate Trend

PHP5
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP5 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

PHP5 Daily Rate Histogram

PHP5
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP5 within the UK.

PHP5 Hourly Rate Trend

PHP5
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 PHP5 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 -16 123 £313 -3.84%
London +37 82 £325 -7.14%
South East +7 22 £313 +4.25%
City of London +13 21 £325 -4.41%
East Sussex +15 7 £325 +15.55%
Brighton +12 7 £325 +15.55%
Yorkshire -11 6 £275 -2.65%
Berkshire +12 5 £300 +9.09%
North West +2 5 £213 -26.72%
Oxfordshire - 5 £285 -
Scotland - 5 £338 -
East of England +5 4 £215 -33.84%
Cambridge +4 4 £215 -28.92%
Cambridgeshire +2 4 £215 -28.92%
Hove - 4 - -
West Yorkshire -2 3 - -
Leeds -8 3 - -
Glasgow - 3 £375 -
South West +16 2 £281 -6.25%
Liverpool +8 2 - -
Merseyside +4 2 - -
Manchester -1 2 £213 -29.16%
South Yorkshire -4 2 - -
Hampshire -13 2 £185 -40.32%
Oxford - 2 £285 -
Slough - 2 £363 -
Hounslow - 2 - -
Edinburgh - 2 £300 -
Chiswick - 2 - -
Bristol +12 1 £313 +38.88%

PHP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PHP5 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 PHP5.

1 265 (100.00%) PHP
2 175 (66.04%) MySQL
3 157 (59.25%) CSS
4 150 (56.60%) JavaScript
5 123 (46.42%) HTML
6 119 (44.91%) jQuery
7 114 (43.02%) OO
8 102 (38.49%) Zend
9 88 (33.21%) HTML5
10 81 (30.57%) MVC
11 66 (24.91%) E-Commerce
12 65 (24.53%) LAMP
13 61 (23.02%) Subversion
14 58 (21.89%) CSS3
15 56 (21.13%) Linux
16 54 (20.38%) Drupal
17 53 (20.00%) Git (software)
18 48 (18.11%) OOP
19 47 (17.74%) Symfony
20 44 (16.60%) Magento
21 41 (15.47%) Zend Framework
21 41 (15.47%) Agile Software Development
22 40 (15.09%) Apache
22 40 (15.09%) XML
23 39 (14.72%) Ajax
24 37 (13.96%) CMS
25 33 (12.45%) SQL
26 30 (11.32%) Digital Media
27 28 (10.57%) Scrum
27 28 (10.57%) RESTful

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PHP5 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 PHP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 157 (59.25%) CSS
2 123 (46.42%) HTML
3 119 (44.91%) jQuery
4 88 (33.21%) HTML5
5 65 (24.53%) LAMP
6 58 (21.89%) CSS3
7 47 (17.74%) Symfony
8 41 (15.47%) Zend Framework
9 40 (15.09%) XML
10 39 (14.72%) Ajax
11 28 (10.57%) RESTful
12 26 (9.811%) XHTML
13 25 (9.434%) Web Services
14 21 (7.925%) SOAP
14 21 (7.925%) CodeIgniter
14 21 (7.925%) CakePHP
15 20 (7.547%) JSON
16 12 (4.528%) XSL
17 9 (3.396%) REST
18 7 (2.642%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 54 (20.38%) Drupal
2 44 (16.60%) Magento
3 40 (15.09%) Apache
4 37 (13.96%) CMS
5 26 (9.811%) WordPress
6 9 (3.396%) Joomla!
7 6 (2.264%) Amazon AWS
8 5 (1.887%) Apache Solr
8 5 (1.887%) concrete5
9 4 (1.509%) nginx
10 3 (1.132%) ExpressionEngine
11 2 (0.755%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.377%) IIS
12 1 (0.377%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.377%) TYPO3
12 1 (0.377%) SugarCRM
12 1 (0.377%) Moodle
12 1 (0.377%) SilverStripe
Applications
1 14 (5.283%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.755%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.377%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.019%) Internet
2 3 (1.132%) Intranet
3 1 (0.377%) Extranet
3 1 (0.377%) POP3
3 1 (0.377%) SMTP
3 1 (0.377%) HTTP
3 1 (0.377%) DNS
3 1 (0.377%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.377%) Wireless
3 1 (0.377%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (66.04%) MySQL
2 16 (6.038%) RDBMS
3 10 (3.774%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.264%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.887%) Redis
6 2 (0.755%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (0.755%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.755%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.377%) MS Access
7 1 (0.377%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.377%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.377%) SQLite
7 1 (0.377%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.377%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.377%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 61 (23.02%) Subversion
2 53 (20.00%) Git (software)
3 14 (5.283%) PHPUnit
4 6 (2.264%) Mercurial
5 4 (1.509%) Redmine
5 4 (1.509%) FogBugz
5 4 (1.509%) Trac
6 3 (1.132%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.755%) Selenium
7 2 (0.755%) JIRA
7 2 (0.755%) Bugzilla
General
1 21 (7.925%) Retail
2 9 (3.396%) Finance
3 8 (3.019%) Marketing
4 6 (2.264%) Publishing
5 5 (1.887%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.132%) Games
6 3 (1.132%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.755%) Electronics
8 1 (0.377%) Banking
8 1 (0.377%) Advertising
8 1 (0.377%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 257 (96.98%) Developer
2 196 (73.96%) PHP Developer
3 41 (15.47%) Web Developer
4 32 (12.08%) Senior Developer
4 32 (12.08%) Drupal Developer
5 29 (10.94%) Senior PHP Developer
6 24 (9.057%) PHP Web Developer
7 18 (6.792%) PHP Drupal Developer
8 16 (6.038%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 7 (2.642%) Programmer
9 7 (2.642%) PHP Programmer
10 6 (2.264%) Senior PHP Web Developer
10 6 (2.264%) Senior Web Developer
10 6 (2.264%) Lead Developer
11 5 (1.887%) Technical Leader
11 5 (1.887%) JavaScript Developer
11 5 (1.887%) Lead PHP Developer
11 5 (1.887%) Technical Developer
12 3 (1.132%) LAMP Developer
12 3 (1.132%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.32%) Digital Media
2 14 (5.283%) Open Source
3 10 (3.774%) W3C
4 7 (2.642%) Computer Science
5 4 (1.509%) SaaS
6 3 (1.132%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.132%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.755%) Social Media
7 2 (0.755%) DTV
8 1 (0.377%) Clustering
8 1 (0.377%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.377%) Streaming Media
8 1 (0.377%) Statistics
8 1 (0.377%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.377%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.377%) iPhone
8 1 (0.377%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.13%) Linux
2 4 (1.509%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.132%) UNIX
4 2 (0.755%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.755%) Android
4 2 (0.755%) Windows
5 1 (0.377%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.377%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (43.02%) OO
2 81 (30.57%) MVC
3 66 (24.91%) E-Commerce
4 48 (18.11%) OOP
5 41 (15.47%) Agile Software Development
6 28 (10.57%) Scrum
7 17 (6.415%) SOA
8 14 (5.283%) Web Development
9 13 (4.906%) TDD
10 10 (3.774%) SEO
10 10 (3.774%) Content Management
11 8 (3.019%) Unit Testing
11 8 (3.019%) OOD
12 7 (2.642%) Web Design
13 6 (2.264%) Continuous Integration
14 5 (1.887%) Business Intelligence
14 5 (1.887%) Kanban
14 5 (1.887%) Refactoring
14 5 (1.887%) Analytics
15 4 (1.509%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 265 (100.00%) PHP
2 150 (56.60%) JavaScript
3 33 (12.45%) SQL
4 11 (4.151%) PHP4
5 10 (3.774%) Java
6 7 (2.642%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.264%) Python
8 5 (1.887%) Ruby
9 4 (1.509%) C#
10 3 (1.132%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.755%) tcsh
11 2 (0.755%) Bash shell
11 2 (0.755%) Perl
11 2 (0.755%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.377%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.377%) VB
12 1 (0.377%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (4.906%) Degree
2 2 (0.755%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.377%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.755%) WAI
2 1 (0.377%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.755%) Varnish
2 1 (0.377%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 102 (38.49%) Zend
2 9 (3.396%) Adobe
2 9 (3.396%) Oracle
3 8 (3.019%) Twitter
4 7 (2.642%) Red Hat
4 7 (2.642%) Google
5 5 (1.887%) Salesforce.com
6 4 (1.509%) Facebook
6 4 (1.509%) SAP
7 3 (1.132%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.755%) Business Objects
8 2 (0.755%) JBoss
9 1 (0.377%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.377%) HP
9 1 (0.377%) Omniture
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