PHP Contracts in Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 21 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 Wales 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 43 40 55
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +15
Contract jobs citing PHP 2 15 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.472% 2.683% 0.933%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.550% 9.375% 2.913%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
Average daily rate £250 £175 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 129 160 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 30.42% 28.62% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 82 91
Average daily rate £325 £320 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £175 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 12
Average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -52.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
UK

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PHP across the Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 21 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
South Wales +3 1 £200 +4.57%
North Wales -1 1 £300 +20.00%
PHP
UK

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 10 (76.92%) HTML
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 8 (61.54%) MySQL
3 7 (53.85%) .NET
3 7 (53.85%) OO
3 7 (53.85%) HTML5
4 6 (46.15%) PHP5
4 6 (46.15%) CSS
5 5 (38.46%) Web Services
5 5 (38.46%) XML
6 4 (30.77%) Java
6 4 (30.77%) jQuery
6 4 (30.77%) Content Management
6 4 (30.77%) Ajax
6 4 (30.77%) WordPress
7 3 (23.08%) RESTful
7 3 (23.08%) Web Development
7 3 (23.08%) CSS3
7 3 (23.08%) UNIX
7 3 (23.08%) TDD
7 3 (23.08%) CMS
8 2 (15.38%) LAMP
8 2 (15.38%) CRM
8 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
8 2 (15.38%) OOP
8 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (15.38%) SQL
8 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
8 2 (15.38%) Ruby
8 2 (15.38%) Open Source

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 10 (76.92%) HTML
2 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) HTML5
3 6 (46.15%) CSS
4 5 (38.46%) Web Services
4 5 (38.46%) XML
5 4 (30.77%) jQuery
5 4 (30.77%) Ajax
6 3 (23.08%) RESTful
6 3 (23.08%) CSS3
7 2 (15.38%) LAMP
8 1 (7.692%) REST
8 1 (7.692%) Spring
8 1 (7.692%) Flash
8 1 (7.692%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) WordPress
2 3 (23.08%) CMS
3 2 (15.38%) Joomla!
3 2 (15.38%) Magento
3 2 (15.38%) Zen Cart
4 1 (7.692%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.692%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
1 2 (15.38%) Hudson
2 1 (7.692%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) PHP Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Junior
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) OO
2 4 (30.77%) Content Management
3 3 (23.08%) Web Development
3 3 (23.08%) TDD
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
4 2 (15.38%) OOP
4 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.692%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 6 (46.15%) PHP5
3 4 (30.77%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Ruby
5 1 (7.692%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
About us| Contact us| Copyright| Disclaimer| Privacy Policy & Cookies
Last Updated Tuesday 21 May 2013
IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Job Market
Copyright © 2004-2013 Paradigm Software (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.