Wales PHP Contracts

The first part of the 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 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 Wales region.

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Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cheshire Chichester Cirencester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falmouth Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Harborough Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Ditton Tring Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	44	47	67
Rank change year-on-year	+3 +20
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4	7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales	0.190 %	0.800 %	0.649 %
As % of the Programming Languages category	0.676 %	2.439 %	1.823 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1	1
Average daily rate	-	£200	£250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- -20.00 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	£273	£264
% change year-on-year	-8.250 % +3.310 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£22.50	£27.50
% change year-on-year	-6.660 % -18.18 %
All Programming Languages Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Programming Languages category	148	164	384
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales	28.08 %	32.80 %	35.62 %
Daily rates quoted	60	45	84
Average daily rate	£325	£300	£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.330 % -14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£192	£209	£257
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£475	£450	£427
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	14	46
Average hourly rate	£19.50	£27.25	£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-28.44 % -22.14 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£10.20	£22.00	£30.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£110.00	£40.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.25	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-5.780 % -13.57 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PHP across the Wales region.

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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 across the Wales region.

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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 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.

Location	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	+5	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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 14 (87.50 %) CSS 2 11 (68.75 %) XML 2 11 (68.75 %) XSLT 2 11 (68.75 %) HTML 2 11 (68.75 %) JavaScript 3 10 (62.50 %) ActionScript 3 10 (62.50 %) Flash 4 9 (56.25 %) Perl 4 9 (56.25 %) Java 5 8 (50.00 %) Internet 6 6 (37.50 %) Games 6 6 (37.50 %) Project Management 7 5 (31.25 %) PRINCE2 7 5 (31.25 %) Multimedia 8 4 (25.00 %) XHTML

9 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 3 (18.75 %) Linux 9 3 (18.75 %) OO 9 3 (18.75 %) Apache 9 3 (18.75 %) MySQL 9 3 (18.75 %) Agile Software Development 9 3 (18.75 %) Information Architecture 10 2 (12.50 %) User Experience Design 10 2 (12.50 %) Open Source 10 2 (12.50 %) Web Development 10 2 (12.50 %) LAMP 10 2 (12.50 %) Subversion 10 2 (12.50 %) Zend 10 2 (12.50 %) W3C 10 2 (12.50 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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 14 (87.50 %) CSS 2 11 (68.75 %) XML 2 11 (68.75 %) XSLT 2 11 (68.75 %) HTML 3 10 (62.50 %) Flash 4 4 (25.00 %) XHTML 5 2 (12.50 %) LAMP 6 1 (6.250 %) JMX 6 1 (6.250 %) Zend Framework 6 1 (6.250 %) jQuery 6 1 (6.250 %) MooTools	Application Platforms 1 3 (18.75 %) Apache 2 1 (6.250 %) Tomcat 2 1 (6.250 %) Drupal 2 1 (6.250 %) Magento
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 8 (50.00 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) MySQL 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) Subversion 2 1 (6.250 %) JIRA
General 1 6 (37.50 %) Games 2 5 (31.25 %) Multimedia 3 1 (6.250 %) Government 3 1 (6.250 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 9 (56.25 %) Project Manager 2 8 (50.00 %) Technical Project Manager 2 8 (50.00 %) Technical Manager 3 6 (37.50 %) Developer 4 4 (25.00 %) PHP Developer 5 2 (12.50 %) Front-End Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) Web Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) Consultant 6 1 (6.250 %) Digital Project Manager 6 1 (6.250 %) Drupal Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) PHP Drupal Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) MySQL Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Open Source 1 2 (12.50 %) W3C 2 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System 2 1 (6.250 %) Wiki	Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) Linux 2 1 (6.250 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 5 (31.25 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (18.75 %) OO 3 3 (18.75 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (18.75 %) Information Architecture 4 2 (12.50 %) User Experience Design 4 2 (12.50 %) Web Development 4 2 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (6.250 %) DRM 5 1 (6.250 %) Scrum	Programming Languages 1 11 (68.75 %) JavaScript 2 10 (62.50 %) ActionScript 3 9 (56.25 %) Perl 3 9 (56.25 %) Java 4 2 (12.50 %) C 5 1 (6.250 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (6.250 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Zend