The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 23 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 Warwickshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 27 19 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Contract jobs citing PHP 1 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 0.488% 2.823% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.724% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £160 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
58 70 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 28.29% 28.23% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 32
Average daily rate £325 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £238 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
Average hourly rate £26.75 £16.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.12% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.00 £11.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £17.30 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
West Midlands

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leamington Spa +1 1 - -
PHP
West Midlands

PHP
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) IPv4
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) Handset
1 1 (50.00%) IVR
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Aastra
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) IPv4
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Telephony Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Web Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Joomla! Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Joomla! Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Handset
1 1 (50.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Aastra
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds