The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City 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 9 - 14
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PHP 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 3.030% - 2.703%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.11% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
All Programming Languages
Welwyn Garden City
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
9 18 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 27.27% 43.90% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
Average daily rate £400 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £11.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -67.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
Hertfordshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WordPress
2 1 (50.00%) Magento
2 1 (50.00%) concrete5
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
1 1 (50.00%) Magento
1 1 (50.00%) concrete5
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Programmer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Zend