The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Lothian 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 West Lothian 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 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PHP 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 2.439% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.882% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
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
West Lothian
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17 10 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 41.46% 19.61% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 14
Average daily rate £375 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PHP
Scotland

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Lothian 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 West Lothian region.

West Lothian PHP Daily 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 West Lothian 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
Livingston - 1 £375 -
PHP
Scotland

PHP
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) ASP
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) ESB
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) CSS3
4 1 (16.67%) KnockoutJS

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) CSS
1 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) ASP
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) ESB
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Web Programmer
3 2 (33.33%) Programmer
4 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
Livingston, West Lothian
Expert in AJAX , JQuery and JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 Development. Knowledge of Javascript libraries of: durandal , knockout , require , backbone Experience with JSON , REST, JSON, XML, SOAP... Development experience...
Experis IT
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013