PHP Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 22 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 Midlands 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 74 53 72
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +19
Contract jobs citing PHP 25 60 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.491% 2.626% 1.461%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.826% 7.722% 4.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 14
Average daily rate £250 £250 £250
90% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £160 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £300 £342
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.12% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £17.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+16.90% -29.00%
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 518 777 595
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 30.89% 34.00% 32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 394 306
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 30
Average hourly rate £36.25 £31.00 £23.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.93% +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.10 £12.65 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.50 £36.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
PHP
England

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 Midlands region.

West Midlands PHP Daily Rate Trend

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands PHP Daily Rate Histogram

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Birmingham -14 6 £288 +15.00%
Worcestershire -6 5 - -
Staffordshire +15 3 £225 -21.80%
Coventry +2 2 - -
Wolverhampton 0 1 - -
Warwickshire -10 1 - -
PHP
England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 27 (58.70%) MySQL
2 23 (50.00%) CSS
3 19 (41.30%) JavaScript
4 17 (36.96%) HTML
5 16 (34.78%) SQL
6 14 (30.43%) jQuery
7 11 (23.91%) SQL Server
8 10 (21.74%) Linux
9 9 (19.57%) OO
10 8 (17.39%) WordPress
10 8 (17.39%) HTML5
11 7 (15.22%) Joomla!
11 7 (15.22%) CMS
11 7 (15.22%) XML
11 7 (15.22%) Photoshop
11 7 (15.22%) .NET
12 6 (13.04%) C#
12 6 (13.04%) Zend
12 6 (13.04%) CSS3
13 5 (10.87%) Zend Framework
13 5 (10.87%) JSON
13 5 (10.87%) Web Development
13 5 (10.87%) Web Services
13 5 (10.87%) LAMP
14 4 (8.696%) W3C
14 4 (8.696%) ASP.NET
14 4 (8.696%) OOP
14 4 (8.696%) Apache
14 4 (8.696%) Adobe
14 4 (8.696%) Content Management

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 23 (50.00%) CSS
2 17 (36.96%) HTML
3 14 (30.43%) jQuery
4 8 (17.39%) HTML5
5 7 (15.22%) XML
5 7 (15.22%) .NET
6 6 (13.04%) CSS3
7 5 (10.87%) Zend Framework
7 5 (10.87%) JSON
7 5 (10.87%) Web Services
7 5 (10.87%) LAMP
8 4 (8.696%) ASP.NET
8 4 (8.696%) CodeIgniter
8 4 (8.696%) Ajax
9 3 (6.522%) XHTML
10 2 (4.348%) Django
10 2 (4.348%) CakePHP
10 2 (4.348%) REST
11 1 (2.174%) Symfony
11 1 (2.174%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 8 (17.39%) WordPress
2 7 (15.22%) Joomla!
2 7 (15.22%) CMS
3 4 (8.696%) Apache
3 4 (8.696%) Drupal
4 2 (4.348%) Magento
5 1 (2.174%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (2.174%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (2.174%) Pressflow
5 1 (2.174%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Photoshop
2 3 (6.522%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.348%) Internet
2 1 (2.174%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (2.174%) IPv4
2 1 (2.174%) VoIP
2 1 (2.174%) DHCP
2 1 (2.174%) HTTP
2 1 (2.174%) Intranet
2 1 (2.174%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (58.70%) MySQL
2 11 (23.91%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.522%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.348%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.348%) MS Access
4 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (4.348%) Dreamweaver
1 2 (4.348%) Git (software)
1 2 (4.348%) Subversion
2 1 (2.174%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 4 (8.696%) Retail
2 2 (4.348%) Marketing
3 1 (2.174%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 42 (91.30%) Developer
2 22 (47.83%) PHP Developer
3 9 (19.57%) Web Developer
4 3 (6.522%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (6.522%) Drupal Developer
4 3 (6.522%) Front-End Developer
4 3 (6.522%) .NET Developer
4 3 (6.522%) C# Developer
4 3 (6.522%) SQL Developer
5 2 (4.348%) Front-End Web Developer
5 2 (4.348%) PHP Joomla! Developer
5 2 (4.348%) MySQL Developer
5 2 (4.348%) PHP Web Developer
5 2 (4.348%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.348%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (2.174%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (2.174%) VoIP Engineer
6 1 (2.174%) BizTalk Developer
6 1 (2.174%) Junior PHP Developer
6 1 (2.174%) Oracle Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) W3C
2 2 (4.348%) VLE
2 2 (4.348%) Open Source
2 2 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.174%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.174%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (2.174%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.174%) Handset
3 1 (2.174%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 1 (2.174%) CentOS
2 1 (2.174%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) OO
2 5 (10.87%) Web Development
3 4 (8.696%) OOP
3 4 (8.696%) Content Management
4 3 (6.522%) Time Management
4 3 (6.522%) E-Commerce
5 2 (4.348%) SEO
5 2 (4.348%) Scrum
5 2 (4.348%) MVC
5 2 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (4.348%) Web Application Development
6 1 (2.174%) TDD
6 1 (2.174%) Data Management
6 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (2.174%) Information Architecture
6 1 (2.174%) Performance Testing
6 1 (2.174%) Unit Testing
6 1 (2.174%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (2.174%) User Experience Design
6 1 (2.174%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) JavaScript
2 16 (34.78%) SQL
3 6 (13.04%) C#
4 4 (8.696%) PHP5
5 2 (4.348%) Python
5 2 (4.348%) Java
6 1 (2.174%) C++
6 1 (2.174%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.174%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.174%) VBA
6 1 (2.174%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.174%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.174%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (2.174%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Zend
2 4 (8.696%) Adobe
3 2 (4.348%) Google
4 1 (2.174%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.174%) Appcelerator
4 1 (2.174%) Aastra
4 1 (2.174%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.174%) Oracle
4 1 (2.174%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.174%) NEC
4 1 (2.174%) VMware
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