West Midlands PHP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PHP skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Avon Barnstaple Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Runcorn Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	103
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	49	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	4.804 %	1.938 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£120
Average daily rate	£283	£141
% change on same period last year	+101.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£162
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£251
% change on same period last year	+12.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.75	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£22.38	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+11.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.86	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-10.20 %
Programming Languages West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1020	1187
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.360 %	1.184 %
Daily rates quoted	226	224
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£286
Average daily rate	£305	£308
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	144
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.31	£25.61
Average hourly rate	£28.42	£27.45
% change on same period last year	+3.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.53	£29.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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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 West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+21	19	£314	-
Staffordshire	+5	9	-	-
Shropshire	-	5	-	-
Coventry	-	4	-	-
Herefordshire	+1	2	£175	+141.37 %
Warwickshire	+7	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 58 (63.04 %) MySQL 2 30 (32.61 %) HTML 3 28 (30.43 %) CSS 4 25 (27.17 %) JavaScript 5 21 (22.83 %) Linux 6 20 (21.74 %) XML 7 18 (19.57 %) Apache 8 17 (18.48 %) LAMP 9 16 (17.39 %) SQL Server 10 14 (15.22 %) Photoshop 10 14 (15.22 %) ASP 11 13 (14.13 %) PHP5 12 12 (13.04 %) XHTML 13 11 (11.96 %) Flash 13 11 (11.96 %) CMS

14 10 (10.87 %) E-Commerce 15 9 (9.783 %) OO 15 9 (9.783 %) .NET 15 9 (9.783 %) AJAX 16 8 (8.696 %) ColdFusion 17 7 (7.609 %) SQL 17 7 (7.609 %) Java 17 7 (7.609 %) Web Development 17 7 (7.609 %) Scrum 18 6 (6.522 %) Microsoft 18 6 (6.522 %) Internet 19 5 (5.435 %) Dreamweaver 19 5 (5.435 %) VB.NET 19 5 (5.435 %) ASP.NET 19 5 (5.435 %) Adobe

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 30 (32.61 %) HTML 2 28 (30.43 %) CSS 3 20 (21.74 %) XML 4 17 (18.48 %) LAMP 5 14 (15.22 %) ASP 6 12 (13.04 %) XHTML 7 9 (9.783 %) .NET 7 9 (9.783 %) AJAX 8 5 (5.435 %) ASP.NET 9 4 (4.348 %) J2EE 9 4 (4.348 %) WebServices 10 2 (2.174 %) XMPP 10 2 (2.174 %) Ruby on Rails 10 2 (2.174 %) Zend Framework 11 1 (1.087 %) CodeIgniter 11 1 (1.087 %) Drupal 11 1 (1.087 %) Ext JS 11 1 (1.087 %) .NET Framework 11 1 (1.087 %) Adobe Flex 11 1 (1.087 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 18 (19.57 %) Apache 2 11 (11.96 %) CMS 3 8 (8.696 %) ColdFusion 4 3 (3.261 %) Joomla! 5 2 (2.174 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.087 %) IIS
Applications 1 14 (15.22 %) Photoshop 2 2 (2.174 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.174 %) 3ds Max	Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.522 %) Internet 2 4 (4.348 %) FTP 3 1 (1.087 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.087 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 58 (63.04 %) MySQL 2 16 (17.39 %) SQL Server 3 3 (3.261 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (2.174 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 11 (11.96 %) Flash 2 5 (5.435 %) Dreamweaver 2 5 (5.435 %) Zend Studio 3 4 (4.348 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (4.348 %) Subversion 4 3 (3.261 %) Selenium 5 1 (1.087 %) FitNesse 5 1 (1.087 %) WATIR
General 1 3 (3.261 %) Education 2 2 (2.174 %) Back Office 2 2 (2.174 %) Telecoms 2 2 (2.174 %) Retail 3 1 (1.087 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (1.087 %) Finance 3 1 (1.087 %) Automotive 3 1 (1.087 %) Government 3 1 (1.087 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.087 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 69 (75.00 %) Developer 2 30 (32.61 %) PHP Developer 3 26 (28.26 %) Web Developer 4 5 (5.435 %) PHP Web Developer 5 4 (4.348 %) Solutions Consultant 5 4 (4.348 %) MySQL Developer 5 4 (4.348 %) Consultant 5 4 (4.348 %) Flash Developer 5 4 (4.348 %) .NET Developer 5 4 (4.348 %) ASP Developer 6 3 (3.261 %) Test Engineer 7 2 (2.174 %) Web Designer 7 2 (2.174 %) Analyst 7 2 (2.174 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (2.174 %) 3rd Line Support 7 2 (2.174 %) Systems Analyst 7 2 (2.174 %) LAMP Developer 7 2 (2.174 %) Linux Support 8 1 (1.087 %) Senior Linux Administrator 8 1 (1.087 %) Photoshop Designer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.435 %) Web 2.0 2 3 (3.261 %) NHS 3 2 (2.174 %) W3C 3 2 (2.174 %) E-Learning 4 1 (1.087 %) Streaming Media	Operating Systems 1 21 (22.83 %) Linux 2 4 (4.348 %) UNIX 2 4 (4.348 %) Windows 3 2 (2.174 %) VMS 3 2 (2.174 %) OpenVMS 4 1 (1.087 %) Debian
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (10.87 %) E-Commerce 2 9 (9.783 %) OO 3 7 (7.609 %) Scrum 3 7 (7.609 %) Web Development 4 4 (4.348 %) SOA 5 3 (3.261 %) Web Design 5 3 (3.261 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (3.261 %) Automated Testing 5 3 (3.261 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (2.174 %) SEO 7 1 (1.087 %) Workflow 7 1 (1.087 %) ERP 7 1 (1.087 %) Information Management 7 1 (1.087 %) B2B 7 1 (1.087 %) B2C 7 1 (1.087 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.087 %) E-business 7 1 (1.087 %) CRM 7 1 (1.087 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.087 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 25 (27.17 %) JavaScript 2 13 (14.13 %) PHP5 3 7 (7.609 %) SQL 3 7 (7.609 %) Java 4 5 (5.435 %) VB.NET 5 4 (4.348 %) ActionScript 5 4 (4.348 %) Perl 6 3 (3.261 %) Python 6 3 (3.261 %) PHP4 6 3 (3.261 %) Ruby 7 2 (2.174 %) PowerHouse 7 2 (2.174 %) DCL 7 2 (2.174 %) C 7 2 (2.174 %) C# 7 2 (2.174 %) VB 8 1 (1.087 %) VBScript 8 1 (1.087 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (1.087 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.261 %) WAI
System Software 1 3 (3.261 %) MSMQ 2 2 (2.174 %) Samba	Vendors 1 6 (6.522 %) Microsoft 2 5 (5.435 %) Adobe 2 5 (5.435 %) Zend 3 2 (2.174 %) SAP