West Yorkshire PHP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PHP skills within the West Yorkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Avon Barnstaple Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheshire City of London Clapham Cleckheaton County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Runcorn Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunderland Surrey Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wimbledon Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	73
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	18	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	2.675 %	3.571 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£225	-
Average daily rate	£245	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£265	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£265
% change on same period last year	+5.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.83	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£19.08	£32.00
% change on same period last year	-40.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.33	£36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.10	£28.16
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
Programming Languages West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	673	644
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.897 %	0.652 %
Daily rates quoted	140	80
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£296
Average daily rate	£302	£315
% change on same period last year	-4.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	45
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.96	£25.74
Average hourly rate	£27.74	£27.74
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.52	£29.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
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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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Leeds	-9	5	£215	-
Cleckheaton	-	4	-	-
Huddersfield	-	3	-	-
Dewsbury	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 22 (48.89 %) MySQL 2 21 (46.67 %) CSS 3 16 (35.56 %) XML 3 16 (35.56 %) Linux 3 16 (35.56 %) HTML 4 14 (31.11 %) SQL 5 12 (26.67 %) AJAX 6 11 (24.44 %) JavaScript 7 10 (22.22 %) .NET 8 9 (20.00 %) Apache 8 9 (20.00 %) XHTML 9 8 (17.78 %) E-Commerce 10 7 (15.56 %) ASP.NET 10 7 (15.56 %) CMS 11 5 (11.11 %) Java

11 5 (11.11 %) RSS 11 5 (11.11 %) UNIX 12 4 (8.889 %) SOAP 12 4 (8.889 %) C# 12 4 (8.889 %) Finance 12 4 (8.889 %) Web Development 13 3 (6.667 %) Marketing 13 3 (6.667 %) PHP5 13 3 (6.667 %) Flash 13 3 (6.667 %) LAMP 13 3 (6.667 %) Dreamweaver 13 3 (6.667 %) Red Hat 13 3 (6.667 %) VBA 13 3 (6.667 %) MS Office 13 3 (6.667 %) ASP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 21 (46.67 %) CSS 2 16 (35.56 %) HTML 2 16 (35.56 %) XML 3 12 (26.67 %) AJAX 4 10 (22.22 %) .NET 5 9 (20.00 %) XHTML 6 7 (15.56 %) ASP.NET 7 5 (11.11 %) RSS 8 4 (8.889 %) SOAP 9 3 (6.667 %) WebServices 9 3 (6.667 %) ASP 9 3 (6.667 %) LAMP 10 2 (4.444 %) Drupal 10 2 (4.444 %) XSL 11 1 (2.222 %) XSLT 11 1 (2.222 %) XML Schema 11 1 (2.222 %) Adobe Flex 11 1 (2.222 %) J2EE 11 1 (2.222 %) JSP 11 1 (2.222 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 9 (20.00 %) Apache 2 7 (15.56 %) CMS 3 2 (4.444 %) Tomcat 4 1 (2.222 %) SharePoint 4 1 (2.222 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (2.222 %) Joomla!
Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.444 %) Photoshop 3 1 (2.222 %) Acrobat 3 1 (2.222 %) Fireworks 3 1 (2.222 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.444 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (48.89 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) Flash 1 3 (6.667 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 4 (8.889 %) Finance 2 3 (6.667 %) Marketing 3 2 (4.444 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.222 %) Education 4 1 (2.222 %) Publishing 4 1 (2.222 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 36 (80.00 %) Developer 2 19 (42.22 %) Web Developer 3 17 (37.78 %) PHP Developer 4 6 (13.33 %) Programmer 5 5 (11.11 %) Applications Developer 6 4 (8.889 %) Web Applications Developer 6 4 (8.889 %) .NET Web Developer 6 4 (8.889 %) .NET Developer 6 4 (8.889 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (6.667 %) PHP Programmer 8 2 (4.444 %) MySQL Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) ASP Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) Website Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) HTML Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) Senior Developer 8 2 (4.444 %) Support Engineer 8 2 (4.444 %) 2nd Line Support 9 1 (2.222 %) Software Developer 9 1 (2.222 %) Junior 9 1 (2.222 %) Junior Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.222 %) NHS 1 1 (2.222 %) W3C 1 1 (2.222 %) BBC 1 1 (2.222 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 16 (35.56 %) Linux 2 5 (11.11 %) UNIX 3 2 (4.444 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (17.78 %) E-Commerce 2 4 (8.889 %) Web Development 3 1 (2.222 %) OO 3 1 (2.222 %) SEO 3 1 (2.222 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 14 (31.11 %) SQL 2 11 (24.44 %) JavaScript 3 5 (11.11 %) Java 4 4 (8.889 %) C# 5 3 (6.667 %) VBA 5 3 (6.667 %) PHP5 6 2 (4.444 %) FoxPro (VFP) 6 2 (4.444 %) Ruby 6 2 (4.444 %) Perl 6 2 (4.444 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (2.222 %) C 7 1 (2.222 %) ActionScript 7 1 (2.222 %) PHP4
Qualifications 1 1 (2.222 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (6.667 %) Red Hat 2 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 2 2 (4.444 %) Cisco 3 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.222 %) Adobe 3 1 (2.222 %) Zend