The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 31 32 59
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +27
Contract jobs citing PHP 103 100 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 5.427% 4.363% 2.422%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.93% 13.23% 7.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 76 24
Average daily rate £275 £280 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% +21.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £200 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £404 £325 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £275 £250
% change year-on-year
- +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
Average hourly rate £14.00 - £16.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.40 - £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.30 - £20.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.58 £17.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+29.02% -22.22%
All Programming Languages
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
690 756 619
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 36.35% 32.98% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 441 302
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £409 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 37
Average hourly rate £17.00 £21.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.83% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PHP
England

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire PHP Hourly Rate Trend

PHP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PHP across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire PHP Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
West Yorkshire +19 88 £275 -1.78%
South Yorkshire -9 9 £200 -16.66%
North Yorkshire -8 5 £228 -5.20%
East Yorkshire -5 1 - -
PHP
England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 104 (62.65%) MySQL
2 86 (51.81%) Linux
3 79 (47.59%) Apache
4 57 (34.34%) CSS
5 54 (32.53%) Web Services
6 50 (30.12%) Oracle
6 50 (30.12%) Python
7 45 (27.11%) C++
7 45 (27.11%) Java
7 45 (27.11%) Internet
8 44 (26.51%) Ruby
9 43 (25.90%) JavaScript
10 42 (25.30%) DNS
10 42 (25.30%) Amazon AWS
10 42 (25.30%) Bash shell
10 42 (25.30%) Node.js
11 40 (24.10%) nginx
12 39 (23.49%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (23.49%) Amazon S3
12 39 (23.49%) MongoDB
12 39 (23.49%) Kanban
12 39 (23.49%) Redis
12 39 (23.49%) Route 53
12 39 (23.49%) Amazon RDS
13 38 (22.89%) Agile Software Development
14 36 (21.69%) HTML
15 35 (21.08%) Configuration Management
15 35 (21.08%) Puppet
16 34 (20.48%) OO
17 33 (19.88%) LAMP

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 57 (34.34%) CSS
2 54 (32.53%) Web Services
3 42 (25.30%) Node.js
4 36 (21.69%) HTML
5 33 (19.88%) LAMP
6 31 (18.67%) Symfony
7 29 (17.47%) jQuery
8 27 (16.27%) HTML5
9 24 (14.46%) XML
10 21 (12.65%) CSS3
11 18 (10.84%) Ajax
12 16 (9.639%) POSIX
12 16 (9.639%) J2EE
13 13 (7.831%) XSLT
14 12 (7.229%) XHTML
15 11 (6.627%) SOAP
16 10 (6.024%) .NET
17 9 (5.422%) REST
18 7 (4.217%) JSON
18 7 (4.217%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 79 (47.59%) Apache
2 42 (25.30%) Amazon AWS
3 40 (24.10%) nginx
4 39 (23.49%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (23.49%) Amazon S3
4 39 (23.49%) Route 53
5 27 (16.27%) Tomcat
6 9 (5.422%) WordPress
7 7 (4.217%) Apache Solr
7 7 (4.217%) Adobe CQ
8 4 (2.410%) Magento
9 3 (1.807%) IIS
9 3 (1.807%) CMS
10 2 (1.205%) ActiveMQ
10 2 (1.205%) ESB
10 2 (1.205%) SharePoint
10 2 (1.205%) Drupal
11 1 (0.602%) Moodle
11 1 (0.602%) Windows Azure
11 1 (0.602%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (1.205%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.602%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (7.831%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.602%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 45 (27.11%) Internet
2 42 (25.30%) DNS
3 26 (15.66%) HTTP
4 20 (12.05%) DHCP
5 19 (11.45%) SSL
6 18 (10.84%) TCP/IP
7 17 (10.24%) Firewall
8 13 (7.831%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (2.410%) SSH
10 2 (1.205%) BIG-IP
10 2 (1.205%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (0.602%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.602%) NAS
11 1 (0.602%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.602%) Network Security
11 1 (0.602%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.602%) NetScreen
11 1 (0.602%) Intranet
11 1 (0.602%) FTP
11 1 (0.602%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (62.65%) MySQL
2 39 (23.49%) MongoDB
2 39 (23.49%) Redis
2 39 (23.49%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (12.65%) SQL Server
4 19 (11.45%) NoSQL
5 17 (10.24%) RDBMS
6 16 (9.639%) SimpleDB
6 16 (9.639%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.205%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.602%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.602%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 28 (16.87%) PHPUnit
2 8 (4.819%) Maven
3 7 (4.217%) Git (software)
3 7 (4.217%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.807%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.205%) Subversion
6 1 (0.602%) CruiseControl
General
1 25 (15.06%) Telecoms
2 9 (5.422%) Games
3 4 (2.410%) Retail
3 4 (2.410%) Online Betting
4 2 (1.205%) Marketing
4 2 (1.205%) Back Office
4 2 (1.205%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.602%) Finance
5 1 (0.602%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 91 (54.82%) Developer
2 60 (36.14%) PHP Developer
3 26 (15.66%) Software Engineer
4 24 (14.46%) Architect
5 16 (9.639%) Web Developer
6 10 (6.024%) Infrastructure Architect
7 9 (5.422%) Operations Engineer
8 8 (4.819%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 8 (4.819%) PHP Web Developer
8 8 (4.819%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.217%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.012%) Programmer
10 5 (3.012%) Software Developer
11 3 (1.807%) Applications Support
11 3 (1.807%) Applications Developer
11 3 (1.807%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (1.807%) Systems Developer
11 3 (1.807%) PHP Programmer
11 3 (1.807%) Linux Engineer
11 3 (1.807%) Mobile Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.27%) Client/Server
2 9 (5.422%) Open Source
3 7 (4.217%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.012%) Clustering
4 5 (3.012%) RIA
5 4 (2.410%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.807%) iPhone
6 3 (1.807%) NHS
6 3 (1.807%) W3C
7 2 (1.205%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.205%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.602%) Social Media
8 1 (0.602%) Web 2.0
8 1 (0.602%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.602%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 86 (51.81%) Linux
2 16 (9.639%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (7.831%) UNIX
4 10 (6.024%) Windows
5 7 (4.217%) HPUX
6 5 (3.012%) Solaris
7 4 (2.410%) AIX
8 3 (1.807%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.807%) Android
9 2 (1.205%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.205%) CentOS
9 2 (1.205%) Debian
10 1 (0.602%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.602%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.602%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (23.49%) Kanban
2 38 (22.89%) Agile Software Development
3 35 (21.08%) Configuration Management
4 34 (20.48%) OO
5 30 (18.07%) TDD
6 26 (15.66%) Test Automation
7 24 (14.46%) Scrum
8 23 (13.86%) MVC
9 19 (11.45%) E-Commerce
9 19 (11.45%) Security Testing
10 17 (10.24%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (10.24%) Incident Management
10 17 (10.24%) Load Balancing
11 16 (9.639%) Web Development
11 16 (9.639%) Capacity Management
12 9 (5.422%) SOA
13 8 (4.819%) OOP
14 7 (4.217%) Project Management
14 7 (4.217%) Software Engineering
14 7 (4.217%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (30.12%) Python
2 45 (27.11%) C++
2 45 (27.11%) Java
3 44 (26.51%) Ruby
4 43 (25.90%) JavaScript
5 42 (25.30%) Bash shell
6 26 (15.66%) Perl
7 17 (10.24%) PHP5
8 14 (8.434%) SQL
9 7 (4.217%) C#
10 3 (1.807%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.807%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.205%) XPath
11 2 (1.205%) C
12 1 (0.602%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.602%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.602%) VB
12 1 (0.602%) PHP4
Qualifications
1 4 (2.410%) Degree
2 1 (0.602%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.602%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.602%) MCP
2 1 (0.602%) MCSE
2 1 (0.602%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.614%) QA
2 2 (1.205%) WAI
System Software
1 10 (6.024%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.205%) VMware Server
2 2 (1.205%) vSphere
3 1 (0.602%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.602%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.602%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.602%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 35 (21.08%) Puppet
2 3 (1.807%) CA Wily
3 2 (1.205%) OpenView
4 1 (0.602%) Nagios
4 1 (0.602%) Cacti
4 1 (0.602%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 50 (30.12%) Oracle
2 18 (10.84%) Red Hat
3 17 (10.24%) Percona
4 12 (7.229%) VMware
5 10 (6.024%) Zend
6 8 (4.819%) Adobe
7 7 (4.217%) hybris
8 4 (2.410%) HP
9 3 (1.807%) JBoss
9 3 (1.807%) Cisco
9 3 (1.807%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.807%) Juniper
10 2 (1.205%) F5
10 2 (1.205%) Lagan
11 1 (0.602%) Google
11 1 (0.602%) Brocade
11 1 (0.602%) Syncsort
11 1 (0.602%) NetApp
11 1 (0.602%) Blue Coat
11 1 (0.602%) CheckPoint
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