The first table below looks at the demand for the PHP Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP Programmer
Rank 112 99 89
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a PHP Programmer 6 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.353% 0.067% 0.149%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.373% 0.070% 0.156%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 2
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -11.76%
UK excluding London average salary £32,750 £35,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-6.42% +16.66%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1610 1423 1284
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.71% 96.02% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1351 1272 1115
Average salary £42,255 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.34% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £23,750
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
PHP Programmer
West Midlands

PHP Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PHP Programmer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham PHP Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

PHP Programmer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PHP Programmer across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham PHP Programmer Salary Trend

PHP Programmer
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited PHP Programmer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with PHP Programmer in their job title.

1 10 (100.00%) PHP
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
1 10 (100.00%) WordPress
2 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 9 (90.00%) Facebook
3 7 (70.00%) Joomla!
3 7 (70.00%) Magento
3 7 (70.00%) MySQL
4 6 (60.00%) HTML
4 6 (60.00%) Zend
4 6 (60.00%) Drupal
4 6 (60.00%) CMS
5 4 (40.00%) Photoshop
5 4 (40.00%) XHTML
6 3 (30.00%) OOP
6 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (30.00%) Ajax
6 3 (30.00%) Subversion
6 3 (30.00%) CSS3
6 3 (30.00%) New Media
6 3 (30.00%) Sass
6 3 (30.00%) LESS
6 3 (30.00%) Semantic HTML
6 3 (30.00%) Open Source
6 3 (30.00%) HTML5
7 1 (10.00%) SEO

PHP Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited PHP Programmer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with PHP Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
2 9 (90.00%) jQuery
3 6 (60.00%) HTML
4 4 (40.00%) XHTML
5 3 (30.00%) Ajax
5 3 (30.00%) CSS3
5 3 (30.00%) Sass
5 3 (30.00%) LESS
5 3 (30.00%) Semantic HTML
5 3 (30.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) WordPress
2 7 (70.00%) Joomla!
2 7 (70.00%) Magento
3 6 (60.00%) Drupal
3 6 (60.00%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Subversion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) New Media
1 3 (30.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) OOP
2 1 (10.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Facebook
2 6 (60.00%) Zend