The first table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP5 over the 3 months to 21 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 5
Rank 101 79 89
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +10
Permanent jobs citing PHP5 13 21 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.771% 1.450% 0.154%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.708% 3.187% 0.392%
Number of salaries quoted 13 20 2
Average salary £32,000 £30,250 £33,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.78% -9.02%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,900 £23,850
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £32,750 £42,650
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £31,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year
+9.67% -
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
761 659 510
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 45.14% 45.51% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 661 611 462
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP5
West Midlands

PHP5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PHP5 across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Birmingham PHP5 Jobs Demand Trend

PHP5
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PHP5 across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham PHP5 Salary Trend

PHP5
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP5 across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Birmingham PHP5 Salary Histogram

PHP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing PHP5 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PHP5.

1 19 (100.00%) PHP
2 16 (84.21%) MySQL
3 15 (78.95%) jQuery
4 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
5 11 (57.89%) MVC
6 10 (52.63%) CSS
6 10 (52.63%) Linux
7 9 (47.37%) HTML
8 8 (42.11%) Web Services
8 8 (42.11%) Zend
8 8 (42.11%) Zend Framework
9 7 (36.84%) Apache
10 6 (31.58%) OOP
10 6 (31.58%) Ajax
10 6 (31.58%) Web Development
10 6 (31.58%) Git (software)
11 5 (26.32%) Marketing
12 4 (21.05%) Google Analytics
12 4 (21.05%) Online Marketing
12 4 (21.05%) HTML5
12 4 (21.05%) Social Media
12 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
12 4 (21.05%) Analytics
12 4 (21.05%) Google
12 4 (21.05%) Pay per click
12 4 (21.05%) SEO
12 4 (21.05%) CRM
12 4 (21.05%) OO
13 3 (15.79%) Flash
13 3 (15.79%) SQL

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing PHP5 also 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 that cited PHP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (78.95%) jQuery
2 10 (52.63%) CSS
3 9 (47.37%) HTML
4 8 (42.11%) Web Services
4 8 (42.11%) Zend Framework
5 6 (31.58%) Ajax
6 4 (21.05%) HTML5
7 3 (15.79%) Flash
8 2 (10.53%) XHTML
9 1 (5.263%) XML
9 1 (5.263%) SOAP
9 1 (5.263%) REST
9 1 (5.263%) script.aculo.us
9 1 (5.263%) CakePHP
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) Apache
2 3 (15.79%) IIS
3 2 (10.53%) CMS
4 1 (5.263%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) Internet
1 1 (5.263%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (84.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 5 (26.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (78.95%) PHP Developer
3 4 (21.05%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Web Developer
4 3 (15.79%) MySQL Developer
5 2 (10.53%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Web Programmer
6 1 (5.263%) Programmer
6 1 (5.263%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (5.263%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Social Media
2 1 (5.263%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) MVC
2 6 (31.58%) OOP
2 6 (31.58%) Web Development
3 4 (21.05%) Online Marketing
3 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Analytics
3 4 (21.05%) Pay per click
3 4 (21.05%) SEO
3 4 (21.05%) CRM
3 4 (21.05%) OO
4 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) PHP
2 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) PHP4
4 1 (5.263%) ActionScript
4 1 (5.263%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Zend
2 4 (21.05%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.263%) Adobe
4 1 (5.263%) Red Hat
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Additionally a good grounding in OOP, Web Services, MySQL and JavaScript is required. On top of this if you have knowledge of some of the following areas it...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £26000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Your skills and experience: - Must have strong knowledge of PHP 5 / OOP and MySQL- Some experience of the Bootstrap CSS Framework and Codeigniter / MVC would be preferred but...
Salary: £22000 - £26000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Ideally you'll have knowledge of Ruby, JavaScript, CSS, XML, HTML, Apache, Linux and WML... - Zend Smarty, Symfony MVC framework exposure - Knowledge of PHP 5 Object Orientated PHP,...
BTR Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: From £18,000 to £22,000 per annum plus bens
Posted: 20 May 2013