The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 34 34 31
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Permanent jobs citing PHP 104 146 151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 6.100% 7.203% 7.197%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.710% 9.444% 9.350%
Number of salaries quoted 95 136 145
Average salary £38,000 £34,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.14% +9.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,500 £24,100
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,000 £31,000
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +3.22%
All Programming Languages
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1194 1546 1615
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 70.03% 76.27% 76.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1103 1324 1479
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £51,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
Cambridgeshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge PHP Jobs Demand Trend

PHP
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridge PHP Salary Histogram

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PHP.

1 152 (75.62%) HTML
2 145 (72.14%) CSS
3 125 (62.19%) JavaScript
4 104 (51.74%) MySQL
5 94 (46.77%) Linux
6 71 (35.32%) jQuery
7 69 (34.33%) XML
8 66 (32.84%) SQL
8 66 (32.84%) Apache
9 62 (30.85%) Degree
10 60 (29.85%) Ajax
10 60 (29.85%) Java
11 55 (27.36%) Agile Software Development
12 47 (23.38%) .NET
13 41 (20.40%) Oracle
13 41 (20.40%) Android
14 39 (19.40%) SQL Server
14 39 (19.40%) C#
14 39 (19.40%) Python
15 38 (18.91%) Mobile App
16 36 (17.91%) Web Development
17 33 (16.42%) Subversion
18 31 (15.42%) TDD
18 31 (15.42%) Unit Testing
18 31 (15.42%) Apple iOS
18 31 (15.42%) XHTML
19 30 (14.93%) OO
19 30 (14.93%) Perl
20 28 (13.93%) Photoshop
20 28 (13.93%) LAMP

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PHP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 152 (75.62%) HTML
2 145 (72.14%) CSS
3 71 (35.32%) jQuery
4 69 (34.33%) XML
5 60 (29.85%) Ajax
6 47 (23.38%) .NET
7 31 (15.42%) XHTML
8 28 (13.93%) LAMP
9 27 (13.43%) Symfony
10 25 (12.44%) Web Services
11 20 (9.950%) ASP
12 17 (8.458%) ASP.NET
13 16 (7.960%) SOAP
14 14 (6.965%) JSON
15 12 (5.970%) CSS3
15 12 (5.970%) HTML5
15 12 (5.970%) Ruby on Rails
16 10 (4.975%) RESTful
16 10 (4.975%) WPF
16 10 (4.975%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 66 (32.84%) Apache
2 24 (11.94%) CMS
3 19 (9.453%) SharePoint
4 14 (6.965%) ColdFusion
5 13 (6.468%) Drupal
6 8 (3.980%) nginx
6 8 (3.980%) IIS
7 6 (2.985%) concrete5
8 5 (2.488%) WebLogic
8 5 (2.488%) WordPress
9 4 (1.990%) Magento
10 3 (1.493%) Zope
10 3 (1.493%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (1.493%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.995%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.498%) Jetty
Applications
1 28 (13.93%) Photoshop
2 20 (9.950%) MS Excel
3 4 (1.990%) MS Office
4 1 (0.498%) GIMP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.970%) Internet
2 10 (4.975%) Firewall
2 10 (4.975%) SAN
3 6 (2.985%) Intranet
4 5 (2.488%) HTTP
5 4 (1.990%) Network Security
6 1 (0.498%) DNS
6 1 (0.498%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.498%) DHCP
6 1 (0.498%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.498%) Wireless
6 1 (0.498%) SSH
6 1 (0.498%) VLAN
6 1 (0.498%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.498%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.498%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (51.74%) MySQL
2 39 (19.40%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.975%) Big Data
3 10 (4.975%) Crystal Reports
4 9 (4.478%) Firebird
5 7 (3.483%) Redis
6 3 (1.493%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (0.995%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.498%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.498%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (16.42%) Subversion
2 26 (12.94%) Git (software)
3 6 (2.985%) Firebug
4 5 (2.488%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.488%) Dreamweaver
5 3 (1.493%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.498%) PhoneGap
6 1 (0.498%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 5 (2.488%) Publishing
2 2 (0.995%) Retail
2 2 (0.995%) Finance
2 2 (0.995%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (0.498%) Electronics
3 1 (0.498%) Telecoms
3 1 (0.498%) Back Office
3 1 (0.498%) Banking
3 1 (0.498%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 162 (80.60%) Developer
2 74 (36.82%) Web Developer
3 63 (31.34%) PHP Developer
4 42 (20.90%) Senior Developer
5 34 (16.92%) Applications Developer
6 24 (11.94%) PHP Web Developer
7 22 (10.95%) Senior PHP Developer
8 19 (9.453%) UI Developer
9 17 (8.458%) UI Programmer
10 15 (7.463%) Web Applications Developer
11 13 (6.468%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.970%) Support Engineer
13 10 (4.975%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (3.483%) Systems Administrator
14 7 (3.483%) .NET Developer
14 7 (3.483%) Administrator
14 7 (3.483%) LAMP Developer
14 7 (3.483%) WPF Developer
15 6 (2.985%) Senior UI Developer
15 6 (2.985%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.91%) Mobile App
2 16 (7.960%) Computer Science
3 12 (5.970%) Handset
4 10 (4.975%) iPhone
5 7 (3.483%) Open Source
5 7 (3.483%) SaaS
6 6 (2.985%) Wiki
7 3 (1.493%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.493%) Life Science
7 3 (1.493%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.493%) New Media
8 2 (0.995%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.498%) Clustering
9 1 (0.498%) Streaming Media
9 1 (0.498%) PDA
9 1 (0.498%) Mathematics
9 1 (0.498%) EqualLogic
9 1 (0.498%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 94 (46.77%) Linux
2 41 (20.40%) Android
3 31 (15.42%) Apple iOS
4 23 (11.44%) Windows
5 17 (8.458%) UNIX
6 8 (3.980%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.493%) Debian
7 3 (1.493%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.995%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.995%) CentOS
8 2 (0.995%) Fedora
8 2 (0.995%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (27.36%) Agile Software Development
2 36 (17.91%) Web Development
3 31 (15.42%) TDD
3 31 (15.42%) Unit Testing
4 30 (14.93%) OO
5 19 (9.453%) MVC
5 19 (9.453%) Content Management
6 15 (7.463%) Mobile Application Development
7 9 (4.478%) OOP
7 9 (4.478%) Software Engineering
7 9 (4.478%) Asset Management
8 7 (3.483%) MVVM
9 6 (2.985%) Rapid Prototyping
10 5 (2.488%) E-Commerce
10 5 (2.488%) Business Analysis
11 4 (1.990%) Workflow
12 3 (1.493%) Analytics
12 3 (1.493%) DNA
12 3 (1.493%) Web Design
12 3 (1.493%) Bioinformatics
Programming Languages
1 125 (62.19%) JavaScript
2 66 (32.84%) SQL
3 60 (29.85%) Java
4 39 (19.40%) C#
4 39 (19.40%) Python
5 30 (14.93%) Perl
6 27 (13.43%) Ruby
7 19 (9.453%) Objective-C
8 14 (6.965%) C
9 13 (6.468%) VB
9 13 (6.468%) T-SQL
10 10 (4.975%) Bash shell
11 9 (4.478%) VB.NET
12 8 (3.980%) PHP5
13 5 (2.488%) VBScript
13 5 (2.488%) C++
14 4 (1.990%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.493%) Tcl
16 2 (0.995%) PHP4
16 2 (0.995%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (30.85%) Degree
2 8 (3.980%) Postgraduate
3 5 (2.488%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.995%) QA
1 2 (0.995%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.975%) NFS
2 9 (4.478%) Samba
3 3 (1.493%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.493%) OpenSSO
4 1 (0.498%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 3 (1.493%) Nagios
2 1 (0.498%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 41 (20.40%) Oracle
2 17 (8.458%) Zend
2 17 (8.458%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.960%) Adobe
4 15 (7.463%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.483%) IBM
6 2 (0.995%) Perforce
6 2 (0.995%) Apple
7 1 (0.498%) Cisco
7 1 (0.498%) Dell
7 1 (0.498%) Sage
7 1 (0.498%) NetApp
7 1 (0.498%) Stellent
7 1 (0.498%) Google
7 1 (0.498%) Facebook
7 1 (0.498%) Sencha
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Posted: 31 May 2013
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Salary: Competitive
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Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + industry leading benefits package!
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Generous Base + Benefits
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