The first table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP5 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 of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 5
Rank 254 274 284
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +10
Permanent jobs citing PHP5 67 49 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.574% 0.375% 0.305%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.069% 0.703% 0.560%
Number of salaries quoted 62 49 39
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,600 £30,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £31,000 £30,250
% change year-on-year
+9.67% +2.47%
All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6266 6970 8398
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 53.72% 53.35% 54.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5543 6523 7549
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP5
London

PHP5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London PHP5 Salary Trend

PHP5
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP5 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London PHP5 Salary Histogram

PHP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 131 (100.00%) PHP
2 105 (80.15%) JavaScript
3 99 (75.57%) CSS
4 95 (72.52%) MySQL
5 82 (62.60%) HTML
6 78 (59.54%) jQuery
7 57 (43.51%) MVC
8 56 (42.75%) HTML5
9 54 (41.22%) OO
10 50 (38.17%) Zend
11 43 (32.82%) Linux
12 42 (32.06%) CSS3
13 36 (27.48%) OOP
14 31 (23.66%) Git (software)
15 27 (20.61%) Drupal
15 27 (20.61%) Subversion
16 26 (19.85%) Ajax
16 26 (19.85%) LAMP
16 26 (19.85%) E-Commerce
17 25 (19.08%) Web Development
17 25 (19.08%) Symfony
18 24 (18.32%) Zend Framework
19 22 (16.79%) Scrum
20 21 (16.03%) Marketing
20 21 (16.03%) Agile Software Development
20 21 (16.03%) SQL
21 19 (14.50%) TDD
21 19 (14.50%) Games
21 19 (14.50%) RESTful
22 16 (12.21%) CodeIgniter

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 99 (75.57%) CSS
2 82 (62.60%) HTML
3 78 (59.54%) jQuery
4 56 (42.75%) HTML5
5 42 (32.06%) CSS3
6 26 (19.85%) Ajax
6 26 (19.85%) LAMP
7 25 (19.08%) Symfony
8 24 (18.32%) Zend Framework
9 19 (14.50%) RESTful
10 16 (12.21%) CodeIgniter
11 15 (11.45%) Web Services
12 14 (10.69%) CakePHP
13 13 (9.924%) XML
14 12 (9.160%) XSLT
15 9 (6.870%) JSON
15 9 (6.870%) Node.js
16 8 (6.107%) REST
16 8 (6.107%) XHTML
16 8 (6.107%) script.aculo.us
Application Platforms
1 27 (20.61%) Drupal
2 16 (12.21%) WordPress
3 14 (10.69%) Magento
4 13 (9.924%) Apache
5 7 (5.344%) nginx
6 6 (4.580%) ExpressionEngine
7 5 (3.817%) CMS
8 4 (3.053%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.763%) IIS
9 1 (0.763%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.763%) Amazon AWS
9 1 (0.763%) concrete5
9 1 (0.763%) Facebook Platform
Applications
1 6 (4.580%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.870%) Internet
2 8 (6.107%) HTTP
3 3 (2.290%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.763%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (72.52%) MySQL
2 5 (3.817%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.817%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.053%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.290%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.763%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.763%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.763%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.763%) Big Data
5 1 (0.763%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (23.66%) Git (software)
2 27 (20.61%) Subversion
3 8 (6.107%) PHPUnit
4 3 (2.290%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.763%) JUnit
5 1 (0.763%) Selenium
5 1 (0.763%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.763%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.763%) FogBugz
5 1 (0.763%) Trac
5 1 (0.763%) Behat
General
1 21 (16.03%) Marketing
2 19 (14.50%) Games
3 12 (9.160%) Publishing
4 5 (3.817%) Back Office
4 5 (3.817%) Retail
5 3 (2.290%) Finance
6 2 (1.527%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.763%) Russian Language
7 1 (0.763%) Legal
7 1 (0.763%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 117 (89.31%) Developer
2 82 (62.60%) PHP Developer
3 32 (24.43%) Senior Developer
4 23 (17.56%) Senior PHP Developer
5 19 (14.50%) Web Developer
6 12 (9.160%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 11 (8.397%) Drupal Developer
8 8 (6.107%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.580%) Junior
10 5 (3.817%) Junior PHP Developer
10 5 (3.817%) Junior Developer
11 4 (3.053%) Senior Web Developer
11 4 (3.053%) Lead Developer
12 3 (2.290%) LAMP Developer
13 2 (1.527%) Lead PHP Developer
13 2 (1.527%) PHP Drupal Developer
14 1 (0.763%) Support Engineer
14 1 (0.763%) Consultant
14 1 (0.763%) Applications Developer
14 1 (0.763%) Senior PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.69%) Computer Science
1 14 (10.69%) Open Source
2 11 (8.397%) Online Games
3 5 (3.817%) Social Network
3 5 (3.817%) Graphic Design
4 4 (3.053%) Visualisation
4 4 (3.053%) Web 2.0
5 3 (2.290%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.290%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.527%) Statistics
6 2 (1.527%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.763%) BBC
7 1 (0.763%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.763%) Blog
7 1 (0.763%) Streaming Video
7 1 (0.763%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.763%) Social Media
7 1 (0.763%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 43 (32.82%) Linux
2 7 (5.344%) Apple iOS
3 6 (4.580%) Android
4 4 (3.053%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.290%) UNIX
6 1 (0.763%) SUSE
6 1 (0.763%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (43.51%) MVC
2 54 (41.22%) OO
3 36 (27.48%) OOP
4 26 (19.85%) E-Commerce
5 25 (19.08%) Web Development
6 22 (16.79%) Scrum
7 21 (16.03%) Agile Software Development
8 19 (14.50%) TDD
9 13 (9.924%) Online Marketing
10 10 (7.634%) Unit Testing
11 8 (6.107%) Migration
12 7 (5.344%) Analytics
13 6 (4.580%) Product Management
13 6 (4.580%) Internet Marketing
13 6 (4.580%) SEO
14 5 (3.817%) Project Management
14 5 (3.817%) Digital Marketing
14 5 (3.817%) Continuous Integration
14 5 (3.817%) Refactoring
14 5 (3.817%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 131 (100.00%) PHP
2 105 (80.15%) JavaScript
3 21 (16.03%) SQL
4 8 (6.107%) Java
5 7 (5.344%) XPath
6 6 (4.580%) Python
7 4 (3.053%) PHP4
8 2 (1.527%) Ruby
8 2 (1.527%) C
8 2 (1.527%) Perl
8 2 (1.527%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.763%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.763%) C#
9 1 (0.763%) C++
9 1 (0.763%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.763%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 16 (12.21%) Degree
2 5 (3.817%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.053%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.763%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (0.763%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (38.17%) Zend
2 6 (4.580%) Acunetix
2 6 (4.580%) Facebook
3 5 (3.817%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.817%) Google
4 3 (2.290%) Apple
5 2 (1.527%) Twitter
5 2 (1.527%) Oracle
6 1 (0.763%) Sony
6 1 (0.763%) Microsoft
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