The first table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP5 over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 5
Rank 85 89 94
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +5
Permanent jobs citing PHP5 1 3 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.094% 0.219% 0.694%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.171% 0.447% 1.654%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 11
Average salary £27,500 £27,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.85% -32.50%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £31,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+9.67% +3.33%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
586 671 665
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 55.08% 49.09% 41.93%
Number of salaries quoted 353 514 481
Average salary £39,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP5
Scotland

PHP5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh PHP5 Salary Trend

PHP5
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) Advertising
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Joomla!
3 1 (33.33%) Drupal
3 1 (33.33%) WordPress
3 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Joomla!
1 1 (33.33%) Drupal
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (66.67%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript