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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the England region.

 PHP
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank343576
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Up+41
Matching permanent IT job ads396137365084
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England4.874 %4.659 %2.643 %
As % of the Programming Languages category9.816 %9.799 %5.702 %
Salaries quoted358833584605
Average salary£32,500£32,500£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+8.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£50,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£29,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.690 %
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
403523812889154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England49.65 %47.55 %46.35 %
Salaries quoted348643238575072
Average salary£40,000£37,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.100 %-1.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£62,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
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UK

PHP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing PHP across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

England PHP Demand Trend

PHP
Salary Trend

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

England PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP across the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

England PHP Salary Histogram

PHP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonDown-181315£37,500-
South EastUp+9777£32,500-7.14 %
South WestUp+22480£31,500+5.00 %
North WestUp+9435£27,500+7.84 %
East of EnglandDown-8319£32,500+4.41 %
YorkshireUp+7312£28,250+8.65 %
West MidlandsUp+28191£30,000-
East MidlandsUp+7111£25,000-16.66 %
North EastDown-117£22,500-10.00 %
MidlandsUp+23£22,500-44.78 %
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PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the England 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.

14243 (55.70 %)MySQL
23883 (50.97 %)CSS
33695 (48.50 %)JavaScript
43411 (44.78 %)HTML
52274 (29.85 %)Linux
61790 (23.50 %)SQL
71772 (23.26 %)XML
81743 (22.88 %)AJAX
91612 (21.16 %)XHTML
101603 (21.04 %)Web Development
111448 (19.01 %)OO
121382 (18.14 %)LAMP
131368 (17.96 %)Apache
141346 (17.67 %).NET
151297 (17.03 %)PHP5
161294 (16.99 %)Java
171168 (15.33 %)E-Commerce
181056 (13.86 %)Flash
19922 (12.10 %)Perl
20889 (11.67 %)C#
21863 (11.33 %)Degree
22832 (10.92 %)SQL Server
23811 (10.65 %)jQuery
24804 (10.55 %)CMS
25764 (10.03 %)Zend
26735 (9.648 %)OOP
27728 (9.556 %)Web Services
28724 (9.504 %)UNIX
29697 (9.149 %)MVC
30635 (8.336 %)Subversion

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the England 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.

England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13883 (50.97 %)CSS
23411 (44.78 %)HTML
31772 (23.26 %)XML
41743 (22.88 %)AJAX
51612 (21.16 %)XHTML
61382 (18.14 %)LAMP
71346 (17.67 %).NET
81056 (13.86 %)Flash
9811 (10.65 %)jQuery
10728 (9.556 %)Web Services
11618 (8.112 %)ASP.NET
12540 (7.088 %)ASP
13322 (4.227 %)Zend Framework
14307 (4.030 %)SOAP
15275 (3.610 %)Symfony
16265 (3.479 %)XSLT
17238 (3.124 %)DHTML
18229 (3.006 %)Adobe Flex
19215 (2.822 %)Spring
20198 (2.599 %)J2EE
England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11368 (17.96 %)Apache
2804 (10.55 %)CMS
3490 (6.432 %)Drupal
4209 (2.744 %)IIS
5191 (2.507 %)Tomcat
6154 (2.022 %)ColdFusion
7152 (1.995 %)Joomla!
8146 (1.917 %)WordPress
993 (1.221 %)SharePoint
1086 (1.129 %)Magento
1159 (0.774 %)Force.com
1237 (0.486 %)MS Exchange
1334 (0.446 %)Apache Solr
1426 (0.341 %)EPiServer
1523 (0.302 %)TYPO3
1621 (0.276 %)ExpressionEngine
1720 (0.263 %)Moodle
1816 (0.210 %)osCommerce
1912 (0.158 %)Exchange Server 2003
1912 (0.158 %)SugarCRM
England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1579 (7.600 %)Photoshop
2179 (2.350 %)Adobe Illustrator
3138 (1.811 %)MS Excel
493 (1.221 %)Fireworks
580 (1.050 %)MS Visio
670 (0.919 %)MS Office
716 (0.210 %)MATLAB
814 (0.184 %)S-PLUS
814 (0.184 %)InDesign
99 (0.118 %)Acrobat
106 (0.079 %)MS PowerPoint
106 (0.079 %)Paint Shop Pro
115 (0.066 %)ImageReady
124 (0.053 %)MS Project
124 (0.053 %)3ds Max
133 (0.039 %)CA Clarity
142 (0.026 %)Adobe Director
142 (0.026 %)Maya
142 (0.026 %)GIMP
151 (0.013 %)QuarkXPress
England IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
165 (0.853 %)Google Analytics
237 (0.486 %)Summit
313 (0.171 %)WebTrends
47 (0.092 %)Dynamics CRM
54 (0.053 %)Navision
54 (0.053 %)Pivotal CRM
63 (0.039 %)Microsoft CRM
63 (0.039 %)SAP R/3
63 (0.039 %)GoldMine
63 (0.039 %)Movex
72 (0.026 %)SalesLogix
72 (0.026 %)Dynamics NAV
81 (0.013 %)Endur
81 (0.013 %)MFGPRO
81 (0.013 %)AWD
England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1630 (8.270 %)Internet
2197 (2.586 %)TCP/IP
3181 (2.376 %)Intranet
4163 (2.140 %)DNS
5144 (1.890 %)HTTP
6142 (1.864 %)Firewall
7103 (1.352 %)SAN
872 (0.945 %)FTP
965 (0.853 %)SMTP
1036 (0.473 %)SNMP
1134 (0.446 %)SSL
1230 (0.394 %)VoIP
1329 (0.381 %)SSH
1427 (0.354 %)NAS
1427 (0.354 %)SMS
1525 (0.328 %)Network Security
1624 (0.315 %)VPN
1722 (0.289 %)DHCP
1821 (0.276 %)LDAP
1919 (0.249 %)iSCSI
England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14243 (55.70 %)MySQL
2832 (10.92 %)SQL Server
3163 (2.140 %)RDBMS
4135 (1.772 %)PostgreSQL
5104 (1.365 %)SQL Server 2005
647 (0.617 %)SQL Server 2008
743 (0.564 %)MS Access
842 (0.551 %)SQL Server 2000
939 (0.512 %)Crystal Reports
1037 (0.486 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1135 (0.459 %)Informix
1135 (0.459 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1230 (0.394 %)DTS
1325 (0.328 %)Oracle 10g
1421 (0.276 %)Oracle 8/8i
1519 (0.249 %)ETL
1612 (0.158 %)Datawarehouse
1711 (0.144 %)Oracle Reports
1711 (0.144 %)GIS
188 (0.105 %)Data Cleansing
England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1635 (8.336 %)Subversion
2185 (2.428 %)Dreamweaver
3115 (1.510 %)Ant
468 (0.893 %)Visual Studio
562 (0.814 %)Eclipse
654 (0.709 %)JUnit
740 (0.525 %)Selenium
831 (0.407 %)Git (software)
930 (0.394 %)Log4j
1026 (0.341 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1123 (0.302 %)JIRA
1215 (0.197 %)ClearCase
1215 (0.197 %)PHPUnit
1313 (0.171 %)PEAR
1412 (0.158 %)QuickTest Pro
1412 (0.158 %)ClearQuest
1511 (0.144 %)Maven
168 (0.105 %)NUnit
177 (0.092 %)WebSpeed
177 (0.092 %)JMeter
England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1551 (7.233 %)Marketing
2362 (4.752 %)Finance
3265 (3.479 %)Pensions
4217 (2.849 %)Education
5213 (2.796 %)Games
6206 (2.704 %)Health
7156 (2.048 %)Retail
8154 (2.022 %)Advertising
9127 (1.667 %)Publishing
10119 (1.562 %)Insurance
10119 (1.562 %)Graphic Design
11111 (1.457 %)Telecoms
1277 (1.011 %)Multimedia
1375 (0.985 %)Social Media
1471 (0.932 %)Banking
1564 (0.840 %)Music
1659 (0.774 %)Online Games
1758 (0.761 %)Construction
1845 (0.591 %)Government
1936 (0.473 %)Front Office
England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15808 (76.24 %)Developer
22887 (37.90 %)PHP Developer
32083 (27.34 %)Web Developer
4754 (9.898 %)Senior Developer
5710 (9.320 %)PHP Web Developer
6382 (5.014 %)Senior PHP Developer
7326 (4.279 %)Analyst
8294 (3.859 %)Front-End Developer
9281 (3.689 %)Administrator
10274 (3.597 %)Senior Web Developer
11257 (3.374 %)Junior
12246 (3.229 %)Programmer
13237 (3.111 %).NET Developer
14223 (2.927 %)Junior Developer
15222 (2.914 %)LAMP Developer
16219 (2.875 %)Designer
17218 (2.862 %)Java Developer
18206 (2.704 %)Systems Administrator
19200 (2.625 %)Lead Developer
20193 (2.533 %)Applications Developer
England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1465 (6.104 %)Open Source
2335 (4.397 %)W3C
3311 (4.082 %)Computer Science
4177 (2.323 %)Web 2.0
5163 (2.140 %)Social Network
6157 (2.061 %)Client/Server
7110 (1.444 %)iPhone
8100 (1.313 %)Mathematics
956 (0.735 %)Visualisation
1049 (0.643 %)SaaS
1147 (0.617 %)E-Learning
1245 (0.591 %)Clustering
1342 (0.551 %)Blackberry
1439 (0.512 %)Management Information System
1535 (0.459 %)Cloud Computing
1634 (0.446 %)Statistics
1729 (0.381 %)Derivative
1828 (0.368 %)Physics
1828 (0.368 %)N-Tier
1927 (0.354 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12274 (29.85 %)Linux
2724 (9.504 %)UNIX
3546 (7.167 %)Windows
4220 (2.888 %)Red Hat Linux
5139 (1.825 %)Solaris
698 (1.286 %)Windows Server 2003
774 (0.971 %)CentOS
864 (0.840 %)Debian
960 (0.788 %)Ubuntu
1059 (0.774 %)Windows Server 2008
1147 (0.617 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1246 (0.604 %)AIX
1339 (0.512 %)Windows XP
1432 (0.420 %)Android
1529 (0.381 %)Fedora
1621 (0.276 %)SUSE
1716 (0.210 %)FreeBSD
1815 (0.197 %)Windows Mobile
1914 (0.184 %)Windows Vista
2013 (0.171 %)Mac OS X
England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11603 (21.04 %)Web Development
21448 (19.01 %)OO
31168 (15.33 %)E-Commerce
4735 (9.648 %)OOP
5697 (9.149 %)MVC
6622 (8.165 %)Content Management
7534 (7.010 %)SEO
8444 (5.828 %)Agile Software Development
9338 (4.437 %)Scrum
10315 (4.135 %)Project Management
11254 (3.334 %)Web Design
12221 (2.901 %)CRM
13202 (2.652 %)SOA
14143 (1.877 %)Migration
15127 (1.667 %)OOD
16126 (1.654 %)ITIL
17122 (1.601 %)UML
18109 (1.431 %)TDD
19101 (1.326 %)Software Engineering
2099 (1.300 %)Unit Testing
England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13695 (48.50 %)JavaScript
21790 (23.50 %)SQL
31297 (17.03 %)PHP5
41294 (16.99 %)Java
5922 (12.10 %)Perl
6889 (11.67 %)C#
7602 (7.902 %)ActionScript
8569 (7.469 %)C++
9547 (7.180 %)C
10441 (5.789 %)Python
11349 (4.581 %)Ruby
12342 (4.489 %)PHP4
13330 (4.332 %)ActionScript 3.0
14272 (3.570 %)VB
15210 (2.757 %)Bash shell
16207 (2.717 %)VB.NET
17165 (2.166 %)Shell Script
18149 (1.956 %)ActionScript 2.0
19134 (1.759 %)Delphi
2096 (1.260 %)VB6
England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1863 (11.33 %)Degree
236 (0.473 %)PhD
236 (0.473 %)RHCE
329 (0.381 %)ITIL Certification
428 (0.368 %)CCNA
428 (0.368 %)Cisco Certification
523 (0.302 %)ISEB
523 (0.302 %)Security Cleared
622 (0.289 %)Microsoft Certification
718 (0.236 %)RHCT
815 (0.197 %)CCNP
913 (0.171 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1012 (0.158 %)CISSP
1012 (0.158 %)HND
1012 (0.158 %)MCSE
1012 (0.158 %)PMI Certification
1110 (0.131 %)SC Cleared
1110 (0.131 %)MCSA
128 (0.105 %)CFA
137 (0.092 %)CEH
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1102 (1.339 %)QA
225 (0.328 %)WAI
324 (0.315 %)SLA
417 (0.223 %)WCAG
57 (0.092 %)PCI DSS
61 (0.013 %)HL7
England IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
164 (0.840 %)Active Directory
251 (0.669 %)VMware Infrastructure
338 (0.499 %)NFS
422 (0.289 %)Samba
514 (0.184 %)Postfix
613 (0.171 %)VMware ESX
710 (0.131 %)Xen
89 (0.118 %)ISA Server
89 (0.118 %)XenServer
96 (0.079 %)Hyper-V
96 (0.079 %)Oracle RAC
105 (0.066 %)Squid
114 (0.053 %)Veritas Volume Manager
123 (0.039 %)qmail
123 (0.039 %)Sendmail
132 (0.026 %)OpenLDAP
132 (0.026 %)Hadoop
132 (0.026 %)VMware Server
132 (0.026 %)Nmap
England IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
152 (0.683 %)Nagios
219 (0.249 %)Tivoli
310 (0.131 %)MSI
49 (0.118 %)Cacti
58 (0.105 %)Plesk
67 (0.092 %)Zenoss
74 (0.053 %)Sysprep
74 (0.053 %)SCOM
74 (0.053 %)SCVMM
83 (0.039 %)Backup Exec
83 (0.039 %)OpenView
91 (0.013 %)CiscoWorks
91 (0.013 %)NetBackup
91 (0.013 %)WSUS
91 (0.013 %)EMC NetWorker
91 (0.013 %)Ganglia
England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1764 (10.03 %)Zend
2493 (6.472 %)Oracle
3347 (4.555 %)Microsoft
4220 (2.888 %)Adobe
5212 (2.783 %)Red Hat
6139 (1.825 %)Google
783 (1.090 %)JBoss
882 (1.076 %)Yahoo!
979 (1.037 %)Sybase
1077 (1.011 %)VMware
1174 (0.971 %)Salesforce.com
1264 (0.840 %)Cisco
1338 (0.499 %)IBM
1427 (0.354 %)Mercator
1522 (0.289 %)Symbian
1621 (0.276 %)Sun
1621 (0.276 %)Progress
1621 (0.276 %)Sage
1719 (0.249 %)Sitecore
1817 (0.223 %)Apple