The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 20 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 13 28 41
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +13
Permanent jobs citing PHP 46 44 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 12.71% 8.661% 3.145%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.50% 13.75% 5.181%
Number of salaries quoted 44 34 10
Average salary £30,000 £36,250 £41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.24% -12.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £21,500 £29,250
10% offered a salary of more than £36,750 £50,000 £50,250
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
All Programming Languages
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
214 320 193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 59.12% 62.99% 60.69%
Number of salaries quoted 184 280 155
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £30,400
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £43,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
Merseyside

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Liverpool PHP Salary Histogram

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 47 (54.65%) CSS
2 41 (47.67%) HTML
3 40 (46.51%) JavaScript
4 39 (45.35%) MySQL
5 35 (40.70%) OO
6 24 (27.91%) C++
6 24 (27.91%) Zend
7 23 (26.74%) jQuery
7 23 (26.74%) HTML5
8 21 (24.42%) CSS3
9 20 (23.26%) PHP5
9 20 (23.26%) Linux
10 19 (22.09%) Apache
10 19 (22.09%) XHTML
11 18 (20.93%) Games
12 17 (19.77%) Web Design
12 17 (19.77%) Apple
12 17 (19.77%) ASP
13 16 (18.60%) LAMP
13 16 (18.60%) Agile Software Development
13 16 (18.60%) Android
13 16 (18.60%) Apple iOS
14 15 (17.44%) Game Development
14 15 (17.44%) cocos2d
14 15 (17.44%) Animation
14 15 (17.44%) Objective-C
14 15 (17.44%) C
15 14 (16.28%) E-Commerce
15 14 (16.28%) TDD
16 13 (15.12%) Zend Framework

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 47 (54.65%) CSS
2 41 (47.67%) HTML
3 23 (26.74%) jQuery
3 23 (26.74%) HTML5
4 21 (24.42%) CSS3
5 19 (22.09%) XHTML
6 17 (19.77%) ASP
7 16 (18.60%) LAMP
8 15 (17.44%) cocos2d
9 13 (15.12%) Zend Framework
10 12 (13.95%) XML
11 8 (9.302%) Qt
12 7 (8.140%) Flash
13 6 (6.977%) XML Messaging
13 6 (6.977%) .NET
13 6 (6.977%) STL
13 6 (6.977%) Web Services
13 6 (6.977%) Symfony
13 6 (6.977%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 4 (4.651%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 19 (22.09%) Apache
2 5 (5.814%) CMS
2 5 (5.814%) WordPress
3 4 (4.651%) Magento
4 2 (2.326%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (2.326%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.163%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (8.140%) Photoshop
2 5 (5.814%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (3.488%) Fireworks
4 2 (2.326%) Google Apps
4 2 (2.326%) Office 365
4 2 (2.326%) MS Office
4 2 (2.326%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.488%) VPN
1 3 (3.488%) DNS
2 2 (2.326%) SMTP
2 2 (2.326%) DHCP
2 2 (2.326%) DMZ
2 2 (2.326%) VLAN
2 2 (2.326%) IMAP
3 1 (1.163%) Firewall
3 1 (1.163%) SNMP
3 1 (1.163%) SSL
3 1 (1.163%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (45.35%) MySQL
2 7 (8.140%) RDBMS
3 6 (6.977%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.651%) Pentaho
4 4 (4.651%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.326%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Subversion
2 6 (6.977%) Selenium
2 6 (6.977%) FitNesse
2 6 (6.977%) JMeter
2 6 (6.977%) WebDriver
2 6 (6.977%) Cucumber
2 6 (6.977%) Hudson
2 6 (6.977%) Behat
2 6 (6.977%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.814%) Git (software)
3 5 (5.814%) Visual Studio
4 4 (4.651%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (1.163%) NetBeans
5 1 (1.163%) Zend Studio
5 1 (1.163%) JIRA
General
1 18 (20.93%) Games
2 4 (4.651%) Finance
2 4 (4.651%) Marketing
3 1 (1.163%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (82.56%) Developer
2 37 (43.02%) PHP Developer
3 15 (17.44%) Games Developer
4 11 (12.79%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 9 (10.47%) Front-End Developer
6 7 (8.140%) Designer
6 7 (8.140%) Web Developer
7 6 (6.977%) C++ Developer
7 6 (6.977%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.814%) LAMP Developer
8 5 (5.814%) Web Designer
8 5 (5.814%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.651%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.651%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.651%) ETL Developer
10 3 (3.488%) PHP Web Developer
10 3 (3.488%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 2 (2.326%) MySQL Developer
11 2 (2.326%) Systems Support
11 2 (2.326%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Animation
2 9 (10.47%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.977%) Graphic Design
3 6 (6.977%) Open Source
3 6 (6.977%) Social Media
4 3 (3.488%) Online Games
5 2 (2.326%) RIA
5 2 (2.326%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.163%) iPad
6 1 (1.163%) W3C
6 1 (1.163%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.163%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.26%) Linux
2 16 (18.60%) Android
2 16 (18.60%) Apple iOS
3 11 (12.79%) Windows
4 5 (5.814%) UNIX
5 2 (2.326%) Windows 7
5 2 (2.326%) Windows XP
5 2 (2.326%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.326%) Windows Vista
6 1 (1.163%) Solaris
6 1 (1.163%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.70%) OO
2 17 (19.77%) Web Design
3 16 (18.60%) Agile Software Development
4 15 (17.44%) Game Development
5 14 (16.28%) TDD
5 14 (16.28%) E-Commerce
6 12 (13.95%) OOP
7 11 (12.79%) Web Development
8 8 (9.302%) Scrum
8 8 (9.302%) Unit Testing
9 7 (8.140%) User Stories
9 7 (8.140%) MVC
10 6 (6.977%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (6.977%) Multithreading
10 6 (6.977%) Manual Testing
10 6 (6.977%) Test Automation
10 6 (6.977%) Automated Testing
11 5 (5.814%) SEO
11 5 (5.814%) ETL
12 3 (3.488%) Email Marketing
Programming Languages
1 40 (46.51%) JavaScript
2 24 (27.91%) C++
3 20 (23.26%) PHP5
4 15 (17.44%) Objective-C
4 15 (17.44%) C
5 12 (13.95%) Java
6 7 (8.140%) Perl
7 1 (1.163%) SQL
7 1 (1.163%) Python
7 1 (1.163%) C#
7 1 (1.163%) Ruby
7 1 (1.163%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 10 (11.63%) Degree
2 6 (6.977%) ISEB
2 6 (6.977%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.326%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) QA
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) Zend
2 17 (19.77%) Apple
3 5 (5.814%) Oracle
4 2 (2.326%) Cisco
4 2 (2.326%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.326%) Draytek
4 2 (2.326%) NETGEAR
4 2 (2.326%) Kaseya
4 2 (2.326%) Google
5 1 (1.163%) Rackspace
5 1 (1.163%) Adobe
Liverpool, Merseyside
30,000 - £35,000 (Depending on Experience) - Liverpool PHP Developer with experience of e-commerce developing the back-end of Third party systems, experience in PHP 5.3+,...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
You must have a solid understanding and experience of PHP, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), and test driven development (both functional and non-funtional test on code)... You will...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Magento developer , php developer, MySQL, Javascript, LAMP developer, programmer Magento PHP Developer Liverpool L19 , £30- 35 k D.O.E + bens/bonus 23 days holiday +bank holidays (8)...
Acceler-IT
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum +bens+bonus
Posted: 18 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
5+ year’s development in Javascript. 2+ years experience with PHP. 2+ years experience with CSS2, CSS3, and HTML5 coding... TDD & Unit testing... Excellent JQuery skills. Knowledge of...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
2 years experience with PHP - 2 years experience with CSS2, CSS3, and HTML5 coding... TDD & Unit testing. Desirable- JQuery skills - Knowledge of C++ QT framework for UI or...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £28000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 8 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Implementing object-oriented code (PHP, JavaScript / jQuery) to enhance the User Experience and User Interface... Actively promote and ensure compliance to web standards, W3C validation and progressive enhancement.....
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Technical Skills: C / C++ Objective C iOS Development / Android Development Unity / Cocos2D - x HTML / HTML5 CSS / CSS3 JavaScript PHP ASP Soft Skills: Ability to write and work within...
Roc Search
Salary: £23000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Essential: 5+ years in C++, linux development. Skilled in STL, template and design pattern use. UML and OO development skills. Database skills, specifically with PostgreSQL. Experience with multi-...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
Requirements Essential: 5 years in C++, linux development Skilled in STL, template and design pattern use. OO development skills. Database skills, specifically with PostgreSQL. Experience with multi-threading...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 8 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
Requirements Essential: 5 years in C++, linux development Skilled in STL, template and design pattern use. OO development skills. Database skills, specifically with PostgreSQL. Experience with multi-threading...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 11 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
C++ Software Developer... Essential: 2+ years in C++, linux development. Skilled in STL and template use. UML and OO development skills. Database skills, specifically with PostgreSQL. Experience with...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013