Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP5 over the 3 months to 22 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 London region.

 PHP 5
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank235244487
Rank change year-on-year
Up+9Up+243
Matching permanent IT job ads322234185
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London0.821 %0.735 %0.220 %
As % of the Programming Languages category1.597 %1.513 %0.454 %
Salaries quoted278216174
Average salary£35,000£34,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.940 %-9.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,000£27,000£25,150
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£42,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£30,000
London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
201581546240752
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London51.40 %48.56 %48.47 %
Salaries quoted168701272133748
Average salary£50,000£45,000£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-5.260 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£30,000£31,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£85,000£70,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
PHP5 EnglandPHP5
England

PHP5
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing PHP5 across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

London PHP5 Demand Trend

PHP5
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PHP5 across the London region.

London PHP5 Salary Trend

PHP5
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP5 across the London region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

London PHP5 Salary Histogram

PHP5
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP5 within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of LondonDown-285£37,500+11.94 %
LutonUp+26£27,500-15.38 %
UxbridgeNew entry-3£27,500-
HarrowNew entry-2£26,500-
BromleyNew entry-2£37,500-
CroydonNo change01£37,500-16.66 %
SurbitonNew entry-1£32,500-
WembleyNew entry-1£35,000-
PHP5 EnglandPHP5
England

PHP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the 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.

1548 (99.28 %)PHP
2383 (69.38 %)MySQL
3321 (58.15 %)JavaScript
4309 (55.98 %)CSS
5255 (46.20 %)OO
6227 (41.12 %)Linux
7199 (36.05 %)HTML
8196 (35.51 %)MVC
9176 (31.88 %)AJAX
10174 (31.52 %)LAMP
11164 (29.71 %)XHTML
12163 (29.53 %)Zend
13134 (24.28 %)Apache
14124 (22.46 %)Symfony
15121 (21.92 %)XML
16115 (20.83 %)Web Development
17112 (20.29 %)jQuery
18110 (19.93 %)OOP
1997 (17.57 %)Subversion
2093 (16.85 %)CMS
2181 (14.67 %)Drupal
2280 (14.49 %)E-Commerce
2379 (14.31 %)SQL
2478 (14.13 %)PHP4
2571 (12.86 %)Agile Software Development
2667 (12.14 %)UNIX
2766 (11.96 %)Java
2863 (11.41 %)Internet
2863 (11.41 %)Scrum
2952 (9.420 %)Flash

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the 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.

London IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1309 (55.98 %)CSS
2199 (36.05 %)HTML
3176 (31.88 %)AJAX
4174 (31.52 %)LAMP
5164 (29.71 %)XHTML
6124 (22.46 %)Symfony
7121 (21.92 %)XML
8112 (20.29 %)jQuery
952 (9.420 %)Flash
1051 (9.239 %)SOAP
1147 (8.514 %).NET
1243 (7.790 %)Web Services
1243 (7.790 %)Zend Framework
1340 (7.246 %)JSON
1430 (5.435 %)CakePHP
1528 (5.072 %)script.aculo.us
1625 (4.529 %)Spring
1721 (3.804 %).NET Framework
1819 (3.442 %)Adobe Flex
1819 (3.442 %)DOM
London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1134 (24.28 %)Apache
293 (16.85 %)CMS
381 (14.67 %)Drupal
427 (4.891 %)Joomla!
514 (2.536 %)WordPress
611 (1.993 %)Apache Solr
79 (1.630 %)Magento
87 (1.268 %)IIS
95 (0.906 %)Tomcat
103 (0.543 %)ColdFusion
112 (0.362 %)SharePoint
112 (0.362 %)Sitecore CMS
121 (0.181 %)ExpressionEngine
121 (0.181 %)ColdFusion MX
121 (0.181 %)TYPO3
London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
138 (6.884 %)Photoshop
26 (1.087 %)MS Office
31 (0.181 %)MS Excel
31 (0.181 %)MS Visio
31 (0.181 %)Maya
31 (0.181 %)Adobe Illustrator
London IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.543 %)Google Analytics
21 (0.181 %)WebTrends
London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
163 (11.41 %)Internet
221 (3.804 %)HTTP
320 (3.623 %)FTP
419 (3.442 %)DNS
59 (1.630 %)TCP/IP
68 (1.449 %)SSH
76 (1.087 %)SMTP
84 (0.725 %)Intranet
92 (0.362 %)SSL
92 (0.362 %)DHCP
92 (0.362 %)LAN
92 (0.362 %)WAN
101 (0.181 %)HTTPS
101 (0.181 %)SAN
101 (0.181 %)Extranet
101 (0.181 %)Firewall
London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1383 (69.38 %)MySQL
236 (6.522 %)SQL Server
310 (1.812 %)PostgreSQL
45 (0.906 %)RDBMS
52 (0.362 %)GIS
52 (0.362 %)SQL Server 2005
52 (0.362 %)MS Access
52 (0.362 %)Datawarehouse
61 (0.181 %)Data Mining
London IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
197 (17.57 %)Subversion
28 (1.449 %)Selenium
28 (1.449 %)PEAR
36 (1.087 %)PHPUnit
36 (1.087 %)JIRA
36 (1.087 %)Git (software)
43 (0.543 %)FrontPage
43 (0.543 %)Dreamweaver
52 (0.362 %)Eclipse
61 (0.181 %)Firebug
61 (0.181 %)Flex Builder
61 (0.181 %)FlexUnit
London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
139 (7.065 %)Marketing
231 (5.616 %)Finance
328 (5.072 %)Pensions
426 (4.710 %)Music
525 (4.529 %)Publishing
624 (4.348 %)Health
718 (3.261 %)Telecoms
814 (2.536 %)Games
814 (2.536 %)Graphic Design
913 (2.355 %)Multimedia
1010 (1.812 %)Education
1010 (1.812 %)Online Games
119 (1.630 %)Advertising
126 (1.087 %)Financial Institution
126 (1.087 %)Back Office
134 (0.725 %)Law
134 (0.725 %)Home Office
143 (0.543 %)Social Media
152 (0.362 %)Insurance
161 (0.181 %)Billing
London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1508 (92.03 %)Developer
2350 (63.41 %)PHP Developer
3146 (26.45 %)Web Developer
493 (16.85 %)Senior Developer
553 (9.601 %)Senior PHP Developer
643 (7.790 %)PHP Web Developer
737 (6.703 %)Senior Web Developer
826 (4.710 %)Drupal Developer
924 (4.348 %)PHP Drupal Developer
1019 (3.442 %)LAMP Developer
1116 (2.899 %)Lead Developer
1214 (2.536 %)Front-End Developer
1313 (2.355 %)MySQL Developer
1411 (1.993 %)Programmer
1510 (1.812 %)Team Leader
1510 (1.812 %)PHP Programmer
1510 (1.812 %)Junior
1510 (1.812 %)Lead PHP Developer
169 (1.630 %)Trainee Developer
169 (1.630 %)Trainee Web Developer
London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
143 (7.790 %)Client/Server
231 (5.616 %)Open Source
327 (4.891 %)W3C
419 (3.442 %)Web 2.0
517 (3.080 %)Computer Science
615 (2.717 %)iPhone
714 (2.536 %)Social Network
813 (2.355 %)Blackberry
97 (1.268 %)Mathematics
106 (1.087 %)Clustering
114 (0.725 %)Cloud Computing
123 (0.543 %)Visualisation
123 (0.543 %)Blog
123 (0.543 %)Replication
132 (0.362 %)Streaming Video
132 (0.362 %)DTV
132 (0.362 %)IPTV
132 (0.362 %)RIA
132 (0.362 %)Video on Demand
141 (0.181 %)Wiki
London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1227 (41.12 %)Linux
267 (12.14 %)UNIX
331 (5.616 %)Windows
45 (0.906 %)Ubuntu
45 (0.906 %)Red Hat Linux
53 (0.543 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
53 (0.543 %)Debian
62 (0.362 %)Android
62 (0.362 %)FreeBSD
71 (0.181 %)OpenBSD
London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1255 (46.20 %)OO
2196 (35.51 %)MVC
3115 (20.83 %)Web Development
4110 (19.93 %)OOP
580 (14.49 %)E-Commerce
671 (12.86 %)Agile Software Development
763 (11.41 %)Scrum
850 (9.058 %)Content Management
941 (7.428 %)SEO
1036 (6.522 %)SOA
1132 (5.797 %)TDD
1223 (4.167 %)Unit Testing
1315 (2.717 %)Web Design
1315 (2.717 %)Migration
1412 (2.174 %)OOD
1510 (1.812 %)Software Architecture
168 (1.449 %)System Testing
168 (1.449 %)Project Management
168 (1.449 %)CRM
168 (1.449 %)Extreme Programming
London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1548 (99.28 %)PHP
2321 (58.15 %)JavaScript
379 (14.31 %)SQL
478 (14.13 %)PHP4
566 (11.96 %)Java
644 (7.971 %)ActionScript
644 (7.971 %)Perl
731 (5.616 %)C++
830 (5.435 %)C#
928 (5.072 %)Python
1023 (4.167 %)C
1118 (3.261 %)ActionScript 3.0
1214 (2.536 %)Ruby
1313 (2.355 %)Objective-C
149 (1.630 %)Bash shell
157 (1.268 %)Shell Script
165 (0.906 %)ActionScript 2.0
174 (0.725 %)tcsh
183 (0.543 %)XPath
191 (0.181 %)VBA
London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
139 (7.065 %)Degree
22 (0.362 %)Microsoft Certification
31 (0.181 %)MySQL Certification
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (1.630 %)QA
21 (0.181 %)WAI
London IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (0.362 %)Active Directory
12 (0.362 %)Xen
21 (0.181 %)Postfix
London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1163 (29.53 %)Zend
221 (3.804 %)Oracle
318 (3.261 %)Adobe
415 (2.717 %)Microsoft
57 (1.268 %)Mercator
65 (0.906 %)Red Hat
65 (0.906 %)Apple
73 (0.543 %)Yahoo!
73 (0.543 %)Google
82 (0.362 %)Sitecore
82 (0.362 %)Sybase
91 (0.181 %)Dell
91 (0.181 %)Sony