Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West 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 North West region.

 PHP
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank192865
Rank change year-on-year
Up+9Up+37
Matching permanent IT job ads435400364
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West8.033 %7.005 %2.892 %
As % of the Programming Languages category16.40 %13.33 %6.712 %
Salaries quoted385359311
Average salary£27,500£25,500£27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.840 %-7.270 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,500£21,000£20,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£35,000£35,750£35,000
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£29,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.690 %
North West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
265330005423
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West48.99 %52.54 %43.09 %
Salaries quoted240125964625
Average salary£30,000£30,000£31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
--4.760 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,000£22,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£42,500£45,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
PHP EnglandPHP
England

PHP
Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

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

North West 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 North West 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
ManchesterUp+6225£27,500+7.84 %
CheshireUp+594£28,000+12.00 %
LancashireUp+2282£27,500+1.85 %
MerseysideUp+716£27,250-3.11 %
CumbriaNo change09£30,000+11.11 %
PHP EnglandPHP
England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1535 (68.33 %)MySQL
2497 (63.47 %)CSS
3445 (56.83 %)JavaScript
4410 (52.36 %)HTML
5265 (33.84 %)XHTML
6237 (30.27 %)Linux
7174 (22.22 %)AJAX
8168 (21.46 %)XML
9167 (21.33 %).NET
10166 (21.20 %)Web Development
11155 (19.80 %)E-Commerce
12146 (18.65 %)SQL
13140 (17.88 %)OO
14137 (17.50 %)SQL Server
15132 (16.86 %)PHP5
16114 (14.56 %)Apache
17106 (13.54 %)CMS
18101 (12.90 %)Perl
1995 (12.13 %)Flash
2092 (11.75 %)ASP
2191 (11.62 %)ASP.NET
2290 (11.49 %)Java
2385 (10.86 %)C#
2480 (10.22 %)LAMP
2579 (10.09 %)Marketing
2677 (9.834 %)Degree
2775 (9.579 %)Photoshop
2870 (8.940 %)Windows
2969 (8.812 %)SEO
3067 (8.557 %)Content Management

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

North West IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1497 (63.47 %)CSS
2410 (52.36 %)HTML
3265 (33.84 %)XHTML
4174 (22.22 %)AJAX
5168 (21.46 %)XML
6167 (21.33 %).NET
795 (12.13 %)Flash
892 (11.75 %)ASP
991 (11.62 %)ASP.NET
1080 (10.22 %)LAMP
1155 (7.024 %)jQuery
1254 (6.897 %)Ruby on Rails
1328 (3.576 %)Web Services
1421 (2.682 %)Adobe Flex
1421 (2.682 %)Ext JS
1520 (2.554 %).NET Framework
1619 (2.427 %)JSP
1716 (2.043 %)J2EE
1716 (2.043 %)XSLT
1716 (2.043 %)Smarty
North West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1114 (14.56 %)Apache
2106 (13.54 %)CMS
362 (7.918 %)Drupal
430 (3.831 %)Magento
430 (3.831 %)IIS
514 (1.788 %)Tomcat
613 (1.660 %)EPiServer
78 (1.022 %)WordPress
78 (1.022 %)ColdFusion
87 (0.894 %)BizTalk Server
87 (0.894 %)SharePoint
95 (0.639 %)Mule
104 (0.511 %)SugarCRM
113 (0.383 %)Joomla!
113 (0.383 %)Plone
113 (0.383 %)ExpressionEngine
122 (0.255 %)Force.com
122 (0.255 %)osCommerce
131 (0.128 %)Moodle
131 (0.128 %)JRun
North West IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
175 (9.579 %)Photoshop
229 (3.704 %)Fireworks
320 (2.554 %)Adobe Illustrator
413 (1.660 %)MS Excel
53 (0.383 %)MS Visio
62 (0.255 %)MS Office
62 (0.255 %)CA Clarity
71 (0.128 %)QuarkXPress
North West IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
114 (1.788 %)Summit
24 (0.511 %)WebTrends
31 (0.128 %)Google Analytics
North West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
139 (4.981 %)Internet
228 (3.576 %)Intranet
37 (0.894 %)Extranet
46 (0.766 %)DNS
46 (0.766 %)Firewall
55 (0.639 %)DMZ
64 (0.511 %)SSL
64 (0.511 %)FTP
73 (0.383 %)TCP/IP
73 (0.383 %)SAN
81 (0.128 %)DSL
81 (0.128 %)DAB
81 (0.128 %)DHCP
81 (0.128 %)Cisco ASA
North West IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1535 (68.33 %)MySQL
2137 (17.50 %)SQL Server
320 (2.554 %)PostgreSQL
419 (2.427 %)SQL Server 2005
510 (1.277 %)SQL Server 2008
65 (0.639 %)SQL Server Integration Services
74 (0.511 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
83 (0.383 %)JasperReports
83 (0.383 %)Oracle Reports
83 (0.383 %)Datawarehouse
83 (0.383 %)TOAD
92 (0.255 %)Crystal Reports
92 (0.255 %)SQL Server 2000
101 (0.128 %)RDBMS
North West IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
132 (4.087 %)Dreamweaver
211 (1.405 %)Subversion
39 (1.149 %)Ant
45 (0.639 %)Zend Studio
45 (0.639 %)Git (software)
53 (0.383 %)QuickTest Pro
61 (0.128 %)Xcode
61 (0.128 %)Visual Studio
61 (0.128 %)VSS/SourceSafe
North West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
179 (10.09 %)Marketing
237 (4.725 %)Retail
331 (3.959 %)Finance
430 (3.831 %)Graphic Design
521 (2.682 %)Pensions
619 (2.427 %)Health
715 (1.916 %)Social Media
814 (1.788 %)Publishing
910 (1.277 %)Games
910 (1.277 %)Telecoms
109 (1.149 %)Advertising
117 (0.894 %)Multimedia
126 (0.766 %)Insurance
135 (0.639 %)Banking
135 (0.639 %)Education
144 (0.511 %)Back Office
144 (0.511 %)Manufacturing
144 (0.511 %)Online Games
153 (0.383 %)Music
153 (0.383 %)Animation
North West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1689 (87.99 %)Developer
2423 (54.02 %)PHP Developer
3270 (34.48 %)Web Developer
4124 (15.84 %)PHP Web Developer
554 (6.897 %)Senior Developer
642 (5.364 %)Junior
642 (5.364 %)Junior Developer
739 (4.981 %)MySQL Developer
838 (4.853 %)Senior PHP Developer
934 (4.342 %).NET Developer
1025 (3.193 %)Systems Developer
1124 (3.065 %)Applications Developer
1223 (2.937 %).NET Web Developer
1322 (2.810 %)Programmer
1418 (2.299 %)Team Leader
1517 (2.171 %)Senior Web Developer
1517 (2.171 %)Administrator
1615 (1.916 %)iPhone Developer
1714 (1.788 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
1714 (1.788 %)Junior PHP Developer
North West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
139 (4.981 %)Open Source
233 (4.215 %)W3C
328 (3.576 %)iPhone
415 (1.916 %)Social Network
514 (1.788 %)E-Learning
612 (1.533 %)Handset
711 (1.405 %)Computer Science
87 (0.894 %)Blog
96 (0.766 %)Client/Server
105 (0.639 %)Web 2.0
114 (0.511 %)Blackberry
123 (0.383 %)Photography
123 (0.383 %)Mathematics
132 (0.255 %)Streaming Media
132 (0.255 %)SCADA
132 (0.255 %)Wiki
132 (0.255 %)Management Information System
132 (0.255 %)Google App Engine
141 (0.128 %)FMCG
141 (0.128 %)LPAR
North West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1237 (30.27 %)Linux
270 (8.940 %)Windows
365 (8.301 %)UNIX
417 (2.171 %)Windows Server 2008
512 (1.533 %)Windows Server 2003
68 (1.022 %)Ubuntu
77 (0.894 %)Red Hat Linux
86 (0.766 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
86 (0.766 %)Fedora
86 (0.766 %)Android
94 (0.511 %)Debian
103 (0.383 %)Windows Mobile
103 (0.383 %)Windows 2000 Server
112 (0.255 %)CentOS
121 (0.128 %)Mac OS
121 (0.128 %)SUSE
121 (0.128 %)AIX
North West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1166 (21.20 %)Web Development
2155 (19.80 %)E-Commerce
3140 (17.88 %)OO
469 (8.812 %)SEO
567 (8.557 %)Content Management
666 (8.429 %)CRM
747 (6.003 %)Project Management
846 (5.875 %)OOP
944 (5.619 %)Web Design
1029 (3.704 %)Systems Analysis
1127 (3.448 %)SOA
1218 (2.299 %)Pay per click
1315 (1.916 %)Migration
1414 (1.788 %)MVC
1511 (1.405 %)PRINCE2
1610 (1.277 %)Business Development
1610 (1.277 %)Online Marketing
177 (0.894 %)Time Management
177 (0.894 %)Agile Software Development
186 (0.766 %)UML
North West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1445 (56.83 %)JavaScript
2146 (18.65 %)SQL
3132 (16.86 %)PHP5
4101 (12.90 %)Perl
590 (11.49 %)Java
685 (10.86 %)C#
764 (8.174 %)PHP4
858 (7.407 %)Ruby
947 (6.003 %)VB.NET
1044 (5.619 %)ActionScript
1139 (4.981 %)C
1235 (4.470 %)C++
1330 (3.831 %)VB
1419 (2.427 %)Delphi
1518 (2.299 %)Objective-C
169 (1.149 %)ActionScript 3.0
177 (0.894 %)PL/SQL
186 (0.766 %)Python
186 (0.766 %)ActionScript 2.0
195 (0.639 %)VB6
North West IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
177 (9.834 %)Degree
211 (1.405 %)PRINCE2 Certification
33 (0.383 %)ISEB
41 (0.128 %)HND
41 (0.128 %)RHCE
41 (0.128 %)Security Cleared
North West IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
18 (1.022 %)WAI
22 (0.255 %)WCAG
31 (0.128 %)SLA
31 (0.128 %)QA
North West IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17 (0.894 %)VMware Infrastructure
25 (0.639 %)Active Directory
32 (0.255 %)Squid
41 (0.128 %)Postfix
41 (0.128 %)XenServer
41 (0.128 %)NFS
North West IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (0.511 %)SCOM
North West IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
148 (6.130 %)Oracle
235 (4.470 %)Microsoft
325 (3.193 %)Google
421 (2.682 %)Zend
519 (2.427 %)Adobe
67 (0.894 %)Red Hat
67 (0.894 %)VMware
67 (0.894 %)Yahoo!
75 (0.639 %)JBoss
84 (0.511 %)Apple
84 (0.511 %)Borland
84 (0.511 %)Foundry
93 (0.383 %)Salesforce.com
102 (0.255 %)Sony
102 (0.255 %)Quark
102 (0.255 %)Cisco
111 (0.128 %)Citrix
111 (0.128 %)Sage
111 (0.128 %)BT
111 (0.128 %)Open Text