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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 14 17 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Permanent jobs citing PHP 4 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham 8.163% 6.122% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.90% 7.895% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 0
Average salary - £35,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
All Programming Languages
Oldham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
31 38 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham 63.27% 77.55% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 20 38 6
Average salary £32,500 £26,500 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.64% +20.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £39,246 £22,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
Manchester

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oldham 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 Oldham region.

Oldham PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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 9 (69.23%) HTML
1 9 (69.23%) MySQL
1 9 (69.23%) CSS
1 9 (69.23%) Open Source
2 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Apache
2 7 (53.85%) LAMP
3 4 (30.77%) Games
3 4 (30.77%) Manufacturing
3 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) VB
3 4 (30.77%) VB.NET
3 4 (30.77%) .NET
3 4 (30.77%) Retail
3 4 (30.77%) VB6
4 2 (15.38%) XHTML
4 2 (15.38%) Finance

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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 9 (69.23%) HTML
1 9 (69.23%) CSS
2 7 (53.85%) LAMP
3 4 (30.77%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) MySQL
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Games
1 4 (30.77%) Manufacturing
1 4 (30.77%) Retail
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) LAMP Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Junior Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Junior
3 4 (30.77%) Systems Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Graduate
3 4 (30.77%) Graduate Developer
4 2 (15.38%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
1 4 (30.77%) VB
1 4 (30.77%) VB.NET
1 4 (30.77%) VB6
Oldham, North West
Skills Required: - PHP - Symfony (ideally Symfony2) - LAMP (Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP) The Role: As a senior PHP developer on the Web team, you will be developing their client'...
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Derker Street, Oldham, Manchester OL1 4EQ
Main Responsibilities Assist in the development of new applications for production; distribution; warehousing and sales order processing systems Support the senior engineers through design, implementation and test phases...
Innovative Technology
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013