The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 17 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 Peterborough region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 30 38 41
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +3
Permanent jobs citing PHP 21 6 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 5.738% 1.942% 2.676%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.48% 3.871% 4.040%
Number of salaries quoted 18 5 6
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +5.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £22,500 £28,250
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £32,500 £37,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
All Programming Languages
Peterborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
183 155 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 50.00% 50.16% 66.22%
Number of salaries quoted 161 124 163
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
Cambridgeshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP across the Peterborough region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Peterborough PHP Salary Histogram

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 21 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 19 (67.86%) MySQL
3 18 (64.29%) CSS
3 18 (64.29%) HTML
3 18 (64.29%) jQuery
4 16 (57.14%) SQL Server
5 10 (35.71%) XHTML
6 9 (32.14%) Degree
7 8 (28.57%) OO
8 7 (25.00%) Linux
8 7 (25.00%) Web Development
9 6 (21.43%) JSON
9 6 (21.43%) Apache
10 4 (14.29%) OOP
10 4 (14.29%) LAMP
10 4 (14.29%) Drupal
11 3 (10.71%) QA
11 3 (10.71%) Ajax
11 3 (10.71%) Web Design
11 3 (10.71%) MVC
11 3 (10.71%) ColdFusion
11 3 (10.71%) XML
11 3 (10.71%) RESTful
12 2 (7.143%) Waterfall
12 2 (7.143%) UNIX
12 2 (7.143%) Ant
12 2 (7.143%) JUnit
12 2 (7.143%) SQL
12 2 (7.143%) .NET
12 2 (7.143%) Eclipse

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 18 (64.29%) HTML
1 18 (64.29%) CSS
1 18 (64.29%) jQuery
2 10 (35.71%) XHTML
3 6 (21.43%) JSON
4 4 (14.29%) LAMP
5 3 (10.71%) Ajax
5 3 (10.71%) RESTful
5 3 (10.71%) XML
6 2 (7.143%) .NET
7 1 (3.571%) Smarty
7 1 (3.571%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) Apache
2 4 (14.29%) Drupal
3 3 (10.71%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.571%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (67.86%) MySQL
2 16 (57.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Ant
1 2 (7.143%) JUnit
1 2 (7.143%) Eclipse
1 2 (7.143%) Xcode
1 2 (7.143%) CruiseControl
1 2 (7.143%) Subversion
2 1 (3.571%) JIRA
2 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
2 1 (3.571%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (3.571%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Developer
2 21 (75.00%) PHP Developer
3 10 (35.71%) Senior Developer
3 10 (35.71%) Senior PHP Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Drupal Developer
4 3 (10.71%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Web Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Web Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Designer
5 2 (7.143%) UNIX Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Junior
5 2 (7.143%) Junior Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Junior Front-End Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Junior PHP Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) LAMP Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Lead PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) W3C
1 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.571%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (7.143%) SUSE
2 2 (7.143%) UNIX
3 1 (3.571%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) OO
2 7 (25.00%) Web Development
3 4 (14.29%) OOP
4 3 (10.71%) MVC
4 3 (10.71%) Web Design
5 2 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (7.143%) Software Engineering
5 2 (7.143%) Waterfall
6 1 (3.571%) User Experience Design
6 1 (3.571%) Information Architecture
6 1 (3.571%) Project Management
6 1 (3.571%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.143%) SQL
2 2 (7.143%) PHP5
3 1 (3.571%) Python
3 1 (3.571%) C
3 1 (3.571%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (3.571%) Zend
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Key Skills and Experience: - Several years experience in PHP Object orientated Programming (OOP) - JavaScript, JQuery - CSS, HTML/XHTML - MySQL/SQL Server - A strong and relevant degree or equivalent -...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30k - 40k per year
Posted: 15 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
development or support) background *Web based front end application support experience at 3rd line level (ASP.Net, SQL Server 2005/2008,SSIS & SSRS) essential. Exposure to Sage and...
OSM Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + negotiable on application
Posted: 17 May 2013