The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sevenoaks region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 21 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 Sevenoaks region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 3 4 2
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Permanent jobs citing PHP 4 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sevenoaks 22.22% 10.00% 75.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 80.00% 25.00% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 3
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +12.06%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
All Programming Languages
Sevenoaks
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
5 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sevenoaks 27.78% 40.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 4
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +12.06%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
Kent

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks region.

Sevenoaks PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sevenoaks 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 (90.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) MySQL
2 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Information Security
2 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 7 (70.00%) QA
3 6 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) Extreme Programming
3 6 (60.00%) Perl
3 6 (60.00%) ISEB
3 6 (60.00%) CentOS
3 6 (60.00%) UNIX
4 4 (40.00%) MVC
5 3 (30.00%) Python
5 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (30.00%) HTML
5 3 (30.00%) ASP
5 3 (30.00%) CSS
5 3 (30.00%) Web Development
5 3 (30.00%) Joomla!
6 2 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
6 2 (20.00%) Apache
6 2 (20.00%) CMS
7 1 (10.00%) LAMP
7 1 (10.00%) SEO
7 1 (10.00%) DNS
7 1 (10.00%) XML
7 1 (10.00%) DOM

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sevenoaks 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 3 (30.00%) HTML
1 3 (30.00%) ASP
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (10.00%) LAMP
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) DOM
3 1 (10.00%) Kohana
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5
3 1 (10.00%) CSS3
3 1 (10.00%) Laravel
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Joomla!
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) QA Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) PHP Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
5 1 (10.00%) PHP Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) CentOS
2 6 (60.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Information Security
2 6 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 6 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 6 (60.00%) Extreme Programming
3 4 (40.00%) MVC
4 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (30.00%) Web Development
5 1 (10.00%) SEO
5 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Perl
3 3 (30.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) PHP5
4 1 (10.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) QA