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 South East 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 South East region.

 PHP
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank354472
Rank change year-on-year
Up+9Up+28
Matching permanent IT job ads7777011139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East5.014 %3.947 %2.657 %
As % of the Programming Languages category11.05 %9.467 %6.189 %
Salaries quoted7236231075
Average salary£32,500£35,000£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.140 %+16.66 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£24,000£22,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£50,000£43,500
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£29,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.690 %
South East IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
7029740518404
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East45.36 %41.70 %42.93 %
Salaries quoted6226640415830
Average salary£37,500£37,500£36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+4.160 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£50,000£50,000
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

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

South East 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 South East 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
SurreyUp+32266£35,500+1.42 %
HampshireUp+17129£27,000-3.57 %
BerkshireUp+5124£35,000-17.64 %
KentUp+1875£35,000+16.66 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1166£30,000-18.91 %
West SussexDown-1045£28,500-21.37 %
East SussexUp+331£28,500-5.00 %
OxfordshireDown-1531£30,000-11.11 %
Home CountiesNew entry-9£50,000-
MiddlesexDown-233£35,000-17.64 %
SussexDown-41£26,000-28.76 %
Isle of WightNew entry-1£19,000-
PHP EnglandPHP
England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1820 (56.94 %)MySQL
2735 (51.04 %)CSS
3734 (50.97 %)JavaScript
4701 (48.68 %)HTML
5463 (32.15 %)Linux
6398 (27.64 %)XML
7353 (24.51 %)Web Development
8326 (22.64 %)SQL
9323 (22.43 %)AJAX
10301 (20.90 %)LAMP
10301 (20.90 %)E-Commerce
11296 (20.56 %)XHTML
12259 (17.99 %)Apache
13258 (17.92 %)PHP5
14252 (17.50 %)OO
15195 (13.54 %)Oracle
16194 (13.47 %)Perl
17193 (13.40 %)Java
18183 (12.71 %)Internet
19172 (11.94 %).NET
20167 (11.60 %)Subversion
21166 (11.53 %)Windows
21166 (11.53 %)Degree
22163 (11.32 %)UNIX
23160 (11.11 %)MVC
24155 (10.76 %)Flash
25147 (10.21 %)jQuery
26141 (9.792 %)Zend
26141 (9.792 %)Web Services
27139 (9.653 %)Marketing

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South East 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.

South East IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1735 (51.04 %)CSS
2701 (48.68 %)HTML
3398 (27.64 %)XML
4323 (22.43 %)AJAX
5301 (20.90 %)LAMP
6296 (20.56 %)XHTML
7172 (11.94 %).NET
8155 (10.76 %)Flash
9147 (10.21 %)jQuery
10141 (9.792 %)Web Services
11103 (7.153 %)ASP
1290 (6.250 %)ASP.NET
1290 (6.250 %)Zend Framework
1362 (4.306 %)Smarty
1460 (4.167 %)SOAP
1548 (3.333 %)XSLT
1644 (3.056 %)CPAN
1742 (2.917 %)CGI
1839 (2.708 %)Adobe Flex
1938 (2.639 %)DHTML
South East IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1259 (17.99 %)Apache
2130 (9.028 %)CMS
378 (5.417 %)Drupal
435 (2.431 %)Joomla!
533 (2.292 %)WordPress
626 (1.806 %)IIS
724 (1.667 %)Tomcat
823 (1.597 %)SharePoint
921 (1.458 %)ColdFusion
1020 (1.389 %)Magento
1115 (1.042 %)TYPO3
1213 (0.903 %)osCommerce
1311 (0.764 %)MS Exchange
148 (0.556 %)ExpressionEngine
155 (0.347 %)WebLogic
164 (0.278 %)Lotus Notes
164 (0.278 %)SAS
173 (0.208 %)Oracle Application Server
173 (0.208 %)SugarCRM
173 (0.208 %)Documentum
South East IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
190 (6.250 %)Photoshop
235 (2.431 %)Adobe Illustrator
333 (2.292 %)MS Excel
416 (1.111 %)MS Office
512 (0.833 %)Fireworks
69 (0.625 %)MS Visio
75 (0.347 %)InDesign
75 (0.347 %)Acrobat
83 (0.208 %)MS PowerPoint
83 (0.208 %)ImageReady
91 (0.069 %)MS Project
91 (0.069 %)GIMP
South East IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (0.694 %)Google Analytics
24 (0.278 %)Pivotal CRM
33 (0.208 %)SAP R/3
33 (0.208 %)Dynamics CRM
42 (0.139 %)GoldMine
42 (0.139 %)Dynamics NAV
42 (0.139 %)WebTrends
51 (0.069 %)Microsoft CRM
South East IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1183 (12.71 %)Internet
287 (6.042 %)TCP/IP
337 (2.569 %)DNS
436 (2.500 %)Intranet
528 (1.944 %)Firewall
627 (1.875 %)SAN
721 (1.458 %)HTTP
818 (1.250 %)VoIP
916 (1.111 %)SMTP
1013 (0.903 %)DHCP
1013 (0.903 %)BSS
1112 (0.833 %)SSH
1112 (0.833 %)FTP
1211 (0.764 %)NAS
139 (0.625 %)SNMP
148 (0.556 %)VLAN
148 (0.556 %)iSCSI
157 (0.486 %)LAN
157 (0.486 %)WAN
157 (0.486 %)SSL
South East IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1820 (56.94 %)MySQL
2122 (8.472 %)SQL Server
330 (2.083 %)RDBMS
426 (1.806 %)PostgreSQL
520 (1.389 %)SQL Server 2005
613 (0.903 %)Oracle 10g
711 (0.764 %)MS Access
810 (0.694 %)SQL Server 2000
96 (0.417 %)DTS
96 (0.417 %)Crystal Reports
96 (0.417 %)Oracle 8/8i
104 (0.278 %)Oracle OLAP
104 (0.278 %)OLAP
104 (0.278 %)SQL Server 2008
113 (0.208 %)SQLBase
113 (0.208 %)Data Cleansing
113 (0.208 %)Data Mining
113 (0.208 %)Datawarehouse
113 (0.208 %)BusinessObjects
113 (0.208 %)SAP BW
South East IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1167 (11.60 %)Subversion
235 (2.431 %)Dreamweaver
317 (1.181 %)Visual Studio
413 (0.903 %)VSS/SourceSafe
511 (0.764 %)Eclipse
610 (0.694 %)Git (software)
77 (0.486 %)Selenium
86 (0.417 %)PEAR
86 (0.417 %)Ant
86 (0.417 %)WebSpeed
95 (0.347 %)WATIR
104 (0.278 %)WinRunner
104 (0.278 %)QuickTest Pro
104 (0.278 %)TortoiseSVN
112 (0.139 %)Oracle APEX
112 (0.139 %)Bugzilla
112 (0.139 %)Oracle Forms
121 (0.069 %)JUnit
121 (0.069 %)NUnit
121 (0.069 %)JIRA
South East IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1139 (9.653 %)Marketing
244 (3.056 %)Pensions
338 (2.639 %)Retail
437 (2.569 %)Telecoms
437 (2.569 %)Finance
536 (2.500 %)Education
536 (2.500 %)Advertising
633 (2.292 %)Games
724 (1.667 %)Health
822 (1.528 %)Publishing
919 (1.319 %)Insurance
1015 (1.042 %)Graphic Design
1114 (0.972 %)Electric
1114 (0.972 %)Electronics
1212 (0.833 %)Manufacturing
1311 (0.764 %)Music
1311 (0.764 %)Flash Games
148 (0.556 %)Social Media
148 (0.556 %)Pharmaceutical
156 (0.417 %)Police
South East IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11056 (73.33 %)Developer
2552 (38.33 %)PHP Developer
3349 (24.24 %)Web Developer
4147 (10.21 %)Senior Developer
5141 (9.792 %)PHP Web Developer
695 (6.597 %)Senior PHP Developer
781 (5.625 %)Programmer
880 (5.556 %)Analyst
977 (5.347 %)Junior
1068 (4.722 %)Junior Developer
1165 (4.514 %)LAMP Developer
1258 (4.028 %)Graduate
1357 (3.958 %)MySQL Developer
1456 (3.889 %)Perl Developer
1552 (3.611 %)PHP Programmer
1651 (3.542 %)Front-End Developer
1749 (3.403 %)Administrator
1848 (3.333 %)Software Developer
1941 (2.847 %)Team Leader
2040 (2.778 %)Flash Developer
South East IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
198 (6.806 %)Open Source
278 (5.417 %)W3C
373 (5.069 %)Computer Science
444 (3.056 %)Web 2.0
518 (1.250 %)Management Information System
518 (1.250 %)Mathematics
616 (1.111 %)Physics
715 (1.042 %)Cloud Computing
812 (0.833 %)RIA
812 (0.833 %)Client/Server
911 (0.764 %)Social Network
108 (0.556 %)PMI
116 (0.417 %)Amazon AWS
116 (0.417 %)SaaS
124 (0.278 %)Data Integration
133 (0.208 %)Credit Risk
133 (0.208 %)German Language
133 (0.208 %)iPhone
133 (0.208 %)Blackberry
133 (0.208 %)Mainframe
South East IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1463 (32.15 %)Linux
2166 (11.53 %)Windows
3163 (11.32 %)UNIX
442 (2.917 %)Red Hat Linux
526 (1.806 %)Windows Server 2003
621 (1.458 %)AIX
719 (1.319 %)Windows XP
812 (0.833 %)Solaris
98 (0.556 %)Windows Server 2008
106 (0.417 %)Ubuntu
115 (0.347 %)Embedded Linux
115 (0.347 %)Windows Vista
124 (0.278 %)Debian
124 (0.278 %)HPUX
133 (0.208 %)Windows 2000 Server
133 (0.208 %)CentOS
133 (0.208 %)Android
142 (0.139 %)Fedora
142 (0.139 %)Windows 2000
142 (0.139 %)Mac OS
South East IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1353 (24.51 %)Web Development
2301 (20.90 %)E-Commerce
3252 (17.50 %)OO
4160 (11.11 %)MVC
5135 (9.375 %)OOP
6134 (9.306 %)Content Management
778 (5.417 %)Agile Software Development
868 (4.722 %)Scrum
962 (4.306 %)SEO
1042 (2.917 %)Project Management
1141 (2.847 %)OOD
1240 (2.778 %)Web Design
1338 (2.639 %)UML
1431 (2.153 %)Software Engineering
1525 (1.736 %)B2B
1525 (1.736 %)CRM
1525 (1.736 %)Information Architecture
1622 (1.528 %)EAI
1622 (1.528 %)Business Development
1721 (1.458 %)Web Marketing
South East IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1734 (50.97 %)JavaScript
2326 (22.64 %)SQL
3258 (17.92 %)PHP5
4194 (13.47 %)Perl
5193 (13.40 %)Java
6104 (7.222 %)C++
7102 (7.083 %)ActionScript
886 (5.972 %)C
886 (5.972 %)C#
985 (5.903 %)PHP4
1072 (5.000 %)ActionScript 3.0
1171 (4.931 %)Python
1257 (3.958 %)Ruby
1356 (3.889 %)VB.NET
1448 (3.333 %)PL/SQL
1542 (2.917 %)VB
1635 (2.431 %)ActionScript 2.0
1732 (2.222 %)Bash shell
1825 (1.736 %)Shell Script
1910 (0.694 %)XPath
South East IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1166 (11.53 %)Degree
215 (1.042 %)ISEB
314 (0.972 %)PhD
412 (0.833 %)Security Cleared
58 (0.556 %)PMI Certification
67 (0.486 %)CISSP
67 (0.486 %)CEH
67 (0.486 %)Microsoft Certification
76 (0.417 %)RHCE
85 (0.347 %)A+ Certification
85 (0.347 %)MCSA
85 (0.347 %)CISM
85 (0.347 %)MCDST
94 (0.278 %)Cisco Certification
94 (0.278 %)CCNA
94 (0.278 %)ITIL Certification
103 (0.208 %)RHCT
112 (0.139 %)MCTS
121 (0.069 %)SC Cleared
121 (0.069 %)MCSE
South East IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
120 (1.389 %)QA
26 (0.417 %)WCAG
26 (0.417 %)WAI
35 (0.347 %)SLA
41 (0.069 %)PCI DSS
South East IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
129 (2.014 %)VMware Infrastructure
218 (1.250 %)Active Directory
310 (0.694 %)Samba
310 (0.694 %)VMware ESX
310 (0.694 %)NFS
49 (0.625 %)ISA Server
54 (0.278 %)Oracle RAC
62 (0.139 %)VMware Server
62 (0.139 %)Hyper-V
71 (0.069 %)Postfix
South East IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (0.347 %)MSI
24 (0.278 %)Nagios
33 (0.208 %)Backup Exec
42 (0.139 %)OpenView
51 (0.069 %)Tivoli
51 (0.069 %)EMC NetWorker
51 (0.069 %)Cacti
51 (0.069 %)Zenoss
South East IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1195 (13.54 %)Oracle
2141 (9.792 %)Zend
371 (4.931 %)Microsoft
457 (3.958 %)Sybase
548 (3.333 %)Adobe
643 (2.986 %)Red Hat
739 (2.708 %)VMware
825 (1.736 %)Google
920 (1.389 %)IBM
1017 (1.181 %)Progress
1116 (1.111 %)Cisco
1214 (0.972 %)JBoss
1214 (0.972 %)Percussion
138 (0.556 %)SAP
138 (0.556 %)HP
138 (0.556 %)Macromedia
147 (0.486 %)BT
154 (0.278 %)Omniture
154 (0.278 %)WatchGuard
154 (0.278 %)NETGEAR