The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 24 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 South Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 10 11 21
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +10
Permanent jobs citing PHP 121 119 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 16.92% 12.75% 7.656%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.43% 27.11% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 97 100 61
Average salary £30,000 £32,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £40,000 £33,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
385 439 492
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 53.85% 47.05% 58.85%
Number of salaries quoted 333 386 429
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £24,300
10% offered a salary of more than £45,250 £38,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
Yorkshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Sheffield +5 101 £30,500 -6.15%
Doncaster - 5 £25,750 -
Rotherham -3 3 £22,500 -25.00%
Barnsley +9 1 £20,000 -33.88%
PHP
Yorkshire

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 84 (44.68%) MySQL
2 80 (42.55%) CSS
3 74 (39.36%) JavaScript
4 69 (36.70%) HTML
5 50 (26.60%) SQL
6 48 (25.53%) jQuery
7 40 (21.28%) TDD
7 40 (21.28%) Java
8 39 (20.74%) Continuous Integration
9 38 (20.21%) .NET
10 36 (19.15%) Linux
10 36 (19.15%) HTML5
11 32 (17.02%) LAMP
11 32 (17.02%) SQL Server
12 30 (15.96%) Zend
13 29 (15.43%) Web Development
14 26 (13.83%) Agile Software Development
15 24 (12.77%) Zend Framework
16 22 (11.70%) C#
16 22 (11.70%) OO
17 21 (11.17%) XML
18 20 (10.64%) MVC
18 20 (10.64%) Subversion
19 19 (10.11%) Unit Testing
20 18 (9.574%) ASP.NET
20 18 (9.574%) CSS3
21 16 (8.511%) Open Source
21 16 (8.511%) Apache
21 16 (8.511%) Web Design
21 16 (8.511%) Degree

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 80 (42.55%) CSS
2 69 (36.70%) HTML
3 48 (25.53%) jQuery
4 38 (20.21%) .NET
5 36 (19.15%) HTML5
6 32 (17.02%) LAMP
7 24 (12.77%) Zend Framework
8 21 (11.17%) XML
9 18 (9.574%) ASP.NET
9 18 (9.574%) CSS3
10 12 (6.383%) SOAP
11 11 (5.851%) XHTML
12 10 (5.319%) Symfony
13 9 (4.787%) REST
13 9 (4.787%) Ajax
14 8 (4.255%) Flash
15 6 (3.191%) Web Services
16 5 (2.660%) .NET Framework
17 3 (1.596%) CodeIgniter
17 3 (1.596%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 16 (8.511%) Apache
1 16 (8.511%) WordPress
2 10 (5.319%) MSMQ
3 7 (3.723%) Magento
3 7 (3.723%) CMS
4 5 (2.660%) Joomla!
5 3 (1.596%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (1.596%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.596%) Sitefinity
6 2 (1.064%) IIS
6 2 (1.064%) Moodle
7 1 (0.532%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.532%) ESB
7 1 (0.532%) Drupal
7 1 (0.532%) nginx
7 1 (0.532%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.532%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.532%) Orchard CMS
7 1 (0.532%) concrete5
Applications
1 14 (7.447%) Photoshop
2 7 (3.723%) MS Excel
2 7 (3.723%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.128%) Fireworks
4 3 (1.596%) Adobe Captivate
4 3 (1.596%) Google Apps
5 2 (1.064%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.532%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.596%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.383%) Internet
2 3 (1.596%) DNS
3 2 (1.064%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.532%) SSH
4 1 (0.532%) POP3
4 1 (0.532%) SMTP
4 1 (0.532%) FTP
4 1 (0.532%) HTTP
4 1 (0.532%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (44.68%) MySQL
2 32 (17.02%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.383%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.723%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.596%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.596%) QlikView
6 2 (1.064%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.064%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.064%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.064%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.064%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.532%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.532%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 20 (10.64%) Subversion
2 8 (4.255%) Git (software)
2 8 (4.255%) PHPUnit
3 7 (3.723%) Dreamweaver
4 5 (2.660%) Selenium
4 5 (2.660%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.660%) Xcode
5 4 (2.128%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.064%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.532%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.532%) JUnit
7 1 (0.532%) PhoneGap
General
1 10 (5.319%) Legal
2 7 (3.723%) Finance
3 5 (2.660%) Marketing
4 4 (2.128%) Retail
5 3 (1.596%) Banking
5 3 (1.596%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.532%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.532%) Publishing
6 1 (0.532%) Games
Job Titles
1 134 (71.28%) Developer
2 69 (36.70%) PHP Developer
3 36 (19.15%) Web Developer
4 17 (9.043%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 15 (7.979%) .NET Developer
6 13 (6.915%) PHP Web Developer
6 13 (6.915%) Lead Developer
6 13 (6.915%) Development Manager
7 12 (6.383%) Junior
8 11 (5.851%) Junior Developer
8 11 (5.851%) Front-End Developer
8 11 (5.851%) Software Developer
9 10 (5.319%) Architect
9 10 (5.319%) Technical Architect
10 9 (4.787%) Lead PHP Developer
10 9 (4.787%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.787%) Software Engineer
11 8 (4.255%) Senior PHP Developer
12 7 (3.723%) Designer
12 7 (3.723%) Integration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.511%) Open Source
2 12 (6.383%) Graphic Design
3 10 (5.319%) Data Integration
4 9 (4.787%) Computer Science
5 6 (3.191%) E-Learning
6 5 (2.660%) Learning Management System
6 5 (2.660%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.128%) SaaS
7 4 (2.128%) Mathematics
8 3 (1.596%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.596%) Animation
8 3 (1.596%) Video Editing
8 3 (1.596%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.596%) SCORM
8 3 (1.596%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.064%) Statistics
10 1 (0.532%) Flash Games
10 1 (0.532%) W3C
10 1 (0.532%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.15%) Linux
2 12 (6.383%) Windows
3 7 (3.723%) UNIX
4 6 (3.191%) Mac OS X
4 6 (3.191%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.532%) CentOS
5 1 (0.532%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.532%) Android
5 1 (0.532%) SUSE
5 1 (0.532%) Debian
5 1 (0.532%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (21.28%) TDD
2 39 (20.74%) Continuous Integration
3 29 (15.43%) Web Development
4 26 (13.83%) Agile Software Development
5 22 (11.70%) OO
6 20 (10.64%) MVC
7 19 (10.11%) Unit Testing
8 16 (8.511%) Web Design
9 15 (7.979%) Project Management
10 12 (6.383%) E-Commerce
11 10 (5.319%) Scrum
11 10 (5.319%) OOP
11 10 (5.319%) Release Management
11 10 (5.319%) Software Engineering
12 8 (4.255%) SEO
12 8 (4.255%) Waterfall
12 8 (4.255%) BDD
13 6 (3.191%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (3.191%) Time Management
14 4 (2.128%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 74 (39.36%) JavaScript
2 50 (26.60%) SQL
3 40 (21.28%) Java
4 22 (11.70%) C#
5 14 (7.447%) PHP5
6 10 (5.319%) Bash shell
7 7 (3.723%) Perl
8 5 (2.660%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.064%) Python
9 2 (1.064%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.064%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.064%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.532%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.532%) VB
10 1 (0.532%) C++
10 1 (0.532%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 16 (8.511%) Degree
2 2 (1.064%) ISEB
2 2 (1.064%) CIW
3 1 (0.532%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.532%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.532%) MCP
3 1 (0.532%) MCSD
3 1 (0.532%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.447%) QA
2 3 (1.596%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.532%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.532%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.532%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.532%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.532%) SCOM
1 1 (0.532%) Plesk
Vendors
1 30 (15.96%) Zend
2 12 (6.383%) Adobe
3 11 (5.851%) Oracle
4 10 (5.319%) BT
5 7 (3.723%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.596%) Google
7 2 (1.064%) Twitter
7 2 (1.064%) Reuters
8 1 (0.532%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.532%) Cisco
8 1 (0.532%) VMware
8 1 (0.532%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (0.532%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.532%) Facebook
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