The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 11 33 27
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -6
Permanent jobs citing PHP 120 59 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 13.59% 6.378% 7.256%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.72% 11.39% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 112 53 41
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,000 £30,500
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +4.91%
All Programming Languages
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
506 518 330
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 57.30% 56.00% 52.05%
Number of salaries quoted 480 485 305
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +13.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
Hampshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Southampton PHP Salary Histogram

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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.

1 125 (66.14%) JavaScript
2 124 (65.61%) CSS
3 85 (44.97%) HTML
4 75 (39.68%) XHTML
5 72 (38.10%) PHP5
6 70 (37.04%) MySQL
7 68 (35.98%) Linux
8 65 (34.39%) OOP
9 62 (32.80%) Zend
10 61 (32.28%) SQL
11 60 (31.75%) HTML5
12 58 (30.69%) OO
13 52 (27.51%) Subversion
14 46 (24.34%) LAMP
15 44 (23.28%) E-Commerce
15 44 (23.28%) Java
16 43 (22.75%) Degree
17 41 (21.69%) MVC
18 40 (21.16%) UNIX
18 40 (21.16%) jQuery
18 40 (21.16%) Drupal
19 38 (20.11%) CSS3
20 36 (19.05%) WordPress
21 35 (18.52%) Git (software)
21 35 (18.52%) Web Services
22 30 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
23 28 (14.81%) XML
24 27 (14.29%) .NET
25 26 (13.76%) Ajax
26 25 (13.23%) SQL Server

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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
1 124 (65.61%) CSS
2 85 (44.97%) HTML
3 75 (39.68%) XHTML
4 60 (31.75%) HTML5
5 46 (24.34%) LAMP
6 40 (21.16%) jQuery
7 38 (20.11%) CSS3
8 35 (18.52%) Web Services
9 28 (14.81%) XML
10 27 (14.29%) .NET
11 26 (13.76%) Ajax
12 23 (12.17%) Node.js
13 20 (10.58%) Backbone.js
13 20 (10.58%) Zend Framework
14 18 (9.524%) J2EE
15 17 (8.995%) Spring
16 12 (6.349%) DOM
17 11 (5.820%) Semantic HTML
18 10 (5.291%) REST
19 9 (4.762%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 40 (21.16%) Drupal
2 36 (19.05%) WordPress
3 20 (10.58%) Magento
4 17 (8.995%) Tomcat
5 14 (7.407%) CMS
6 12 (6.349%) Apache
7 11 (5.820%) Joomla!
8 9 (4.762%) PrestaShop
9 5 (2.646%) ColdFusion
10 2 (1.058%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.529%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.529%) lighttpd
11 1 (0.529%) Moodle
Applications
1 23 (12.17%) Photoshop
2 17 (8.995%) MS Excel
3 9 (4.762%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.529%) Agresso
1 1 (0.529%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.995%) Broadband
2 1 (0.529%) LAN
2 1 (0.529%) HTTP
2 1 (0.529%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (37.04%) MySQL
2 30 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (13.23%) SQL Server
4 17 (8.995%) Oracle 8/8i
5 10 (5.291%) Big Data
6 9 (4.762%) NoSQL
7 8 (4.233%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.704%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (3.704%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.529%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (27.51%) Subversion
2 35 (18.52%) Git (software)
3 17 (8.995%) Eclipse
3 17 (8.995%) PhoneGap
4 3 (1.587%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 3 (1.587%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.058%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.058%) Behat
General
1 10 (5.291%) Marketing
2 8 (4.233%) Finance
3 4 (2.116%) Advertising
4 3 (1.587%) Games
5 2 (1.058%) Retail
6 1 (0.529%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 149 (78.84%) Developer
2 89 (47.09%) PHP Developer
3 47 (24.87%) Web Developer
4 23 (12.17%) PHP Web Developer
5 22 (11.64%) Software Engineer
6 18 (9.524%) Junior Developer
6 18 (9.524%) Junior
7 17 (8.995%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.995%) Java Developer
8 14 (7.407%) Graduate
9 12 (6.349%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (6.349%) Administrator
9 12 (6.349%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 12 (6.349%) Linux Administrator
10 10 (5.291%) PHP MySQL Developer
11 9 (4.762%) Junior PHP Developer
11 9 (4.762%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 9 (4.762%) Front-End Developer
12 8 (4.233%) Front-End Web Developer
12 8 (4.233%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.995%) Client/Server
2 12 (6.349%) Mathematics
2 12 (6.349%) Computer Science
3 7 (3.704%) SaaS
4 6 (3.175%) iPad
5 5 (2.646%) Digital Media
5 5 (2.646%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.116%) New Media
6 4 (2.116%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.058%) Social Network
7 2 (1.058%) W3C
7 2 (1.058%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (1.058%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 68 (35.98%) Linux
2 40 (21.16%) UNIX
3 17 (8.995%) Windows
4 16 (8.466%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.529%) Solaris
5 1 (0.529%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.529%) SUSE
5 1 (0.529%) Android
5 1 (0.529%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.39%) OOP
2 58 (30.69%) OO
3 44 (23.28%) E-Commerce
4 41 (21.69%) MVC
5 22 (11.64%) Software Engineering
6 15 (7.937%) Web Development
6 15 (7.937%) Market Research
6 15 (7.937%) Project Management
7 11 (5.820%) SEO
8 10 (5.291%) Digital Marketing
9 9 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
9 9 (4.762%) TDD
9 9 (4.762%) B2B
9 9 (4.762%) B2C
10 6 (3.175%) OOA/OOD
10 6 (3.175%) Workflow
11 5 (2.646%) Scrum
11 5 (2.646%) Web Application Development
12 4 (2.116%) Data Protection
13 3 (1.587%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 125 (66.14%) JavaScript
2 72 (38.10%) PHP5
3 61 (32.28%) SQL
4 44 (23.28%) Java
5 24 (12.70%) C++
6 21 (11.11%) Perl
7 17 (8.995%) PL/SQL
8 15 (7.937%) C
9 12 (6.349%) Python
10 11 (5.820%) C#
11 8 (4.233%) Objective-C
12 6 (3.175%) Ruby
12 6 (3.175%) Bash shell
13 4 (2.116%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.529%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.529%) ActionScript 3.0
14 1 (0.529%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (22.75%) Degree
2 1 (0.529%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.704%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.175%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.058%) QA
System Software
1 5 (2.646%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.058%) XenServer
3 1 (0.529%) Squid
Vendors
1 62 (32.80%) Zend
2 21 (11.11%) Oracle
3 9 (4.762%) Sencha
4 5 (2.646%) VMware
5 4 (2.116%) Facebook
6 3 (1.587%) Adobe
7 2 (1.058%) Yahoo!
7 2 (1.058%) Google
8 1 (0.529%) NorthgateArinso
8 1 (0.529%) BMC
8 1 (0.529%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.529%) Remedy
8 1 (0.529%) Northgate
8 1 (0.529%) Microsoft
Southampton, Hampshire
Skills: (PHP, OOP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, JQuery Mobile, HTML5, CSS3, Illustrator, Web Developer, Front End Developer) My client is a very well established Host of Brands who...
Computer People
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
You will need experience with Worpress, Magento, MVC, HTML, CSS and Javascript... Knowledge, experience and technical skills: *A strong technical background developing PHP websites / applications *Experience developing within...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + AMAZING BENEFITS
Posted: 14 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Southampton, Hampshire OOP PHP5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Linux, version control, MVC framework PHP Software Engineer/Developer required to join the strategic team of a fast growing software...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + pension, healthcare, bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
25 - £30K DOE plus some very good and unique benefits Purpose of the Role: My client requires a PHP, HTML5, CSS3 and Jquery guru, preferably with experience of...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + GREAT BENEFITS
Posted: 14 June 2013
Southampton, South East
Aiming to have 18 dedicated Analyst Programmers in total, you be part of an operations team currently staffed with over 50 most senior professional specialists.To be successful,...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £27000 - £34000 per annum + 36 days holiday, flexitime and more
Posted: 6 June 2013
Southampton, South East
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + bens
Posted: 31 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Datascope Recruitment
Salary: From £20,000 to £22,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Connectus
Salary: £16000 - £20000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Southampton, South East
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + bens
Posted: 31 May 2013