The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 31 40 37
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -3
Permanent jobs citing PHP 4 7 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 2.721% 3.500% 1.500%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.634% 4.516% 2.239%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 3
Average salary £43,750 £30,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.83% -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
All Programming Languages
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
71 155 134
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 48.30% 77.50% 67.00%
Number of salaries quoted 26 149 130
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,600 £30,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £59,250 £50,000 £56,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
Hertfordshire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 (75.00%) OO
2 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (58.33%) C#
4 6 (50.00%) HTML
4 6 (50.00%) .NET
5 5 (41.67%) Python
5 5 (41.67%) Linux
6 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 4 (33.33%) XML
6 4 (33.33%) MySQL
6 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 4 (33.33%) MVC
6 4 (33.33%) Web Development
6 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 4 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
6 4 (33.33%) CakePHP
7 3 (25.00%) RSpec
7 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
7 3 (25.00%) Selenium
7 3 (25.00%) jQuery
7 3 (25.00%) Degree
7 3 (25.00%) Ruby
7 3 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (25.00%) TDD
7 3 (25.00%) Java
7 3 (25.00%) CSS
7 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (25.00%) Internet
7 3 (25.00%) Games
7 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 6 (50.00%) HTML
1 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) XML
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 4 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
2 4 (33.33%) CakePHP
3 3 (25.00%) jQuery
3 3 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (8.333%) Yii
5 1 (8.333%) WPF
5 1 (8.333%) Symfony
5 1 (8.333%) LAMP
5 1 (8.333%) XHTML
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (8.333%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) RSpec
1 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (25.00%) Games
2 2 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Software Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) PC Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Software Test Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (8.333%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Web Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Graduate
5 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) New Media
1 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) OO
2 4 (33.33%) MVC
2 4 (33.33%) Web Development
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (8.333%) Multithreading
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.333%) Software Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (58.33%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) Ruby
4 3 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (8.333%) C++
5 1 (8.333%) C
5 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.333%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.333%) ISEB
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Zend