The first table below looks at the demand for PEAR skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PEAR 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 Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR)
Rank 852 865 861
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -4
Permanent jobs citing PEAR 8 22 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.007% 0.018% 0.008%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.050% 0.128% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 8 22 10
Average salary £72,500 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £72,500 - £27,500
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15992 17239 15612
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.72% 14.23% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13641 15127 13714
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%

PEAR
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PEAR within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

PEAR Jobs Demand Trend

PEAR
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PEAR within the UK.

PEAR Salary Trend

PEAR
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PEAR over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

PEAR Salary Histogram

PEAR
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PEAR within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England -5 8 £72,500 +45.00%
South East - 8 £72,500 -
Oxfordshire - 5 £72,500 -
Oxford - 5 £72,500 -
Maidstone - 1 £32,500 -
Brighton - 1 £30,000 -
Kent - 1 £32,500 -
Hampshire - 1 £30,000 -
East Sussex - 1 £30,000 -
Winchester - 1 £30,000 -

PEAR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing PEAR 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 PEAR.

1 10 (55.56%) PHP
1 10 (55.56%) MySQL
2 8 (44.44%) Publishing
2 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 8 (44.44%) JUnit
2 8 (44.44%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) SOA
2 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) QA
2 8 (44.44%) Selenium
2 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (44.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (44.44%) Business Transformation
2 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Waterfall
3 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) CSS
3 7 (38.89%) HTML
4 5 (27.78%) LAMP
4 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
4 5 (27.78%) XML
4 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
4 5 (27.78%) Ajax
4 5 (27.78%) Degree
5 4 (22.22%) Subversion
5 4 (22.22%) Git (software)
6 3 (16.67%) UNIX
6 3 (16.67%) Windows
6 3 (16.67%) Linux
6 3 (16.67%) OO

PEAR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing PEAR 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 PEAR. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (38.89%) CSS
1 7 (38.89%) HTML
2 5 (27.78%) LAMP
2 5 (27.78%) XML
2 5 (27.78%) Ajax
3 3 (16.67%) XHTML
4 2 (11.11%) HTML5
4 2 (11.11%) jQuery
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (11.11%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) MySQL
2 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JUnit
1 8 (44.44%) Selenium
1 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) Subversion
2 4 (22.22%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (44.44%) Publishing
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 6 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Technical Manager
3 4 (22.22%) Senior PHP Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Web Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Manager
6 1 (5.556%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Junior PHP Developer
6 1 (5.556%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Junior
6 1 (5.556%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
2 3 (16.67%) W3C
3 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) UNIX
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) SOA
1 8 (44.44%) Software Engineering
1 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (44.44%) Business Transformation
1 8 (44.44%) Waterfall
2 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
3 3 (16.67%) OO
3 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.11%) MVC
4 2 (11.11%) OOP
4 2 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) PHP
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) PHP5
4 2 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
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