Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the PHP Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

 PHP Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank111124263
Rank change year-on-year
Up+13Up+139
Matching permanent IT job ads162914311446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.896 %1.687 %0.709 %
As % of the Job Titles category2.035 %1.800 %0.751 %
Salaries quoted150213301347
Average salary£31,000£30,000£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.330 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,500£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£42,500£40,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£29,500£28,000
% change year-on-year
+1.690 %+5.350 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
8006179487192657
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK93.18 %93.72 %94.40 %
Salaries quoted6618965376157185
Average salary£41,500£38,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.790 %-3.750 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-

PHP Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

PHP Developer Demand Trend

PHP Developer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK.

PHP Developer Salary Trend

PHP Developer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP Developer over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

PHP Developer Salary Histogram

PHP Developer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the UK 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
EnglandUp+91555£30,500+1.66 %
LondonDown-21488£35,000-
South EastUp+21277£32,500+8.33 %
North WestUp+35239£27,500+3.77 %
South WestUp+24183£32,500+8.33 %
YorkshireUp+26147£27,500+10.00 %
City of LondonUp+7118£34,000+1.49 %
ManchesterUp+20114£27,500+6.79 %
SurreyUp+56104£35,000-22.22 %
East of EnglandDown-3192£30,000-7.69 %
West YorkshireUp+2387£30,000+20.00 %
LancashireUp+4970£27,500+1.85 %
East MidlandsUp+1164£27,000-10.00 %
West MidlandsUp+1463£29,000-3.33 %
WalesUp+4260£35,000-
South WalesUp+4658£35,000-
HampshireUp+1448£28,500+3.63 %
CardiffNew entry-48£35,000-
GloucestershireUp+1943£35,000+16.66 %
CheshireUp+540£27,500+10.00 %
HalifaxUp+2637£31,500+26.00 %
WiltshireUp+3036£32,500+30.00 %
KentUp+1736£35,000+12.90 %
SomersetUp+736£32,500-7.14 %
BerkshireUp+334£33,500-1.47 %
CambridgeshireDown-2231£30,750-3.90 %
NorfolkUp+3029£29,500+4.42 %
BristolUp+829£35,000+16.66 %
BathUp+3728£33,000-17.50 %
BuckinghamshireDown-227£30,000-14.28 %

PHP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK that cited PHP Developer in their job title 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 with PHP Developer in their job title.

13013 (100.00 %)PHP
22198 (72.95 %)MySQL
31774 (58.88 %)CSS
41757 (58.31 %)JavaScript
51430 (47.46 %)HTML
6970 (32.19 %)AJAX
7925 (30.70 %)PHP5
8920 (30.53 %)Linux
9855 (28.38 %)OO
10749 (24.86 %)XHTML
11741 (24.59 %)LAMP
12645 (21.41 %)Zend
13632 (20.98 %)Web Development
14614 (20.38 %)XML
15599 (19.88 %)Apache
16526 (17.46 %)E-Commerce
17473 (15.70 %)MVC
18443 (14.70 %)OOP
19428 (14.21 %)SQL
20409 (13.57 %)jQuery
21380 (12.61 %)CMS
22272 (9.028 %)Zend Framework
23269 (8.928 %)Flash
24266 (8.828 %)Subversion
25259 (8.596 %)Drupal
26242 (8.032 %)Java
27239 (7.932 %)PHP4
28227 (7.534 %)Web Services
29219 (7.269 %)Marketing
30215 (7.136 %)Symfony

PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK that cited PHP Developer in their job title 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 with PHP Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11774 (58.88 %)CSS
21430 (47.46 %)HTML
3970 (32.19 %)AJAX
4749 (24.86 %)XHTML
5741 (24.59 %)LAMP
6614 (20.38 %)XML
7409 (13.57 %)jQuery
8272 (9.028 %)Zend Framework
9269 (8.928 %)Flash
10227 (7.534 %)Web Services
11215 (7.136 %)Symfony
12162 (5.377 %).NET
13136 (4.514 %)ASP
14122 (4.049 %)SOAP
15103 (3.419 %)Smarty
1683 (2.755 %)DHTML
1780 (2.655 %)XSLT
1870 (2.323 %)CodeIgniter
1961 (2.025 %)ASP.NET
2055 (1.825 %)CakePHP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1599 (19.88 %)Apache
2380 (12.61 %)CMS
3259 (8.596 %)Drupal
4107 (3.551 %)Joomla!
577 (2.556 %)WordPress
664 (2.124 %)Magento
749 (1.626 %)IIS
816 (0.531 %)osCommerce
914 (0.465 %)Tomcat
914 (0.465 %)TYPO3
1011 (0.365 %)ColdFusion
1110 (0.332 %)ExpressionEngine
1110 (0.332 %)Apache Solr
128 (0.266 %)Plone
128 (0.266 %)SharePoint
134 (0.133 %)SugarCRM
134 (0.133 %)Alfresco
143 (0.100 %)Moodle
143 (0.100 %)nginx
152 (0.066 %)lighttpd
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1167 (5.543 %)Photoshop
237 (1.228 %)Adobe Illustrator
329 (0.962 %)Fireworks
420 (0.664 %)MS Visio
515 (0.498 %)MS Excel
62 (0.066 %)CA Clarity
62 (0.066 %)GIMP
62 (0.066 %)ImageReady
62 (0.066 %)MS Office
71 (0.033 %)Acrobat
71 (0.033 %)Maya
71 (0.033 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
120 (0.664 %)Google Analytics
212 (0.398 %)Summit
32 (0.066 %)WebTrends
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1176 (5.841 %)Internet
253 (1.759 %)Intranet
332 (1.062 %)HTTP
429 (0.962 %)DNS
517 (0.564 %)SSH
615 (0.498 %)FTP
714 (0.465 %)Extranet
714 (0.465 %)Firewall
811 (0.365 %)VPN
811 (0.365 %)SAN
95 (0.166 %)SSL
95 (0.166 %)TCP/IP
95 (0.166 %)LAN
95 (0.166 %)SMS
95 (0.166 %)WAN
102 (0.066 %)SMTP
102 (0.066 %)DHCP
102 (0.066 %)VoIP
102 (0.066 %)Bluetooth
111 (0.033 %)HTTPS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12198 (72.95 %)MySQL
2146 (4.846 %)SQL Server
377 (2.556 %)PostgreSQL
423 (0.763 %)RDBMS
59 (0.299 %)SQL Server 2005
59 (0.299 %)Crystal Reports
65 (0.166 %)Oracle 8/8i
74 (0.133 %)Oracle 10g
74 (0.133 %)SQL Server 2000
74 (0.133 %)DTS
83 (0.100 %)GIS
83 (0.100 %)Datawarehouse
92 (0.066 %)MS Access
92 (0.066 %)InterSystems Cache
101 (0.033 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
101 (0.033 %)SQL Server Integration Services
101 (0.033 %)Oracle 11g
101 (0.033 %)Oracle 9i
101 (0.033 %)Informix
101 (0.033 %)DB2
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1266 (8.828 %)Subversion
221 (0.697 %)Dreamweaver
316 (0.531 %)Ant
413 (0.431 %)Eclipse
512 (0.398 %)PHPUnit
611 (0.365 %)PEAR
710 (0.332 %)Git (software)
89 (0.299 %)JIRA
98 (0.266 %)JUnit
98 (0.266 %)Log4j
105 (0.166 %)Visual Studio
113 (0.100 %)VSS/SourceSafe
113 (0.100 %)Selenium
122 (0.066 %)Firebug
131 (0.033 %)Flex Builder
131 (0.033 %)TortoiseSVN
131 (0.033 %)FlexUnit
131 (0.033 %)CruiseControl
131 (0.033 %)ProC
131 (0.033 %)WebSpeed
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1219 (7.269 %)Marketing
285 (2.821 %)Pensions
381 (2.688 %)Finance
473 (2.423 %)Games
570 (2.323 %)Health
661 (2.025 %)Retail
757 (1.892 %)Graphic Design
853 (1.759 %)Education
945 (1.494 %)Insurance
1044 (1.460 %)Telecoms
1132 (1.062 %)Publishing
1229 (0.962 %)Online Games
1229 (0.962 %)Social Media
1328 (0.929 %)Advertising
1427 (0.896 %)Construction
1525 (0.830 %)Music
1623 (0.763 %)Multimedia
1711 (0.365 %)Law
1810 (0.332 %)Billing
199 (0.299 %)Home Office
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1177 (5.875 %)Open Source
2127 (4.215 %)W3C
385 (2.821 %)Computer Science
472 (2.390 %)Social Network
558 (1.925 %)Web 2.0
650 (1.659 %)Visualisation
735 (1.162 %)Client/Server
818 (0.597 %)iPhone
99 (0.299 %)Amazon EC2
108 (0.266 %)Amazon AWS
108 (0.266 %)RIA
117 (0.232 %)Blog
126 (0.199 %)Mathematics
135 (0.166 %)Handset
135 (0.166 %)E-Learning
135 (0.166 %)STB
135 (0.166 %)Amazon S3
144 (0.133 %)Cloud Computing
144 (0.133 %)Video on Demand
144 (0.133 %)SaaS
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1920 (30.53 %)Linux
2149 (4.945 %)UNIX
379 (2.622 %)Windows
421 (0.697 %)Red Hat Linux
511 (0.365 %)Debian
610 (0.332 %)Ubuntu
75 (0.166 %)Windows Server 2003
75 (0.166 %)AIX
75 (0.166 %)Solaris
84 (0.133 %)Mac OS X
84 (0.133 %)Fedora
93 (0.100 %)FreeBSD
102 (0.066 %)Android
102 (0.066 %)Windows Server 2008
102 (0.066 %)CentOS
111 (0.033 %)OpenBSD
111 (0.033 %)MVS
111 (0.033 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1855 (28.38 %)OO
2632 (20.98 %)Web Development
3526 (17.46 %)E-Commerce
4473 (15.70 %)MVC
5443 (14.70 %)OOP
6211 (7.003 %)Content Management
7186 (6.173 %)SEO
8146 (4.846 %)Agile Software Development
9123 (4.082 %)Scrum
1093 (3.087 %)Web Design
1178 (2.589 %)CRM
1270 (2.323 %)OOD
1365 (2.157 %)Unit Testing
1463 (2.091 %)SOA
1562 (2.058 %)Project Management
1654 (1.792 %)TDD
1742 (1.394 %)Migration
1836 (1.195 %)Online Marketing
1929 (0.962 %)Systems Analysis
2027 (0.896 %)Digital Marketing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13013 (100.00 %)PHP
21757 (58.31 %)JavaScript
3925 (30.70 %)PHP5
4428 (14.21 %)SQL
5242 (8.032 %)Java
6239 (7.932 %)PHP4
7156 (5.178 %)ActionScript
8139 (4.613 %)Perl
9114 (3.784 %)C#
10110 (3.651 %)C++
11108 (3.584 %)C
1295 (3.153 %)Python
1362 (2.058 %)Ruby
1454 (1.792 %)ActionScript 3.0
1539 (1.294 %)Delphi
1539 (1.294 %)PL/SQL
1627 (0.896 %)Shell Script
1725 (0.830 %)VB
1819 (0.631 %)VB.NET
1917 (0.564 %)ActionScript 2.0
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1203 (6.737 %)Degree
24 (0.133 %)HND
32 (0.066 %)MySQL Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
112 (0.398 %)QA
211 (0.365 %)WAI
37 (0.232 %)WCAG
44 (0.133 %)PCI DSS
51 (0.033 %)HL7
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (0.133 %)Oracle RAC
23 (0.100 %)Postfix
31 (0.033 %)XenServer
31 (0.033 %)Samba
31 (0.033 %)Xen
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.100 %)Plesk
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1645 (21.41 %)Zend
2115 (3.817 %)Oracle
337 (1.228 %)Google
436 (1.195 %)Adobe
531 (1.029 %)Microsoft
621 (0.697 %)Red Hat
713 (0.431 %)Yahoo!
89 (0.299 %)Quark
97 (0.232 %)Mercator
97 (0.232 %)BT
105 (0.166 %)VMware
105 (0.166 %)Sun
113 (0.100 %)Cisco
122 (0.066 %)IBM
122 (0.066 %)Progress
122 (0.066 %)Apple
131 (0.033 %)Sage
131 (0.033 %)webMethods
131 (0.033 %)Dell
131 (0.033 %)Citrix