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 22 May 2012 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
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank109143134
Rank change year-on-year
Up+34Down-9
Matching permanent IT job ads284221831677
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.357 %1.780 %1.756 %
As % of the Job Titles category2.488 %1.889 %1.882 %
Number of salaries quoted271220301535
Average salary£35,000£33,000£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06 %+10.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£25,000£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£45,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£30,000
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11420611553789084
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK94.71 %94.23 %93.30 %
Number of salaries quoted979339761273729
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %+2.73 %

PHP Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 22 May 2012 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 22 May 2012. 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+302783£35,000+6.06 %
LondonUp+531309£40,000+5.26 %
South EastDown-6452£31,500-3.07 %
North WestUp+8227£31,500+5.00 %
East of EnglandUp+12188£30,000-
South WestUp+10169£30,000-
YorkshireDown-14163£29,000-3.33 %
West MidlandsUp+39158£28,750+15.00 %
ManchesterDown-1139£32,000+14.28 %
City of LondonUp+10128£40,000-
West YorkshireUp+2106£30,000-
East MidlandsUp+17104£27,500-8.33 %
HampshireDown-11104£29,250+4.46 %
SurreyUp+2693£35,000-
HertfordshireUp+6277£31,500-21.25 %
BristolUp+1975£30,000+7.14 %
LeedsUp+473£29,000-3.33 %
BerkshireDown-1169£32,500-7.14 %
BirminghamUp+3163£30,000+20.00 %
CheshireUp+1660£31,500+5.00 %
East SussexDown-1158£30,000-10.44 %
BrightonDown-957£30,000-10.44 %
OxfordshireUp+3056£30,000-7.69 %
BuckinghamshireDown-3752£30,000-7.69 %
NorthamptonshireUp+1548£27,500-9.83 %
CambridgeshireDown-2735£35,000+16.66 %
WarwickshireDown-1031£30,000+14.28 %
CambridgeDown-1931£35,000+12.00 %
SouthamptonDown-2331£30,000+20.00 %
EssexUp+630£24,000-31.42 %

PHP Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

15462 (100.00 %)PHP
23761 (68.86 %)MySQL
33618 (66.24 %)JavaScript
43598 (65.87 %)CSS
53229 (59.12 %)HTML
61995 (36.53 %)OO
71916 (35.08 %)jQuery
81872 (34.27 %)Zend
91716 (31.42 %)Linux
101676 (30.68 %)PHP5
111545 (28.29 %)MVC
121303 (23.86 %)LAMP
131225 (22.43 %)Ajax
141085 (19.86 %)XML
151061 (19.43 %)Apache
16917 (16.79 %)E-Commerce
17909 (16.64 %)OOP
18903 (16.53 %)Web Development
19891 (16.31 %)XHTML
20838 (15.34 %)SQL
21760 (13.91 %)Zend Framework
22714 (13.07 %)CMS
23710 (13.00 %)Subversion
24679 (12.43 %)Drupal
25644 (11.79 %)Symfony
26626 (11.46 %)Degree
27580 (10.62 %)Agile Software Development
28573 (10.49 %)HTML5
29546 (9.996 %)Marketing
30451 (8.257 %)Web Services

PHP Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
13598 (65.87 %)CSS
23229 (59.12 %)HTML
31916 (35.08 %)jQuery
41303 (23.86 %)LAMP
51225 (22.43 %)Ajax
61085 (19.86 %)XML
7891 (16.31 %)XHTML
8760 (13.91 %)Zend Framework
9644 (11.79 %)Symfony
10573 (10.49 %)HTML5
11451 (8.257 %)Web Services
12375 (6.866 %)CodeIgniter
13343 (6.280 %)CakePHP
14309 (5.657 %)CSS3
15305 (5.584 %)Flash
16268 (4.907 %).NET
17247 (4.522 %)SOAP
18233 (4.266 %)JSON
19151 (2.765 %)XSLT
20140 (2.563 %)REST
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11061 (19.43 %)Apache
2714 (13.07 %)CMS
3679 (12.43 %)Drupal
4444 (8.129 %)WordPress
5373 (6.829 %)Magento
6277 (5.071 %)Joomla!
767 (1.227 %)Facebook Platform
851 (0.934 %)IIS
947 (0.860 %)Amazon EC2
1042 (0.769 %)Amazon AWS
1135 (0.641 %)ExpressionEngine
1226 (0.476 %)nginx
1324 (0.439 %)Apache Solr
1324 (0.439 %)Moodle
1423 (0.421 %)concrete5
1520 (0.366 %)SharePoint
1619 (0.348 %)TeamSite
1718 (0.330 %)Amazon S3
1815 (0.275 %)TYPO3
1912 (0.220 %)ColdFusion
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1194 (3.552 %)Photoshop
248 (0.879 %)MS Visio
343 (0.787 %)MS Excel
435 (0.641 %)Fireworks
514 (0.256 %)Adobe Illustrator
69 (0.165 %)MS Office
77 (0.128 %)GIMP
83 (0.055 %)InDesign
91 (0.018 %)Adobe Premiere
91 (0.018 %)MS PowerPoint
91 (0.018 %)Spreadsheet
91 (0.018 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
153 (0.970 %)Google Analytics
218 (0.330 %)WebTrends
310 (0.183 %)Summit
43 (0.055 %)Oracle Applications
51 (0.018 %)Dynamics NAV
51 (0.018 %)SAP SRM
51 (0.018 %)Oracle EBS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1289 (5.291 %)Internet
2103 (1.886 %)HTTP
387 (1.593 %)Intranet
475 (1.373 %)DNS
565 (1.190 %)Firewall
627 (0.494 %)Extranet
726 (0.476 %)SMTP
823 (0.421 %)HTTPS
921 (0.384 %)VoIP
1020 (0.366 %)SSL
1118 (0.330 %)SSH
1118 (0.330 %)Cisco PIX
1118 (0.330 %)Cisco ASA
1217 (0.311 %)SMS
1314 (0.256 %)Broadband
1314 (0.256 %)FTP
1410 (0.183 %)SMPP
158 (0.146 %)TCP/IP
167 (0.128 %)VPN
176 (0.110 %)RIP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13761 (68.86 %)MySQL
2304 (5.566 %)SQL Server
388 (1.611 %)PostgreSQL
465 (1.190 %)NoSQL
552 (0.952 %)MongoDB
625 (0.458 %)Redis
625 (0.458 %)RDBMS
720 (0.366 %)Apache Cassandra
819 (0.348 %)Hadoop
918 (0.330 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1016 (0.293 %)Crystal Reports
1111 (0.201 %)FileMaker
1210 (0.183 %)Oracle 8/8i
138 (0.146 %)Data Mining
147 (0.128 %)Firebird
156 (0.110 %)GIS
156 (0.110 %)CouchDB
156 (0.110 %)Oracle 11g
165 (0.092 %)MS Access
174 (0.073 %)Data Warehouse
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1710 (13.00 %)Subversion
2362 (6.628 %)Git (software)
3207 (3.790 %)PHPUnit
4108 (1.977 %)Eclipse
552 (0.952 %)Selenium
649 (0.897 %)Dreamweaver
742 (0.769 %)Ant
840 (0.732 %)Mercurial
934 (0.622 %)Bugzilla
1028 (0.513 %)JIRA
1126 (0.476 %)NetBeans
1221 (0.384 %)PEAR
1312 (0.220 %)Hudson
1411 (0.201 %)JUnit
158 (0.146 %)Firebug
158 (0.146 %)Redmine
167 (0.128 %)NetBeans IDE
176 (0.110 %)FishEye
184 (0.073 %)PhoneGap
184 (0.073 %)Oracle Forms
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1546 (9.996 %)Marketing
2363 (6.646 %)Finance
3194 (3.552 %)Retail
4111 (2.032 %)Advertising
593 (1.703 %)Publishing
679 (1.446 %)Games
778 (1.428 %)Telecoms
870 (1.282 %)Back Office
949 (0.897 %)Music
1031 (0.568 %)Multimedia
1116 (0.293 %)Billing
1116 (0.293 %)Automotive
1116 (0.293 %)Legal
1212 (0.220 %)French Language
1311 (0.201 %)German Language
1311 (0.201 %)Banking
149 (0.165 %)Manufacturing
158 (0.146 %)Pharmaceutical
158 (0.146 %)Music Industry
166 (0.110 %)Financial Institution
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1434 (7.946 %)Open Source
2352 (6.445 %)Social Media
3301 (5.511 %)Computer Science
4203 (3.717 %)Digital Media
5157 (2.874 %)W3C
6154 (2.819 %)iPhone
7127 (2.325 %)SaaS
894 (1.721 %)iPad
984 (1.538 %)Web 2.0
1078 (1.428 %)Social Network
1148 (0.879 %)New Media
1237 (0.677 %)Blackberry
1336 (0.659 %)BBC
1435 (0.641 %)RIA
1529 (0.531 %)Online Games
1627 (0.494 %)Mathematics
1723 (0.421 %)Management Information System
1822 (0.403 %)Cloud Computing
1921 (0.384 %)Replication
2020 (0.366 %)E-Learning
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11716 (31.42 %)Linux
2213 (3.900 %)UNIX
3163 (2.984 %)Windows
4162 (2.966 %)Android
5104 (1.904 %)Apple iOS
644 (0.806 %)Debian
742 (0.769 %)CentOS
833 (0.604 %)Ubuntu
927 (0.494 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
109 (0.165 %)Fedora
117 (0.128 %)Mac OS X
117 (0.128 %)Windows Server 2008
126 (0.110 %)Windows Server 2003
134 (0.073 %)Mac OS
143 (0.055 %)Windows XP
152 (0.037 %)Windows 7
161 (0.018 %)Windows Mobile
161 (0.018 %)Windows Vista
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11995 (36.53 %)OO
21545 (28.29 %)MVC
3917 (16.79 %)E-Commerce
4909 (16.64 %)OOP
5903 (16.53 %)Web Development
6580 (10.62 %)Agile Software Development
7291 (5.328 %)Content Management
8281 (5.145 %)SEO
9211 (3.863 %)TDD
10199 (3.643 %)Unit Testing
11196 (3.588 %)Scrum
12164 (3.003 %)Continuous Integration
13125 (2.289 %)Web Application Development
14124 (2.270 %)Web Design
15111 (2.032 %)B2C
16104 (1.904 %)OOD
1799 (1.813 %)Digital Marketing
1894 (1.721 %)CRM
1982 (1.501 %)Project Management
2071 (1.300 %)B2B
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15462 (100.00 %)PHP
23618 (66.24 %)JavaScript
31676 (30.68 %)PHP5
4838 (15.34 %)SQL
5329 (6.023 %)Java
6213 (3.900 %)Python
7206 (3.772 %)Ruby
8165 (3.021 %)Perl
9161 (2.948 %)ActionScript
10125 (2.289 %)Bash shell
11119 (2.179 %)C#
12107 (1.959 %)C++
1391 (1.666 %)PHP4
1482 (1.501 %)C
1571 (1.300 %)Shell Script
1644 (0.806 %)XPath
1644 (0.806 %)ActionScript 3.0
1733 (0.604 %)Objective-C
1832 (0.586 %)ECMAScript
1924 (0.439 %)ActionScript 2.0
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1626 (11.46 %)Degree
212 (0.220 %)Security Cleared
212 (0.220 %)MySQL Certification
36 (0.110 %)MBA
44 (0.073 %)ITIL Certification
52 (0.037 %)HND
61 (0.018 %)PhD
61 (0.018 %)Microsoft Certification
61 (0.018 %)Sun Certification
61 (0.018 %)Network+ Certification
61 (0.018 %)SC Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
173 (1.337 %)QA
237 (0.677 %)WAI
318 (0.330 %)PCI DSS
411 (0.201 %)WCAG
57 (0.128 %)SLA
65 (0.092 %)ISO 9001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
119 (0.348 %)Varnish
22 (0.037 %)Postfix
22 (0.037 %)Sendmail
31 (0.018 %)Active Directory
31 (0.018 %)VMware Infrastructure
31 (0.018 %)OpenSIPS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (0.110 %)Puppet
21 (0.018 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
21 (0.018 %)Plesk
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11872 (34.27 %)Zend
2284 (5.200 %)Facebook
3208 (3.808 %)Oracle
4177 (3.241 %)Google
5128 (2.343 %)Microsoft
6103 (1.886 %)Twitter
793 (1.703 %)Adobe
837 (0.677 %)Red Hat
934 (0.622 %)Salesforce.com
1033 (0.604 %)SAP
1122 (0.403 %)Apple
1221 (0.384 %)Cisco
1313 (0.238 %)Sony
1410 (0.183 %)BT
1410 (0.183 %)Yahoo!
158 (0.146 %)Sage
158 (0.146 %)Sybase
166 (0.110 %)Symbian
175 (0.092 %)Nortel
175 (0.092 %)Avaya