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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 9 September 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 of the Programming Languages category.

LinkPHP
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank533458
Rank change year-on-year
Down-19Up+24
Matching permanent IT job ads442634885886
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.088 %5.129 %3.311 %
As % of the Programming Languages category7.503 %10.02 %7.205 %
Salaries quoted393631815268
Average salary£34,000£32,500£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.610 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,500£22,500£23,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£45,000£46,500
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£30,000
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
589903480781695
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK54.48 %51.19 %45.96 %
Salaries quoted501342939269581
Average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£62,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,000£34,000
% change year-on-year
+6.060 %-2.940 %

PHP
Demand Trend

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

PHP Demand Trend

PHP
Salary Trend

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

PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 within the UK.

PHP Salary Histogram

PHP
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 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
EnglandDown-194316£34,572+6.37 %
LondonDown-61915£40,000+9.58 %
South EastDown-10789£32,500-
City of LondonDown-31454£40,000+14.28 %
East of EnglandDown-15341£32,500-
YorkshireDown-12312£30,000-
North WestDown-3293£27,500+3.77 %
South WestDown-7293£29,500-1.66 %
SurreyDown-14259£35,000-
ManchesterUp+29197£26,330+1.26 %
East MidlandsDown-3183£28,500-5.00 %
West YorkshireDown-21176£30,000+4.34 %
BerkshireDown-9152£36,500+8.95 %
West MidlandsDown-28151£30,000+9.09 %
CambridgeshireDown-26142£30,000-3.22 %
HampshireDown-13130£30,000-
CambridgeDown-28120£30,000-
HertfordshireDown-16118£37,500-16.66 %
BristolUp+8115£31,000-11.42 %
LeedsDown-26103£32,500+16.59 %
CheshireDown-3171£30,000+3.44 %
South YorkshireDown-270£32,250+0.78 %
NottinghamshireUp+856£31,500+5.00 %
ScotlandDown-1856£35,000+23.89 %
NottinghamUp+1855£31,500+31.25 %
East SussexUp+754£27,250-27.33 %
KentDown-1454£30,000+7.14 %
GuildfordUp+1852£29,500-25.31 %
BrightonUp+549£27,000-28.00 %
WarwickshireUp+247£32,500+30.00 %

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

14911 (57.12 %)MySQL
24384 (50.99 %)CSS
34199 (48.84 %)JavaScript
43856 (44.85 %)HTML
53064 (35.64 %)Linux
62161 (25.14 %)SQL
72061 (23.97 %)XML
81997 (23.23 %)XHTML
91935 (22.51 %)OO
101884 (21.91 %)Apache
111740 (20.24 %)AJAX
121700 (19.77 %)LAMP
131648 (19.17 %).NET
141629 (18.95 %)jQuery
151623 (18.88 %)Java
161543 (17.95 %)Web Development
171514 (17.61 %)PHP5
181187 (13.81 %)Degree
191168 (13.59 %)C#
201160 (13.49 %)SQL Server
211159 (13.48 %)Perl
221141 (13.27 %)Zend
231120 (13.03 %)Flash
241108 (12.89 %)E-Commerce
25981 (11.41 %)MVC
26951 (11.06 %)Marketing
27900 (10.47 %)Subversion
28886 (10.31 %)UNIX
29883 (10.27 %)OOP
30873 (10.15 %)ASP.NET

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14384 (50.99 %)CSS
23856 (44.85 %)HTML
32061 (23.97 %)XML
41997 (23.23 %)XHTML
51740 (20.24 %)AJAX
61700 (19.77 %)LAMP
71648 (19.17 %).NET
81629 (18.95 %)jQuery
91120 (13.03 %)Flash
10873 (10.15 %)ASP.NET
11682 (7.933 %)Web Services
12532 (6.188 %)ASP
13468 (5.444 %)Zend Framework
14404 (4.699 %)SOAP
15365 (4.246 %)Symfony
16346 (4.025 %)CakePHP
17329 (3.827 %)XSLT
18324 (3.769 %)JSP
18324 (3.769 %)J2EE
19289 (3.362 %)Adobe Flex
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11884 (21.91 %)Apache
2820 (9.538 %)CMS
3686 (7.980 %)Drupal
4316 (3.676 %)WordPress
5284 (3.303 %)IIS
6272 (3.164 %)Joomla!
7205 (2.385 %)Magento
8166 (1.931 %)Tomcat
9127 (1.477 %)SharePoint
1098 (1.140 %)ColdFusion
1137 (0.430 %)MS Exchange
1233 (0.384 %)ExpressionEngine
1332 (0.372 %)Sitecore CMS
1428 (0.326 %)Umbraco
1527 (0.314 %)WebLogic
1527 (0.314 %)Zope
1623 (0.268 %)Alfresco
1722 (0.256 %)ESB
1821 (0.244 %)Force.com
1920 (0.233 %)osCommerce
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1688 (8.003 %)Photoshop
2286 (3.327 %)MS Excel
3212 (2.466 %)Adobe Illustrator
4170 (1.977 %)Fireworks
5125 (1.454 %)MS Visio
5125 (1.454 %)MS Office
651 (0.593 %)MS PowerPoint
724 (0.279 %)MATLAB
821 (0.244 %)Acrobat
917 (0.198 %)MS Project
1015 (0.174 %)Adobe Director
1114 (0.163 %)Spreadsheet
128 (0.093 %)OmniGraffle
128 (0.093 %)S-PLUS
136 (0.070 %)Shockwave
136 (0.070 %)Maya
136 (0.070 %)Authorware
136 (0.070 %)InDesign
145 (0.058 %)ImageReady
153 (0.035 %)Adobe After Effects
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
168 (0.791 %)Google Analytics
231 (0.361 %)WebTrends
327 (0.314 %)Summit
327 (0.314 %)Oracle Applications
422 (0.256 %)Visualfiles
511 (0.128 %)Navision
69 (0.105 %)Optimost
77 (0.081 %)Microsoft CRM
84 (0.047 %)Movex
93 (0.035 %)Pivotal CRM
102 (0.023 %)Dynamics NAV
102 (0.023 %)Dynamics CRM
111 (0.012 %)Dynamics AX
111 (0.012 %)GoldMine
111 (0.012 %)SAP R/3
111 (0.012 %)Oracle EBS
111 (0.012 %)Oracle 11i
111 (0.012 %)Line 500
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1682 (7.933 %)Internet
2243 (2.827 %)TCP/IP
3230 (2.675 %)DNS
4217 (2.524 %)HTTP
5183 (2.129 %)Firewall
6162 (1.884 %)Intranet
7135 (1.570 %)SAN
883 (0.965 %)FTP
982 (0.954 %)VoIP
1075 (0.872 %)SMTP
1168 (0.791 %)LDAP
1262 (0.721 %)VPN
1354 (0.628 %)SNMP
1450 (0.582 %)Extranet
1549 (0.570 %)SSH
1549 (0.570 %)SSL
1643 (0.500 %)Asterisk PBX
1742 (0.489 %)WAN
1841 (0.477 %)Broadband
1939 (0.454 %)LAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14911 (57.12 %)MySQL
21160 (13.49 %)SQL Server
3229 (2.664 %)PostgreSQL
4182 (2.117 %)RDBMS
5145 (1.687 %)SQL Server 2005
669 (0.803 %)SQL Server 2008
762 (0.721 %)MS Access
861 (0.710 %)Oracle 10g
959 (0.686 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1054 (0.628 %)Crystal Reports
1144 (0.512 %)SQL Server 2000
1242 (0.489 %)Oracle 11g
1242 (0.489 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1340 (0.465 %)Oracle 8/8i
1434 (0.395 %)Informix
1532 (0.372 %)Oracle Reports
1628 (0.326 %)ETL
1726 (0.302 %)GIS
1820 (0.233 %)DTS
1917 (0.198 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1900 (10.47 %)Subversion
2253 (2.943 %)Dreamweaver
3151 (1.756 %)Eclipse
4129 (1.501 %)Git (software)
5111 (1.291 %)Selenium
6110 (1.280 %)Visual Studio
7106 (1.233 %)Ant
896 (1.117 %)Maven
995 (1.105 %)PHPUnit
1058 (0.675 %)JIRA
1155 (0.640 %)JUnit
1232 (0.372 %)PEAR
1330 (0.349 %)Oracle Forms
1428 (0.326 %)QuickTest Pro
1527 (0.314 %)LoadRunner
1626 (0.302 %)Oracle APEX
1721 (0.244 %)WinRunner
1819 (0.221 %)ClearCase
1918 (0.209 %)ANTLR
2017 (0.198 %)Rational Robot
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1951 (11.06 %)Marketing
2474 (5.514 %)Finance
3425 (4.944 %)Pensions
4356 (4.141 %)Games
5320 (3.722 %)Health
6281 (3.269 %)Advertising
7255 (2.966 %)Social Media
8252 (2.931 %)Education
9226 (2.629 %)Insurance
10201 (2.338 %)Telecoms
11135 (1.570 %)Retail
12129 (1.501 %)Publishing
13127 (1.477 %)Multimedia
1494 (1.093 %)Graphic Design
1593 (1.082 %)Online Games
1685 (0.989 %)Banking
1776 (0.884 %)Back Office
1861 (0.710 %)Animation
1956 (0.651 %)Music
2047 (0.547 %)Front Office
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16383 (74.25 %)Developer
23043 (35.40 %)PHP Developer
32097 (24.39 %)Web Developer
4977 (11.36 %)Senior Developer
5676 (7.863 %)PHP Web Developer
6471 (5.479 %)Senior PHP Developer
7381 (4.432 %)Administrator
8356 (4.141 %)Analyst
9348 (4.048 %)Front-End Developer
10345 (4.013 %)Software Developer
11342 (3.978 %)Senior Web Developer
12318 (3.699 %).NET Developer
13297 (3.455 %)Junior
14275 (3.199 %)Systems Administrator
15272 (3.164 %)Designer
16270 (3.141 %)Java Developer
17255 (2.966 %)Graduate
18252 (2.931 %)Programmer
19244 (2.838 %)Junior Developer
20242 (2.815 %)C# Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1814 (9.468 %)Open Source
2543 (6.316 %)Computer Science
3448 (5.211 %)W3C
4231 (2.687 %)iPhone
5224 (2.606 %)Web 2.0
6222 (2.582 %)Social Network
7169 (1.966 %)Client/Server
8153 (1.780 %)Mathematics
9133 (1.547 %)Clustering
1087 (1.012 %)Replication
1178 (0.907 %)Blackberry
1269 (0.803 %)SaaS
1363 (0.733 %)Cloud Computing
1461 (0.710 %)E-Learning
1554 (0.628 %)Blog
1649 (0.570 %)Management Information System
1742 (0.489 %)RIA
1839 (0.454 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1938 (0.442 %)Amazon AWS
2027 (0.314 %)Statistics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13064 (35.64 %)Linux
2886 (10.31 %)UNIX
3785 (9.131 %)Windows
4341 (3.966 %)Red Hat Linux
5193 (2.245 %)Solaris
6145 (1.687 %)CentOS
7104 (1.210 %)Android
897 (1.128 %)Windows Server 2003
994 (1.093 %)Debian
1088 (1.024 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1176 (0.884 %)AIX
1263 (0.733 %)Ubuntu
1359 (0.686 %)Windows XP
1458 (0.675 %)Windows Server 2008
1543 (0.500 %)FreeBSD
1636 (0.419 %)Mac OS X
1732 (0.372 %)Windows Vista
1827 (0.314 %)Windows Mobile
1925 (0.291 %)Fedora
2022 (0.256 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11935 (22.51 %)OO
21543 (17.95 %)Web Development
31108 (12.89 %)E-Commerce
4981 (11.41 %)MVC
5883 (10.27 %)OOP
6678 (7.886 %)Agile Software Development
7665 (7.735 %)SEO
8540 (6.281 %)Content Management
9481 (5.595 %)Scrum
10438 (5.095 %)Project Management
11410 (4.769 %)Web Design
12275 (3.199 %)TDD
13232 (2.699 %)OOD
14230 (2.675 %)Software Engineering
15216 (2.513 %)Digital Marketing
16209 (2.431 %)Unit Testing
17182 (2.117 %)UML
18166 (1.931 %)SOA
19151 (1.756 %)Online Marketing
20149 (1.733 %)Continuous Integration
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14199 (48.84 %)JavaScript
22161 (25.14 %)SQL
31623 (18.88 %)Java
41514 (17.61 %)PHP5
51168 (13.59 %)C#
61159 (13.48 %)Perl
7714 (8.305 %)Python
8692 (8.049 %)C
9650 (7.561 %)ActionScript
10618 (7.189 %)C++
11598 (6.956 %)Ruby
12295 (3.431 %)Shell Script
12295 (3.431 %)VB
13293 (3.408 %)ActionScript 3.0
14275 (3.199 %)Bash shell
15260 (3.024 %)VB.NET
16231 (2.687 %)PHP4
17188 (2.187 %)ActionScript 2.0
18140 (1.628 %)T-SQL
19124 (1.442 %)PL/SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11187 (13.81 %)Degree
273 (0.849 %)Microsoft Certification
340 (0.465 %)RHCE
340 (0.465 %)MCPD
439 (0.454 %)MCAD
439 (0.454 %)MCSD
536 (0.419 %)ISEB
632 (0.372 %)Cisco Certification
729 (0.337 %)Security Cleared
828 (0.326 %)RHCT
921 (0.244 %)CCNP
1019 (0.221 %)CCNA
1019 (0.221 %)SC Cleared
1118 (0.209 %)PhD
1217 (0.198 %)ISTQB
1316 (0.186 %)MCSE
1414 (0.163 %)MCP
1414 (0.163 %)CISSP
1512 (0.140 %)Sun Certification
1512 (0.140 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1233 (2.710 %)QA
247 (0.547 %)WCAG
341 (0.477 %)WAI
417 (0.198 %)SLA
55 (0.058 %)PCI DSS
64 (0.047 %)ISO 9001
64 (0.047 %)ISO 8583
73 (0.035 %)ISO/IEC 27001
82 (0.023 %)ISO 14001
91 (0.012 %)MiFID
91 (0.012 %)BS7799
91 (0.012 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
91 (0.012 %)HL7
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
164 (0.744 %)NFS
261 (0.710 %)Active Directory
349 (0.570 %)VMware Infrastructure
442 (0.489 %)Postfix
532 (0.372 %)Xen
629 (0.337 %)Samba
719 (0.221 %)OpenLDAP
818 (0.209 %)qmail
818 (0.209 %)VMware ESX
913 (0.151 %)Varnish
913 (0.151 %)XenServer
913 (0.151 %)Sendmail
1011 (0.128 %)Nmap
1011 (0.128 %)Squid
118 (0.093 %)Veritas Volume Manager
127 (0.081 %)Hadoop
127 (0.081 %)Veritas Cluster Server
135 (0.058 %)Terminal Server
135 (0.058 %)Oracle RAC
143 (0.035 %)vSphere
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1114 (1.326 %)Nagios
257 (0.663 %)Cacti
324 (0.279 %)Puppet
413 (0.151 %)HP SIM
512 (0.140 %)BMC PATROL
611 (0.128 %)Nessus
78 (0.093 %)Plesk
78 (0.093 %)BMC Performance Manager
78 (0.093 %)OpenView
87 (0.081 %)MSI
94 (0.047 %)Ganglia
94 (0.047 %)Unicenter
94 (0.047 %)Foglight
94 (0.047 %)BladeLogic
103 (0.035 %)NetBackup
103 (0.035 %)YUM
103 (0.035 %)Munin
112 (0.023 %)HP Quality Center
112 (0.023 %)Sysprep
112 (0.023 %)PureDisk
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11141 (13.27 %)Zend
2644 (7.491 %)Oracle
3445 (5.176 %)Microsoft
4368 (4.281 %)Adobe
5336 (3.908 %)Red Hat
6169 (1.966 %)Google
7133 (1.547 %)JBoss
8110 (1.280 %)Cisco
986 (1.000 %)VMware
1064 (0.744 %)Salesforce.com
1163 (0.733 %)HP
1249 (0.570 %)Symbian
1344 (0.512 %)Sun
1443 (0.500 %)NetApp
1536 (0.419 %)BT
1635 (0.407 %)Mercator
1734 (0.395 %)Sitecore
1734 (0.395 %)IBM
1833 (0.384 %)Sybase
1931 (0.361 %)Yahoo!