The first table below looks at the demand for PHP4 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP4 over the 3 months to 22 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP 4
Rank 809 827 752
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -75
Permanent jobs citing PHP4 55 73 118
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.051% 0.060% 0.097%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.095% 0.111% 0.184%
Number of salaries quoted 54 72 108
Average salary £41,250 £32,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.92% -9.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £24,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £41,800
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £30,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+41.66% -7.69%
All Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
57807 65840 64225
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 53.15% 53.68% 52.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49720 58014 55744
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

PHP4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PHP4 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

PHP4 Jobs Demand Trend

PHP4
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PHP4 within the UK.

PHP4 Salary Trend

PHP4
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP4 over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

PHP4 Salary Histogram

PHP4
Top 26 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP4 within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +15 55 £41,250 +26.92%
South East +13 14 £45,000 +63.63%
East of England +18 13 £45,000 +87.50%
Norfolk - 13 £45,000 -
Berkshire - 13 £45,000 -
Norwich - 13 £45,000 -
South West 0 12 £34,000 +4.61%
Bristol 0 11 £34,000 +6.25%
London +27 9 £34,250 -14.37%
Newbury - 7 £42,500 -
Lancashire +8 3 £25,000 +17.64%
North West -10 3 £25,000 -23.07%
West Yorkshire +2 2 £27,500 -4.34%
Leeds -6 2 £27,500 -
Burnley -6 2 £25,000 +17.64%
Yorkshire -8 2 £27,500 -8.33%
West Midlands -9 2 £34,750 +6.92%
Birmingham -12 2 £34,750 +6.92%
City of London - 2 £42,500 -
Croydon - 2 £32,500 -
Kingston Upon Thames -2 1 £40,000 -15.78%
Kent -18 1 £57,500 +219.44%
Avonmouth - 1 £35,000 -
Dorset - 1 £32,500 -
Maidstone - 1 £57,500 -
Bournemouth - 1 £32,500 -

PHP4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing PHP4 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 PHP4.

1 119 (100.00%) PHP
2 97 (81.51%) PHP5
3 91 (76.47%) JavaScript
4 73 (61.34%) MySQL
4 73 (61.34%) CSS
5 64 (53.78%) jQuery
6 53 (44.54%) HTML
7 44 (36.97%) LAMP
8 42 (35.29%) HTML5
9 41 (34.45%) Linux
10 39 (32.77%) CSS3
10 39 (32.77%) Drupal
11 31 (26.05%) OOP
12 25 (21.01%) Degree
13 24 (20.17%) Magento
13 24 (20.17%) XHTML
14 22 (18.49%) OO
14 22 (18.49%) WordPress
15 21 (17.65%) E-Commerce
15 21 (17.65%) Adobe
16 20 (16.81%) UNIX
17 19 (15.97%) XML
17 19 (15.97%) Ajax
18 18 (15.13%) Adobe AIR
18 18 (15.13%) Apache
19 17 (14.29%) Publishing
20 16 (13.45%) Web Development
21 15 (12.61%) Zend
21 15 (12.61%) MVC
21 15 (12.61%) Shell Script

PHP4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing PHP4 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 PHP4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 73 (61.34%) CSS
2 64 (53.78%) jQuery
3 53 (44.54%) HTML
4 44 (36.97%) LAMP
5 42 (35.29%) HTML5
6 39 (32.77%) CSS3
7 24 (20.17%) XHTML
8 19 (15.97%) XML
8 19 (15.97%) Ajax
9 18 (15.13%) Adobe AIR
10 11 (9.244%) Symfony
11 9 (7.563%) Zend Framework
12 8 (6.723%) SOAP
12 8 (6.723%) CodeIgniter
13 7 (5.882%) Node.js
14 6 (5.042%) Mason
14 6 (5.042%) JSON
14 6 (5.042%) CPAN
14 6 (5.042%) FastCGI
15 5 (4.202%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 39 (32.77%) Drupal
2 24 (20.17%) Magento
3 22 (18.49%) WordPress
4 18 (15.13%) Apache
5 13 (10.92%) CMS
6 4 (3.361%) ExpressionEngine
7 2 (1.681%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.681%) Joomla!
8 1 (0.840%) Facebook Platform
8 1 (0.840%) IIS
8 1 (0.840%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 5 (4.202%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.361%) SSH
1 4 (3.361%) Internet
1 4 (3.361%) SMTP
1 4 (3.361%) FTP
1 4 (3.361%) HTTP
2 3 (2.521%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.840%) Intranet
3 1 (0.840%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (61.34%) MySQL
2 4 (3.361%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.521%) Informix
4 2 (1.681%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.840%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 14 (11.76%) Subversion
2 7 (5.882%) Selenium
2 7 (5.882%) Git (software)
3 1 (0.840%) PHPUnit
General
1 17 (14.29%) Publishing
2 11 (9.244%) Banking
2 11 (9.244%) Retail
3 6 (5.042%) Finance
4 5 (4.202%) Games
4 5 (4.202%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.361%) Marketing
6 3 (2.521%) Advertising
7 1 (0.840%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 117 (98.32%) Developer
2 48 (40.34%) PHP Developer
3 27 (22.69%) Senior Developer
3 27 (22.69%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 25 (21.01%) Drupal Developer
5 19 (15.97%) LAMP Developer
6 14 (11.76%) Web Developer
7 12 (10.08%) Lead Developer
7 12 (10.08%) Team Leader
8 9 (7.563%) Senior PHP Developer
9 6 (5.042%) Junior PHP Developer
9 6 (5.042%) Junior Developer
9 6 (5.042%) Perl Developer
9 6 (5.042%) Junior
10 5 (4.202%) MySQL Developer
11 4 (3.361%) PHP Web Developer
11 4 (3.361%) Database Developer
12 3 (2.521%) Web Designer
12 3 (2.521%) Designer
12 3 (2.521%) Sybase Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.76%) Digital Media
2 4 (3.361%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.521%) New Media
3 3 (2.521%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.521%) Open Source
3 3 (2.521%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.681%) iPad
5 1 (0.840%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 41 (34.45%) Linux
2 20 (16.81%) UNIX
3 8 (6.723%) Ubuntu
4 7 (5.882%) CentOS
5 1 (0.840%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.05%) OOP
2 22 (18.49%) OO
3 21 (17.65%) E-Commerce
4 16 (13.45%) Web Development
5 15 (12.61%) MVC
6 5 (4.202%) Content Management
7 3 (2.521%) B2B
7 3 (2.521%) E-business
7 3 (2.521%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (1.681%) Time Management
8 2 (1.681%) SOA
8 2 (1.681%) SEO
8 2 (1.681%) Scrum
9 1 (0.840%) Project Management
9 1 (0.840%) Usability Testing
9 1 (0.840%) Load Balancing
9 1 (0.840%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 119 (100.00%) PHP
2 97 (81.51%) PHP5
3 91 (76.47%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.61%) Shell Script
5 14 (11.76%) Java
5 14 (11.76%) Perl
6 13 (10.92%) T-SQL
7 9 (7.563%) Python
8 5 (4.202%) SQL
9 3 (2.521%) C#
10 2 (1.681%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.840%) C++
11 1 (0.840%) ActionScript 3.0
11 1 (0.840%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.840%) tcsh
11 1 (0.840%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.840%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (21.01%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.840%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (3.361%) Plesk
Vendors
1 21 (17.65%) Adobe
2 15 (12.61%) Zend
2 15 (12.61%) Sybase
3 9 (7.563%) Oracle
4 3 (2.521%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.681%) Google
6 1 (0.840%) Facebook
6 1 (0.840%) Red Hat
City, London
Calling all PHP Developers!... The successful candidate must be adept in PHP 5 (object-oriented); experience in procedural PHP 4 is sadly not enough. In addition to PHP...
Nuepc
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Norwich, East Anglia
Key responsibilities:*Experienced developing using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript*Leading a medium sized team (14) of front end developers*Ensure security patches are installed on servers*Giving client...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Norwich, Norfolk
Key Skills: HTML5 PHP4/5 JavaScript JQuery Drupal6/7 This role would suit candidates with previous job titles of web manager, senior front end developer or web team...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Norwich, East Anglia
This position will still have mix of hands on development so a strong background in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, PHP and Drupal development will be needed... Front End...
TRG
Salary: 45000-50000 Per Annum Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Norfolk
This position will still have mix of hands on development so a strong background in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, PHP and Drupal development will be needed... Front End...
TRG
Salary: £45000 - 50000 Per Annum Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Norwich, East Anglia
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Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
My client is a digital agency with a difference and with offices located in Somerset and London this could be the next move that makes a difference to...
RDF Resources
Salary: £25000 - £37000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
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Betting Appointments
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Ideally you'll have knowledge of Ruby, JavaScript, CSS, XML, HTML, Apache, Linux and WML... - Zend Smarty, Symfony MVC framework exposure - Knowledge of PHP 5 Object Orientated PHP,...
BTR Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: From £18,000 to £22,000 per annum plus bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Key words - Lead PHP Web Developer, PHP, MySQL, MVC, PHP Unit... As a lead PHP Developer you will be expected to have experience with most of the following ??...
Purple Consultancy
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Kingston Upon Thames, London
Perl Developer, MySQL / Oracle, Javascript, XML, Kingston Upon Thames, £35000-£45,000Key Words: Perl, OOP, ``Object Oriented``, Web Developer, Linux, Unix, LAMP, Javascript Essential:- Perl 5 (+3 years...
OPUS
Salary: GBP35000 to GBP45000 per annum
Posted: 30 April 2013