Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PHP5 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP5 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 of the Programming Languages category.

LinkPHP 5
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank226255542
Rank change year-on-year
Up+29Up+287
Matching permanent IT job ads758600495
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.882 %0.707 %0.243 %
As % of the Programming Languages category1.806 %1.505 %0.531 %
Salaries quoted688548451
Average salary£31,500£32,000£32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.560 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,600£24,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£42,100£42,500
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
419763987893186
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.86 %47.02 %45.66 %
Salaries quoted360403372177921
Average salary£40,000£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.580 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£62,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %

PHP5
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing PHP5 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

PHP5 Demand Trend

PHP5
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PHP5 within the UK.

PHP5 Salary Trend

PHP5
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP5 over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 within the UK.

PHP5 Salary Histogram

PHP5
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP5 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+13713£31,000-3.12 %
LondonUp+6315£35,000+2.18 %
South EastUp+41133£30,500-6.15 %
City of LondonDown-1182£37,500+11.94 %
YorkshireUp+2777£27,000-1.81 %
North WestUp+2269£28,750+8.49 %
SurreyUp+4951£32,500-23.52 %
South WalesUp+3744£35,000-12.50 %
WalesUp+3544£35,000-12.50 %
CardiffNew entry-42£35,000-
West YorkshireUp+1137£33,000+20.00 %
ManchesterDown-434£27,000+6.93 %
East MidlandsUp+2430£30,000-
North YorkshireNew entry-29£27,000-
West MidlandsUp+2226£37,000+15.62 %
South WestDown-726£30,000-
East of EnglandDown-4425£42,500+19.71 %
HampshireUp+1924£28,500-9.52 %
BerkshireUp+1020£33,000-5.71 %
CheshireUp+1719£28,750+10.57 %
NottinghamshireUp+1717£32,500+18.18 %
KentUp+917£35,000+16.66 %
SelbyNew entry-16£22,000-
NottinghamUp+2815£32,500+18.18 %
LeedsUp+515£25,000+8.69 %
HalifaxNew entry-15£37,500-
LeicestershireUp+2314£28,000-13.84 %
CambridgeshireDown-613£42,500+13.33 %
Thames DittonNew entry-12£30,500-
CambridgeDown-511£42,500+13.33 %

PHP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing PHP5 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 PHP5.

11364 (99.71 %)PHP
2996 (72.81 %)MySQL
3909 (66.45 %)JavaScript
4822 (60.09 %)CSS
5586 (42.84 %)Linux
6575 (42.03 %)HTML
7549 (40.13 %)OO
8509 (37.21 %)AJAX
9463 (33.85 %)XHTML
10407 (29.75 %)LAMP
11357 (26.10 %)Zend
12351 (25.66 %)Apache
13342 (25.00 %)PHP4
14340 (24.85 %)XML
15339 (24.78 %)MVC
16310 (22.66 %)OOP
17297 (21.71 %)Web Development
18278 (20.32 %)SQL
19248 (18.13 %)E-Commerce
20233 (17.03 %)jQuery
21197 (14.40 %)Subversion
22189 (13.82 %)CMS
23149 (10.89 %)Internet
24146 (10.67 %)Symfony
25143 (10.45 %)Zend Framework
26123 (8.991 %)Drupal
27118 (8.626 %)Flash
28114 (8.333 %)Content Management
29113 (8.260 %)Perl
30111 (8.114 %)UNIX

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing PHP5 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 PHP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1822 (60.09 %)CSS
2575 (42.03 %)HTML
3509 (37.21 %)AJAX
4463 (33.85 %)XHTML
5407 (29.75 %)LAMP
6340 (24.85 %)XML
7233 (17.03 %)jQuery
8146 (10.67 %)Symfony
9143 (10.45 %)Zend Framework
10118 (8.626 %)Flash
11108 (7.895 %)SOAP
12103 (7.529 %).NET
1397 (7.091 %)Web Services
1470 (5.117 %)DHTML
1567 (4.898 %)JSON
1661 (4.459 %)XSLT
1752 (3.801 %)CakePHP
1844 (3.216 %)Adobe Flex
1941 (2.997 %)Smarty
2040 (2.924 %)XSL
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1351 (25.66 %)Apache
2189 (13.82 %)CMS
3123 (8.991 %)Drupal
442 (3.070 %)Joomla!
527 (1.974 %)IIS
625 (1.827 %)Magento
719 (1.389 %)WordPress
811 (0.804 %)ExpressionEngine
910 (0.731 %)Apache Solr
107 (0.512 %)Tomcat
115 (0.365 %)SharePoint
124 (0.292 %)ColdFusion
133 (0.219 %)TYPO3
142 (0.146 %)Sitecore CMS
151 (0.073 %)Moodle
151 (0.073 %)ColdFusion MX
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
183 (6.067 %)Photoshop
215 (1.096 %)Fireworks
311 (0.804 %)Adobe Illustrator
46 (0.439 %)MS Office
53 (0.219 %)MS Visio
62 (0.146 %)CA Clarity
71 (0.073 %)MS Excel
71 (0.073 %)Maya
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
18 (0.585 %)Google Analytics
24 (0.292 %)Pivotal CRM
33 (0.219 %)Movex
33 (0.219 %)Navision
41 (0.073 %)WebTrends
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1149 (10.89 %)Internet
249 (3.582 %)HTTP
335 (2.558 %)DNS
430 (2.193 %)FTP
430 (2.193 %)Intranet
528 (2.047 %)SSH
624 (1.754 %)TCP/IP
717 (1.243 %)SMTP
814 (1.023 %)Firewall
910 (0.731 %)VPN
109 (0.658 %)SAN
113 (0.219 %)SSL
113 (0.219 %)IPsec
122 (0.146 %)DHCP
122 (0.146 %)LAN
122 (0.146 %)VoIP
122 (0.146 %)WAN
122 (0.146 %)RTP
131 (0.073 %)Cisco ASA
131 (0.073 %)HTTPS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1996 (72.81 %)MySQL
271 (5.190 %)SQL Server
348 (3.509 %)PostgreSQL
423 (1.681 %)RDBMS
513 (0.950 %)SQL Server 2005
68 (0.585 %)Oracle 10g
77 (0.512 %)Oracle 8/8i
85 (0.365 %)Crystal Reports
94 (0.292 %)DTS
103 (0.219 %)MS Access
103 (0.219 %)GIS
112 (0.146 %)SQL Server 2000
112 (0.146 %)Datawarehouse
112 (0.146 %)Oracle 9i
121 (0.073 %)DB2
121 (0.073 %)Ingres
121 (0.073 %)Data Mining
121 (0.073 %)Oracle 11g
121 (0.073 %)Data Cleansing
121 (0.073 %)SQL Server 2008
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1197 (14.40 %)Subversion
212 (0.877 %)Dreamweaver
311 (0.804 %)Git (software)
49 (0.658 %)Eclipse
58 (0.585 %)Selenium
58 (0.585 %)PEAR
65 (0.365 %)JIRA
65 (0.365 %)PHPUnit
65 (0.365 %)Zend Studio
74 (0.292 %)TortoiseSVN
83 (0.219 %)FrontPage
92 (0.146 %)Visual Studio
101 (0.073 %)WebSpeed
101 (0.073 %)Firebug
101 (0.073 %)Flex Builder
101 (0.073 %)FlexUnit
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
185 (6.213 %)Marketing
253 (3.874 %)Pensions
351 (3.728 %)Health
442 (3.070 %)Games
540 (2.924 %)Finance
635 (2.558 %)Music
728 (2.047 %)Publishing
821 (1.535 %)Graphic Design
920 (1.462 %)Telecoms
1018 (1.316 %)Advertising
1117 (1.243 %)Multimedia
1117 (1.243 %)Education
1216 (1.170 %)Retail
1315 (1.096 %)Insurance
1414 (1.023 %)Online Games
1511 (0.804 %)Social Media
169 (0.658 %)Home Office
177 (0.512 %)Back Office
186 (0.439 %)Financial Institution
195 (0.365 %)Law
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11239 (90.57 %)Developer
2925 (67.62 %)PHP Developer
3360 (26.32 %)Web Developer
4173 (12.65 %)Senior Developer
5163 (11.92 %)PHP Web Developer
6113 (8.260 %)Senior PHP Developer
759 (4.313 %)LAMP Developer
853 (3.874 %)Lead Developer
950 (3.655 %)Senior Web Developer
1045 (3.289 %)MySQL Developer
1142 (3.070 %)Programmer
1241 (2.997 %)Lead PHP Developer
1334 (2.485 %)PHP Programmer
1433 (2.412 %)Drupal Developer
1528 (2.047 %)PHP Drupal Developer
1624 (1.754 %)Perl Developer
1721 (1.535 %)Architect
1820 (1.462 %)Junior
1919 (1.389 %)Graduate
1919 (1.389 %)Applications Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
182 (5.994 %)Open Source
266 (4.825 %)Client/Server
365 (4.751 %)W3C
446 (3.363 %)Computer Science
538 (2.778 %)Web 2.0
620 (1.462 %)Social Network
717 (1.243 %)iPhone
815 (1.096 %)Blackberry
913 (0.950 %)Visualisation
109 (0.658 %)Mathematics
117 (0.512 %)Speech Recognition
126 (0.439 %)Clustering
135 (0.365 %)Blog
135 (0.365 %)Cloud Computing
144 (0.292 %)IVR
144 (0.292 %)Replication
153 (0.219 %)Data Protection Act
162 (0.146 %)IPTV
162 (0.146 %)Streaming Video
162 (0.146 %)DTV
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1586 (42.84 %)Linux
2111 (8.114 %)UNIX
367 (4.898 %)Windows
422 (1.608 %)Red Hat Linux
515 (1.096 %)Windows Server 2003
515 (1.096 %)Debian
612 (0.877 %)Ubuntu
79 (0.658 %)AIX
87 (0.512 %)Windows Server 2008
94 (0.292 %)Fedora
94 (0.292 %)Android
94 (0.292 %)FreeBSD
103 (0.219 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
111 (0.073 %)Windows 2000 Server
111 (0.073 %)Windows XP
111 (0.073 %)Windows Vista
111 (0.073 %)OpenBSD
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1549 (40.13 %)OO
2339 (24.78 %)MVC
3310 (22.66 %)OOP
4297 (21.71 %)Web Development
5248 (18.13 %)E-Commerce
6114 (8.333 %)Content Management
794 (6.871 %)Agile Software Development
874 (5.409 %)Scrum
972 (5.263 %)SEO
1049 (3.582 %)OOD
1143 (3.143 %)TDD
1242 (3.070 %)Migration
1242 (3.070 %)SOA
1335 (2.558 %)Web Design
1430 (2.193 %)Unit Testing
1526 (1.901 %)Project Management
1618 (1.316 %)Software Engineering
1717 (1.243 %)CRM
1816 (1.170 %)Software Architecture
1915 (1.096 %)Extreme Programming
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11364 (99.71 %)PHP
2909 (66.45 %)JavaScript
3342 (25.00 %)PHP4
4278 (20.32 %)SQL
5113 (8.260 %)Perl
697 (7.091 %)Java
785 (6.213 %)ActionScript
870 (5.117 %)C
969 (5.044 %)C#
1054 (3.947 %)C++
1151 (3.728 %)Python
1238 (2.778 %)ActionScript 3.0
1336 (2.632 %)Ruby
1430 (2.193 %)PL/SQL
1515 (1.096 %)Objective-C
1613 (0.950 %)FoxPro (VFP)
1613 (0.950 %)VB
1712 (0.877 %)Shell Script
1811 (0.804 %)XPath
1811 (0.804 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1109 (7.968 %)Degree
23 (0.219 %)Microsoft Certification
31 (0.073 %)MySQL Certification
31 (0.073 %)MCSE
31 (0.073 %)MCSA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
119 (1.389 %)QA
26 (0.439 %)WCAG
33 (0.219 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (0.585 %)VMware Infrastructure
27 (0.512 %)VMware ESX
35 (0.365 %)Postfix
44 (0.292 %)Oracle RAC
53 (0.219 %)Active Directory
62 (0.146 %)Xen
71 (0.073 %)NFS
71 (0.073 %)XenServer
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.073 %)WSUS
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1357 (26.10 %)Zend
288 (6.433 %)Oracle
332 (2.339 %)Adobe
422 (1.608 %)Red Hat
519 (1.389 %)Google
618 (1.316 %)Sybase
717 (1.243 %)Microsoft
89 (0.658 %)VMware
97 (0.512 %)Mercator
97 (0.512 %)IBM
105 (0.365 %)Apple
113 (0.219 %)JD Edwards
113 (0.219 %)Yahoo!
122 (0.146 %)Progress
122 (0.146 %)Cisco
122 (0.146 %)Sitecore
122 (0.146 %)Citrix
131 (0.073 %)Dell
131 (0.073 %)Brocade
131 (0.073 %)Sony