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 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 of the Programming Languages category.

PHP 5
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank251269244
Rank change year-on-year
Up+18Down-25
Matching permanent IT job ads12061040820
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.000 %0.848 %0.859 %
As % of the Programming Languages category1.864 %1.615 %1.686 %
Number of salaries quoted1173986745
Average salary£35,000£35,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,200£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£45,500£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£31,000£31,000£30,000
% change year-on-year
-+3.33 %
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
646836438048632
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK53.64 %52.50 %50.94 %
Number of salaries quoted569875583141348
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,700£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

PHP5
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 22 May 2012 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 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+181177£36,000+2.85 %
LondonUp+44649£40,000+3.55 %
South EastDown-40177£32,500-2.98 %
North WestUp+2589£32,000+14.28 %
South WestDown-569£33,000+1.53 %
ManchesterUp+2666£32,000+14.28 %
HampshireDown-564£30,000+11.11 %
West MidlandsDown-153£26,500-3.63 %
City of LondonUp+1551£37,500+7.14 %
YorkshireDown-6449£27,500-8.33 %
East MidlandsUp+1248£27,500-8.33 %
SurreyUp+945£35,000-11.39 %
East of EnglandDown-1743£30,000-
BerkshireDown-3531£35,000-6.66 %
SomersetUp+1828£35,000+7.69 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1128£32,750-6.42 %
BathUp+525£35,000+7.69 %
BristolDown-1022£33,000-5.71 %
BirminghamUp+921£30,250-9.02 %
NorthamptonshireUp+121£27,500-8.33 %
HertfordshireUp+1720£30,000-33.33 %
West YorkshireDown-2620£32,500+4.83 %
SouthamptonDown-2920£30,000+20.00 %
CheshireDown-1217£31,500+5.00 %
NottinghamshireUp+2316£22,250-25.83 %
NottinghamUp+1716£22,250-25.83 %
ReigateNew entry-15£32,500-
CambridgeDown-1214£39,500+33.89 %
CambridgeshireDown-2314£39,500+33.89 %
LeedsDown-1813£30,000-7.69 %

PHP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

12443 (100.00 %)PHP
21877 (76.83 %)MySQL
31801 (73.72 %)JavaScript
41799 (73.64 %)CSS
51434 (58.70 %)HTML
61213 (49.65 %)OO
71024 (41.92 %)jQuery
81009 (41.30 %)Linux
9860 (35.20 %)Zend
10722 (29.55 %)MVC
11631 (25.83 %)Ajax
12624 (25.54 %)Apache
13622 (25.46 %)LAMP
14615 (25.17 %)OOP
15536 (21.94 %)XHTML
16473 (19.36 %)Subversion
17472 (19.32 %)SQL
18469 (19.20 %)XML
19392 (16.05 %)Zend Framework
20378 (15.47 %)Drupal
21364 (14.90 %)E-Commerce
22358 (14.65 %)Web Development
23355 (14.53 %)HTML5
24336 (13.75 %)Degree
25319 (13.06 %)Web Services
26295 (12.08 %)CMS
27282 (11.54 %)Symfony
28266 (10.89 %)Open Source
29264 (10.81 %)Git (software)
30257 (10.52 %)Agile Software Development

PHP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
11799 (73.64 %)CSS
21434 (58.70 %)HTML
31024 (41.92 %)jQuery
4631 (25.83 %)Ajax
5622 (25.46 %)LAMP
6536 (21.94 %)XHTML
7469 (19.20 %)XML
8392 (16.05 %)Zend Framework
9355 (14.53 %)HTML5
10319 (13.06 %)Web Services
11282 (11.54 %)Symfony
12211 (8.637 %)SOAP
13187 (7.655 %).NET
13187 (7.655 %)CakePHP
14184 (7.532 %)CSS3
15175 (7.163 %)JSON
16165 (6.754 %)CodeIgniter
17117 (4.789 %)YUI
1896 (3.930 %)Flash
1990 (3.684 %)REST
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1624 (25.54 %)Apache
2378 (15.47 %)Drupal
3295 (12.08 %)CMS
4203 (8.309 %)Magento
5176 (7.204 %)WordPress
6108 (4.421 %)Joomla!
752 (2.129 %)Amazon EC2
847 (1.924 %)Apache Solr
942 (1.719 %)Facebook Platform
1036 (1.474 %)nginx
1133 (1.351 %)Amazon S3
1231 (1.269 %)Amazon AWS
1324 (0.982 %)IIS
1418 (0.737 %)Umbraco
1514 (0.573 %)TeamSite
1610 (0.409 %)Tomcat
178 (0.327 %)concrete5
187 (0.287 %)Moodle
196 (0.246 %)Mambo
196 (0.246 %)osCommerce
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
199 (4.052 %)Photoshop
216 (0.655 %)MS Excel
315 (0.614 %)Fireworks
411 (0.450 %)MS Office
411 (0.450 %)MS Visio
58 (0.327 %)Adobe Illustrator
66 (0.246 %)GIMP
71 (0.041 %)Spreadsheet
71 (0.041 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
111 (0.450 %)Google Analytics
210 (0.409 %)WebTrends
33 (0.123 %)Oracle EBS
42 (0.082 %)SAP SRM
51 (0.041 %)Summit
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
192 (3.766 %)Internet
268 (2.783 %)HTTP
347 (1.924 %)DNS
423 (0.941 %)Firewall
521 (0.860 %)FTP
619 (0.778 %)SSL
718 (0.737 %)Intranet
817 (0.696 %)TCP/IP
916 (0.655 %)SMTP
916 (0.655 %)SSH
1015 (0.614 %)SMS
1112 (0.491 %)DHCP
1112 (0.491 %)SMPP
129 (0.368 %)Wireshark
137 (0.287 %)IMAP
137 (0.287 %)VoIP
137 (0.287 %)POP3
146 (0.246 %)RIP
146 (0.246 %)HTTPS
146 (0.246 %)TELNET
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11877 (76.83 %)MySQL
2184 (7.532 %)SQL Server
398 (4.011 %)PostgreSQL
454 (2.210 %)Redis
541 (1.678 %)MongoDB
639 (1.596 %)NoSQL
737 (1.515 %)GIS
823 (0.941 %)Apache Cassandra
921 (0.860 %)Hadoop
1019 (0.778 %)RDBMS
119 (0.368 %)Oracle 8/8i
119 (0.368 %)CouchDB
126 (0.246 %)Data Warehouse
135 (0.205 %)Oracle 11g
144 (0.164 %)Data Mining
144 (0.164 %)Crystal Reports
153 (0.123 %)SQL Server 2000
153 (0.123 %)SQL Server 2005
162 (0.082 %)Firebird
171 (0.041 %)SQL Server 2008
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1473 (19.36 %)Subversion
2264 (10.81 %)Git (software)
391 (3.725 %)PHPUnit
471 (2.906 %)Selenium
570 (2.865 %)Eclipse
668 (2.783 %)JIRA
764 (2.620 %)Mercurial
839 (1.596 %)Bugzilla
923 (0.941 %)Dreamweaver
1014 (0.573 %)NetBeans
1113 (0.532 %)JUnit
1113 (0.532 %)Hudson
1113 (0.532 %)Redmine
128 (0.327 %)Firebug
137 (0.287 %)NetBeans IDE
146 (0.246 %)FishEye
155 (0.205 %)Behat
155 (0.205 %)Ant
164 (0.164 %)Visual Studio
164 (0.164 %)PEAR
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1210 (8.596 %)Marketing
2201 (8.228 %)Finance
3142 (5.813 %)Retail
479 (3.234 %)Advertising
546 (1.883 %)Back Office
643 (1.760 %)Telecoms
735 (1.433 %)Publishing
815 (0.614 %)Games
914 (0.573 %)Automotive
108 (0.327 %)Billing
108 (0.327 %)Manufacturing
115 (0.205 %)Legal
115 (0.205 %)Banking
124 (0.164 %)Financial Institution
124 (0.164 %)Multimedia
133 (0.123 %)Music
133 (0.123 %)Interactive Media
133 (0.123 %)Pharmaceutical
142 (0.082 %)Online Betting
151 (0.041 %)International Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12309 (94.51 %)Developer
21676 (68.60 %)PHP Developer
3560 (22.92 %)Web Developer
4301 (12.32 %)Senior Developer
5297 (12.16 %)PHP MySQL Developer
6233 (9.537 %)PHP Web Developer
7198 (8.105 %)Senior PHP Developer
8127 (5.199 %)Drupal Developer
9115 (4.707 %)LAMP Developer
10106 (4.339 %)Lead Developer
1185 (3.479 %)Front-End Developer
1259 (2.415 %)Junior
1259 (2.415 %)Junior Developer
1355 (2.251 %)Lead PHP Developer
1453 (2.169 %)PHP Drupal Developer
1550 (2.047 %)Senior Web Developer
1649 (2.006 %)Architect
1741 (1.678 %)Junior PHP Developer
1837 (1.515 %)MySQL Developer
1837 (1.515 %)Software Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1266 (10.89 %)Open Source
2140 (5.731 %)Computer Science
3126 (5.158 %)Digital Media
4119 (4.871 %)Social Media
597 (3.971 %)W3C
671 (2.906 %)SaaS
760 (2.456 %)iPhone
849 (2.006 %)Social Network
930 (1.228 %)Web 2.0
1023 (0.941 %)E-Learning
1023 (0.941 %)Management Information System
1120 (0.819 %)Taxonomies
1219 (0.778 %)Spread Betting
1318 (0.737 %)Cloud Computing
1417 (0.696 %)iPad
1515 (0.614 %)Wiki
1613 (0.532 %)BBC
1712 (0.491 %)Handset
1712 (0.491 %)Learning Management System
1811 (0.450 %)New Media
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11009 (41.30 %)Linux
2145 (5.935 %)UNIX
3125 (5.117 %)Android
4109 (4.462 %)Apple iOS
4109 (4.462 %)Windows
542 (1.719 %)Debian
637 (1.515 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
730 (1.228 %)CentOS
826 (1.064 %)Ubuntu
913 (0.532 %)Fedora
106 (0.246 %)Mac OS X
114 (0.164 %)Windows Server 2008
121 (0.041 %)Windows Mobile
121 (0.041 %)Mac OS
121 (0.041 %)MVS
121 (0.041 %)Windows Server 2003
121 (0.041 %)AIX
121 (0.041 %)Windows XP
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11213 (49.65 %)OO
2722 (29.55 %)MVC
3615 (25.17 %)OOP
4364 (14.90 %)E-Commerce
5358 (14.65 %)Web Development
6257 (10.52 %)Agile Software Development
7192 (7.859 %)Scrum
8140 (5.731 %)TDD
9139 (5.690 %)Unit Testing
10131 (5.362 %)SEO
11128 (5.239 %)Content Management
12120 (4.912 %)Continuous Integration
13113 (4.625 %)CRM
1466 (2.702 %)OOD
1562 (2.538 %)Web Application Development
1652 (2.129 %)UML
1751 (2.088 %)Project Management
1843 (1.760 %)Web Design
1935 (1.433 %)Time Management
2031 (1.269 %)SOA
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12443 (100.00 %)PHP
21801 (73.72 %)JavaScript
3472 (19.32 %)SQL
4144 (5.894 %)Java
5140 (5.731 %)PHP4
6122 (4.994 %)Python
7109 (4.462 %)Bash shell
8100 (4.093 %)Ruby
964 (2.620 %)ActionScript
1060 (2.456 %)Shell Script
1158 (2.374 %)C#
1253 (2.169 %)Perl
1337 (1.515 %)ECMAScript
1432 (1.310 %)C++
1432 (1.310 %)ActionScript 3.0
1527 (1.105 %)Objective-C
1622 (0.901 %)XPath
1721 (0.860 %)C
1818 (0.737 %)Groovy
1917 (0.696 %)PL/SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1336 (13.75 %)Degree
26 (0.246 %)Security Cleared
34 (0.164 %)Sun Certification
43 (0.123 %)ITIL Certification
43 (0.123 %)MySQL Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
150 (2.047 %)QA
213 (0.532 %)WAI
34 (0.164 %)PCI DSS
42 (0.082 %)SLA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
123 (0.941 %)Varnish
212 (0.491 %)Postfix
212 (0.491 %)Sendmail
35 (0.205 %)NFS
43 (0.123 %)VMware Infrastructure
52 (0.082 %)vCloud
52 (0.082 %)Terminal Server
52 (0.082 %)Xen
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
123 (0.941 %)Puppet
27 (0.287 %)Plesk
35 (0.205 %)ZABBIX
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1860 (35.20 %)Zend
2194 (7.941 %)Facebook
3116 (4.748 %)Oracle
471 (2.906 %)Microsoft
567 (2.743 %)Twitter
665 (2.661 %)Red Hat
754 (2.210 %)Google
839 (1.596 %)Adobe
932 (1.310 %)Symbian
932 (1.310 %)Mercator
1031 (1.269 %)Salesforce.com
1116 (0.655 %)Percona
1214 (0.573 %)Akamai
139 (0.368 %)Sybase
148 (0.327 %)SAP
156 (0.246 %)HP
165 (0.205 %)Yahoo!
165 (0.205 %)Rackspace
174 (0.164 %)Sony
174 (0.164 %)EPiServer