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This section looks at the demand for PHP skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkPHP
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank6580
Rank change on same period last yearUp+15
Matching permanent IT job ads262203
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.138 %0.083 %
As % of the category below6.381 %5.606 %
Salaries quoted241191
Average minimum salary£25,335£27,945
Average salary£27,559£29,910
% change on same period last year-7.86 %
Average maximum salary£29,784£31,875
UK excluding London average salary£30,408£29,776
% change on same period last year+2.11 %
West Midlands IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads41063621
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.168 %1.483 %
Salaries quoted35863190
Average minimum salary£29,933£30,655
Average salary£32,579£33,053
% change on same period last year-1.43 %
Average maximum salary£35,225£35,451
UK excluding London average salary£35,180£35,575
% change on same period last year-1.10 %
PHP EnglandPHP
England

PHP
Demand Trend

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

West Midlands PHP Demand Trend

PHP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PHP across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

West Midlands PHP Salary Histogram

PHP
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BirminghamUp+3682£27,500-3.67 %
CoventryUp+3257£26,741-0.43 %
WarwickshireUp+953£27,104-4.18 %
StaffordshireDown-1616£26,938+0.93 %
WorcestershireDown-2015£30,632+6.88 %
HerefordshireDown-3914£33,321-11.85 %
WalsallUp+212£27,167+66.32 %
Sutton ColdfieldNew entry-12£24,750-
WolverhamptonUp+311£26,111+6.03 %
ShropshireDown-86£29,500-15.71 %
SolihullDown-63£28,833-12.62 %
HalesowenNew entry-1£20,500-
PHP EnglandPHP
England

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

1283 (59.33 %)MySQL
2266 (55.77 %)CSS
3246 (51.57 %)JavaScript
4215 (45.07 %)HTML
5131 (27.46 %).NET
6129 (27.04 %)XHTML
7125 (26.21 %)SQL
8117 (24.53 %)XML
9115 (24.11 %)Flash
1099 (20.75 %)Linux
1190 (18.87 %)SQL Server
1289 (18.66 %)Web Development
1387 (18.24 %)Photoshop
1486 (18.03 %)Internet
1581 (16.98 %)C#
1678 (16.35 %)ASP
1777 (16.14 %)E-Commerce
1870 (14.68 %)Apache
1967 (14.05 %)Dreamweaver
2066 (13.84 %)Web Design
2162 (13.00 %)Degree
2261 (12.79 %)SEO
2359 (12.37 %)Java
2456 (11.74 %)ASP.NET
2555 (11.53 %)W3C
2654 (11.32 %)AJAX
2750 (10.48 %)PHP5
2849 (10.27 %)OO
2945 (9.434 %)ActionScript
3043 (9.015 %)Windows

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

West Midlands IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1266 (55.77 %)CSS
2215 (45.07 %)HTML
3131 (27.46 %).NET
4129 (27.04 %)XHTML
5117 (24.53 %)XML
678 (16.35 %)ASP
756 (11.74 %)ASP.NET
854 (11.32 %)AJAX
930 (6.289 %)XSLT
1022 (4.612 %)SOAP
1120 (4.193 %)LAMP
1219 (3.983 %)WebServices
1315 (3.145 %)VXML
1413 (2.725 %)MVC
1413 (2.725 %)Ruby on Rails
1512 (2.516 %)J2SE
169 (1.887 %)JSP
178 (1.677 %).NET Framework
187 (1.468 %)XSL
196 (1.258 %)Fusebox
West Midlands IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
170 (14.68 %)Apache
242 (8.805 %)CMS
336 (7.547 %)IIS
422 (4.612 %)ColdFusion
56 (1.258 %)Content Management Server
56 (1.258 %)SharePoint
56 (1.258 %)SharePoint Server 2007
64 (0.839 %)MS Exchange
72 (0.419 %)Tomcat
81 (0.210 %)Joomla!
West Midlands IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
187 (18.24 %)Photoshop
225 (5.241 %)Adobe Illustrator
318 (3.774 %)MS Excel
417 (3.564 %)InDesign
514 (2.935 %)Fireworks
514 (2.935 %)3ds Max
68 (1.677 %)MS Visio
68 (1.677 %)MS Office
76 (1.258 %)Acrobat
76 (1.258 %)FreeHand
85 (1.048 %)MS Project
92 (0.419 %)MS PowerPoint
West Midlands IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
14 (0.839 %)Google Analytics
West Midlands IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
186 (18.03 %)Internet
228 (5.870 %)Intranet
326 (5.451 %)DNS
413 (2.725 %)TCP/IP
512 (2.516 %)Extranet
69 (1.887 %)Firewall
69 (1.887 %)DHCP
77 (1.468 %)SMTP
86 (1.258 %)VoIP
86 (1.258 %)Broadband
95 (1.048 %)HTTP
104 (0.839 %)ISDN
113 (0.629 %)LAN
113 (0.629 %)WAN
113 (0.629 %)SSH
122 (0.419 %)VPN
131 (0.210 %)Wi-Fi
131 (0.210 %)Wireless
131 (0.210 %)FTP
131 (0.210 %)SDH
West Midlands IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1283 (59.33 %)MySQL
290 (18.87 %)SQL Server
314 (2.935 %)SQL Server 2005
413 (2.725 %)SQL Server 2000
511 (2.306 %)SQL Server 7
62 (0.419 %)BusinessObjects
62 (0.419 %)MS Access
62 (0.419 %)RDBMS
71 (0.210 %)Oracle 10g
71 (0.210 %)Oracle Reports
71 (0.210 %)Oracle 9i
71 (0.210 %)PostgreSQL
71 (0.210 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
West Midlands IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1115 (24.11 %)Flash
267 (14.05 %)Dreamweaver
314 (2.935 %)Visual Studio
48 (1.677 %)FrontPage
57 (1.468 %)Subversion
63 (0.629 %)VSS/SourceSafe
72 (0.419 %)NUnit
81 (0.210 %)CruiseControl
81 (0.210 %)Oracle Forms
81 (0.210 %)Eclipse
81 (0.210 %)InterDev
81 (0.210 %)GoLive
81 (0.210 %)Visual LANSA
West Midlands IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
137 (7.757 %)Pensions
226 (5.451 %)Marketing
324 (5.031 %)Retail
324 (5.031 %)Advertising
422 (4.612 %)Health
521 (4.403 %)Multimedia
617 (3.564 %)Education
715 (3.145 %)Games
814 (2.935 %)Back Office
912 (2.516 %)Finance
912 (2.516 %)Government
1010 (2.096 %)Banking
119 (1.887 %)Pharmaceutical
128 (1.677 %)Graphic Design
136 (1.258 %)Animation
136 (1.258 %)Financial Institution
145 (1.048 %)Legal
154 (0.839 %)Telecoms
154 (0.839 %)Online Games
163 (0.629 %)Online Gambling
West Midlands IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1337 (70.65 %)Developer
2169 (35.43 %)Web Developer
3156 (32.70 %)PHP Developer
456 (11.74 %)PHP Web Developer
538 (7.966 %)Web Designer
628 (5.870 %)Programmer
723 (4.822 %)Applications Developer
723 (4.822 %).NET Developer
822 (4.612 %)MySQL Developer
921 (4.403 %)Software Engineer
1020 (4.193 %)Senior Developer
1020 (4.193 %)Administrator
1115 (3.145 %)C# Developer
1214 (2.935 %)Junior Developer
1214 (2.935 %)Junior
1313 (2.725 %)Systems Administrator
1412 (2.516 %)Web Programmer
1511 (2.306 %).NET Web Developer
1511 (2.306 %)Senior Web Developer
1610 (2.096 %)Senior Web Designer
West Midlands IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
155 (11.53 %)W3C
214 (2.935 %)Speech Recognition
312 (2.516 %)Computer Science
48 (1.677 %)IVR
56 (1.258 %)VLE
64 (0.839 %)Mathematics
64 (0.839 %)E-Learning
73 (0.629 %)Management Information System
73 (0.629 %)Social Network
82 (0.419 %)Client/Server
82 (0.419 %)BBC
82 (0.419 %)Streaming Video
91 (0.210 %)Replication
91 (0.210 %)Clustering
91 (0.210 %)AS400
91 (0.210 %)Video Conferencing
91 (0.210 %)Statistics
91 (0.210 %)SCADA
West Midlands IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
199 (20.75 %)Linux
243 (9.015 %)Windows
317 (3.564 %)UNIX
410 (2.096 %)FreeBSD
59 (1.887 %)Mac OS X
66 (1.258 %)Windows 2000
74 (0.839 %)Ubuntu
83 (0.629 %)Debian
92 (0.419 %)Solaris
92 (0.419 %)VMS
101 (0.210 %)OpenVMS
101 (0.210 %)Windows NT
101 (0.210 %)Windows XP
101 (0.210 %)Windows Server 2003
West Midlands IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
189 (18.66 %)Web Development
277 (16.14 %)E-Commerce
366 (13.84 %)Web Design
461 (12.79 %)SEO
549 (10.27 %)OO
639 (8.176 %)OOP
734 (7.128 %)CRM
832 (6.709 %)Content Management
922 (4.612 %)Pay per click
1020 (4.193 %)Project Management
1114 (2.935 %)ERP
1212 (2.516 %)B2B
139 (1.887 %)B2C
145 (1.048 %)UML
145 (1.048 %)Digital Marketing
154 (0.839 %)Agile Software Development
163 (0.629 %)Software Engineering
163 (0.629 %)Business Intelligence
163 (0.629 %)E-business
163 (0.629 %)Problem Management
West Midlands IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1246 (51.57 %)JavaScript
2125 (26.21 %)SQL
381 (16.98 %)C#
459 (12.37 %)Java
550 (10.48 %)PHP5
645 (9.434 %)ActionScript
738 (7.966 %)C++
832 (6.709 %)C
930 (6.289 %)Perl
1027 (5.660 %)DHTML
1122 (4.612 %)VB
1220 (4.193 %)VB.NET
1318 (3.774 %)VBScript
1318 (3.774 %)Delphi
1417 (3.564 %)PHP4
1513 (2.725 %)Ruby
1612 (2.516 %)Shell Script
177 (1.468 %)VB6
177 (1.468 %)Transact-SQL
186 (1.258 %)VBA
West Midlands IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
162 (13.00 %)Degree
27 (1.468 %)Microsoft Certification
34 (0.839 %)MCDBA
34 (0.839 %)MCITP
42 (0.419 %)MCPD
42 (0.419 %)CIW
42 (0.419 %)MCAD
42 (0.419 %)MCSD
West Midlands IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (1.887 %)WAI
West Midlands IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
15 (1.048 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
24 (0.839 %)Samba
24 (0.839 %)Snort
33 (0.629 %)Active Directory
41 (0.210 %)Squid
West Midlands IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (0.210 %)MOM
West Midlands IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
141 (8.595 %)Adobe
237 (7.757 %)Microsoft
333 (6.918 %)Macromedia
411 (2.306 %)Oracle
57 (1.468 %)Google
65 (1.048 %)Zend
73 (0.629 %)Cisco
82 (0.419 %)Business Objects
82 (0.419 %)Cognos
91 (0.210 %)IBM
91 (0.210 %)Nortel
91 (0.210 %)Red Hat
91 (0.210 %)LANSA
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