The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP 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 for the West Yorkshire region.

PHP
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank243722
Rank change year-on-year
Up+13Down-15
Matching permanent IT job ads248162192
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire7.779 %5.497 %7.342 %
As % of the Programming Languages category14.43 %10.18 %15.57 %
Number of salaries quoted224142180
Average salary£31,500£30,000£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,500£24,000£21,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£37,500£35,000
UK excluding London average salary£31,500£30,000£30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00 %-
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
171915911233
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire53.92 %53.99 %47.15 %
Number of salaries quoted154013791060
Average salary£33,000£32,500£31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.53 %+4.83 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,500£25,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£40,000£42,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-
PHP YorkshirePHP
Yorkshire

PHP
Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PHP across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2012.

West Yorkshire PHP Salary Histogram

PHP
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 West Yorkshire region 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
LeedsUp+7155£31,500+5.00 %
HalifaxUp+1751£32,500+35.41 %
BradfordUp+527£30,500+17.30 %
WakefieldUp+412£22,500-25.00 %
HuddersfieldUp+37£29,500-7.81 %
OtleyNew entry-1£22,500-
PHP YorkshirePHP
Yorkshire

PHP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1361 (66.98 %)JavaScript
2332 (61.60 %)CSS
3311 (57.70 %)MySQL
4233 (43.23 %)HTML
5220 (40.82 %)Linux
6177 (32.84 %)Apache
7163 (30.24 %)XML
8154 (28.57 %)jQuery
9146 (27.09 %)XHTML
10136 (25.23 %)Java
11127 (23.56 %)OO
12124 (23.01 %)MVC
13112 (20.78 %)Agile Software Development
14110 (20.41 %)LAMP
15109 (20.22 %)Ajax
1682 (15.21 %)Degree
1780 (14.84 %)XSLT
1780 (14.84 %).NET
1878 (14.47 %)Open Source
1974 (13.73 %)SQL
2071 (13.17 %)PHP5
2164 (11.87 %)ASP.NET
2164 (11.87 %)Internet
2262 (11.50 %)Ruby
2361 (11.32 %)HTML5
2457 (10.58 %)Zend
2552 (9.647 %)SEO
2552 (9.647 %)E-Commerce
2651 (9.462 %)C#
2748 (8.905 %)Subversion

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1332 (61.60 %)CSS
2233 (43.23 %)HTML
3163 (30.24 %)XML
4154 (28.57 %)jQuery
5146 (27.09 %)XHTML
6110 (20.41 %)LAMP
7109 (20.22 %)Ajax
880 (14.84 %)XSLT
880 (14.84 %).NET
964 (11.87 %)ASP.NET
1061 (11.32 %)HTML5
1146 (8.534 %)Flash
1240 (7.421 %)CSS3
1335 (6.494 %)Spring
1434 (6.308 %)SOAP
1533 (6.122 %)Web Services
1630 (5.566 %)Ruby on Rails
1726 (4.824 %)Symfony
1823 (4.267 %)Hibernate
1922 (4.082 %)Struts
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1177 (32.84 %)Apache
237 (6.865 %)Tomcat
334 (6.308 %)CMS
422 (4.082 %)Magento
515 (2.783 %)WordPress
613 (2.412 %)ColdFusion
78 (1.484 %)Drupal
87 (1.299 %)Liferay
95 (0.928 %)nginx
104 (0.742 %)Joomla!
104 (0.742 %)SharePoint
113 (0.557 %)Confluence
122 (0.371 %)MS Exchange
122 (0.371 %)IIS
122 (0.371 %)Exchange Server 2003
122 (0.371 %)ExpressionEngine
131 (0.186 %)Umbraco
131 (0.186 %)Facebook Platform
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
115 (2.783 %)Photoshop
210 (1.855 %)MS Visio
36 (1.113 %)MS Project
43 (0.557 %)Adobe Illustrator
43 (0.557 %)MS Excel
52 (0.371 %)MS Office
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
19 (1.670 %)Google Analytics
25 (0.928 %)WebTrends
32 (0.371 %)Line 500
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
164 (11.87 %)Internet
220 (3.711 %)Firewall
318 (3.340 %)HTTP
413 (2.412 %)ICMP
413 (2.412 %)RTP
59 (1.670 %)VoIP
68 (1.484 %)TCP/IP
76 (1.113 %)SAN
84 (0.742 %)DNS
84 (0.742 %)NAS
84 (0.742 %)Asterisk PBX
93 (0.557 %)Intranet
93 (0.557 %)VPN
102 (0.371 %)OSPF
102 (0.371 %)BGP
102 (0.371 %)EIGRP
111 (0.186 %)FTP
111 (0.186 %)HTTPS
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1311 (57.70 %)MySQL
244 (8.163 %)SQL Server
322 (4.082 %)PostgreSQL
418 (3.340 %)RDBMS
514 (2.597 %)Informix
613 (2.412 %)MongoDB
76 (1.113 %)NoSQL
76 (1.113 %)Hadoop
83 (0.557 %)SQL Server 2005
92 (0.371 %)SQL Server 2008
101 (0.186 %)Business Intelligence Development Studio
101 (0.186 %)Oracle 11g
101 (0.186 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
101 (0.186 %)DB2
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
148 (8.905 %)Subversion
226 (4.824 %)Selenium
317 (3.154 %)Git (software)
413 (2.412 %)Mercurial
413 (2.412 %)PhoneGap
413 (2.412 %)Behat
58 (1.484 %)Eclipse
58 (1.484 %)Hudson
67 (1.299 %)JIRA
67 (1.299 %)Ant
72 (0.371 %)Dreamweaver
72 (0.371 %)QUnit
72 (0.371 %)FitNesse
72 (0.371 %)Flash Builder
72 (0.371 %)PHPUnit
81 (0.186 %)Cucumber
81 (0.186 %)Flex Builder
81 (0.186 %)LoadRunner
81 (0.186 %)Xcode
81 (0.186 %)Visual Studio
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
136 (6.679 %)Marketing
218 (3.340 %)Advertising
316 (2.968 %)Games
412 (2.226 %)Finance
510 (1.855 %)Multimedia
67 (1.299 %)Telecoms
74 (0.742 %)Retail
74 (0.742 %)Legal
74 (0.742 %)Back Office
82 (0.371 %)Banking
91 (0.186 %)Publishing
91 (0.186 %)Financial Institution
91 (0.186 %)Manufacturing
91 (0.186 %)International Banking
91 (0.186 %)French Language
91 (0.186 %)German Language
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1395 (73.28 %)Developer
2266 (49.35 %)PHP Developer
3101 (18.74 %)Web Developer
459 (10.95 %)Senior Developer
554 (10.02 %)Software Engineer
554 (10.02 %)PHP Web Developer
644 (8.163 %)PHP MySQL Developer
735 (6.494 %)Analyst
834 (6.308 %).NET Developer
931 (5.751 %)Test Engineer
1027 (5.009 %)Graduate
1027 (5.009 %)Graduate PHP Developer
1027 (5.009 %)Graduate Developer
1126 (4.824 %)Senior PHP Developer
1223 (4.267 %)LAMP Developer
1223 (4.267 %)Senior Web Developer
1322 (4.082 %)Tester
1421 (3.896 %)Test Analyst
1421 (3.896 %)Senior Analyst
1421 (3.896 %)Java Developer
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
178 (14.47 %)Open Source
240 (7.421 %)SaaS
337 (6.865 %)Computer Science
435 (6.494 %)RIA
530 (5.566 %)iPhone
615 (2.783 %)Social Media
615 (2.783 %)Web 2.0
713 (2.412 %)Blackberry
812 (2.226 %)Management Information System
910 (1.855 %)Replication
910 (1.855 %)Enterprise Storage
106 (1.113 %)Wiki
106 (1.113 %)CLARiiON
106 (1.113 %)Symmetrix
115 (0.928 %)W3C
115 (0.928 %)Online Games
115 (0.928 %)Data Integration
124 (0.742 %)Smartphone
124 (0.742 %)Statistics
124 (0.742 %)Client/Server
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1220 (40.82 %)Linux
246 (8.534 %)Windows
339 (7.236 %)UNIX
422 (4.082 %)Android
513 (2.412 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
65 (0.928 %)Apple iOS
73 (0.557 %)Windows Server 2008
73 (0.557 %)Windows Server 2003
81 (0.186 %)Debian
81 (0.186 %)Fedora
81 (0.186 %)Windows Vista
81 (0.186 %)AIX
81 (0.186 %)Windows XP
81 (0.186 %)Mac OS X
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1127 (23.56 %)OO
2124 (23.01 %)MVC
3112 (20.78 %)Agile Software Development
452 (9.647 %)SEO
452 (9.647 %)E-Commerce
548 (8.905 %)Web Development
646 (8.534 %)OOP
740 (7.421 %)B2C
832 (5.937 %)Project Management
931 (5.751 %)Software Testing
1028 (5.195 %)Automated Testing
1127 (5.009 %)Scrum
1223 (4.267 %)Test Scripting
1322 (4.082 %)Test Automation
1322 (4.082 %)Test Management
1419 (3.525 %)Unit Testing
1515 (2.783 %)OOD
1614 (2.597 %)Continuous Integration
1713 (2.412 %)Release Management
1713 (2.412 %)Web Application Development
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1361 (66.98 %)JavaScript
2136 (25.23 %)Java
374 (13.73 %)SQL
471 (13.17 %)PHP5
562 (11.50 %)Ruby
651 (9.462 %)C#
724 (4.453 %)C
820 (3.711 %)C++
910 (1.855 %)Shell Script
910 (1.855 %)Scala
109 (1.670 %)Python
118 (1.484 %)VB
127 (1.299 %)Perl
136 (1.113 %)VBScript
145 (0.928 %)VB.NET
145 (0.928 %)Bash shell
154 (0.742 %)ActionScript
163 (0.557 %)Objective-C
163 (0.557 %)T-SQL
172 (0.371 %)PHP4
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
182 (15.21 %)Degree
213 (2.412 %)HND
37 (1.299 %)ISEB
44 (0.742 %)CISSP
44 (0.742 %)ITIL Certification
44 (0.742 %)CISA
44 (0.742 %)CISM
52 (0.371 %)Microsoft Certification
52 (0.371 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
61 (0.186 %)GWAPT
61 (0.186 %)GPEN
61 (0.186 %)PRINCE2 Certification
61 (0.186 %)GIAC
61 (0.186 %)ISEB Practitioner
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
129 (5.380 %)QA
27 (1.299 %)PCI DSS
27 (1.299 %)ISO/IEC 17799
27 (1.299 %)ISO/IEC 27001
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (1.484 %)vSphere
26 (1.113 %)VMware Infrastructure
34 (0.742 %)SRDF
34 (0.742 %)VMware ESX
41 (0.186 %)Active Directory
41 (0.186 %)ISA Server
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
112 (2.226 %)Puppet
27 (1.299 %)NetBackup
33 (0.557 %)OpenView
33 (0.557 %)Nagios
33 (0.557 %)BladeLogic
33 (0.557 %)CA Wily
41 (0.186 %)BMC PATROL
41 (0.186 %)WMI
West Yorkshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
157 (10.58 %)Zend
222 (4.082 %)Oracle
320 (3.711 %)VMware
414 (2.597 %)Red Hat
513 (2.412 %)Adobe
612 (2.226 %)Google
710 (1.855 %)Cisco
87 (1.299 %)Veritas
96 (1.113 %)IBM
96 (1.113 %)EMC
96 (1.113 %)Percona
105 (0.928 %)Facebook
105 (0.928 %)HP
114 (0.742 %)Microsoft
123 (0.557 %)Nimsoft
132 (0.371 %)Sage
132 (0.371 %)Quark
141 (0.186 %)Remedy
141 (0.186 %)ION Trading
141 (0.186 %)Business Objects