The first table below looks at the demand for PHP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Worcester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PHP over the 3 months to 24 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 for the Worcester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PHP
Rank 25 23 19
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -4
Permanent jobs citing PHP 3 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcester 3.333% 4.167% 4.878%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.762% 5.714% 7.547%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 4
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £23,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +57.89%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
All Programming Languages
Worcester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
63 70 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcester 70.00% 72.92% 64.63%
Number of salaries quoted 61 69 50
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +12.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £19,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
PHP
Worcestershire

PHP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcester PHP Jobs Demand Trend

PHP
Salary Trend

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

Worcester PHP Salary Trend

PHP
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcester 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.

1 7 (100.00%) MySQL
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) PHP5
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 6 (85.71%) LAMP
2 6 (85.71%) Digital Media
2 6 (85.71%) Apache
2 6 (85.71%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) C++
3 5 (71.43%) Java
4 3 (42.86%) OOP
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) Web Development
5 1 (14.29%) Smarty
5 1 (14.29%) jQuery
5 1 (14.29%) MooTools

PHP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcester 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.

Application Development
1 6 (85.71%) LAMP
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Smarty
2 1 (14.29%) jQuery
2 1 (14.29%) MooTools
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 5 (71.43%) LAMP Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) OOP
2 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PHP5
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 6 (85.71%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) C++
3 5 (71.43%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Worcester, West Midlands
Knowledge of PHP, working within the Zend Framework and PHPTAL will be advantageous.Working Knowledge of Adobe applications (Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Photoshop) will be required however the ability to...
Salary: £22000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Worcester, West Midlands
Company OverviewFor over a decade, this Internet domain name and hosting service has provided first class web services to a wide variety of customers that require high-quality,...
Salary: £22000 - £24000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013