If you actually look @ the Histogram for the West Midlands (<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/west%20midlands/php.do">http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/west%20midlands/php.do</a>) it seems that most of the jobs are being offered in the £20k-£25k range, with the £30k-£35k range being the lowest of the "top 4"... with the average salary in Birmingham being £35k. I'd not reccomend Coventry! the average there is £22.5k.<br>
<br>Neither, however, seem representative of the jobs I've seen on offer... which tend towards the lower end of th £20-30k range.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Richard Cunningham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@richardcunningham.co.uk">richard@richardcunningham.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Really there seem to a lot of jobs for "upto £30k" and very little<br>
interest. That one especially seemed to be asking for rather a lot.<br>
<br>
Maybe it's an age thing. Are the University students learning PHP<br>
nowadays? on their courses they often learn Java or C# and in their own<br>
time Python and Ruby are cool, so do any of them learn PHP?<br>
<br>
It looks like the *average* salary for someone doing PHP is £30k and if<br>
you look at the "salary histogram" a lot of people already earn at least<br>
£25k doing PHP, so maybe £30k isn't enough of a jump in this economic<br>
climate: <a href="http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/php.do" target="_blank">http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/php.do</a><br>
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Mike Tipping wrote:<br>
> Although cost cutting does mean wages won't go up.<br>
><br>
> Maybe it's just that in an unstable climate if you have a job you don't jump<br>
> ship unless your going to get more security or a much better salary, and<br>
> I've not seen a lot of great salaries being offered.<br>
><br>
> That one earlier today for a graduate PHP dev, linux admin, Android<br>
> developer, trainer... All for upto 30K! If that person exists you'll need to<br>
> offer than alot more than that.<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
><br>
> Mike<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On 23/3/10 13:17, "Tim Williams" <<a href="mailto:T.M.Williams@cs.bham.ac.uk">T.M.Williams@cs.bham.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
>> My guess is that the recession has pushed people towards technology<br>
>> choices which are perceived to be cheaper. Assuming you are still in<br>
>> buisness, you are still going to have work that needs to be done but less<br>
>> money to do it with. PHP is probably seen as a cheap technology, so we<br>
>> as PHP developers benefit, while the up market options suffer. It's the<br>
>> Aldi/Lidl effect.<br>
>><br>
>> Tim W<br>
>><br>
><br>
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