PHP Developer Contracts in England

PHP Developer
UK > England

The median PHP Developer daily rate in England is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 558 520
Rank change year-on-year +90 -38 -117
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 74 95 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.20% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 83 235
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £313 £330 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £438 £475 £488
90th Percentile £500 £500 £525
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £37.63
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,483 47,741 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,890 33,903 48,246
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,409 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +93 33 £400 -11.11% 28
North of England +29 18 £330 -13.16% 54
North West +9 9 £350 -6.67% 33
Midlands +36 8 £350 -9.68% 19
Yorkshire +34 8 £325 -31.58% 16
South West +15 7 £350 -3.45% 13
East Midlands +23 6 £350 -17.65% 8
South East - 5 £400 - 18
West Midlands +26 2 £375 -3.23% 11
North East +19 1 £375 -1.32% 5
East of England +5 1 £200 -42.86% 16
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) PHP
2 40 (54.05%) Laravel
3 26 (35.14%) AWS
4 20 (27.03%) JavaScript
5 19 (25.68%) MySQL
5 19 (25.68%) Vue
6 18 (24.32%) Full Stack Development
7 16 (21.62%) SQL
8 14 (18.92%) HTML
8 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (17.57%) Symfony
10 12 (16.22%) CSS
11 11 (14.86%) React
11 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
12 10 (13.51%) Azure
13 9 (12.16%) RESTful
13 9 (12.16%) OOP
14 7 (9.46%) MVC
14 7 (9.46%) TDD
15 6 (8.11%) Agile
15 6 (8.11%) CMS
15 6 (8.11%) Linux
15 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
15 6 (8.11%) Yii
15 6 (8.11%) Docker
16 5 (6.76%) User Experience
16 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
16 5 (6.76%) REST
16 5 (6.76%) Unit Testing
16 5 (6.76%) UX Design

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.11%) CMS
2 4 (5.41%) WordPress
3 3 (4.05%) Apache
3 3 (4.05%) Jadu
4 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.35%) Drupal
5 1 (1.35%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.14%) AWS
2 10 (13.51%) Azure
3 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.70%) GCP
3 2 (2.70%) GitHub
3 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (1.35%) Heroku
4 1 (1.35%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.68%) MySQL
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.70%) Power BI
5 1 (1.35%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) PHPUnit
2 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.35%) GitLab
3 1 (1.35%) Postman
General
1 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.76%) Finance
3 4 (5.41%) Retail
4 3 (4.05%) Banking
4 3 (4.05%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (4.05%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.05%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.70%) Advertising
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Automotive
6 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (54.05%) Laravel
2 19 (25.68%) Vue
3 14 (18.92%) HTML
4 13 (17.57%) Symfony
5 12 (16.22%) CSS
6 11 (14.86%) React
7 9 (12.16%) RESTful
8 6 (8.11%) Yii
9 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.76%) REST
10 4 (5.41%) Ajax
10 4 (5.41%) jQuery
10 4 (5.41%) LAMP
11 3 (4.05%) Node.js
11 3 (4.05%) Twig
12 2 (2.70%) .NET Framework
12 2 (2.70%) CSS3
12 2 (2.70%) Sass
12 2 (2.70%) SOAP
12 2 (2.70%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.70%) Blockchain
1 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (2.70%) Web3
2 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.35%) IoT
2 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.35%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Android
2 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.32%) Full Stack Development
2 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (12.16%) OOP
4 7 (9.46%) MVC
4 7 (9.46%) TDD
5 6 (8.11%) Agile
6 5 (6.76%) E-Commerce
6 5 (6.76%) OO
6 5 (6.76%) Unit Testing
6 5 (6.76%) User Experience
6 5 (6.76%) UX Design
6 5 (6.76%) Workflow
7 4 (5.41%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (5.41%) Fintech
7 4 (5.41%) Project Management
7 4 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (5.41%) Test Automation
8 3 (4.05%) Migration
8 3 (4.05%) Wealth Management
8 3 (4.05%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (100.00%) PHP
2 20 (27.03%) JavaScript
3 16 (21.62%) SQL
4 3 (4.05%) C#
5 2 (2.70%) Go
5 2 (2.70%) Java
5 2 (2.70%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.70%) Python
6 1 (1.35%) R
6 1 (1.35%) RPG
6 1 (1.35%) Ruby
6 1 (1.35%) Rust
6 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.05%) Degree
1 3 (4.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.70%) Oracle
2 2 (2.70%) Zend
3 1 (1.35%) IBM
3 1 (1.35%) Splunk