PHP Contracts in England

PHP
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 353 288
Rank change year-on-year +70 -65 -83
Contract jobs citing PHP 277 332 696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.66% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.53% 1.89% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 247 542
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £319 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £420 £438
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £500 £496 £538
90th Percentile £575 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £430 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +1.18% -5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 15
10th Percentile £22.50 £22.92 £27.85
25th Percentile £25.31 £34.06 £32.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +107.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £71.87 £85.63 £35.88
90th Percentile £72.06 £87.58 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% +128.57% -22.22%

All Programming Languages
England

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,946 17,544 26,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.53% 35.13% 36.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,962 12,806 19,344
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +2.33% +10.00%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 425 453
10th Percentile £36.05 £26.10 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.43 £49.68 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +20.20% +17.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.28 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.20% +20.55% +14.94%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in England

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in England

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for PHP in England

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in England

PHP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PHP in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PHP in England

PHP
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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 +94 139 £415 -7.89% 113
South East +32 49 £475 +18.75% 55
North of England +20 45 £369 -7.81% 118
North West +23 32 £413 +6.45% 74
Midlands +34 19 £350 -24.32% 58
South West +17 17 £350 -12.50% 56
Yorkshire +18 11 £328 -18.13% 37
West Midlands +20 10 £138 -70.27% 32
East Midlands +22 9 £350 -15.66% 26
East of England -2 3 £475 +31.94% 34
North East +16 2 £375 -1.32% 8
PHP
UK

PHP
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 23 (8.30%) nginx
2 22 (7.94%) WordPress
3 15 (5.42%) Drupal
4 11 (3.97%) Apache
5 8 (2.89%) CMS
6 6 (2.17%) Apache Solr
7 5 (1.81%) Jadu
8 3 (1.08%) Moodle
8 3 (1.08%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.36%) Confluence
10 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.53%) Magento
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (29.24%) AWS
2 33 (11.91%) Azure
3 18 (6.50%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 15 (5.42%) GitHub
5 9 (3.25%) SaaS
6 7 (2.53%) Amazon MSK
6 7 (2.53%) GCP
6 7 (2.53%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.17%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.81%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon Alexa
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.44%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 4 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.44%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.44%) Serverless
9 4 (1.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.97%) DNS
2 8 (2.89%) HTTP
3 7 (2.53%) VPN
4 6 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.81%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.44%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.44%) IPsec
6 4 (1.44%) MQTT
7 3 (1.08%) Network Security
7 3 (1.08%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (29.60%) MySQL
2 14 (5.05%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.25%) MariaDB
4 8 (2.89%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.17%) Couchbase
5 6 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.44%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.44%) KNIME
7 3 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.08%) Power BI
7 3 (1.08%) Redis
8 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.72%) Parquet
8 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (9.39%) Git
2 9 (3.25%) Cypress.io
3 5 (1.81%) Postman
3 5 (1.81%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.44%) PHPUnit
4 4 (1.44%) Snyk
5 3 (1.08%) GitLab
6 2 (0.72%) Appium
6 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.36%) Gatling
7 1 (0.36%) JIRA
7 1 (0.36%) Storybook
General
1 39 (14.08%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.30%) Finance
3 18 (6.50%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.61%) Banking
5 10 (3.61%) Retail
6 8 (2.89%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.81%) Advertising
7 5 (1.81%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.81%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.44%) Legal
9 3 (1.08%) German Language
9 3 (1.08%) Marketing
9 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.72%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 176 (63.54%) Developer
2 73 (26.35%) PHP Developer
3 45 (16.25%) Full Stack Developer
4 16 (5.78%) Software Engineer
4 16 (5.78%) WordPress Developer
5 14 (5.05%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 14 (5.05%) Senior
6 12 (4.33%) Java Developer
6 12 (4.33%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 11 (3.97%) Lead
8 10 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.61%) Drupal Developer
9 8 (2.89%) Symfony Developer
10 7 (2.53%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.17%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.17%) JavaScript Developer
12 5 (1.81%) AWS Developer
12 5 (1.81%) Designer
12 5 (1.81%) Lead Designer
12 5 (1.81%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (33.21%) Laravel
2 88 (31.77%) HTML
3 74 (26.71%) CSS
4 37 (13.36%) Vue
5 31 (11.19%) Symfony
6 30 (10.83%) React
7 27 (9.75%) Sass
8 23 (8.30%) Node.js
9 20 (7.22%) AngularJS
10 18 (6.50%) .NET
11 15 (5.42%) Kafka
12 14 (5.05%) RESTful
13 13 (4.69%) WebSockets
14 11 (3.97%) REST
15 10 (3.61%) jQuery
16 9 (3.25%) LAMP
17 8 (2.89%) HTML5
17 8 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
18 7 (2.53%) Yii
19 6 (2.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.81%) Blockchain
3 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.44%) IoT
4 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.44%) NHS
4 4 (1.44%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.08%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.08%) Web3
6 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.36%) PKI
7 1 (0.36%) PropTech
7 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.16%) Linux
2 24 (8.66%) Unix
3 8 (2.89%) CentOS
4 5 (1.81%) Windows
5 4 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.08%) Android
6 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.10%) Full Stack Development
2 42 (15.16%) TDD
2 42 (15.16%) Test Automation
3 40 (14.44%) Agile
4 31 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (10.83%) Web Development
6 28 (10.11%) DevOps
6 28 (10.11%) Microservices
7 24 (8.66%) Software Engineering
8 23 (8.30%) Migration
9 19 (6.86%) CI/CD
10 16 (5.78%) E-Commerce
11 15 (5.42%) OOP
11 15 (5.42%) Security Testing
12 14 (5.05%) User Experience
13 10 (3.61%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (3.61%) SDLC
13 10 (3.61%) Unit Testing
14 9 (3.25%) Fintech
14 9 (3.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 104 (37.55%) JavaScript
2 47 (16.97%) Java
3 34 (12.27%) SQL
4 23 (8.30%) Python
5 20 (7.22%) C#
6 11 (3.97%) Go
6 11 (3.97%) Ruby
6 11 (3.97%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.17%) Bash
8 5 (1.81%) Perl
9 4 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.44%) Rust
9 4 (1.44%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.08%) R
11 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.72%) Lua
12 1 (0.36%) C++
12 1 (0.36%) RPG
12 1 (0.36%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 36 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.97%) Degree
4 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.08%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.69%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.33%) QA
3 5 (1.81%) GDPR
4 4 (1.44%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.44%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (6.86%) Docker
2 8 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (6.14%) Kubernetes
1 17 (6.14%) Terraform
2 5 (1.81%) Ansible
3 4 (1.44%) Grafana
3 4 (1.44%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.44%) Puppet
4 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.36%) Argo
5 1 (0.36%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.36%) Istio
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
5 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (7.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.61%) Google
3 8 (2.89%) Oracle
4 4 (1.44%) Alteryx
4 4 (1.44%) Apple
4 4 (1.44%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (1.44%) Blue Prism
4 4 (1.44%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.44%) UiPath
5 3 (1.08%) F5
5 3 (1.08%) Splunk
5 3 (1.08%) VMware
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe
6 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.36%) IBM
6 1 (0.36%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.36%) Zend