PHP Developer Contracts in London

PHP Developer
England > London

The median PHP Developer daily rate in London is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 451 475
Rank change year-on-year +83 +24 -111
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 33 44 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.16% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.17% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 106
10th Percentile £300 £346 £325
25th Percentile £319 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £475 £478 £492
90th Percentile £515 £575 £568
England median daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in London

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in London

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP Developer in London

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in London

PHP Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +47 5 £526 +5.10% 7
PHP Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) PHP
2 19 (57.58%) Laravel
3 13 (39.39%) AWS
4 10 (30.30%) Vue
4 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
5 9 (27.27%) SQL
5 9 (27.27%) MySQL
5 9 (27.27%) Full Stack Development
6 8 (24.24%) HTML
6 8 (24.24%) Symfony
7 7 (21.21%) CSS
7 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
8 6 (18.18%) RESTful
8 6 (18.18%) Azure
9 5 (15.15%) UX Design
9 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
9 5 (15.15%) Retail
9 5 (15.15%) OOP
9 5 (15.15%) OO
9 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
9 5 (15.15%) Workflow
9 5 (15.15%) Finance
9 5 (15.15%) User Experience
9 5 (15.15%) Docker
10 4 (12.12%) Fintech
10 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
10 4 (12.12%) Agile
10 4 (12.12%) TDD
10 4 (12.12%) Banking
10 4 (12.12%) Investment Banking

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (6.06%) WordPress
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
2 1 (3.03%) Jadu
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) MySQL
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
1 3 (9.09%) PHPUnit
2 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Postman
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Retail
3 4 (12.12%) Banking
3 4 (12.12%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (12.12%) Investment Banking
3 4 (12.12%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (57.58%) Laravel
2 10 (30.30%) Vue
3 8 (24.24%) HTML
3 8 (24.24%) Symfony
4 7 (21.21%) CSS
5 6 (18.18%) RESTful
6 4 (12.12%) Ajax
6 4 (12.12%) jQuery
7 3 (9.09%) Yii
8 2 (6.06%) React
8 2 (6.06%) Sass
9 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
9 1 (3.03%) CSS3
9 1 (3.03%) HTML5
9 1 (3.03%) Node.js
9 1 (3.03%) REST
9 1 (3.03%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
9 1 (3.03%) Twig
9 1 (3.03%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Full Stack Development
2 5 (15.15%) OO
2 5 (15.15%) OOP
2 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
2 5 (15.15%) User Experience
2 5 (15.15%) UX Design
2 5 (15.15%) Workflow
3 4 (12.12%) Agile
3 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
3 4 (12.12%) Fintech
3 4 (12.12%) TDD
3 4 (12.12%) Wealth Management
4 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 3 (9.09%) Event-Driven
4 3 (9.09%) MVC
4 3 (9.09%) Unit Testing
4 3 (9.09%) Web Development
5 2 (6.06%) Microservices
5 2 (6.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) PHP
2 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
3 9 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Go
4 2 (6.06%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Python
5 1 (3.03%) R
5 1 (3.03%) Ruby
5 1 (3.03%) Rust
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Splunk