PHP Contracts in Manchester

PHP
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 95 105
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 -49
Contract jobs citing PHP 27 22 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.75% 1.14% 1.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.01% 3.80% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 37
10th Percentile £313 £309 £333
25th Percentile £325 £325 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £475 £425 £405
90th Percentile £504 £473 £450
North West median daily rate £394 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £68.37 - -
25th Percentile £69.69 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £72.19 - -
90th Percentile £72.37 - -
North West median hourly rate £71.87 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +41.67%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 449 579 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.17% 30.03% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 452 836
10th Percentile £338 £339 £360
25th Percentile £403 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £613 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 12
10th Percentile - £36.75 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.88 £14.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £42.50 £15.37
Median % change year-on-year +64.71% +176.60% -54.47%
75th Percentile £81.00 £48.44 £39.38
90th Percentile £82.90 £57.38 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.32% -4.49% +25.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Manchester

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in Manchester

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Manchester

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 18 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
Bolton - 1 - -
PHP
North West

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (51.85%) MySQL
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Gatling
2 1 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Advertising
2 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) PHP Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Software Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Java Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) PHP Laravel Developer
6 2 (7.41%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Head of Development
6 2 (7.41%) PHP Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) HTML Developer
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (3.70%) React Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) React
2 5 (18.52%) Laravel
3 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.11%) CSS
4 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 2 (7.41%) Node.js
5 2 (7.41%) RESTful
5 2 (7.41%) Web Services
6 1 (3.70%) Redux
6 1 (3.70%) Spring
6 1 (3.70%) Symfony
6 1 (3.70%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
2 5 (18.52%) DevOps
3 4 (14.81%) E-Commerce
3 4 (14.81%) Front End Development
3 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
3 4 (14.81%) Web Development
4 3 (11.11%) Data Security
4 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (11.11%) Refactoring
4 3 (11.11%) Test Strategy
5 2 (7.41%) B2B
5 2 (7.41%) Coaching
5 2 (7.41%) Containerisation
5 2 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (7.41%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (7.41%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (7.41%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.41%) Product Information Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Java
2 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft