PHP Contracts in the Midlands

PHP
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 152 164
Rank change year-on-year +39 +12 -47
Contract jobs citing PHP 21 17 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.77% 0.49% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.40% 1.80% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 24
10th Percentile - £272 £233
25th Percentile £131 £316 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £445 £325
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +36.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £469 £528 £386
90th Percentile £525 £569 £450
England median daily rate £400 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.13 - -
90th Percentile £28.50 - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.93% +107.14% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 617 946 1,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.65% 27.14% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 711 1,040
10th Percentile £260 £313 £315
25th Percentile £350 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +16.13%
75th Percentile £550 £561 £540
90th Percentile £638 £650 £625
England median daily rate £540 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 20
10th Percentile £20.91 £19.74 £17.18
25th Percentile £23.44 £24.16 £20.00
Median hourly rate £44.53 £29.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.77% -14.48% -15.15%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - £88.88 £46.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the Midlands

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
East Midlands +20 11 £350 +20.69% 24
West Midlands +25 10 £138 -71.05% 28
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 10 (47.62%) WordPress
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) MySQL
General
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) PHP Developer
3 9 (42.86%) WordPress Developer
4 1 (4.76%) E-Commerce Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Head of Architecture
4 1 (4.76%) Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Vue
2 5 (23.81%) CSS
2 5 (23.81%) HTML
3 4 (19.05%) Laravel
3 4 (19.05%) Yii
4 3 (14.29%) CSS3
4 3 (14.29%) React
4 3 (14.29%) Symfony
4 3 (14.29%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (4.76%) .NET
5 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Web Development
3 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 2 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (9.52%) MVC
5 1 (4.76%) Agile
5 1 (4.76%) Analytics
5 1 (4.76%) Android Development
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architecture
5 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.76%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.76%) iOS Development
5 1 (4.76%) IT Strategy
5 1 (4.76%) Mobile Development
5 1 (4.76%) OO
5 1 (4.76%) OOP
5 1 (4.76%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (4.76%) SDLC
5 1 (4.76%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft