PHP Contracts in Scotland

PHP
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 149 160
Rank change year-on-year +27 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing PHP 9 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% 0.53% 0.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 1.51% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £213 £351 £347
25th Percentile £234 £391 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% -15.24% +35.48%
75th Percentile £548 £498 £631
90th Percentile £599 £511 £688
UK median daily rate £420 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -1.24% -5.56% +12.50%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 993 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 723 647
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Scotland

PHP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Edinburgh +45 4 £625 +78.57% 2
Glasgow -4 3 £225 -49.55% 6
West Lothian - 2 £518 -
PHP
UK

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) iPaaS
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) MariaDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CircleCI
1 1 (11.11%) Gradle
1 1 (11.11%) gulp
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
1 1 (11.11%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) PHP Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Django Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) HTML CSS Developer
4 1 (11.11%) HTML Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Perl Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) Django
2 3 (33.33%) Laravel
2 3 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 3 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) Swagger
2 3 (33.33%) Yii
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Log Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (11.11%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) Go
5 1 (11.11%) Groovy
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) Ruby
5 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kibana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) logstash
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Genesys
2 1 (11.11%) KANA