PHP Contracts in South Wales

PHP
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 21 47 70
Rank change year-on-year +26 +23 -24
Contract jobs citing PHP 20 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.76% 1.88% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.41% 7.30% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 5
10th Percentile £438 £323 -
25th Percentile £503 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -2.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £438
90th Percentile £645 £603 -
Wales median daily rate £515 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +14.44% +5.88% +1.49%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 98 137 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 28.24% 25.80% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 105 221
10th Percentile £325 £313 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -10.48% +25.00%
75th Percentile £551 £625 £625
90th Percentile £605 £663 £675
Wales median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £15.51 £17.18 £18.82
25th Percentile £16.98 £17.48 £19.91
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%
75th Percentile £24.96 £19.81 £25.00
90th Percentile £39.56 £19.91 £32.50
Wales median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
% change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in South Wales

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in South Wales

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for PHP in South Wales

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in South Wales

PHP
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the South Wales 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
Cardiff +17 19 £530 +28.48% 8
Newport - 1 £325 -
PHP
Wales

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (5.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) GitHub
2 13 (65.00%) Azure
3 9 (45.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (90.00%) MySQL
2 8 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Cypress.io
1 8 (40.00%) Postman
2 7 (35.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Burp Suite
4 1 (5.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Migration Manager
1 9 (45.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 9 (45.00%) Project Manager
2 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) PHP Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 2 (10.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) React Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Laravel
2 8 (40.00%) Vue
3 7 (35.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
3 9 (45.00%) Migration
3 9 (45.00%) Scrum
3 9 (45.00%) SDLC
4 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (40.00%) Project Management
5 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
7 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
7 2 (10.00%) Front End Development
8 1 (5.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
8 1 (5.00%) Data Protection
8 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (5.00%) OWASP
8 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.00%) Project Governance
8 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Argo
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Graylog
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Nagios
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.00%) Checkmarx
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk