PHP Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median PHP Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 412 382
Rank change year-on-year +71 -30 -78
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 47 41 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.17% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.18% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 34 107
10th Percentile £225 £313 £313
25th Percentile £313 £325 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £428
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -12.28% +33.59%
75th Percentile £400 £473 £450
90th Percentile £540 £534 £538
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £42.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in the UK excluding London

PHP Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +16 14 £330 -12.00% 46
Wales +26 8 £545 +7.65% 2
North West +10 8 £338 -10.00% 30
Midlands +31 7 £350 -20.00% 23
South East +25 7 £375 -31.82% 19
South West +17 6 £350 -3.45% 19
East Midlands +24 5 £350 -30.00% 7
Yorkshire - 5 £328 - 14
Scotland +46 4 £225 -35.71% 3
West Midlands +16 2 £375 -6.25% 16
North East +14 1 £375 - 2
East of England +2 1 £200 -42.86% 11
PHP Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 UK excluding London region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) PHP
2 25 (53.19%) Laravel
3 16 (34.04%) React
4 15 (31.91%) Full Stack Development
5 14 (29.79%) Vue
5 14 (29.79%) MySQL
6 12 (25.53%) AWS
7 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (21.28%) SQL
7 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
7 10 (21.28%) Agile
8 9 (19.15%) Linux
9 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
10 7 (14.89%) Postman
10 7 (14.89%) Cypress.io
10 7 (14.89%) Project Management
10 7 (14.89%) QA
11 6 (12.77%) Symfony
11 6 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (12.77%) CSS
11 6 (12.77%) HTML
11 6 (12.77%) Azure
11 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
11 6 (12.77%) GitHub
11 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
11 6 (12.77%) GitLab
11 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
12 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
12 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
12 5 (10.64%) CMS

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (10.64%) CMS
2 3 (6.38%) Jadu
3 2 (4.26%) Apache
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (2.13%) Confluence
4 1 (2.13%) Drupal
4 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) AWS
2 6 (12.77%) Azure
2 6 (12.77%) GitHub
3 2 (4.26%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) Heroku
4 1 (2.13%) iPaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) MySQL
2 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Cypress.io
1 7 (14.89%) Postman
2 6 (12.77%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.26%) Local Government
2 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.13%) Advertising
3 1 (2.13%) Automotive
3 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (53.19%) Laravel
2 16 (34.04%) React
3 14 (29.79%) Vue
4 6 (12.77%) CSS
4 6 (12.77%) HTML
4 6 (12.77%) Symfony
5 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.38%) LAMP
6 3 (6.38%) REST
6 3 (6.38%) RESTful
7 2 (4.26%) .NET
7 2 (4.26%) Twig
7 2 (4.26%) Yii
8 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.13%) Django
8 1 (2.13%) OpenAPI
8 1 (2.13%) SOAP
8 1 (2.13%) Spring
8 1 (2.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.13%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.15%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Android
2 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Full Stack Development
2 10 (21.28%) Agile
2 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
4 7 (14.89%) Project Management
5 6 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
6 4 (8.51%) Analytics
6 4 (8.51%) E-Commerce
6 4 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.38%) Clean Code
7 3 (6.38%) Front End Development
7 3 (6.38%) MVC
7 3 (6.38%) OOP
8 2 (4.26%) Computer Science
8 2 (4.26%) Data Analytics
8 2 (4.26%) DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) Migration
8 2 (4.26%) TDD
9 1 (2.13%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (100.00%) PHP
2 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
2 10 (21.28%) SQL
3 2 (4.26%) C#
3 2 (4.26%) Python
4 1 (2.13%) Java
4 1 (2.13%) Perl
4 1 (2.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) IBM
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle
2 1 (2.13%) Zend