PHP Contracts in the UK excluding London

PHP
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 288 263
Rank change year-on-year +44 -25 -93
Contract jobs citing PHP 154 163 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.69% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.22% 2.39% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 127 209
10th Percentile £263 £312 £313
25th Percentile £325 £325 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £428
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -6.43% +22.14%
75th Percentile £526 £484 £500
90th Percentile £565 £575 £588
UK median daily rate £415 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.47% -5.56% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.22 -
25th Percentile £25.31 £31.85 £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.74 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +14.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £68.12 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.06 £78.25 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% +128.57% -22.22%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PHP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PHP in the UK excluding London

PHP
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +35 47 £474 +18.44% 50
North of England +20 40 £375 -6.25% 100
North West +12 30 £425 +13.33% 66
Wales +28 20 £523 +17.75% 6
Midlands +37 18 £350 -24.32% 57
South West +10 17 £350 -12.50% 54
West Midlands +22 10 £138 -70.27% 31
Scotland +36 9 £388 -12.92% 12
East Midlands +26 8 £350 -15.66% 26
Yorkshire +13 8 £330 -17.50% 28
East of England -3 3 £475 +31.94% 29
North East +13 2 £375 - 7
PHP
UK

PHP
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 15 (9.74%) Drupal
2 12 (7.79%) WordPress
3 6 (3.90%) Apache
3 6 (3.90%) Apache Solr
4 5 (3.25%) CMS
5 4 (2.60%) Jadu
5 4 (2.60%) nginx
6 3 (1.95%) Moodle
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.65%) Confluence
7 1 (0.65%) FileNet
7 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.18%) AWS
2 27 (17.53%) Azure
3 20 (12.99%) GitHub
4 9 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (5.19%) SaaS
6 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.25%) GCP
7 3 (1.95%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.95%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.95%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.95%) IaaS
7 3 (1.95%) iPaaS
7 3 (1.95%) PaaS
8 2 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.30%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.65%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.25%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (2.60%) DNS
2 4 (2.60%) HTTPS
2 4 (2.60%) IPsec
2 4 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.95%) HTTP
3 3 (1.95%) Network Security
3 3 (1.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (39.61%) MySQL
2 9 (5.84%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.90%) Couchbase
3 6 (3.90%) MariaDB
3 6 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.30%) Power BI
5 2 (1.30%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.30%) Redis
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (7.79%) Git
2 9 (5.84%) Postman
3 8 (5.19%) Cypress.io
4 7 (4.55%) GitLab
5 4 (2.60%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.95%) JIRA
7 1 (0.65%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.65%) Gatling
7 1 (0.65%) Gradle
7 1 (0.65%) gulp
7 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.65%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.65%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (11.69%) Social Skills
2 8 (5.19%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.60%) Advertising
3 4 (2.60%) Legal
3 4 (2.60%) Marketing
4 3 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (1.95%) Finance
4 3 (1.95%) Retail
5 2 (1.30%) Local Government
5 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.65%) Automotive
6 1 (0.65%) Games
6 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 96 (62.34%) Developer
2 47 (30.52%) PHP Developer
3 21 (13.64%) Full Stack Developer
4 13 (8.44%) Full Stack PHP Developer
4 13 (8.44%) Software Engineer
5 11 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.49%) Drupal Developer
6 10 (6.49%) Java Developer
6 10 (6.49%) WordPress Developer
7 9 (5.84%) Migration Manager
7 9 (5.84%) Migration Project Manager
7 9 (5.84%) Project Manager
8 8 (5.19%) Senior
9 7 (4.55%) Lead
10 6 (3.90%) PHP Laravel Developer
11 5 (3.25%) Network Engineer
12 4 (2.60%) Java Engineer
12 4 (2.60%) Java Software Engineer
12 4 (2.60%) PHP Software Engineer
13 3 (1.95%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (24.68%) Laravel
2 34 (22.08%) HTML
3 27 (17.53%) React
4 25 (16.23%) CSS
5 24 (15.58%) Vue
6 15 (9.74%) Symfony
7 13 (8.44%) AngularJS
8 9 (5.84%) .NET
9 8 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (4.55%) LAMP
10 7 (4.55%) RESTful
11 6 (3.90%) Kafka
11 6 (3.90%) Node.js
11 6 (3.90%) Spring
11 6 (3.90%) Web Services
12 5 (3.25%) REST
12 5 (3.25%) Sass
12 5 (3.25%) Spring Boot
13 4 (2.60%) YAML
13 4 (2.60%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.84%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.60%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.65%) IoT
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.65%) PropTech
6 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (2.60%) CentOS
2 4 (2.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (25.32%) Agile
2 30 (19.48%) Full Stack Development
3 21 (13.64%) Migration
4 20 (12.99%) DevOps
5 19 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (11.04%) TDD
7 16 (10.39%) CI/CD
7 16 (10.39%) SDLC
8 14 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 13 (8.44%) Test Automation
10 12 (7.79%) Containerisation
10 12 (7.79%) E-Commerce
10 12 (7.79%) Microservices
11 11 (7.14%) Scrum
11 11 (7.14%) Web Development
12 9 (5.84%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (5.84%) Project Management
13 8 (5.19%) Front End Development
14 7 (4.55%) Analytics
14 7 (4.55%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 47 (30.52%) JavaScript
2 31 (20.13%) Java
3 21 (13.64%) SQL
4 10 (6.49%) C#
4 10 (6.49%) Python
5 4 (2.60%) Ruby
6 3 (1.95%) Perl
6 3 (1.95%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.30%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) C
8 1 (0.65%) Go
8 1 (0.65%) Groovy
8 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.65%) RPG
Qualifications
1 14 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.44%) Degree
2 13 (8.44%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.60%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) QA
2 4 (2.60%) GDPR
2 4 (2.60%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.60%) NIST
3 2 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (6.49%) Docker
2 8 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.95%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.84%) Argo
3 8 (5.19%) Terraform
4 7 (4.55%) Ansible
5 3 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.30%) Grafana
6 2 (1.30%) Kibana
6 2 (1.30%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.65%) Graylog
7 1 (0.65%) logstash
7 1 (0.65%) Nagios
7 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.84%) Atlassian
3 8 (5.19%) Oracle
4 5 (3.25%) Google
5 3 (1.95%) VMware
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe
6 1 (0.65%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.65%) Genesys
6 1 (0.65%) IBM
6 1 (0.65%) KANA
6 1 (0.65%) Splunk
6 1 (0.65%) Zend