Full Stack PHP Developer Contracts

Full-Stack PHP Developer
UK

The median Full-Stack PHP Developer daily rate in the UK is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 705 840
Rank change year-on-year +144 +135 -191
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack PHP Developer 21 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.022% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.023% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 13
10th Percentile £313 £300 £273
25th Percentile £325 £319 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £540 £450 £450
90th Percentile £551 - £543
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £338 £338
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,410 56,464 84,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,305 39,470 59,485
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,664 1,570 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

Full Stack PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Full Stack PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack PHP Developer in the UK

Full Stack PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full Stack PHP Developer.

Daily rate trend for Full Stack PHP Developer in the UK

Full Stack PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack PHP Developer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack PHP Developer in the UK

Full Stack PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full Stack PHP Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack PHP Developer in the UK

Full Stack PHP Developer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack PHP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +116 14 £350 -16.67% 16
UK excluding London +72 14 £375 +11.11% 13
Work from Home +129 8 £425 -5.56% 13
London +101 6 £425 -5.56% 2
Wales +22 6 £545 +55.79%
South West - 3 £350 - 1
North of England +36 2 £338 +3.85% 8
North West +20 1 £350 +7.69% 6
South East - 1 £400 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £350 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £325 - 2
Midlands - 1 £350 - 2
East of England - 1 £200 -

Full Stack PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Full Stack 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 featuring Full Stack PHP Developer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) PHP
1 21 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 17 (80.95%) Laravel
3 13 (61.90%) React
4 12 (57.14%) AWS
4 12 (57.14%) Vue
5 9 (42.86%) Linux
5 9 (42.86%) MySQL
6 7 (33.33%) Cypress.io
6 7 (33.33%) Agile
6 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 7 (33.33%) Postman
6 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 6 (28.57%) GitLab
7 6 (28.57%) Product Ownership
7 6 (28.57%) QA
7 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
7 6 (28.57%) GitHub
7 6 (28.57%) Project Management
7 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (23.81%) CMS
8 5 (23.81%) SQL
8 5 (23.81%) Azure
9 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
9 4 (19.05%) Analytics
9 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
9 4 (19.05%) CSS
9 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
10 3 (14.29%) HTML
10 3 (14.29%) Docker

Full Stack PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (23.81%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Drupal
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
2 1 (4.76%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) GitHub
3 5 (23.81%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (4.76%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) MySQL
2 6 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 7 (33.33%) Postman
2 6 (28.57%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (4.76%) Advertising
1 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) Laravel
2 13 (61.90%) React
3 12 (57.14%) Vue
4 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
4 4 (19.05%) CSS
5 3 (14.29%) HTML
6 2 (9.52%) Ajax
6 2 (9.52%) jQuery
6 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 2 (9.52%) Symfony
7 1 (4.76%) LAMP
7 1 (4.76%) Sass
7 1 (4.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 7 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (28.57%) Project Management
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Front End Development
5 2 (9.52%) MVC
5 2 (9.52%) User Experience
5 2 (9.52%) UX Design
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analytics
6 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.76%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.76%) Microservices
6 1 (4.76%) Security Testing
6 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.76%) TDD
6 1 (4.76%) Web Development
6 1 (4.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) PHP
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft