Laravel PHP Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Laravel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Laravel 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 467 611 671
Rank change year-on-year +144 +60 -175
Contract jobs citing Laravel 131 108 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 0.78% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 88 154
10th Percentile £274 £300 £313
25th Percentile £309 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £488
90th Percentile £575 £538 £546
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% +26.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Laravel is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Laravel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Laravel over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Laravel in the UK

Laravel
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Laravel within the UK 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
England +141 105 £350 -12.50% 181
Work from Home +135 71 £350 -12.50% 109
London +129 65 £363 -9.38% 43
UK excluding London +60 50 £388 -3.13% 142
North of England +23 14 £350 -12.50% 63
Wales +23 12 £545 +21.11% 5
South West +26 10 £350 -12.50% 24
South East +30 8 £500 +21.21% 14
North West +6 8 £350 -9.68% 43
Yorkshire +21 4 £330 -28.65% 18
Scotland +35 3 £625 +66.67% 2
Midlands +18 3 £500 +12.36% 20
North East +19 2 £375 -1.32% 2
East Midlands +19 2 £500 - 11
West Midlands +24 1 £350 -20.45% 9

Laravel
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 22 (16.79%) nginx
2 12 (9.16%) WordPress
3 9 (6.87%) CMS
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.76%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 65 (49.62%) AWS
2 21 (16.03%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 11 (8.40%) GitHub
4 7 (5.34%) Azure
5 4 (3.05%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.29%) Amazon Alexa
6 3 (2.29%) Firebase
6 3 (2.29%) iPaaS
6 3 (2.29%) SaaS
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.53%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (1.53%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (1.53%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.53%) OCI
7 2 (1.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.19%) MySQL
2 10 (7.63%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.58%) MariaDB
4 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.53%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) Cypress.io
2 10 (7.63%) Postman
3 9 (6.87%) GitLab
4 3 (2.29%) Git
4 3 (2.29%) PHPUnit
4 3 (2.29%) webpack
5 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.53%) Storybook
6 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
2 13 (9.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (3.82%) Finance
4 4 (3.05%) Digital Healthcare
5 3 (2.29%) Retail
6 2 (1.53%) Advertising
6 2 (1.53%) Banking
6 2 (1.53%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.53%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.76%) Marketing
7 1 (0.76%) Military
7 1 (0.76%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 97 (74.05%) Developer
2 59 (45.04%) PHP Developer
3 39 (29.77%) Full Stack Developer
4 18 (13.74%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 17 (12.98%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 6 (4.58%) Full Stack Engineer
7 4 (3.05%) AWS Developer
7 4 (3.05%) HTML Developer
7 4 (3.05%) Software Developer
7 4 (3.05%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (2.29%) HTML CSS Developer
8 3 (2.29%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (2.29%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (2.29%) Web Developer
9 2 (1.53%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (1.53%) Lead
9 2 (1.53%) PHP Software Engineer
9 2 (1.53%) PHP WordPress Developer
9 2 (1.53%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (38.93%) HTML
2 46 (35.11%) CSS
3 39 (29.77%) Vue
4 30 (22.90%) React
5 28 (21.37%) Sass
6 17 (12.98%) WebSockets
7 12 (9.16%) Node.js
8 8 (6.11%) Yii
9 7 (5.34%) REST
9 7 (5.34%) Symfony
10 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.82%) Next.js
10 5 (3.82%) RESTful
10 5 (3.82%) Tailwind CSS
11 4 (3.05%) Ionic Framework
11 4 (3.05%) React Native
11 4 (3.05%) Twig
12 3 (2.29%) CodeIgniter
12 3 (2.29%) CSS3
12 3 (2.29%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.29%) IoT
4 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.48%) Linux
2 22 (16.79%) Unix
3 2 (1.53%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.53%) CentOS
4 1 (0.76%) Android
4 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.27%) Full Stack Development
2 35 (26.72%) Test Automation
3 31 (23.66%) TDD
4 28 (21.37%) Web Development
5 18 (13.74%) Agile
5 18 (13.74%) Microservices
6 14 (10.69%) CI/CD
6 14 (10.69%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (9.16%) Project Management
7 12 (9.16%) Security Testing
8 10 (7.63%) Unit Testing
9 9 (6.87%) MVC
10 7 (5.34%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (4.58%) Analytics
11 6 (4.58%) DevOps
11 6 (4.58%) Front End Development
11 6 (4.58%) Software Engineering
12 5 (3.82%) E-Commerce
12 5 (3.82%) Mobile Development
12 5 (3.82%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 116 (88.55%) PHP
2 57 (43.51%) JavaScript
3 13 (9.92%) TypeScript
4 9 (6.87%) SQL
5 4 (3.05%) Python
6 1 (0.76%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.82%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.53%) Degree
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.45%) QA
2 14 (10.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Terraform
2 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (5.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.29%) Apple
2 3 (2.29%) Google
2 3 (2.29%) WooCommerce
3 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.53%) Zend