Lead PHP Developer Contracts

Lead PHP Developer
UK

The median Lead PHP Developer daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 697 855
Rank change year-on-year +121 +158 -188
Contract jobs requiring a Lead PHP Developer 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.005% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.005% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £490 £419
25th Percentile - £513 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £481
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +14.29% +13.24%
75th Percentile - £628 £502
90th Percentile - £675 £516
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -30.00% +14.29% -

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Lead PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead PHP Developer in the UK

Lead PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead PHP Developer in the UK

Lead PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead PHP Developer in the UK

Lead PHP Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead PHP Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +115 3 £350 -41.05% 6
UK excluding London +70 2 £350 -30.00% 4
North of England +28 2 £350 -30.00% 1
North West +21 2 £350 -30.00% 1
London +111 1 - - 2

Lead PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Lead 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 Lead PHP Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Vue
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Laravel
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) WordPress
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving

Lead 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 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Laravel
1 2 (66.67%) Vue
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA