PHP Developer Contracts

PHP Developer
UK

The median PHP Developer daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 600 560
Rank change year-on-year +109 -40 -121
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 100 119 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.20% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.21% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 97 267
10th Percentile £263 £310 £313
25th Percentile £300 £325 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £463 £475 £475
90th Percentile £525 £538 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £375 £425
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.76% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £37.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +41.67%

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in the UK

PHP Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +87 73 £350 -12.50% 145
UK excluding London +73 50 £350 -6.67% 122
Work from Home +92 43 £400 - 95
London +90 33 £400 -11.11% 27
North of England +19 17 £328 -13.25% 53
North West +8 9 £350 -6.67% 33
Midlands +31 8 £350 -20.00% 18
Wales +20 8 £545 +32.12% 1
Yorkshire +27 7 £325 -31.58% 17
South West +27 6 £350 -3.45% 13
East Midlands +26 6 £350 -30.00% 8
South East - 6 £400 - 20
Scotland +43 4 £225 -35.71% 5
West Midlands +24 2 £375 -6.25% 10
North East +17 1 £375 -1.32% 3
East of England +4 1 £200 -42.86% 15

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) PHP
2 55 (55.00%) Laravel
3 40 (40.00%) AWS
4 32 (32.00%) JavaScript
5 29 (29.00%) MySQL
6 27 (27.00%) Vue
7 26 (26.00%) Full Stack Development
8 21 (21.00%) SQL
9 18 (18.00%) React
10 17 (17.00%) HTML
11 16 (16.00%) CSS
11 16 (16.00%) Linux
12 15 (15.00%) Symfony
12 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
13 14 (14.00%) Agile
14 13 (13.00%) Azure
15 12 (12.00%) Test Automation
15 12 (12.00%) TDD
15 12 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (10.00%) CI/CD
16 10 (10.00%) OOP
16 10 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
17 9 (9.00%) RESTful
17 9 (9.00%) Project Management
17 9 (9.00%) Relational Database
17 9 (9.00%) Docker
18 8 (8.00%) Postman
18 8 (8.00%) MVC
18 8 (8.00%) Cypress.io
18 8 (8.00%) Yii

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 6 (6.00%) CMS
2 4 (4.00%) Jadu
3 3 (3.00%) Apache
3 3 (3.00%) WordPress
4 2 (2.00%) nginx
4 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.00%) Confluence
5 1 (1.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.00%) AWS
2 13 (13.00%) Azure
3 8 (8.00%) GitHub
4 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.00%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (2.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.00%) GCP
5 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.00%) SaaS
6 1 (1.00%) Heroku
6 1 (1.00%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.00%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Internet
1 1 (1.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.00%) MySQL
2 9 (9.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.00%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.00%) Power BI
6 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Cypress.io
1 8 (8.00%) Postman
2 7 (7.00%) GitLab
3 3 (3.00%) Git
3 3 (3.00%) PHPUnit
4 2 (2.00%) JIRA
4 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.00%) Finance
3 5 (5.00%) Retail
4 4 (4.00%) Banking
4 4 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.00%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.00%) Advertising
5 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.00%) Automotive
6 1 (1.00%) Local Government
6 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (55.00%) Laravel
2 27 (27.00%) Vue
3 18 (18.00%) React
4 17 (17.00%) HTML
5 16 (16.00%) CSS
6 15 (15.00%) Symfony
7 9 (9.00%) RESTful
8 8 (8.00%) Yii
9 5 (5.00%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.00%) Ajax
10 4 (4.00%) jQuery
10 4 (4.00%) LAMP
10 4 (4.00%) REST
11 3 (3.00%) .NET
11 3 (3.00%) CodeIgniter
11 3 (3.00%) Node.js
11 3 (3.00%) Sass
11 3 (3.00%) Twig
12 2 (2.00%) CSS3
12 2 (2.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.00%) Blockchain
2 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.00%) Web3
3 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.00%) IoT
3 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.00%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Unix
3 2 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (2.00%) CentOS
4 1 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.00%) Full Stack Development
2 14 (14.00%) Agile
3 12 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (12.00%) TDD
3 12 (12.00%) Test Automation
4 10 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (10.00%) OOP
5 9 (9.00%) Project Management
6 8 (8.00%) MVC
7 6 (6.00%) OO
7 6 (6.00%) Unit Testing
7 6 (6.00%) Workflow
8 5 (5.00%) Analytics
8 5 (5.00%) Containerisation
8 5 (5.00%) DevOps
8 5 (5.00%) E-Commerce
8 5 (5.00%) Migration
8 5 (5.00%) UX Design
8 5 (5.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 100 (100.00%) PHP
2 32 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 21 (21.00%) SQL
4 3 (3.00%) C#
4 3 (3.00%) Java
4 3 (3.00%) Python
5 2 (2.00%) Go
5 2 (2.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.00%) Perl
6 1 (1.00%) R
6 1 (1.00%) RPG
6 1 (1.00%) Ruby
6 1 (1.00%) Rust
6 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.00%) Degree
2 3 (3.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle
3 1 (1.00%) IBM
3 1 (1.00%) Splunk
3 1 (1.00%) Zend