PHP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 302 369 290
Rank change year-on-year +67 -79 -84
Contract jobs citing PHP 333 394 848
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.66% 0.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.61% 1.88% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 283 654
10th Percentile £263 £306 £319
25th Percentile £313 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £495 £538
90th Percentile £575 £595 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £419 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +4.69% -5.88% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 16
10th Percentile £22.50 £24.47 £30.63
25th Percentile £28.44 £43.38 £34.81
Median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +128.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72.34 £85.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £87.53 £46.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £48.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year -7.66% +14.67% +66.67%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the UK

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the UK

PHP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PHP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PHP in the UK

PHP
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 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 +77 275 £400 -3.03% 396
UK excluding London +66 166 £419 +4.69% 309
Work from Home +70 153 £450 +11.73% 240
London +71 136 £415 -7.89% 100
South East +37 47 £475 +18.75% 54
North of England +28 46 £350 -12.50% 114
North West +12 31 £394 +5.00% 62
Wales +27 23 £515 +14.44% 12
Midlands +26 20 £350 -22.22% 46
South West +17 18 £350 -12.50% 48
Yorkshire +20 13 £330 -17.50% 43
West Midlands +28 10 £138 -70.27% 27
East Midlands +23 10 £350 - 19
Scotland +27 9 £388 -12.92% 12
East of England +6 3 £475 +31.94% 31
North East +19 2 £375 -1.32% 10

PHP
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 26 (7.81%) nginx
2 23 (6.91%) WordPress
3 16 (4.80%) Drupal
4 11 (3.30%) Apache
5 9 (2.70%) CMS
6 6 (1.80%) Apache Solr
7 4 (1.20%) Jadu
8 3 (0.90%) Moodle
8 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.60%) Confluence
9 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.30%) FileNet
10 1 (0.30%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 12 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.40%) Magento
2 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (30.93%) AWS
2 51 (15.32%) Azure
3 34 (10.21%) GitHub
4 21 (6.31%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 13 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (3.00%) GCP
7 9 (2.70%) SaaS
8 7 (2.10%) Amazon MSK
8 7 (2.10%) Power Automate
8 7 (2.10%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.50%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.50%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.20%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 4 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.20%) Firebase
11 4 (1.20%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.30%) DNS
2 9 (2.70%) HTTP
3 7 (2.10%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.80%) VPN
5 5 (1.50%) HTTPS
5 5 (1.50%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (1.20%) IPsec
6 4 (1.20%) MQTT
7 3 (0.90%) SMTP
8 2 (0.60%) Network Security
9 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (32.13%) MySQL
2 15 (4.50%) Relational Database
3 14 (4.20%) SQL Server
4 12 (3.60%) MariaDB
5 10 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.80%) Couchbase
7 6 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.20%) KNIME
9 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.20%) Redis
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.90%) Power BI
10 3 (0.90%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 29 (8.71%) Git
2 17 (5.11%) Cypress.io
3 13 (3.90%) Postman
4 10 (3.00%) GitLab
5 6 (1.80%) JIRA
6 4 (1.20%) Snyk
6 4 (1.20%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.90%) PHPUnit
8 2 (0.60%) Appium
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.30%) Gatling
9 1 (0.30%) Gradle
9 1 (0.30%) gulp
9 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.30%) Travis CI
General
1 49 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.51%) Finance
3 22 (6.61%) Public Sector
4 16 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.70%) Retail
6 8 (2.40%) Banking
7 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.10%) Retail Banking
8 6 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.50%) Advertising
9 5 (1.50%) Marketing
10 4 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.20%) Legal
11 3 (0.90%) German Language
12 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.60%) Games
13 1 (0.30%) Automotive
13 1 (0.30%) Back Office
13 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 209 (62.76%) Developer
2 104 (31.23%) PHP Developer
3 52 (15.62%) Full Stack Developer
4 22 (6.61%) Software Engineer
5 21 (6.31%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 19 (5.71%) Senior
7 18 (5.41%) PHP Laravel Developer
8 16 (4.80%) WordPress Developer
9 13 (3.90%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.60%) Migration Manager
10 12 (3.60%) Migration Project Manager
10 12 (3.60%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.30%) Lead
12 10 (3.00%) Drupal Developer
13 8 (2.40%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) JavaScript Developer
14 7 (2.10%) Software Developer
14 7 (2.10%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (34.83%) Laravel
2 99 (29.73%) HTML
3 84 (25.23%) CSS
4 47 (14.11%) Vue
5 38 (11.41%) React
6 31 (9.31%) Symfony
7 30 (9.01%) Sass
8 23 (6.91%) AngularJS
8 23 (6.91%) Node.js
9 18 (5.41%) Kafka
10 17 (5.11%) .NET
10 17 (5.11%) REST
10 17 (5.11%) WebSockets
11 15 (4.50%) RESTful
12 10 (3.00%) jQuery
12 10 (3.00%) Yii
13 9 (2.70%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.70%) LAMP
14 8 (2.40%) HTML5
14 8 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.30%) Product Ownership
2 8 (2.40%) IoT
3 7 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (1.80%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.50%) Blockchain
5 5 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.20%) NHS
7 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.90%) Web3
8 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.30%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.30%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.30%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.30%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.30%) PKI
9 1 (0.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (17.72%) Linux
2 28 (8.41%) Unix
3 10 (3.00%) CentOS
4 6 (1.80%) Windows
5 5 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.90%) Android
7 3 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (22.82%) Full Stack Development
2 61 (18.32%) Agile
3 52 (15.62%) Test Automation
4 49 (14.71%) TDD
5 38 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (10.81%) Migration
6 36 (10.81%) Web Development
7 34 (10.21%) DevOps
7 34 (10.21%) Microservices
8 32 (9.61%) Software Engineering
9 28 (8.41%) CI/CD
10 22 (6.61%) Containerisation
11 21 (6.31%) E-Commerce
11 21 (6.31%) SDLC
12 18 (5.41%) Continuous Integration
12 18 (5.41%) Scrum
12 18 (5.41%) Security Testing
13 16 (4.80%) Project Management
14 14 (4.20%) OOP
14 14 (4.20%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 131 (39.34%) JavaScript
2 54 (16.22%) Java
3 43 (12.91%) SQL
4 26 (7.81%) Python
5 21 (6.31%) C#
6 13 (3.90%) Go
7 11 (3.30%) Ruby
7 11 (3.30%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.10%) Bash
9 6 (1.80%) Perl
10 5 (1.50%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.20%) Rust
11 4 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.90%) R
13 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.60%) Lua
14 1 (0.30%) C++
14 1 (0.30%) Groovy
14 1 (0.30%) RPG
Qualifications
1 38 (11.41%) Security Cleared
2 36 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.91%) Degree
4 5 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.50%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.61%) QA
2 15 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.50%) GDPR
4 4 (1.20%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.20%) NIST
5 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 26 (7.81%) Docker
2 7 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.01%) Terraform
3 12 (3.60%) Argo
4 7 (2.10%) Ansible
5 6 (1.80%) Grafana
5 6 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.20%) Puppet
7 2 (0.60%) Kibana
7 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.30%) Bugsnag
8 1 (0.30%) Graylog
8 1 (0.30%) Istio
8 1 (0.30%) logstash
8 1 (0.30%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (9.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.60%) Atlassian
3 11 (3.30%) Google
4 10 (3.00%) Oracle
5 4 (1.20%) Alteryx
5 4 (1.20%) Apple
5 4 (1.20%) Automation Anywhere
5 4 (1.20%) Blue Prism
5 4 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.20%) Splunk
5 4 (1.20%) UiPath
6 3 (0.90%) F5
7 2 (0.60%) VMware
7 2 (0.60%) Zend
8 1 (0.30%) Adobe
8 1 (0.30%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.30%) Genesys
8 1 (0.30%) IBM
8 1 (0.30%) KANA
8 1 (0.30%) WooCommerce