PHP Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

PHP Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median PHP Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 388 421
Rank change year-on-year +76 +33 -79
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 40 78 213
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.31% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.32% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 61 195
10th Percentile £263 £313 £315
25th Percentile £319 £330 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £478 £475 £463
90th Percentile £536 £538 £525
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,070 24,019 42,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.35% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,440 16,961 30,444
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 547 600
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.19
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.51 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

PHP Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PHP Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP Developer.

PHP Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PHP Developer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

PHP Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PHP Developer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PHP Developer.

PHP Developer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) PHP
2 24 (60.00%) AWS
3 23 (57.50%) Laravel
4 20 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 12 (30.00%) SQL
5 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
6 9 (22.50%) HTML
6 9 (22.50%) TDD
6 9 (22.50%) Full Stack Development
7 8 (20.00%) CSS
8 7 (17.50%) MySQL
8 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
9 6 (15.00%) Vue
9 6 (15.00%) Linux
9 6 (15.00%) MVC
9 6 (15.00%) Symfony
10 5 (12.50%) Unit Testing
10 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (12.50%) Finance
10 5 (12.50%) RESTful
10 5 (12.50%) Azure
10 5 (12.50%) Docker
10 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 4 (10.00%) User Experience
11 4 (10.00%) React
11 4 (10.00%) Fintech
11 4 (10.00%) Banking
11 4 (10.00%) Retail
11 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
11 4 (10.00%) jQuery

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (7.50%) CMS
2 2 (5.00%) nginx
2 2 (5.00%) WordPress
3 1 (2.50%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 24 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (7.50%) GitHub
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.00%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (5.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.50%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) MySQL
2 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) PHPUnit
2 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
2 2 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Retail
3 4 (10.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (57.50%) Laravel
2 9 (22.50%) HTML
3 8 (20.00%) CSS
4 6 (15.00%) Symfony
4 6 (15.00%) Vue
5 5 (12.50%) RESTful
6 4 (10.00%) Ajax
6 4 (10.00%) jQuery
6 4 (10.00%) React
7 3 (7.50%) Yii
8 2 (5.00%) CodeIgniter
8 2 (5.00%) REST
8 2 (5.00%) Sass
8 2 (5.00%) WebSockets
9 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.50%) LAMP
9 1 (2.50%) Node.js
9 1 (2.50%) Phalcon
9 1 (2.50%) Ruby on Rails
9 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (5.00%) CentOS
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Full Stack Development
1 9 (22.50%) TDD
2 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
3 6 (15.00%) MVC
4 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (12.50%) Unit Testing
5 4 (10.00%) Agile
5 4 (10.00%) Fintech
5 4 (10.00%) User Experience
5 4 (10.00%) UX Design
5 4 (10.00%) Wealth Management
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Event-Driven
6 3 (7.50%) Microservices
6 3 (7.50%) OO
6 3 (7.50%) OOP
6 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering
6 3 (7.50%) Web Development
6 3 (7.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) PHP
2 20 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.50%) Go
5 1 (2.50%) Python
5 1 (2.50%) R
5 1 (2.50%) RPG
5 1 (2.50%) Ruby
5 1 (2.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (2.50%) Degree
1 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.50%) IBM
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.50%) Splunk