Full-Stack PHP Developer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Full-Stack PHP Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Full-Stack PHP Developer daily rate in Birmingham is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack PHP Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £350 -
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 537 688 804
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.35% 96.22% 96.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 451 538
10th Percentile £177 £200 £260
25th Percentile £328 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £627 £600
90th Percentile £645 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -1.60% +2.56% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 15 26
10th Percentile - £15.53 £13.10
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.88 £15.22
Median hourly rate £14.00 £43.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.44% +126.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £26.51 £53.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £33.72 £56.45 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.59 £22.10
% change year-on-year +16.49% -2.31% +22.78%

Full-Stack PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Full-Stack PHP Developer in Birmingham

Full-Stack PHP Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack PHP Developer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack PHP Developer job vacancies in Birmingham

Full-Stack PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Full-Stack 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 across the Birmingham region featuring Full-Stack PHP Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Full-Stack PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript