PHP Laravel Developer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

PHP Laravel Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median PHP Laravel Developer daily rate in Birmingham is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Laravel Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £250 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

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 654 687 713
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.47% 94.89% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 463 493
10th Percentile £227 £196 £254
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +7.54% -2.12%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £725 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 21
10th Percentile - £17.33 £14.54
25th Percentile £12.62 £23.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.69 £30.45 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% -1.90% +63.37%
75th Percentile £25.00 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £31.50 £56.45 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £23.71 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.44% +5.38% +26.98%

PHP Laravel Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'PHP Laravel Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

PHP Laravel Developer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

PHP Laravel Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PHP Laravel Developer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for PHP Laravel Developer job vacancies in Birmingham

PHP Laravel Developer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, PHP Laravel Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring PHP Laravel Developer in the job title.

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

PHP Laravel Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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