PHP Contracts in Bristol

PHP
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 64 87
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 -7
Contract jobs citing PHP 4 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.74% 0.95% 1.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.29% 3.91% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile £352 £224 £315
25th Percentile £353 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -12.50% -12.33%
75th Percentile £397 £375 £475
90th Percentile £472 £405 £780
South West median daily rate £355 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +1.29% -12.50% -11.11%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

PHP falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 175 256 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 32.59% 24.22% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 140 271
10th Percentile £336 £300 £358
25th Percentile £363 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £524 £541 £588
90th Percentile £621 £639 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 75 64
10th Percentile £61.25 £52.50 £54.13
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £60.91
Median hourly rate £66.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) CSS3
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) HTML5
1 3 (75.00%) Laravel
1 3 (75.00%) Yii
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) OO PHP
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft