PHP Contracts in Central London

PHP
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 145 149
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing PHP 14 29 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.58% 0.78% 1.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.63% 1.92% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 40
10th Percentile £391 £377 £443
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £541
90th Percentile £553 £597 £602
London median daily rate £400 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -13.51% -2.63% +5.56%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 858 1,514 1,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.82% 40.82% 42.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 1,001 1,490
10th Percentile £406 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £21.35 £39.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +101.89%
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 £66.75
90th Percentile - £84.50 £77.00
London median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.24
% change year-on-year -15.83% +21.85% +3.67%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Central London

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in Central London

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Central London

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
City of London +32 14 £475 - 14
PHP
London

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (7.14%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) PHPUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Retail
2 4 (28.57%) Retail Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
6 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
6 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Laravel
2 5 (35.71%) Symfony
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
3 4 (28.57%) Yii
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
4 3 (21.43%) Vue
5 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 2 (14.29%) Kafka
5 2 (14.29%) React
6 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (7.14%) HTML5
6 1 (7.14%) jQuery
6 1 (7.14%) Nuxt
6 1 (7.14%) Sass
6 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (42.86%) OOP
3 5 (35.71%) OO
3 5 (35.71%) Wealth Management
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 4 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
6 1 (7.14%) B2B
6 1 (7.14%) B2C
6 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat