PHP Contracts in Central London

PHP
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 120 156
Rank change year-on-year -14 +36 +2
Contract jobs citing PHP 3 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.55% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 1.52% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 13
10th Percentile £319 £418 £366
25th Percentile £335 £453 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £531 £551 £588
90th Percentile £618 £558 £599
London median daily rate £388 £410 £475
% change year-on-year -5.49% -13.68% -

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 787 856 1,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.41% 36.00% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 611 962
10th Percentile £400 £406 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +6.29%
75th Percentile £690 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
London median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £22.05 £41.35 £23.95
25th Percentile £27.41 £42.25 £41.50
Median hourly rate £51.44 £45.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% -32.08% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £49.45 £84.63
London median hourly rate £43.50 £48.00 £61.61
% change year-on-year -9.38% -22.08% +18.47%

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 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 2025. 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 -2 3 £375 -25.00% 16
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 (33.33%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (33.33%) Symfony
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Design
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform