PHP Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

PHP
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing PHP 8 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.26% 0.58% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.69% 2.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £364 - -
90th Percentile £368 - -
North West median daily rate £358 £388 £375
% change year-on-year -7.61% +3.33% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 217 105 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.17% 20.31% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 78 63
10th Percentile £312 £347 £388
25th Percentile £358 £367 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% -10.20% +4.21%
75th Percentile £470 £528 £588
90th Percentile £522 £607 £614
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £37.15 - £24.17
25th Percentile £47.88 - £26.81
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £31.21
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.45%
75th Percentile £67.25 - £35.60
90th Percentile - - £38.24
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +42.86% +6.11% +3.36%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Cheshire

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PHP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PHP

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PHP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PHP

PHP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Knutsford - 8 £358 - 2
PHP
North West

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (100.00%) IaaS
1 8 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 8 (100.00%) PaaS
1 8 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 8 (100.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) ETL
1 8 (100.00%) Observability
2 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Grafana
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle