PHP Contracts in the City of London

PHP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 112 153
Rank change year-on-year -9 +41 0
Contract jobs citing PHP 3 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 1.66% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 12
10th Percentile £319 £374 £361
25th Percentile £335 £419 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +3.63% +1.58%
75th Percentile £531 £551 £547
90th Percentile £618 £558 £586
Central London median daily rate £375 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 722 783 1,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.85% 36.66% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 546 910
10th Percentile £404 £406 £420
25th Percentile £465 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £699 £689 £738
90th Percentile £775 £806 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £19.28 - £23.95
25th Percentile £23.44 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £81.25 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.26 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year -17.00% -26.79% +26.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PHP in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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