PHP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

PHP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 +9
Contract jobs citing PHP 4 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 1.48% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile £339 £413 £326
25th Percentile £387 £438 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £413
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +27.27% -13.16%
75th Percentile £587 £551 £538
90th Percentile £640 £563 £585
Central London median daily rate £483 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -3.50% -9.09% +15.79%

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 647 745 1,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.91% 35.39% 37.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 500 752
10th Percentile £386 £406 £407
25th Percentile £456 £484 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £608
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -3.41% +1.38%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £727
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £36.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +208.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +232.00% -76.19%

PHP
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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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PHP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PHP

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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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PHP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PHP

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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 (25.00%) Moodle
General
1 2 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Bazel
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) 3D Graphics
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On