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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 115 118
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +30
Contract jobs citing PHP 5 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.23% 0.12% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% 0.29% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £467 £368 £380
25th Percentile £530 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% -11.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £583 £425 £500
90th Percentile £616 £433 £525
Central London median daily rate £565 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +41.25% -11.11% -3.23%

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 636 698 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.53% 40.32% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 461 540
10th Percentile £351 £413 £412
25th Percentile £436 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £700
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £27.86 - £46.30
25th Percentile £29.90 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £38.53 - £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.52%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £49.88
90th Percentile £56.06 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £38.53 £29.07 £48.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -39.44% -16.52%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PHP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

PHP job vacancy trend 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 2 April 2026.

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 & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQLPlus
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Toad
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Database Developer
3 1 (20.00%) IAM Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Magento Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) jQuery
1 1 (20.00%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (20.00%) LAMP
1 1 (20.00%) Laravel
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Symfony
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Varnish
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe