PHP Contracts in the City of London

PHP
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 137 150
Rank change year-on-year +28 +13 -18
Contract jobs citing PHP 14 27 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 0.78% 1.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 1.88% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 40
10th Percentile £391 £370 £443
25th Percentile £425 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £544 £556 £541
90th Percentile £553 £583 £602
Central London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Programming Languages
City of London

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 776 1,438 1,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.71% 41.69% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 934 1,419
10th Percentile £400 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £813
Central London median daily rate £559 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.64% +4.17% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £21.35 £39.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +94.55%
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 £66.75
90th Percentile - £84.50 £77.00
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +101.89%

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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 6 June 2024.

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 (7.14%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) PHPUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Retail
2 4 (28.57%) Retail Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
6 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
6 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Laravel
2 5 (35.71%) Symfony
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
3 4 (28.57%) Yii
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
4 3 (21.43%) Vue
5 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 2 (14.29%) Kafka
5 2 (14.29%) React
6 1 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (7.14%) HTML5
6 1 (7.14%) jQuery
6 1 (7.14%) Nuxt
6 1 (7.14%) Sass
6 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (42.86%) OOP
3 5 (35.71%) OO
3 5 (35.71%) Wealth Management
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 4 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
6 1 (7.14%) Release Management
6 1 (7.14%) Security Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) TDD
6 1 (7.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat