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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 114 137
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +9
Contract jobs citing PHP 6 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.33% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.97% 0.94% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 10
10th Percentile £314 £408 £325
25th Percentile £323 £419 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £475 £419
Median % change year-on-year -25.26% +13.43% -11.84%
75th Percentile £459 £531 £548
90th Percentile £589 £543 £576
Central London median daily rate £355 £475 £563
% change year-on-year -25.26% -15.63% +18.53%

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 621 743 1,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.08% 35.06% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 487 708
10th Percentile £387 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £606
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.51% +1.04%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £725
90th Percentile £780 £825 £831
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £22.05 £51.80 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.00 £74.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £112.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.64% +273.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £39.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - £45.15
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +38.33% -42.86%

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

PHP
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

PHP
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 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the City of London

PHP
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

PHP
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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Moodle
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (16.67%) Datadog
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Sumo Logic
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) CouchDB
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior PHP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Ajax
2 1 (16.67%) Bazel
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) DOM
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) LAMP
2 1 (16.67%) Laravel
2 1 (16.67%) Memcached
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (16.67%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) 3D Graphics
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) e-Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) BCP
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) OOD
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Ruby
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian