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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 146 151
Rank change year-on-year +37 +5 -27
Contract jobs citing PHP 15 28 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.69% 0.77% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.01% 1.80% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 42
10th Percentile £400 £366 £450
25th Percentile £425 £394 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £458 £481
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -4.94% +4.62%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £569
90th Percentile £551 £575 £669
Central London median daily rate £450 £458 £481
% change year-on-year -1.64% -4.94% +5.77%

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 745 1,559 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.32% 43.00% 44.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 1,021 1,472
10th Percentile £400 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £689 £738 £712
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £617 £600
% change year-on-year -8.86% +2.86% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

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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 May 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 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (20.00%) PHPUnit
1 3 (20.00%) Postman
2 2 (13.33%) Appium
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
2 3 (20.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Back Office
4 1 (6.67%) Music Industry
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Symfony Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Laravel
2 5 (33.33%) HTML
3 4 (26.67%) CSS
3 4 (26.67%) Symfony
4 3 (20.00%) Yii
5 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (13.33%) Behat
5 2 (13.33%) Kafka
5 2 (13.33%) React Native
5 2 (13.33%) REST
5 2 (13.33%) Sass
5 2 (13.33%) Vue
6 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (6.67%) HTML5
6 1 (6.67%) jQuery
6 1 (6.67%) Nuxt
6 1 (6.67%) React
6 1 (6.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) CentOS
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (33.33%) OOP
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (26.67%) Full Stack Development
3 4 (26.67%) OO
3 4 (26.67%) Wealth Management
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Workflow
5 2 (13.33%) API Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Fintech
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Web Development
6 1 (6.67%) Application Security
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat