Senior PHP Developer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior PHP Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior PHP Developer daily rate in the City of London is £335, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior PHP Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.057% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £328 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
75th Percentile £343 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £335 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,638 1,978 2,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 93.70% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,227 1,916
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 13
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.25 £16.69
25th Percentile £22.88 £22.84 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £48.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% +33.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £50.25 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £70.21 £137.50 £65.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -19.57% -1.41% -6.58%

Senior PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Senior PHP Developer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior PHP Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior PHP Developer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior PHP Developer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, Senior PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior PHP Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting

Senior PHP Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Symfony
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker