PHP Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

PHP
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 64 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +36
Contract jobs citing PHP 6 1 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% 0.13% 2.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.78% 0.47% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 19
10th Percentile £465 - £400
25th Percentile £508 £406 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.06% -17.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £419 £530
90th Percentile £566 - -
England median daily rate £413 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +3.13% -11.11% -

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 216 211 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.07% 26.38% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 148 169
10th Percentile £270 £310 £313
25th Percentile £358 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £445 £473
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -5.82% -0.53%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £538
90th Percentile £556 £588 £650
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £14.31 - £51.25
25th Percentile £15.01 £21.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £16.42 £22.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.02% -57.55% +57.04%
75th Percentile £18.09 £23.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £18.93 - £70.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the East Midlands

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PHP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PHP

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the East Midlands

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PHP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PHP

PHP
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire -2 4 £520 +26.06% 7
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) ChatGPT
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Database Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle