PHP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

PHP
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring PHP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 82 108
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 +18
Contract jobs citing PHP 17 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.32% 0.93% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.36% 4.13% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 2
10th Percentile £406 - £354
25th Percentile £416 £213 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £360 £488
Median % change year-on-year +21.53% -26.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £466 £381 £572
90th Percentile £479 £381 £611
England median daily rate £421 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +5.31% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £42.79 £17.50
% change year-on-year -19.36% +144.49% -45.31%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 390 339 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.30% 22.45% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 154 311
10th Percentile £313 £287 £350
25th Percentile £450 £341 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.94% -16.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £660 £588 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 108
10th Percentile £31.64 £51.25 £51.25
25th Percentile £52.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.80% +21.05%
75th Percentile £73.75 £67.50 £84.36
90th Percentile £84.25 £80.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +1.56% +12.28%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in the East of England

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

PHP
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Cambridgeshire +7 13 £400 +11.11% 6
Bedfordshire - 3 - - 3
Hertfordshire - 1 £475 - 3
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 15 (88.24%) WebLogic
1 15 (88.24%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) Redis
General
1 1 (5.88%) Marketing
1 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Consultant
2 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
2 1 (5.88%) Developer
2 1 (5.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) HTML
2 15 (88.24%) .NET
2 15 (88.24%) Middleware
2 15 (88.24%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
2 3 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (17.65%) ITSM
2 3 (17.65%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
3 1 (5.88%) CRM
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.88%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (5.88%) Web Design
3 1 (5.88%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) Java
2 15 (88.24%) C
2 15 (88.24%) C++
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) mParticle
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud