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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 74 106
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 +25
Contract jobs citing PHP 17 13 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.08% 1.04% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.33% 4.22% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 2
10th Percentile £406 - £478
25th Percentile £416 £213 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £360 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.53% -34.55% +120.00%
75th Percentile £466 £381 £600
90th Percentile £479 - £623
England median daily rate £400 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
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 £44.90 £52.50 £26.78
% change year-on-year -14.49% +96.04% -58.80%

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 393 308 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.06% 24.74% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 142 260
10th Percentile £322 £298 £300
25th Percentile £413 £340 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £477
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.28% -9.14%
75th Percentile £613 £542 £575
90th Percentile £681 £600 £675
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 54 109
10th Percentile £41.25 £48.63 £53.75
25th Percentile £59.69 £61.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.81 £84.36
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.36
% change year-on-year - +4.24% -1.02%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PHP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

PHP job vacancy trend 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 5 December 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 -1 13 £400 +11.11% 1
Bedfordshire - 3 - - 2
Hertfordshire - 1 £475 - 1
PHP
England

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 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