PHP Contracts in the East of England

PHP
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring PHP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PHP over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 109 112
Rank change year-on-year +41 +3 +11
Contract jobs citing PHP 17 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.49% 0.10% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 0.48% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile £298 £244 £313
25th Percentile £378 £309 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £350
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +25.00% -17.65%
75th Percentile - £584 £386
90th Percentile - £661 £545
England median daily rate £400 £400 £450
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £34.04 £37.00
% change year-on-year +1.37% -8.01% +5.71%

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 372 417 588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.55% 21.89% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 171 362
10th Percentile £306 £325 £313
25th Percentile £406 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £575
90th Percentile £635 £625 £700
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 148 103
10th Percentile £31.64 £52.50 £48.25
25th Percentile £54.25 £59.69 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £69.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.42%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for PHP in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in the East of England

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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 July 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 - 8 £400 - 17
Norfolk +2 6 £450 +125.00% 17
Essex - 2 £325 - 14
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 5
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 9 (52.94%) WebLogic
1 9 (52.94%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MongoDB
1 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
General
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Consultant
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) HTML
2 9 (52.94%) Middleware
2 9 (52.94%) Node.js
3 6 (35.29%) Laravel
4 5 (29.41%) Alpine.js
4 5 (29.41%) CSS
4 5 (29.41%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (5.88%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Design Patterns
3 5 (29.41%) Microservices
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.88%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (5.88%) Data Interpretation
5 1 (5.88%) Data Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.88%) ITSM
5 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (5.88%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C
1 9 (52.94%) C++
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Dynatrace