Laravel Contract Job Trends in England

Laravel PHP Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Laravel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 439 476
Rank change year-on-year -84 +37 +161
Contract jobs citing Laravel 21 68 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.068% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% 1.03% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 52 81
10th Percentile £254 £230 £263
25th Percentile £306 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.25% -7.25%
75th Percentile £416 £488 £525
90th Percentile £438 £550 £550
UK median daily rate £394 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.50% -11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Laravel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,902 6,610 8,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,224 6,131
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 95 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Laravel job vacancy trend in England

Laravel
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Laravel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Laravel

Laravel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Laravel in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Laravel in England

Laravel
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Laravel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Laravel

Laravel
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Laravel within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London -18 10 £400 -5.88% 12
North of England -40 6 £406 -7.14% 28
North West -14 5 £425 +13.33% 17
South West -17 1 £300 -14.41% 14
South East -24 1 £275 -40.54% 13
West Midlands -27 1 £400 +60.00% 10
Midlands -33 1 £400 +60.00% 18
Yorkshire -41 1 £388 -22.50% 11
Laravel
UK

Laravel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) GitHub
2 4 (19.05%) SaaS
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (4.76%) DigitalOcean
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) MySQL
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
3 1 (4.76%) Redis
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Postman
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) PHPUnit
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (90.48%) Developer
2 15 (71.43%) PHP Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior PHP Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Backend Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
6 2 (9.52%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
7 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 1 (4.76%) PHP Web Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Principal Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Principal PHP Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Backend Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (66.67%) Vue
2 7 (33.33%) CSS
2 7 (33.33%) HTML
2 7 (33.33%) Symfony
3 5 (23.81%) REST
3 5 (23.81%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (14.29%) JSON
5 2 (9.52%) HTML5
5 2 (9.52%) LAMP
5 2 (9.52%) Next.js
5 2 (9.52%) Nuxt
5 2 (9.52%) React
5 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 1 (4.76%) Ajax
6 1 (4.76%) Bootstrap
6 1 (4.76%) CSS3
6 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.76%) Node.js
6 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) e-Learning
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) API Development
5 4 (19.05%) API Integration
5 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 3 (14.29%) MVC
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (14.29%) TDD
7 2 (9.52%) ERP
7 2 (9.52%) Logistics
7 2 (9.52%) OOP
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (9.52%) Refactoring
7 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) PHP
2 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Google