PHP Developer Contracts in England

PHP Developer
UK > England

The median PHP Developer daily rate in England is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 554 515
Rank change year-on-year +83 -39 -104
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 70 91 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.19% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.20% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 79 230
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £313 £331 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £426
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -6.16% +13.67%
75th Percentile £438 £476 £488
90th Percentile £494 £538 £526
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £37.63
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,898 46,550 67,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,460 33,060 48,164
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,372 1,874
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in England

PHP Developer
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 PHP Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 +81 33 £400 -11.11% 31
North of England +14 14 £330 -12.00% 50
North West +12 8 £338 -10.00% 31
Midlands +34 7 £350 -20.00% 25
South East +23 7 £375 -31.82% 19
South West +21 6 £350 -3.45% 19
East Midlands +26 5 £350 -30.00% 9
Yorkshire - 5 £328 - 16
West Midlands +22 2 £375 -6.25% 16
North East +12 1 £375 - 3
East of England +2 1 £200 -42.86% 13
PHP Developer
UK

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) PHP
2 37 (52.86%) Laravel
3 23 (32.86%) AWS
4 19 (27.14%) JavaScript
4 19 (27.14%) Vue
5 17 (24.29%) Full Stack Development
6 16 (22.86%) SQL
6 16 (22.86%) MySQL
7 14 (20.00%) Symfony
8 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.14%) HTML
9 11 (15.71%) CSS
9 11 (15.71%) React
9 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
10 9 (12.86%) RESTful
10 9 (12.86%) Azure
11 8 (11.43%) OOP
12 6 (8.57%) OO
12 6 (8.57%) Linux
12 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
12 6 (8.57%) Workflow
12 6 (8.57%) MVC
12 6 (8.57%) CMS
12 6 (8.57%) Agile
12 6 (8.57%) TDD
12 6 (8.57%) Yii
12 6 (8.57%) Docker
13 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
13 5 (7.14%) User Experience
13 5 (7.14%) UX Design

PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (8.57%) CMS
2 4 (5.71%) Jadu
3 3 (4.29%) Apache
3 3 (4.29%) WordPress
4 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.43%) Drupal
5 1 (1.43%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.86%) AWS
2 9 (12.86%) Azure
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.86%) GitHub
4 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (1.43%) GCP
5 1 (1.43%) Heroku
5 1 (1.43%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.86%) MySQL
2 6 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) Power BI
5 1 (1.43%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Git
1 3 (4.29%) PHPUnit
2 2 (2.86%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.43%) GitLab
3 1 (1.43%) Postman
General
1 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.14%) Finance
2 5 (7.14%) Retail
3 4 (5.71%) Banking
3 4 (5.71%) Corporate Banking
3 4 (5.71%) Investment Banking
3 4 (5.71%) Retail Banking
4 2 (2.86%) Advertising
4 2 (2.86%) Local Government
5 1 (1.43%) Automotive
5 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (52.86%) Laravel
2 19 (27.14%) Vue
3 14 (20.00%) Symfony
4 12 (17.14%) HTML
5 11 (15.71%) CSS
5 11 (15.71%) React
6 9 (12.86%) RESTful
7 6 (8.57%) Yii
8 5 (7.14%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.71%) Ajax
9 4 (5.71%) jQuery
9 4 (5.71%) LAMP
10 3 (4.29%) REST
10 3 (4.29%) Twig
11 2 (2.86%) .NET
11 2 (2.86%) .NET Framework
11 2 (2.86%) Sass
11 2 (2.86%) SOAP
12 1 (1.43%) CodeIgniter
12 1 (1.43%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.43%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Android
2 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.43%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.29%) Full Stack Development
2 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (11.43%) OOP
4 6 (8.57%) Agile
4 6 (8.57%) MVC
4 6 (8.57%) OO
4 6 (8.57%) TDD
4 6 (8.57%) Workflow
5 5 (7.14%) Test Automation
5 5 (7.14%) User Experience
5 5 (7.14%) UX Design
6 4 (5.71%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (5.71%) Design Patterns
6 4 (5.71%) E-Commerce
6 4 (5.71%) Fintech
6 4 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (5.71%) Unit Testing
6 4 (5.71%) Wealth Management
7 3 (4.29%) Project Management
7 3 (4.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 70 (100.00%) PHP
2 19 (27.14%) JavaScript
3 16 (22.86%) SQL
4 3 (4.29%) C#
5 2 (2.86%) Go
5 2 (2.86%) Java
5 2 (2.86%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.86%) Python
6 1 (1.43%) R
6 1 (1.43%) RPG
6 1 (1.43%) Ruby
6 1 (1.43%) Rust
6 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.29%) Degree
2 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (1.43%) IBM
3 1 (1.43%) Splunk
3 1 (1.43%) Zend