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 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 565 523
Rank change year-on-year +106 -42 -125
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 77 95 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.20% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 82 239
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £313 £330 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £444 £475 £475
90th Percentile £500 £498 £525
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +19.30%
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 34,509 48,061 68,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.57% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,973 34,073 48,458
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,449 1,922
10th Percentile £12.91 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +91 33 £400 -11.11% 27
North of England +36 19 £330 -12.58% 48
Midlands +41 9 £350 -9.68% 21
Yorkshire +34 9 £328 -31.05% 20
North West +9 9 £350 -6.67% 26
South West +24 8 £350 -3.45% 10
East Midlands +18 7 £350 -17.65% 9
South East - 5 £400 - 15
West Midlands +30 2 £375 -3.23% 12
North East +16 1 £375 -1.32% 2
East of England +9 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 24 April 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 77 (100.00%) PHP
2 43 (55.84%) Laravel
3 28 (36.36%) AWS
4 21 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 21 (27.27%) MySQL
5 19 (24.68%) Vue
6 18 (23.38%) Full Stack Development
7 17 (22.08%) SQL
8 16 (20.78%) HTML
9 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (18.18%) Symfony
11 13 (16.88%) CSS
12 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
13 11 (14.29%) React
13 11 (14.29%) Azure
14 9 (11.69%) RESTful
14 9 (11.69%) OOP
15 8 (10.39%) MVC
15 8 (10.39%) Yii
15 8 (10.39%) Docker
16 7 (9.09%) Unit Testing
16 7 (9.09%) TDD
17 6 (7.79%) CMS
17 6 (7.79%) Linux
17 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
17 6 (7.79%) Agile
17 6 (7.79%) REST
18 5 (6.49%) UX Design
18 5 (6.49%) E-Commerce
18 5 (6.49%) OO

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 (7.79%) CMS
2 4 (5.19%) WordPress
3 3 (3.90%) Apache
3 3 (3.90%) Jadu
4 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.30%) Drupal
5 1 (1.30%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.36%) AWS
2 11 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (3.90%) GCP
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.60%) GitHub
4 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (1.30%) Firebase
5 1 (1.30%) Heroku
5 1 (1.30%) SaaS
5 1 (1.30%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.27%) MySQL
2 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.60%) Power BI
6 1 (1.30%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Git
2 2 (2.60%) PHPUnit
2 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.30%) Postman
3 1 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.49%) Finance
3 4 (5.19%) Retail
4 3 (3.90%) Banking
4 3 (3.90%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.90%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.60%) Advertising
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Automotive
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (55.84%) Laravel
2 19 (24.68%) Vue
3 16 (20.78%) HTML
4 14 (18.18%) Symfony
5 13 (16.88%) CSS
6 11 (14.29%) React
7 9 (11.69%) RESTful
8 8 (10.39%) Yii
9 6 (7.79%) REST
10 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
11 4 (5.19%) Ajax
11 4 (5.19%) jQuery
11 4 (5.19%) LAMP
11 4 (5.19%) Node.js
12 3 (3.90%) CSS3
12 3 (3.90%) Twig
13 2 (2.60%) Sass
13 2 (2.60%) SOAP
13 2 (2.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 2 (2.60%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.60%) Blockchain
1 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (2.60%) IoT
1 2 (2.60%) Web3
2 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.30%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Android
2 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.30%) Unix
2 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.38%) Full Stack Development
2 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (11.69%) OOP
4 8 (10.39%) MVC
5 7 (9.09%) TDD
5 7 (9.09%) Unit Testing
6 6 (7.79%) Agile
7 5 (6.49%) E-Commerce
7 5 (6.49%) OO
7 5 (6.49%) User Experience
7 5 (6.49%) UX Design
7 5 (6.49%) Workflow
8 4 (5.19%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (5.19%) Fintech
8 4 (5.19%) Project Management
8 4 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (5.19%) Test Automation
9 3 (3.90%) Migration
9 3 (3.90%) Wealth Management
9 3 (3.90%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (100.00%) PHP
2 21 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 17 (22.08%) SQL
4 3 (3.90%) C#
5 2 (2.60%) Go
5 2 (2.60%) Java
5 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.60%) Python
6 1 (1.30%) R
6 1 (1.30%) RPG
6 1 (1.30%) Ruby
6 1 (1.30%) Rust
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.90%) Degree
2 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle
2 2 (2.60%) Zend
3 1 (1.30%) IBM
3 1 (1.30%) Splunk