PHP Contracts in England

PHP
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 363 281
Rank change year-on-year +77 -82 -76
Contract jobs citing PHP 275 331 694
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.74% 0.65% 0.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.54% 1.85% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 247 535
10th Percentile £263 £304 £313
25th Percentile £313 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -5.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £500 £491 £538
90th Percentile £575 £595 £625
UK median daily rate £420 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -1.24% -5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 16
10th Percentile £22.50 £22.92 £30.63
25th Percentile £25.31 £34.06 £34.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +107.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71.87 £85.63 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.06 £87.58 £46.88
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% +128.57% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
England

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in England

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in England

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in England

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in England

PHP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PHP in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PHP in England

PHP
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 +71 136 £415 -7.89% 100
South East +37 47 £475 +18.75% 54
North of England +28 46 £350 -12.50% 114
North West +12 31 £394 +5.00% 62
Midlands +26 20 £350 -22.22% 46
South West +17 18 £350 -12.50% 48
Yorkshire +20 13 £330 -17.50% 43
West Midlands +28 10 £138 -70.27% 27
East Midlands +23 10 £350 - 19
East of England +6 3 £475 +31.94% 31
North East +19 2 £375 -1.32% 10
PHP
UK

PHP
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 22 (8.00%) nginx
1 22 (8.00%) WordPress
2 15 (5.45%) Drupal
3 11 (4.00%) Apache
4 8 (2.91%) CMS
5 6 (2.18%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.45%) Jadu
7 3 (1.09%) Moodle
7 3 (1.09%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.36%) Confluence
9 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (2.91%) Magento
2 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.09%) AWS
2 33 (12.00%) Azure
3 17 (6.18%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 15 (5.45%) GitHub
5 9 (3.27%) GCP
6 7 (2.55%) Amazon MSK
6 7 (2.55%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.55%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.55%) SaaS
7 5 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.82%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (1.82%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 4 (1.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.45%) Firebase
8 4 (1.45%) Serverless
8 4 (1.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.00%) DNS
2 8 (2.91%) HTTP
3 6 (2.18%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.18%) VPN
4 5 (1.82%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (1.45%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.45%) IPsec
5 4 (1.45%) MQTT
6 3 (1.09%) SMTP
7 2 (0.73%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (29.45%) MySQL
2 13 (4.73%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.27%) MariaDB
3 9 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.91%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.55%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.18%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.45%) KNIME
8 3 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.09%) Power BI
8 3 (1.09%) Redis
9 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.73%) Parquet
9 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (9.45%) Git
2 9 (3.27%) Cypress.io
3 5 (1.82%) Postman
4 4 (1.45%) Snyk
4 4 (1.45%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.09%) GitLab
5 3 (1.09%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.73%) Appium
6 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.36%) Gatling
7 1 (0.36%) JIRA
7 1 (0.36%) Storybook
General
1 40 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.36%) Finance
3 17 (6.18%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.27%) Retail
6 8 (2.91%) Banking
7 7 (2.55%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.82%) Advertising
8 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.45%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) German Language
10 3 (1.09%) Marketing
10 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.73%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Automotive
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 176 (64.00%) Developer
2 76 (27.64%) PHP Developer
3 43 (15.64%) Full Stack Developer
4 17 (6.18%) Software Engineer
5 16 (5.82%) WordPress Developer
6 15 (5.45%) PHP Laravel Developer
7 14 (5.09%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 14 (5.09%) Senior
8 12 (4.36%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.00%) Lead
10 10 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.64%) Drupal Developer
11 7 (2.55%) Symfony Developer
12 6 (2.18%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.18%) JavaScript Developer
12 6 (2.18%) Senior Developer
13 5 (1.82%) Designer
13 5 (1.82%) Lead Designer
13 5 (1.82%) Network Engineer
14 4 (1.45%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (33.45%) Laravel
2 89 (32.36%) HTML
3 73 (26.55%) CSS
4 37 (13.45%) Vue
5 30 (10.91%) React
6 29 (10.55%) Symfony
7 26 (9.45%) Sass
8 22 (8.00%) Node.js
9 20 (7.27%) AngularJS
10 16 (5.82%) .NET
11 15 (5.45%) Kafka
12 14 (5.09%) REST
12 14 (5.09%) RESTful
13 13 (4.73%) WebSockets
14 10 (3.64%) jQuery
15 9 (3.27%) LAMP
16 8 (2.91%) HTML5
16 8 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
17 7 (2.55%) GraphQL
17 7 (2.55%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (2.18%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.82%) Blockchain
3 5 (1.82%) IoT
3 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.45%) NHS
4 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.09%) Web3
6 2 (0.73%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.36%) PKI
7 1 (0.36%) PropTech
7 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.91%) Linux
2 23 (8.36%) Unix
3 8 (2.91%) CentOS
4 5 (1.82%) Windows
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.09%) Android
6 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (22.18%) Full Stack Development
2 40 (14.55%) TDD
3 39 (14.18%) Agile
3 39 (14.18%) Test Automation
4 34 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (10.55%) Web Development
6 27 (9.82%) DevOps
7 26 (9.45%) Microservices
8 25 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 22 (8.00%) Migration
10 18 (6.55%) CI/CD
10 18 (6.55%) E-Commerce
11 15 (5.45%) Security Testing
12 14 (5.09%) OOP
13 13 (4.73%) User Experience
14 12 (4.36%) Unit Testing
15 10 (3.64%) Continuous Integration
15 10 (3.64%) MVC
15 10 (3.64%) SDLC
16 9 (3.27%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 104 (37.82%) JavaScript
2 47 (17.09%) Java
3 35 (12.73%) SQL
4 21 (7.64%) Python
5 19 (6.91%) C#
6 11 (4.00%) Go
7 10 (3.64%) Ruby
7 10 (3.64%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.18%) Bash
9 5 (1.82%) Perl
10 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.45%) Rust
10 4 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.09%) R
12 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.73%) Lua
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) RPG
13 1 (0.36%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 36 (13.09%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.00%) Degree
4 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.09%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.73%) QA
2 12 (4.36%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.82%) GDPR
4 4 (1.45%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (6.55%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (6.18%) Kubernetes
1 17 (6.18%) Terraform
2 5 (1.82%) Ansible
3 4 (1.45%) Grafana
3 4 (1.45%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.45%) Puppet
4 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.36%) Argo
5 1 (0.36%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.36%) Istio
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
5 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (6.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.64%) Google
3 8 (2.91%) Oracle
4 4 (1.45%) Alteryx
4 4 (1.45%) Apple
4 4 (1.45%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (1.45%) Blue Prism
4 4 (1.45%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.45%) UiPath
5 3 (1.09%) F5
5 3 (1.09%) Splunk
6 2 (0.73%) VMware
6 2 (0.73%) Zend
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe
7 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.36%) IBM
7 1 (0.36%) WooCommerce