PHP Contracts in England

PHP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 289 357
Rank change year-on-year -72 +68 -72
Contract jobs citing PHP 124 275 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.74% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 2.52% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 211 246
10th Percentile £300 £263 £303
25th Percentile £350 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -5.71%
75th Percentile £484 £500 £494
90th Percentile £575 £575 £598
UK median daily rate £423 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -0.59% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile - £22.50 £22.92
25th Percentile £33.25 £25.31 £34.06
Median hourly rate £34.50 £45.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -37.93% +107.14%
75th Percentile £35.75 £71.87 £85.63
90th Percentile - £72.06 £87.58
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £62.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -44.80% -21.88% +128.57%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 May 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 -43 56 £423 +1.93% 189
Midlands +20 17 £435 +24.29% 89
South East +16 17 £363 -23.68% 130
West Midlands +17 13 £435 +216.36% 41
North of England -14 12 £400 +12.28% 183
East of England +35 8 £450 -5.26% 35
Yorkshire +3 7 £400 +21.21% 54
South West +34 6 £355 +1.29% 51
East Midlands +5 4 £400 +14.29% 41
North West -10 4 - - 121
North East -1 1 - - 9
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 15 (12.10%) Apache
2 11 (8.87%) CMS
3 10 (8.06%) Drupal
3 10 (8.06%) WordPress
4 6 (4.84%) Tomcat
5 5 (4.03%) Confluence
5 5 (4.03%) Moodle
6 2 (1.61%) IIS
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Trello
2 2 (1.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Magento
1 3 (2.42%) Sage 200
2 2 (1.61%) Shopify
3 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (26.61%) AWS
2 16 (12.90%) Azure
3 11 (8.87%) SaaS
4 9 (7.26%) GitHub
5 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.84%) IaaS
6 6 (4.84%) PaaS
7 5 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.23%) Cloudflare
8 4 (3.23%) Serverless
9 3 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.42%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (2.42%) Figma
9 3 (2.42%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.42%) Heroku
9 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.42%) Slack
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) DNS
2 4 (3.23%) Firewall
2 4 (3.23%) Internet
2 4 (3.23%) SMTP
2 4 (3.23%) SSL
3 2 (1.61%) HTTP
3 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (30.65%) MySQL
2 15 (12.10%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.06%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.65%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.23%) Redis
7 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.61%) Parquet
9 1 (0.81%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.81%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 33 (26.61%) Git
2 9 (7.26%) PHPUnit
3 8 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.84%) JIRA
4 6 (4.84%) Selenium
5 5 (4.03%) GitLab
5 5 (4.03%) Postman
5 5 (4.03%) Subversion
6 4 (3.23%) Appium
6 4 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (3.23%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.23%) Gatling
6 4 (3.23%) JMeter
6 4 (3.23%) NeoLoad
6 4 (3.23%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.42%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.42%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.42%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.61%) Codeception
8 2 (1.61%) Grunt
General
1 33 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (8.06%) Finance
3 8 (6.45%) Advertising
4 6 (4.84%) Retail
5 5 (4.03%) Legal
6 4 (3.23%) Marketing
6 4 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.61%) Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Korean Language
7 2 (1.61%) Law
8 1 (0.81%) Automotive
8 1 (0.81%) Local Government
8 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (56.45%) Developer
2 26 (20.97%) PHP Developer
3 15 (12.10%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (12.10%) Senior
4 13 (10.48%) Support Engineer
5 8 (6.45%) Senior Developer
5 8 (6.45%) Software Developer
5 8 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 6 (4.84%) PHP Software Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) Architect
7 5 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (4.03%) Moodle Developer
7 5 (4.03%) Senior Tester
7 5 (4.03%) Tester
8 4 (3.23%) Developer in Test
8 4 (3.23%) PHP Symfony Developer
8 4 (3.23%) Software Test Engineer
8 4 (3.23%) Symfony Developer
8 4 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (29.84%) CSS
2 30 (24.19%) Laravel
3 29 (23.39%) HTML
3 29 (23.39%) React
4 19 (15.32%) .NET
5 13 (10.48%) Symfony
5 13 (10.48%) Vue
6 12 (9.68%) AngularJS
6 12 (9.68%) RESTful
7 11 (8.87%) LAMP
8 9 (7.26%) Web Services
9 8 (6.45%) Alpine.js
9 8 (6.45%) REST
9 8 (6.45%) Tailwind CSS
10 7 (5.65%) CSS3
10 7 (5.65%) HTML5
10 7 (5.65%) JSON
11 6 (4.84%) Kafka
11 6 (4.84%) Node.js
12 5 (4.03%) Behat
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.65%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (4.03%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (4.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 5 (4.03%) e-Learning
2 5 (4.03%) VLE
3 4 (3.23%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.10%) Linux
2 8 (6.45%) Unix
3 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.42%) Android
4 3 (2.42%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.61%) Windows
6 1 (0.81%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.06%) Agile
2 34 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (17.74%) Full-Stack Development
3 22 (17.74%) OO
4 21 (16.94%) CI/CD
4 21 (16.94%) DevOps
5 19 (15.32%) Design Patterns
6 18 (14.52%) API Development
7 17 (13.71%) Software Engineering
7 17 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (12.90%) Project Management
8 16 (12.90%) Scrum
9 15 (12.10%) MVC
10 14 (11.29%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.48%) E-Commerce
12 12 (9.68%) Computer Science
12 12 (9.68%) Microservices
13 11 (8.87%) Mentoring
13 11 (8.87%) OWASP
13 11 (8.87%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 61 (49.19%) JavaScript
2 35 (28.23%) Python
3 31 (25.00%) SQL
4 20 (16.13%) Java
5 16 (12.90%) C#
6 14 (11.29%) Ruby
7 13 (10.48%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.84%) Perl
9 5 (4.03%) C++
10 4 (3.23%) Scala
11 3 (2.42%) Go
11 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.61%) Bash
12 2 (1.61%) Lua
13 1 (0.81%) Dart
13 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (12.10%) Degree
2 13 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.65%) CEH
5 6 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.03%) CCSAS
6 5 (4.03%) CREST Certified
6 5 (4.03%) GIAC
6 5 (4.03%) GPEN
6 5 (4.03%) GWAPT
6 5 (4.03%) OSCP
7 3 (2.42%) CISSP
8 2 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.81%) CISA
9 1 (0.81%) CISM
9 1 (0.81%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.26%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.45%) QA
3 3 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.61%) GDPR
4 2 (1.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (12.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (12.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (8.06%) Zend
2 9 (7.26%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.65%) Oracle
4 4 (3.23%) F5
4 4 (3.23%) SAP
5 3 (2.42%) Google
5 3 (2.42%) Sage
6 2 (1.61%) Adobe
6 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.61%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.81%) GoCardless
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media