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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 304 349
Rank change year-on-year -59 +45 -43
Contract jobs citing PHP 132 265 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.71% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.53% 2.32% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 198 248
10th Percentile £307 £300 £313
25th Percentile £350 £321 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £501 £497 £563
90th Percentile £600 £551 £658
UK median daily rate £411 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +2.81% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 5
10th Percentile - £22.50 £19.40
25th Percentile £33.25 £25.31 £25.25
Median hourly rate £34.50 £34.04 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% -8.01% +5.71%
75th Percentile £35.75 £71.87 £85.00
90th Percentile - £72.06 -
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £52.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -10.26% +67.14%

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 8,648 11,405 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.72% 30.72% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,975 8,150 11,755
10th Percentile £354 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £555
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 484 407
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.60 £28.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £50.47 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £82.37 £75.88 £80.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

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 July 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 July 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 -34 61 £375 -6.25% 639
Midlands +12 16 £435 +28.89% 126
South East +24 15 £575 +21.05% 351
North of England -13 15 £358 -7.61% 347
East of England +34 13 £450 +2.86% 130
West Midlands +6 11 £435 +216.36% 69
North West -14 9 £354 -14.18% 230
East Midlands +3 5 £400 +14.29% 57
Yorkshire +1 5 £358 +11.88% 106
South West +27 3 £515 +47.14% 140
North East +2 1 - - 14
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 17 (12.88%) Apache
2 9 (6.82%) CMS
2 9 (6.82%) WordPress
3 8 (6.06%) Drupal
4 6 (4.55%) Confluence
4 6 (4.55%) Moodle
5 5 (3.79%) WebLogic
5 5 (3.79%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.52%) IIS
6 2 (1.52%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Magento
2 3 (2.27%) Sage 200
3 2 (1.52%) Shopify
4 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.48%) AWS
2 13 (9.85%) Azure
3 12 (9.09%) SaaS
4 8 (6.06%) OpenShift
5 6 (4.55%) GitHub
5 6 (4.55%) IaaS
5 6 (4.55%) PaaS
6 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon Lightsail
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (1.52%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.52%) DigitalOcean
7 2 (1.52%) Figma
7 2 (1.52%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.52%) Serverless
7 2 (1.52%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) Firewall
2 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.03%) HTTP
3 4 (3.03%) Internet
4 2 (1.52%) DNS
5 1 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (25.00%) MySQL
2 11 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.52%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
6 1 (0.76%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 29 (21.97%) Git
2 9 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.06%) JIRA
4 7 (5.30%) PHPUnit
5 6 (4.55%) GitLab
6 5 (3.79%) Postman
6 5 (3.79%) Subversion
7 4 (3.03%) Appium
7 4 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (3.03%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.03%) Gatling
7 4 (3.03%) JMeter
7 4 (3.03%) MSI
7 4 (3.03%) NeoLoad
7 4 (3.03%) Robot Framework
7 4 (3.03%) Selenium
7 4 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.03%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.27%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.52%) Grunt
General
1 43 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.12%) Finance
3 8 (6.06%) Marketing
4 7 (5.30%) Advertising
5 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.03%) Retail
7 3 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Automotive
8 2 (1.52%) Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Electronics
8 2 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Korean Language
8 2 (1.52%) Law
8 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Games
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (43.94%) Developer
2 17 (12.88%) PHP Developer
3 12 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 10 (7.58%) Senior
4 10 (7.58%) Software Engineer
5 9 (6.82%) Lead
6 8 (6.06%) Architect
6 8 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.30%) Software Developer
8 6 (4.55%) PHP Software Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Consultant
9 5 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Java Developer
9 5 (3.79%) JavaScript Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Moodle Developer
10 4 (3.03%) Applications Architect
10 4 (3.03%) Security Architect
10 4 (3.03%) Software Test Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.45%) .NET
1 27 (20.45%) CSS
2 26 (19.70%) HTML
2 26 (19.70%) React
3 24 (18.18%) Laravel
4 23 (17.42%) Node.js
5 14 (10.61%) AngularJS
5 14 (10.61%) REST
6 13 (9.85%) Symfony
7 12 (9.09%) Vue
7 12 (9.09%) Web Services
8 11 (8.33%) LAMP
9 9 (6.82%) RESTful
10 7 (5.30%) Alpine.js
10 7 (5.30%) GraphQL
10 7 (5.30%) Tailwind CSS
11 6 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
12 5 (3.79%) CSS3
12 5 (3.79%) HTML5
12 5 (3.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.30%) e-Learning
2 6 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.79%) VLE
4 4 (3.03%) Legacy Code
4 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.03%) PKI
4 4 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.27%) Blog
5 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.45%) Linux
2 13 (9.85%) Windows
3 11 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (6.06%) CentOS
5 7 (5.30%) Unix
6 4 (3.03%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.52%) Android
7 2 (1.52%) Debian
7 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (32.58%) Agile
2 29 (21.97%) DevOps
2 29 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (17.42%) CI/CD
4 20 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 17 (12.88%) Project Management
8 15 (11.36%) API Development
9 14 (10.61%) Design Patterns
10 13 (9.85%) Computer Science
11 12 (9.09%) Web Development
12 11 (8.33%) OO
12 11 (8.33%) Roadmaps
12 11 (8.33%) Scrum
13 10 (7.58%) E-Commerce
13 10 (7.58%) Microservices
13 10 (7.58%) Test Automation
14 9 (6.82%) Kanban
14 9 (6.82%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 52 (39.39%) JavaScript
2 49 (37.12%) Python
3 33 (25.00%) Java
4 25 (18.94%) SQL
5 16 (12.12%) Ruby
6 15 (11.36%) TypeScript
7 14 (10.61%) C#
7 14 (10.61%) C++
8 9 (6.82%) PowerShell
9 8 (6.06%) Bash
10 5 (3.79%) C
10 5 (3.79%) Go
10 5 (3.79%) Perl
11 4 (3.03%) Scala
12 2 (1.52%) VB
13 1 (0.76%) Dart
13 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.36%) Degree
3 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.79%) CISSP
6 5 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (3.03%) CEH
8 3 (2.27%) CCNA
8 3 (2.27%) CCNP
9 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.76%) CISA
10 1 (0.76%) CISM
10 1 (0.76%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.58%) QA
2 9 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.79%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.03%) GDPR
4 4 (3.03%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (15.15%) Docker
2 9 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.52%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.33%) Ansible
2 11 (8.33%) Terraform
3 5 (3.79%) Grafana
3 5 (3.79%) Puppet
4 4 (3.03%) WMI
5 3 (2.27%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.52%) Icinga
6 2 (1.52%) Nagios
6 2 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.52%) Salt
7 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.58%) Oracle
3 9 (6.82%) VMware
4 8 (6.06%) Zend
5 5 (3.79%) AppDynamics
5 5 (3.79%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.03%) SAP
6 4 (3.03%) YouTube
7 2 (1.52%) Adobe
7 2 (1.52%) Cisco
7 2 (1.52%) Google
7 2 (1.52%) New Relic
7 2 (1.52%) Rackspace
7 2 (1.52%) Sage
7 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.52%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.76%) Red Hat