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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 351 283
Rank change year-on-year +52 -68 -73
Contract jobs citing PHP 263 317 668
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.66% 0.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.43% 1.88% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 236 521
10th Percentile £277 £308 £313
25th Percentile £325 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% +9.86%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £538
90th Percentile £575 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £414 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.71% -5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 15
10th Percentile £22.50 £22.92 £27.85
25th Percentile £25.31 £34.06 £32.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +107.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £71.87 £85.63 £35.88
90th Percentile £72.06 £87.58 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% +128.57% -22.22%

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 10,825 16,878 25,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.77% 34.95% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,857 12,342 19,074
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £769
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 410 457
10th Percentile £37.57 £26.12 £20.15
25th Percentile £49.84 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year - +22.91% +19.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.12 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.10
% change year-on-year - +24.75% +16.95%

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 15 May 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PHP in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PHP in England

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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 15 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 +80 134 £415 -7.89% 119
South East +29 47 £474 +18.44% 51
North of England +14 40 £375 -6.25% 96
North West +17 30 £425 +13.33% 64
Midlands +34 18 £350 -24.32% 58
South West +13 16 £350 -12.50% 65
West Midlands +19 10 £138 -70.27% 32
East Midlands +17 8 £350 -15.66% 26
Yorkshire +15 8 £330 -22.35% 26
East of England +1 3 £475 +31.94% 28
North East +12 2 £375 - 6
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 24 (9.13%) nginx
2 21 (7.98%) WordPress
3 14 (5.32%) Drupal
4 11 (4.18%) Apache
5 8 (3.04%) CMS
6 6 (2.28%) Apache Solr
7 5 (1.90%) Jadu
8 3 (1.14%) Moodle
8 3 (1.14%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.38%) Confluence
10 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.66%) Magento
2 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 76 (28.90%) AWS
2 28 (10.65%) Azure
3 19 (7.22%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 14 (5.32%) GitHub
5 7 (2.66%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (2.66%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.66%) SaaS
6 6 (2.28%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.28%) GCP
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (1.90%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.52%) Amazon Alexa
8 4 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.52%) Firebase
8 4 (1.52%) Serverless
8 4 (1.52%) WhatsApp
9 3 (1.14%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.18%) DNS
2 7 (2.66%) VPN
3 6 (2.28%) HTTP
3 6 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.90%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (1.52%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.52%) IPsec
5 4 (1.52%) MQTT
6 3 (1.14%) Network Security
6 3 (1.14%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (28.90%) MySQL
2 14 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.42%) MariaDB
4 8 (3.04%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.28%) Couchbase
5 6 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.28%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.52%) KNIME
7 3 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.14%) Power BI
7 3 (1.14%) Redis
8 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.76%) Parquet
8 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (8.37%) Git
2 9 (3.42%) Cypress.io
3 5 (1.90%) Postman
3 5 (1.90%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.52%) PHPUnit
4 4 (1.52%) Snyk
5 3 (1.14%) GitLab
6 2 (0.76%) Appium
6 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.38%) Gatling
7 1 (0.38%) JIRA
7 1 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 36 (13.69%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.75%) Finance
3 18 (6.84%) Public Sector
4 10 (3.80%) Banking
4 10 (3.80%) Retail
5 8 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.04%) Retail Banking
6 5 (1.90%) Advertising
6 5 (1.90%) Corporate Banking
6 5 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.90%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.52%) Legal
8 3 (1.14%) Marketing
8 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.76%) Games
9 2 (0.76%) Local Government
10 1 (0.38%) Automotive
10 1 (0.38%) Back Office
10 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 172 (65.40%) Developer
2 69 (26.24%) PHP Developer
3 44 (16.73%) Full Stack Developer
4 16 (6.08%) Software Engineer
5 15 (5.70%) WordPress Developer
6 13 (4.94%) Senior
7 12 (4.56%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 12 (4.56%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.18%) PHP Laravel Developer
9 10 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.42%) Drupal Developer
11 8 (3.04%) Lead
12 7 (2.66%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.66%) Symfony Developer
13 6 (2.28%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.28%) JavaScript Developer
14 5 (1.90%) Network Engineer
15 4 (1.52%) Architect
15 4 (1.52%) C# Developer
15 4 (1.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (34.22%) Laravel
2 80 (30.42%) HTML
3 67 (25.48%) CSS
4 37 (14.07%) Vue
5 28 (10.65%) Sass
5 28 (10.65%) Symfony
6 27 (10.27%) React
7 18 (6.84%) .NET
8 17 (6.46%) AngularJS
9 15 (5.70%) Kafka
10 14 (5.32%) Node.js
10 14 (5.32%) RESTful
10 14 (5.32%) WebSockets
11 10 (3.80%) jQuery
12 9 (3.42%) LAMP
12 9 (3.42%) REST
13 8 (3.04%) HTML5
13 8 (3.04%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.28%) JSON
14 6 (2.28%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (2.28%) Cloud Native
3 5 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.52%) NHS
4 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.14%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.14%) IoT
5 3 (1.14%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.14%) Social Media
6 2 (0.76%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.38%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.38%) PropTech
7 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (16.35%) Linux
2 25 (9.51%) Unix
3 8 (3.04%) CentOS
4 5 (1.90%) Android
4 5 (1.90%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.90%) Windows
5 4 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (23.95%) Full Stack Development
2 46 (17.49%) TDD
3 40 (15.21%) Test Automation
4 35 (13.31%) Agile
5 31 (11.79%) Web Development
6 29 (11.03%) Microservices
7 28 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (9.51%) Software Engineering
9 24 (9.13%) DevOps
10 22 (8.37%) Migration
11 16 (6.08%) CI/CD
11 16 (6.08%) E-Commerce
12 13 (4.94%) OOP
12 13 (4.94%) Security Testing
12 13 (4.94%) User Experience
13 10 (3.80%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (3.42%) Data Protection
14 9 (3.42%) Fintech
15 8 (3.04%) Design Patterns
15 8 (3.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 99 (37.64%) JavaScript
2 47 (17.87%) Java
3 34 (12.93%) SQL
4 20 (7.60%) Python
5 18 (6.84%) C#
6 11 (4.18%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.80%) Go
8 9 (3.42%) Ruby
9 6 (2.28%) Bash
10 5 (1.90%) Perl
11 4 (1.52%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.52%) Rust
11 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.14%) R
13 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.76%) Lua
14 1 (0.38%) C++
14 1 (0.38%) RPG
14 1 (0.38%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 35 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.42%) Degree
4 4 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.14%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.32%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.56%) QA
3 5 (1.90%) GDPR
4 4 (1.52%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (6.84%) Docker
2 8 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.14%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (6.46%) Kubernetes
1 17 (6.46%) Terraform
2 5 (1.90%) Ansible
3 4 (1.52%) Grafana
3 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.52%) Puppet
4 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.38%) Istio
5 1 (0.38%) Kibana
5 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.80%) Google
3 8 (3.04%) Oracle
4 4 (1.52%) Alteryx
4 4 (1.52%) Apple
4 4 (1.52%) Automation Anywhere
4 4 (1.52%) Blue Prism
4 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.52%) UiPath
5 3 (1.14%) F5
5 3 (1.14%) Splunk
5 3 (1.14%) VMware
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe
6 1 (0.38%) IBM
6 1 (0.38%) Zend