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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 292 365
Rank change year-on-year -77 +73 -69
Contract jobs citing PHP 111 269 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.74% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 2.46% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 204 238
10th Percentile £297 £300 £313
25th Percentile £350 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £484 £500 £521
90th Percentile £575 £574 £601
UK median daily rate £425 £411 £425
% change year-on-year +3.34% -3.24% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile - £22.50 £20.58
25th Percentile £33.25 £25.31 £25.25
Median hourly rate £34.50 £45.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +21.62% +5.71%
75th Percentile £35.75 £71.87 £85.00
90th Percentile - £72.06 -
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £62.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year -44.80% +6.84% +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 8,067 10,937 16,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.84% 30.10% 34.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,615 7,954 12,194
10th Percentile £360 £350 £382
25th Percentile £415 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £518 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 449 406
10th Percentile £28.14 £37.54 £26.10
25th Percentile £36.25 £49.38 £50.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +23.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.34 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +24.13%

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 23 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

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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 23 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 -32 49 £430 +3.74% 319
South East +22 18 £389 -17.94% 622
Midlands +16 16 £435 +24.29% 470
West Midlands +15 12 £435 +216.36% 248
North of England -15 10 £358 -4.53% 637
East of England +35 8 £450 -5.26% 380
Yorkshire +13 5 £358 +7.67% 246
East Midlands +7 4 £400 +14.29% 194
North West -19 4 - - 330
South West +26 3 £515 +47.14% 312
North East -1 1 - - 66
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 12 (10.81%) Apache
2 10 (9.01%) CMS
3 9 (8.11%) Drupal
3 9 (8.11%) WordPress
4 5 (4.50%) Moodle
5 4 (3.60%) Confluence
6 2 (1.80%) IIS
6 2 (1.80%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.90%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Trello
2 2 (1.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Magento
1 3 (2.70%) Sage 200
2 2 (1.80%) Shopify
3 1 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.03%) AWS
2 14 (12.61%) Azure
3 7 (6.31%) SaaS
4 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.41%) GitHub
5 4 (3.60%) Serverless
6 3 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.70%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (2.70%) Figma
6 3 (2.70%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.70%) Heroku
6 3 (2.70%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.70%) Slack
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (1.80%) IaaS
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) Firewall
1 4 (3.60%) Internet
2 3 (2.70%) DNS
3 2 (1.80%) HTTP
3 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (32.43%) MySQL
2 15 (13.51%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.21%) Relational Database
3 8 (7.21%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.60%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.60%) Redis
6 3 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.80%) Parquet
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.90%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 30 (27.03%) Git
2 7 (6.31%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.31%) PHPUnit
3 5 (4.50%) GitLab
3 5 (4.50%) JIRA
3 5 (4.50%) Postman
3 5 (4.50%) Selenium
3 5 (4.50%) Subversion
4 4 (3.60%) Appium
4 4 (3.60%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (3.60%) CircleCI
4 4 (3.60%) Gatling
4 4 (3.60%) JMeter
4 4 (3.60%) NeoLoad
4 4 (3.60%) SpecFlow
5 3 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.80%) Codeception
6 2 (1.80%) Grunt
6 2 (1.80%) webpack
General
1 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.01%) Finance
3 8 (7.21%) Advertising
4 7 (6.31%) Marketing
5 6 (5.41%) Retail
6 5 (4.50%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Banking
8 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.80%) Korean Language
8 2 (1.80%) Law
9 1 (0.90%) Automotive
9 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.90%) Games
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Local Government
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (54.95%) Developer
2 21 (18.92%) PHP Developer
3 15 (13.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 13 (11.71%) Support Engineer
5 9 (8.11%) Senior
6 8 (7.21%) Senior Developer
6 8 (7.21%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.41%) PHP Software Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Architect
9 5 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) JavaScript Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Moodle Developer
10 4 (3.60%) Developer in Test
10 4 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Lead
10 4 (3.60%) PHP Symfony Developer
10 4 (3.60%) Software Test Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Symfony Developer
10 4 (3.60%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.03%) CSS
2 26 (23.42%) Laravel
2 26 (23.42%) React
3 23 (20.72%) HTML
4 16 (14.41%) .NET
5 13 (11.71%) Symfony
6 12 (10.81%) RESTful
6 12 (10.81%) Vue
7 10 (9.01%) AngularJS
7 10 (9.01%) LAMP
8 9 (8.11%) Web Services
9 8 (7.21%) Alpine.js
9 8 (7.21%) Tailwind CSS
10 7 (6.31%) JSON
10 7 (6.31%) REST
11 6 (5.41%) Kafka
11 6 (5.41%) Node.js
12 5 (4.50%) Behat
12 5 (4.50%) jQuery
12 5 (4.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (4.50%) e-Learning
2 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.50%) VLE
3 4 (3.60%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.71%) Linux
2 9 (8.11%) Unix
3 6 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.70%) CentOS
4 3 (2.70%) Windows
5 2 (1.80%) Android
6 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.74%) Agile
2 27 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (19.82%) CI/CD
3 22 (19.82%) DevOps
3 22 (19.82%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (17.12%) Project Management
5 18 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (15.32%) API Development
7 16 (14.41%) OO
7 16 (14.41%) Software Engineering
8 15 (13.51%) Design Patterns
9 14 (12.61%) Scrum
10 13 (11.71%) MVC
11 12 (10.81%) E-Commerce
11 12 (10.81%) Microservices
12 11 (9.91%) Web Development
13 10 (9.01%) Code Quality
14 9 (8.11%) Front End Development
14 9 (8.11%) Kanban
14 9 (8.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (47.75%) JavaScript
2 31 (27.93%) Python
3 25 (22.52%) SQL
4 19 (17.12%) Java
5 16 (14.41%) C#
6 13 (11.71%) TypeScript
7 10 (9.01%) Ruby
8 6 (5.41%) C++
8 6 (5.41%) Perl
9 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.60%) Scala
10 3 (2.70%) Bash
11 2 (1.80%) Go
11 2 (1.80%) Lua
12 1 (0.90%) Dart
12 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.01%) Degree
4 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.70%) CEH
5 3 (2.70%) CISSP
6 2 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) CCSAS
7 1 (0.90%) CISA
7 1 (0.90%) CISM
7 1 (0.90%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.90%) GCIH
7 1 (0.90%) GIAC
7 1 (0.90%) GPEN
7 1 (0.90%) GWAPT
7 1 (0.90%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.31%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.80%) GDPR
4 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (13.51%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.90%) Firmware
4 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.60%) Terraform
3 3 (2.70%) Ansible
4 1 (0.90%) WMI
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Zend
2 9 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.31%) Oracle
4 4 (3.60%) SAP
5 3 (2.70%) Google
5 3 (2.70%) Sage
6 2 (1.80%) Adobe
6 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.80%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.90%) VMware