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 18 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 313 333
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 -107
Contract jobs citing PHP 230 305 557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.70% 0.72% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.14% 2.24% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 253 404
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £325 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +9.76%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £569 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £413 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £34.89 £15.99 £27.45
25th Percentile £37.62 £16.72 £29.25
Median hourly rate £42.79 £17.38 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.24% -45.70% -36.00%
75th Percentile £48.58 £19.82 £36.75
90th Percentile £51.68 £24.00 £50.33
UK median hourly rate £42.79 £17.38 £33.75
% change year-on-year +146.24% -48.52% -25.00%

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 10,729 13,643 26,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.56% 32.31% 37.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,342 9,851 19,290
10th Percentile £350 £373 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 415 440
10th Percentile £30.40 £35.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £50.00 £48.36 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +27.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.39 £65.75
90th Percentile £79.34 £84.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £56.56
% change year-on-year +3.17% +11.40% +25.23%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +60 128 £400 -20.00% 53
South East +33 47 £500 +19.40% 37
North of England +17 19 £400 +1.59% 76
North West +20 16 £388 - 48
East of England +26 14 £360 -26.15% 28
Midlands -9 10 £363 -27.50% 44
West Midlands +4 9 £350 -16.67% 34
Yorkshire -2 3 £488 +21.88% 18
South West -2 2 £350 -6.67% 45
East Midlands -15 1 £413 -17.50% 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 23 (10.00%) Apache
2 22 (9.57%) WordPress
3 16 (6.96%) nginx
4 13 (5.65%) Drupal
5 11 (4.78%) CMS
6 8 (3.48%) Confluence
7 7 (3.04%) Moodle
8 4 (1.74%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.30%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.43%) IIS
10 1 (0.43%) Jadu
10 1 (0.43%) JBoss
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.43%) Elementor
1 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (4.35%) Magento
2 6 (2.61%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 72 (31.30%) AWS
2 16 (6.96%) Azure
2 16 (6.96%) SaaS
2 16 (6.96%) Serverless
3 15 (6.52%) GitHub
4 11 (4.78%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.35%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 7 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (3.04%) Cloudflare
7 5 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 5 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (2.17%) GCP
7 5 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.74%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.48%) DNS
2 5 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (1.30%) HTTP
3 3 (1.30%) Internet
3 3 (1.30%) Network Security
3 3 (1.30%) SMTP
3 3 (1.30%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (30.00%) MySQL
2 12 (5.22%) MariaDB
3 11 (4.78%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.17%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.30%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.87%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.87%) Parquet
10 1 (0.43%) Big Data
10 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.43%) DB2
10 1 (0.43%) DbVisualizer
10 1 (0.43%) Metadata
10 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (20.87%) Git
2 13 (5.65%) PHPUnit
3 12 (5.22%) JIRA
4 8 (3.48%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.61%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.61%) Postman
6 5 (2.17%) GitLab
7 4 (1.74%) Selenium
7 4 (1.74%) Vagrant
8 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.87%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.87%) NetBeans
9 2 (0.87%) Xdebug
10 1 (0.43%) fastlane
10 1 (0.43%) JMeter
10 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.43%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.43%) Xcode
General
1 31 (13.48%) Social Skills
2 13 (5.65%) Retail
3 12 (5.22%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.91%) Finance
6 6 (2.61%) Banking
7 5 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.17%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.74%) Local Government
8 4 (1.74%) Marketing
9 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.30%) Publishing
10 2 (0.87%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.43%) Back Office
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 141 (61.30%) Developer
2 50 (21.74%) PHP Developer
3 42 (18.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 26 (11.30%) Senior
5 16 (6.96%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 16 (6.96%) Senior Developer
6 13 (5.65%) Software Engineer
7 11 (4.78%) Lead
8 9 (3.91%) WordPress Developer
9 8 (3.48%) Consultant
10 7 (3.04%) AWS Developer
10 7 (3.04%) Drupal Developer
10 7 (3.04%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 7 (3.04%) Moodle Developer
10 7 (3.04%) Symfony Developer
11 5 (2.17%) Angular Developer
11 5 (2.17%) Backend Developer
11 5 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (2.17%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (39.13%) Laravel
2 56 (24.35%) HTML
3 55 (23.91%) CSS
4 30 (13.04%) Vue
5 27 (11.74%) Sass
5 27 (11.74%) Symfony
6 19 (8.26%) LAMP
7 17 (7.39%) React
8 16 (6.96%) jQuery
9 12 (5.22%) AngularJS
9 12 (5.22%) Node.js
10 11 (4.78%) JSON
11 9 (3.91%) WebSockets
12 8 (3.48%) .NET
12 8 (3.48%) REST
12 8 (3.48%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (3.04%) RESTful
14 6 (2.61%) HTML5
14 6 (2.61%) Mustache
15 5 (2.17%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.96%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.04%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.17%) Social Media
5 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.87%) PropTech
7 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.43%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.43%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.43%) iPad
8 1 (0.43%) iPhone
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.70%) Linux
2 17 (7.39%) Unix
3 10 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 8 (3.48%) Android
5 5 (2.17%) CentOS
6 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.30%) Windows
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (23.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 40 (17.39%) Agile
3 35 (15.22%) TDD
4 33 (14.35%) Test Automation
5 29 (12.61%) CI/CD
5 29 (12.61%) Software Engineering
6 23 (10.00%) Web Development
7 22 (9.57%) DevOps
8 19 (8.26%) Data Protection
9 18 (7.83%) Migration
10 17 (7.39%) Unit Testing
11 14 (6.09%) E-Commerce
11 14 (6.09%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (5.65%) Microservices
12 13 (5.65%) OO
12 13 (5.65%) User Experience
13 12 (5.22%) Security Testing
14 11 (4.78%) Design Patterns
15 10 (4.35%) Clean Code
15 10 (4.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 83 (36.09%) JavaScript
2 33 (14.35%) Java
3 32 (13.91%) Python
3 32 (13.91%) SQL
4 16 (6.96%) TypeScript
5 8 (3.48%) Ruby
6 7 (3.04%) Go
7 6 (2.61%) C++
8 5 (2.17%) C#
8 5 (2.17%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.74%) Rust
10 3 (1.30%) Perl
10 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.87%) Bash
11 2 (0.87%) Lua
11 2 (0.87%) Swift
11 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.43%) AWK
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.78%) Degree
4 6 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.91%) QA
3 4 (1.74%) GDPR
3 4 (1.74%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (11.30%) Docker
2 9 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.30%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.04%) Ansible
2 6 (2.61%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.61%) Terraform
3 3 (1.30%) Puppet
3 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (7.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.17%) Adobe
3 4 (1.74%) Cisco
4 3 (1.30%) F5
4 3 (1.30%) VMware
5 2 (0.87%) Facebook
5 2 (0.87%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.87%) Splunk
5 2 (0.87%) Zend
6 1 (0.43%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.43%) Apple
6 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.43%) IBM
6 1 (0.43%) New Relic
6 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle
6 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.43%) SAP
6 1 (0.43%) Sybase
6 1 (0.43%) Syncfusion