PHP Contracts in Hampshire

PHP
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 55 74 93
Rank change year-on-year +19 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing PHP 14 21 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.88% 1.30% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.67% 6.12% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 5
10th Percentile £334 £325 £175
25th Percentile £352 £393 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £525 £325
Median % change year-on-year -25.95% +61.54% -35.00%
75th Percentile £447 £538 £738
90th Percentile £524 £539 £768
South East median daily rate £363 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -23.68% +18.75% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £35.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -56.25% -

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 210 343 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.15% 21.30% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 221 299
10th Percentile £401 £388 £313
25th Percentile £460 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 32 58
10th Percentile £47.00 - £18.78
25th Percentile £51.78 £46.25 £37.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.51 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £77.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing PHP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Hampshire

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for PHP in Hampshire

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in Hampshire

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Hampshire

PHP
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Hampshire 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
Southampton +10 6 £403 - 6
Basingstoke +25 4 - - 7
Portsmouth - 3 £446 - 6
Fareham - 1 £375 -
PHP
South East

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 5 (35.71%) Apache
2 4 (28.57%) CMS
2 4 (28.57%) Confluence
2 4 (28.57%) Drupal
2 4 (28.57%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Internet
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) MySQL
2 7 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
4 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 4 (28.57%) Redis
4 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 3 (21.43%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) Subversion
3 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (28.57%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 2 (14.29%) Codeception
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) PHP Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (28.57%) PHP Software Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Web Services
2 6 (42.86%) Laravel
3 5 (35.71%) Phalcon
3 5 (35.71%) React
4 4 (28.57%) Ajax
4 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
4 4 (28.57%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (28.57%) CSS
4 4 (28.57%) HTML
4 4 (28.57%) jQuery
4 4 (28.57%) Kafka
4 4 (28.57%) LAMP
4 4 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (28.57%) REST
4 4 (28.57%) SOAP
4 4 (28.57%) Symfony
4 4 (28.57%) Vue
5 3 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (21.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Code
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 10 (71.43%) MVC
2 10 (71.43%) OO
3 8 (57.14%) Scrum
4 6 (42.86%) OO PHP
5 5 (35.71%) API Development
5 5 (35.71%) SDLC
5 5 (35.71%) Secure Coding
5 5 (35.71%) Systems Analysis
6 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 4 (28.57%) Design Patterns
6 4 (28.57%) Front End Development
6 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (28.57%) Kanban
6 4 (28.57%) Microservices
6 4 (28.57%) OOP
6 4 (28.57%) OWASP
6 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) TDD
6 4 (28.57%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 6 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Zend
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) SAP