PHP Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

PHP
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring PHP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 26 41
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing PHP 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.50% 1.55% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.56% 7.69% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% +118.75%
75th Percentile £438 £438 £375
90th Percentile - £468 -
North West median daily rate £358 £425 £375
% change year-on-year -15.76% +13.33% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 39 39 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 19.60% 20.10% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 22
10th Percentile £259 - £372
25th Percentile £390 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £623
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -35.74% +22.06%
75th Percentile - £440 £645
90th Percentile £560 £548 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 31
10th Percentile £52.63 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £59.78 £41.86 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - +87.88%
75th Percentile - £51.00 £48.09
90th Percentile - £51.88 £50.25
North West median hourly rate £72.13 £50.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +43.90% +8.54% -12.41%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PHP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

PHP job vacancy trend in Lancashire

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PHP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PHP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PHP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PHP

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps