PHP Contract Job Trends in London

PHP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PHP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 292 265
Rank change year-on-year -102 -27 +55
Contract jobs citing PHP 24 58 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 1.19% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 36 101
10th Percentile £310 £234 £300
25th Percentile £413 £323 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -13.75%
75th Percentile £630 £464 £488
90th Percentile £636 £553 £551
England median daily rate £525 £424 £400
% change year-on-year +23.89% +5.94% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £34.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year - +4.32% +4.16%
England median hourly rate - £34.50 £34.04
% change year-on-year - +1.37% -41.82%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,935 4,871 6,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.39% 39.51% 37.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,954 3,420 5,061
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £438 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £521 £538
% change year-on-year -1.54% -3.25% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 42 51
10th Percentile £32.93 £29.01 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.00 £33.25 £36.91
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.25 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% -20.30% -15.83%
75th Percentile £74.50 £57.81 £61.97
90th Percentile £89.13 £85.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PHP job vacancy trend in London

PHP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PHP

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP in London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PHP in London

PHP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PHP

PHP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the London region over the 6 months to 15 June 2026. 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
Central London -16 3 £625 +66.67% 4
PHP
England

PHP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Moodle
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
3 2 (8.33%) Drupal
3 2 (8.33%) WordPress
4 1 (4.17%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Magento
1 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) GitHub
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) MySQL
2 9 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (29.17%) MongoDB
4 6 (25.00%) BigQuery
4 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.17%) Neo4j
6 1 (4.17%) Redis
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (16.67%) Advertising
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Moodle Developer
2 4 (16.67%) PHP Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) MySQL Developer
3 3 (12.50%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 2 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Magento Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Kafka
1 6 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (25.00%) Vue
2 4 (16.67%) Laravel
3 3 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) CSS
4 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.33%) JPA
4 2 (8.33%) LAMP
4 2 (8.33%) Node.js
4 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.17%) HTML
5 1 (4.17%) jQuery
5 1 (4.17%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (4.17%) Middleware
5 1 (4.17%) Mustache
5 1 (4.17%) React
5 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Microservices
2 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 8 (33.33%) Fintech
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 6 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 6 (25.00%) Observability
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.50%) SOLID
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (8.33%) Database Tuning
7 2 (8.33%) Front End Development
7 2 (8.33%) High Availability
7 2 (8.33%) User Stories
7 2 (8.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Go
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.33%) Perl
5 2 (8.33%) Python
6 1 (4.17%) Scala
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) CSSLP
2 1 (4.17%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe
2 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.17%) Percona