PHP Contracts in London

PHP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 297 254 336
Rank change year-on-year -43 +82 -27
Contract jobs citing PHP 56 138 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.77% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 2.15% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 104 114
10th Percentile £241 - £308
25th Percentile £333 £300 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £415 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -7.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £530
90th Percentile £583 £575 £669
England median daily rate £425 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.60
25th Percentile £33.25 - £31.13
Median hourly rate £34.50 - £37.00
75th Percentile £35.75 - £52.25
90th Percentile - - £61.40
England median hourly rate £34.50 £45.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -23.33% -37.93% +107.14%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in London

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in London

PHP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for PHP in London

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in London

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 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
South London +9 4 £469 +4.17% 1
East London - 3 - - 10
Central London -8 2 £400 -11.11% 52
PHP
England

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (10.71%) Drupal
2 5 (8.93%) Apache
2 5 (8.93%) CMS
3 4 (7.14%) Tomcat
3 4 (7.14%) WordPress
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Trello
2 2 (3.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Shopify
2 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.57%) AWS
2 7 (12.50%) Azure
3 6 (10.71%) GitHub
4 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.93%) IaaS
4 5 (8.93%) PaaS
4 5 (8.93%) SaaS
5 4 (7.14%) Cloudflare
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.36%) DigitalOcean
6 3 (5.36%) Figma
6 3 (5.36%) Google Workspace
6 3 (5.36%) Heroku
6 3 (5.36%) Serverless
6 3 (5.36%) Slack
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) DNS
2 4 (7.14%) SMTP
2 4 (7.14%) SSL
3 2 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.57%) Parquet
3 1 (1.79%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.79%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
1 6 (10.71%) Jenkins
1 6 (10.71%) Selenium
2 5 (8.93%) GitLab
3 4 (7.14%) Appium
3 4 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 4 (7.14%) Gatling
3 4 (7.14%) JMeter
3 4 (7.14%) NeoLoad
3 4 (7.14%) PHPUnit
3 4 (7.14%) SpecFlow
4 3 (5.36%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (3.57%) Grunt
5 2 (3.57%) webpack
6 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.79%) ESLint
6 1 (1.79%) JIRA
6 1 (1.79%) Toad
6 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Legal
4 4 (7.14%) Marketing
5 3 (5.36%) Advertising
5 3 (5.36%) Finance
5 3 (5.36%) Retail
6 2 (3.57%) Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (17.86%) PHP Developer
3 8 (14.29%) Senior
4 6 (10.71%) Software Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior Tester
5 5 (8.93%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Tester
6 4 (7.14%) Developer in Test
6 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Lead
6 4 (7.14%) Software Test Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Applications Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Drupal Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Product Lead
7 2 (3.57%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.14%) CSS
2 15 (26.79%) HTML
3 11 (19.64%) React
4 9 (16.07%) Laravel
5 5 (8.93%) .NET
5 5 (8.93%) Playwright
6 4 (7.14%) Bootstrap
6 4 (7.14%) Play Framework
6 4 (7.14%) Vue
7 3 (5.36%) Alpine.js
7 3 (5.36%) CSS3
7 3 (5.36%) HTML5
7 3 (5.36%) Jest
7 3 (5.36%) Node.js
7 3 (5.36%) RESTful
7 3 (5.36%) Symfony
7 3 (5.36%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.57%) Kafka
8 2 (3.57%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (8.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) Agile
2 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 12 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (19.64%) DevOps
5 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
6 8 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (14.29%) Information Security
6 8 (14.29%) Migration
6 8 (14.29%) Project Management
7 7 (12.50%) API Development
7 7 (12.50%) Application Security
7 7 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.50%) OWASP
8 6 (10.71%) Design Patterns
8 6 (10.71%) E-Commerce
8 6 (10.71%) Manual Testing
8 6 (10.71%) OO
Programming Languages
1 29 (51.79%) JavaScript
2 22 (39.29%) Python
3 13 (23.21%) SQL
4 11 (19.64%) Java
4 11 (19.64%) Ruby
4 11 (19.64%) TypeScript
5 8 (14.29%) C#
6 5 (8.93%) C++
6 5 (8.93%) Perl
7 4 (7.14%) Scala
8 3 (5.36%) Go
9 2 (3.57%) Bash
9 2 (3.57%) Lua
9 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.79%) Dart
10 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Degree
2 7 (12.50%) CEH
3 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.93%) CCSAS
4 5 (8.93%) CREST Certified
4 5 (8.93%) GIAC
4 5 (8.93%) GPEN
4 5 (8.93%) GWAPT
4 5 (8.93%) OSCP
5 3 (5.36%) CISSP
5 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.79%) CISA
7 1 (1.79%) CISM
7 1 (1.79%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 6 (10.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.57%) GDPR
4 2 (3.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Terraform
2 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) F5
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) Google
2 3 (5.36%) Sage
3 2 (3.57%) Adobe
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
3 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.57%) SAP
3 2 (3.57%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.79%) GoCardless
4 1 (1.79%) Virgin Media