PHP Contracts in London

PHP
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PHP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PHP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 331 314
Rank change year-on-year +71 -17 -79
Contract jobs citing PHP 136 164 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 0.61% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.14% 1.48% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 117 262
10th Percentile - £310 £325
25th Percentile £300 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £575
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
England median daily rate £400 £413 £438
% change year-on-year -3.03% -5.71% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
10th Percentile - £27.60 £31.33
25th Percentile - £31.13 £34.81
Median hourly rate - £37.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile - £52.25 £35.44
90th Percentile - £61.40 £48.68
England median hourly rate £45.00 £72.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.93% +107.14% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
London

PHP is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,358 11,052 16,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 40.82% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,852 8,230 12,504
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 87 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.70 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £84.25 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
Central London +24 14 £450 - 15
South London - 2 £450 - 3
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 16 (11.76%) nginx
2 10 (7.35%) WordPress
3 5 (3.68%) Apache
4 3 (2.21%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.74%) Confluence
6 1 (0.74%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.74%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.74%) Jadu
6 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Magento
2 1 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.29%) AWS
2 15 (11.03%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 15 (11.03%) Azure
3 11 (8.09%) GitHub
4 7 (5.15%) Amazon MSK
4 7 (5.15%) Power Automate
5 5 (3.68%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (3.68%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.94%) Amazon Alexa
6 4 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (2.94%) Firebase
6 4 (2.94%) WhatsApp
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (2.21%) Cloudflare
7 3 (2.21%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.21%) SaaS
7 3 (2.21%) Serverless
8 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.47%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.15%) DNS
2 5 (3.68%) HTTP
3 4 (2.94%) MQTT
3 4 (2.94%) VPN
4 3 (2.21%) SMTP
5 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.26%) MySQL
2 10 (7.35%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.41%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.94%) KNIME
4 4 (2.94%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.47%) Parquet
6 2 (1.47%) Redis
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.74%) Power BI
7 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Git
2 9 (6.62%) Cypress.io
3 4 (2.94%) Postman
3 4 (2.94%) Snyk
4 3 (2.21%) GitLab
5 2 (1.47%) Appium
5 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.47%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.74%) JIRA
6 1 (0.74%) Storybook
6 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (14.71%) Finance
1 20 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.35%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.88%) Banking
4 7 (5.15%) Retail Banking
5 6 (4.41%) Retail
6 5 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.21%) German Language
9 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Back Office
10 1 (0.74%) Games
10 1 (0.74%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 84 (61.76%) Developer
2 33 (24.26%) PHP Developer
3 25 (18.38%) Full Stack Developer
4 8 (5.88%) Senior
5 6 (4.41%) Full Stack PHP Developer
5 6 (4.41%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 6 (4.41%) WordPress Developer
6 5 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (3.68%) JavaScript Developer
6 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
7 4 (2.94%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (2.94%) Applications Support
7 4 (2.94%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (2.94%) Automation Developer
7 4 (2.94%) AWS Developer
7 4 (2.94%) Senior Developer
7 4 (2.94%) Software Developer
7 4 (2.94%) Support Engineer
7 4 (2.94%) Symfony Developer
8 3 (2.21%) PHP WordPress Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (43.38%) Laravel
2 49 (36.03%) HTML
3 44 (32.35%) CSS
4 19 (13.97%) Sass
4 19 (13.97%) Vue
5 13 (9.56%) Symfony
6 11 (8.09%) WebSockets
7 10 (7.35%) Node.js
7 10 (7.35%) REST
8 9 (6.62%) .NET
8 9 (6.62%) Kafka
8 9 (6.62%) React
9 7 (5.15%) HTML5
9 7 (5.15%) jQuery
9 7 (5.15%) RESTful
10 6 (4.41%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.94%) Ajax
11 4 (2.94%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (2.94%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.94%) NHS
3 3 (2.21%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.47%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.47%) IoT
4 2 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.85%) Linux
2 18 (13.24%) Unix
3 5 (3.68%) Windows
4 4 (2.94%) CentOS
4 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.47%) Android
5 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.68%) Full Stack Development
2 29 (21.32%) Test Automation
3 23 (16.91%) TDD
4 17 (12.50%) Web Development
5 16 (11.76%) Agile
6 14 (10.29%) Microservices
7 13 (9.56%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (8.82%) Software Engineering
9 9 (6.62%) Fintech
9 9 (6.62%) Migration
9 9 (6.62%) Security Testing
10 8 (5.88%) CI/CD
10 8 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (5.88%) OOP
11 7 (5.15%) DevOps
11 7 (5.15%) Open Source
11 7 (5.15%) User Experience
12 5 (3.68%) E-Commerce
12 5 (3.68%) Project Management
12 5 (3.68%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.91%) JavaScript
2 18 (13.24%) Java
2 18 (13.24%) SQL
3 16 (11.76%) Python
4 11 (8.09%) C#
4 11 (8.09%) Go
5 8 (5.88%) Ruby
5 8 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.68%) Bash
7 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.94%) Rust
7 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.94%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.21%) Perl
8 3 (2.21%) R
9 2 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.47%) Lua
10 1 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 19 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.88%) Degree
4 3 (2.21%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.35%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.68%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (8.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (8.09%) Terraform
2 7 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.94%) Grafana
3 4 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.21%) Puppet
5 1 (0.74%) Argo
5 1 (0.74%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.74%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.68%) Google
3 4 (2.94%) Alteryx
3 4 (2.94%) Apple
3 4 (2.94%) Automation Anywhere
3 4 (2.94%) Blue Prism
3 4 (2.94%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.94%) UiPath
4 3 (2.21%) F5
4 3 (2.21%) Splunk
5 2 (1.47%) Oracle
6 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.74%) WooCommerce