PHP Contracts in Merseyside

PHP
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 26 31 45
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing PHP 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.79% 0.88% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.82% 4.35% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -22.22% +63.64%
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate - £394 £388
% change year-on-year - +1.61% -3.13%

All Programming Languages
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 34 46 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 20.24% 20.18% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 61
10th Percentile £411 £285 £325
25th Percentile £453 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -15.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £638 £494 £626
90th Percentile £663 £550 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -

PHP
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for PHP in Merseyside

PHP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for PHP in Merseyside

PHP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for PHP in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PHP within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +9 3 - - 13
PHP
North West

PHP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Magento
1 3 (100.00%) Sage 200
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Architect
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#