Full-Stack PHP Developer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Full-Stack PHP Developer
England > Midlands

The median Full-Stack PHP Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Full-Stack PHP Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.036% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
England median daily rate £400 £469 £425
% change year-on-year -14.67% +10.29% +21.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,497 2,469 2,726
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.47% 92.71% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,642 1,534 1,905
10th Percentile £225 £228 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +3.32% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
England median daily rate £511 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.73% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 99 121
10th Percentile £13.62 £12.58 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.67 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +12.50% +13.90%
75th Percentile £30.47 £32.91 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.28% +58.75%

Full-Stack PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Full-Stack PHP Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Full-Stack PHP Developer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Full-Stack PHP Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack PHP Developer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Full-Stack PHP Developer job vacancies in the Midlands

Full-Stack PHP Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full-Stack PHP Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
West Midlands - 1 £400 - 1
Full-Stack PHP Developer
England

Full-Stack PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, Full-Stack PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Full-Stack PHP Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Vue

Full-Stack PHP Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript