Laravel Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Laravel PHP Framework
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Laravel skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 128 135
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +69
Contract jobs citing Laravel 1 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.038% 0.15% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.86% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 15
10th Percentile - £315 £440
25th Percentile - £319 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £381 £530
90th Percentile - £385 -
England median daily rate £400 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.76% -5.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

Laravel falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 502 466 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.12% 17.13% 17.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 306 378
10th Percentile £307 £322 £313
25th Percentile £376 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £516 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.75% +8.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £575
90th Percentile £647 £725 £688
England median daily rate £509 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 2
10th Percentile - £22.40 £43.63
25th Percentile £33.91 £34.63 £47.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +173.33%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £59.69
90th Percentile - £71.00 £62.88
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.17% -2.44%

Laravel
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Laravel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Laravel in the Midlands

Laravel
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Laravel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Laravel

Laravel
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 Laravel within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 September 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 -18 1 £400 +14.29% 6
Laravel
England

Laravel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
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