PHP Developer Contracts in the Midlands

PHP Developer
England > Midlands

The median PHP Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 167 198
Rank change year-on-year +41 +31 -65
Contract jobs requiring a PHP Developer 9 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.18% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 11
10th Percentile £320 £303 £213
25th Percentile - £334 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £388 £325
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% +6.12%
75th Percentile £500 £481 £397
90th Percentile £525 £519 £450
England median daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +13.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,517 3,272 4,921
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 94.48% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 2,301 3,601
10th Percentile £213 £223 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £459
Median % change year-on-year - +3.49% +14.75%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 131 179
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.33 £15.17 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.40 £60.00 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

PHP Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured PHP Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PHP Developer in the Midlands

PHP Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PHP Developer in the Midlands

PHP Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PHP Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PHP Developer in the Midlands

PHP Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PHP Developer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PHP Developer in the Midlands

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 PHP Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
East Midlands +18 7 £350 -17.65% 10
West Midlands +30 2 £375 -3.23% 12
PHP Developer
England

PHP Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, PHP Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring PHP Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Laravel
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (33.33%) Yii
4 2 (22.22%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) MVC
4 2 (22.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (22.22%) MySQL
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Docker
4 2 (22.22%) IoT
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) React
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile Development
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (11.11%) Android Development
5 1 (11.11%) iOS Development
5 1 (11.11%) CMS
5 1 (11.11%) OOP

PHP Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Drupal
1 1 (11.11%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) MySQL
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) Laravel
1 3 (33.33%) Yii
2 2 (22.22%) CSS3
2 2 (22.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) MVC
2 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Android Development
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) iOS Development
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Development
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker